Vacation!

Well, our Internet has given us grief the majority of the month. Our server has been out twice to try to figure it out and will be coming back out on Monday. (Here's hoping that posting this post doesn't take FOREVER!) Be checking back often for more posts catching you up on our FULL month!

We spent 5 days in Springfield/Branson towards the beginning of the month visiting old friends and also having a family vacation with Jeremy's family before school began! We had a blast!We spent one day at Silver Dollar City! The kids had a great time riding the rides!


For about two hours of the day Jeremy's parents and his sister and her kids took Emma and Joshua around the park. Madison and I had some mommy and daughter time riding bigger rides (sadly no pictures since we were by ourselves) and Jeremy and Chad went to a cooking school.

Joshua loved the part where the kids can play in the water but Emma didn't want anything to do with getting wet! I think she left my child somewhere else that day! ;-)It was Kid's Fest and so Veggie Tales was there! Joshua wouldn't take his picture with them.Jeremy and Chad loved trying on the different funny hats!They even had Lincoln Logs in the 'castle' for the kids to play with.The rest of the time we hung out at the resort. We grilled, played games, went swimming, colored and even went on a couple of scavenger hunts! This is a picture of all the cousins together- Michael, Joshua, Emma, Caleb and Madison. They had lots of fun being together!



They found Geronimo! Beth's kids wouldn't get near Geronimo for a picture. Emma was the only one of our kids who would go close and then right before I snapped it Madison said, "Fine, I'll go too." Joshua reluctantly followed Madison (hence why he won't quit looking at Geronimo!).
We of course had to have smores!!!


Sunday of our trip was Madison's birthday! Before we headed home we celebrated and she had some presents to open!
One of the gifts she got was a Harding Bison cheerleader outfit! She loves it and if you are planning on being at Homecoming this Fall you can expect to see her in it!
Since it was her birthday she chose to eat at Lambert's for lunch before we all headed in our separate directions for home. Have I ever mentioned how much our whole family LOVES Lambert's?!!

Gram and Madison!
The whole gang!