Cousin fun!

My sister and her family come to town once a year and that visit for this year was in July. They stayed about 5 days at our place, 5 days at my parents, and 5 days in Colorado. What a busy month it must have been for them. They came to our place first since our house was there first stop on the map. My parents decided to come up for the weekend they were here since we don't get to see them that often.

My niece in the blue loves to write stories and loves it even more when people take the time to read them. She's got quite the collection of short stories she has written.

My sister and her twin niece.

Best pals, Braxton loves his cousin. A lot of my pictures have the two of them together in it.

We decided to go see the movie, "The Minions".

Afterwards, Aunt Emily paid for all the kiddos to get there own "Build-A-Bear".
That was so nice of her.

Watching the stuffed animals get stuffed.

Time to give our furry friends a bath.

Loves his puppy. I consider that dog to be the bull dog that Jackson will never get. ;)

Giving them a name and birth certificate.

Drive-In movie night at our house! Making cars out of boxes was a lot of fun, the kids loved it!

Time to decorate the cars...

...or decorate yourself.



Aunt Lou working on the mini pizzas for the drive-in.

Braxton LOVES airplanes, so we were sticking paper airplanes all over the car.

Time to start the show. We watched "The Sandlot".

Trying out new games that my sister wanted to introduce us to.

Bubbles!

Bedtime stories, this is one of Braxton's favorites.

A day at the swimming pool. I think it was little G's first time swimming.

This pool was great, had multiple kid friendly spots for kids to swim at.

They even had little swings there for babies to sit in.

Love it!

A day spent at our brother's house with all the cousins.

Got a picture of all the cousins together ... but is already outdated ... a new one was just recently born into the family in September.

Best buds, they were great friends growing up so I figured I'd get one of the two of them now.

The next day we did some "Just Dance" at our house.

My sister asked me to take some family pictures of them with my camera and some of just the twins since it was recently their birthday day. Needless to say my photography skills are not as great as I would have liked them to be for how nice of a camera I have. It was worth a shot though right?

Was about to get one of them with the temple in the background, than my camera died. I'm pretty sure this is a picture from the phone.

Jackson loves the game "Killer Bunnies".  My sister and her hubby was nice enough to try out the game.

We got discount tickets to this Jump Around place in Utah. It was a lot of fun and the kids enjoyed it.

She was so good to Braxton, always there to play with him and help him.

One of my favorite pictures taken that day. All the cousins except one.

Lovin this one as well!

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My sister tried getting a picture of all of them in the air. I had a billion of pictures of me trying to get the perfect shot. These were probably the best two or the most close I could get of them all air bound.



We decided to light off some fireworks a few days before the 24th of July.

This is where Braxton and Maximus preferred to watch the fireworks instead. :)

After their stop in Utah, they headed for Idaho. I headed that way after the Plott reunion to see them for a couple more days.

We decided to go bowling and play miniature golf.

I honestly think this was Braxton's first time bowling, he loved it.

Together again!

I didn't take many pictures golfing because it was packed and there was a lineup for every hole so I just took a few at the end. It was fun, Braxton most definitely didn't understand the concept of golfing.

Headed to another park to play and eat Pizza.

 Bedtime stories. Braxton didn't want to go to bed or read stories so I asked K. Rae to see if she could get him to go to bed and read stories. He went with her, no crying at all.

 

It was a great ten days we had together. Can't wait for the next time we can all get together again.