Family vacation... sort of

At the last minute Dani ditched their plans to to to Minneapolis on vacation and asked if we would be interested in going to Branson with them..... of course we would! We have toyed with the idea of doing a big family vacation over the summer and this might be a nice road test.

Of course every vacation should have beer and plenty of it!

There was a pool so of course we spent some time there!

Except for Papa, who never gets in the pool!!

There was a trip to the zoo to see lots of fish, singing Dingoes, little monkeys and lots of snakes...

And vacation would not be complete without a trip to a local quilt shop... and this one did not disappoint!

AJ and Karly came up to join us!

And there was a boat and some lake swimming!

And of course a trip to McDonald's with Mimi and Papa...ice cream was the best part!

And of course shopping with Mimi to buy Roxy her own baby bottle!

And Roxy never went hungry again....

Hmmm.....bad hair day?

Like Father, like Daughter...the apple did not fall to far from the tree!

Papa and Daddy teaching Madden how to play farm..."don't forget to load up the dead cows!"

(we are not sure what is going on with the diaper....)

And the evenings would not be complete with out bath time with Papa....

We will miss getting our morning wake up call "Mimi, Papa!!" and little footsteps running into our room and the cutest little girl jumping in bed to join us!

We are definitely going to do this again... but next time we are hoping the while family will join us. All we need to do is find a place that will hold 10 adults and 3 kids!!

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