Fun at Grandpa's and Grandma's house

Cory and I were lucky enough to get to go on vacation this holiday season and we went to visit my dad. We left Thursday morning drove all day and night and arrived Friday morning at around 2:30. Emma is such a great traveler she only cried a total of like 15 minutes and that was because she was hungry and we were looking for a place to stop. Some little car adventures we had was I bought her some glow in the dark bracelets and about 45 minutes later she had bent one and it broke and she got purple glow in the dark goo on her blanket, hands, my blanket and my hands! She didn't eat any of it thankfully! One other problem we had in the car was every time I offered her something to eat she would pull out her binki and drop it or throw it and then I would always have the hardest time finding it again!
Friday Emmers and I helped Grandpa feed cows and it was so funny because Julie has two smaller dogs and for the most part are really great around kids but Emma was scared of them but when we got out around the cows she just walked right up to them, without any fear! She is afraid of a five pound dog but not a 1000 pound cow! She enjoyed feeding the chickens and got to pet one thanks to Grandpa and seemed to like them until the roster started crowing and then she got a little nervous.
Saturday morning another group arrived around 3:00 in the morning. Shawn, Steph, Brad and Danielle and they picked up Lindzi and Loryn along the way. Dad had some manual labor he needed done so poor Shawn, Justin and Cory were rounded up to help while the girls, without kids, got to go into town to a craft show thingy. They had some really great baby things and cute bags. Later that day the boys got to do the one thing they all had been waiting to do, have an air-soft BB gun war! It was pretty cold but they didn't mind one bit! When Kyle got home from work he came out and they played in the dark. The worst injuries that were reported was Shawn got shot on the nose and it kind of bled and Cory ran into the trailer ball on the back of my dads pickup! Shawn healed quickly and Cory didn't even bruise!
Sunday was nice. Church started at 11 so we got to get ready slowly and everyone was on time! It is nice to visit and see lots of people you've known all your life.
Monday night we were all invited to Kyle and Julies for FHE and dinner. It was really good, both FHE and dinner! And then we played some games. The rest of the weeks activities included more work for the boys so Dad could get ready for the other house to get moved over. We ate at Denny's, a funny tradition we have kind of started every time we come to Cortez. We swam at the rec center. The girls even got to go to see the movie New Moon at the theater. Of course there were tons of air-soft gun wars and almost every night we played games! One of the best things we did was Steph brought fun crafts for us to do. We painted and used vinyl and made watch bands with beads, it was great fun!
Finally early Wed morning Jack, Alyssa and Hadlee showed up. The girls had school until Tuesday so the came later. Thanksgiving day was great! We all had something we wanted to make, everything smelled yummy and Kyle and Julie and the boys came out to eat with us. Of course we watched a little football and later played some games.
Friday was when Cory and I decided we would leave so we could have time to recover and I could teach my primary class on Sunday. We got up and packed our car and were getting ready to go into town to Kyles house to eat lunch when my dad decides to start cutting down this old big tree with his chainsaw. He was in the tree about half way up, like 20 feet or so and I was watching from the open window of the bathroom when there was a big crack and a big limb fell off the tree. Just after it landed Shawn who was close by starts shouting up at my Dad, are you alright, are you alright!! Dad didn't say anything, which is a bad sign, but kept on cutting another limb out of the tree. I thought things must be fine because he kept on working but I also know that if my dad gets hurt really bad he doesn't say anything. Eventually he got down and limped inside. Julie had heard something might be wrong so she came over to him and he lifted up his pant leg to show us where the tree limb had cut off then scraped his shin and calf muscle all the way from his knee to his ankle about 4 or 5 inches wide. It was already bruising and he had some scrapes but they weren't bleeding. It looked pretty bad and he said that once he knew that he probably hadn't broken his leg he finished the last limb on the tree. Poor dad! He got bandaged up and still came into to town with us to have lunch at Kyle and Julies.
We left around 3 or so and got back into Waco at around 8:30 on Saturday. Emma slept a good bit of the time and was a good girl the time she was awake. It was so fun to be able to visit. I love to stay up and play fun games and just hang out with my wonderful family! Love you all!!

I can't believe I brought my camera and didn't take a single picture! Oh well maybe next time!