We definitely started off Saturday morning in Dallas with more free breakfast at our hotel...but more importantly, we made a stop at Starbucks!! Mmmmm!! Thanks Aunt Kiki!! Maddox chose vanilla!! (Looking at this picture I think I want a Starbucks right now...too bad it's almost 11PM...)
Then we kicked off our morning with...you'll never guess...A MAGIC SHOW!!!! Featuring "Magic Mike" and the "Amazine Ken-dini"!! The kids ate it up!! Especially Ashtyn!! Grandpa Mike and Uncle Ken performed lots of tricks and even us adults were pretty amazed!! I still don't know how they did some of them...
After the magic show, we took the kids into the backyard where cousins Josh and Jenna had bought the kids a variety of different bubble toys!
Us grown ups tried to relax...even though it was SO HOT!!!! But it was nice to get into the great outdoors, even if it was just for a little while!!
Me, my sisters and my cousin Tiff!! Love them so much!!
Brandon, on the other hand, didn't enjoy the great outdoors...he instead enjoyed the comfy sofa and a short nap!! I wonder where he gets this?? Maybe, like father like son!?!?
Since we were all together for the first time in so so long we HAD to take some family pictures!! It was an adventure but actually went very smoothly and really quick too!! GO US!!
FUNNY FACES!!!!
The great grandparents with their great grandkids!
The grandparents with their grown grandkids!
And the grandparents with their grandkids and spouses!
We also took individual family pictures! Elia refused to smile during the Johnson family photo and when Aunt Teresa tried to bribe her with a brownie she STILL wouldn't smile. So after they took their picture and Elia wasn't given a brownie she ended up on the back patio all by herself curled up in a patio chair crying! And not just any cry but a very sad, lip sticking out, SOB!! This auntie's heart was melting and I couldn't leave her out there so I went after her and bribed her with everything from a brownie, to Chick-fil-A for lunch and even a shopping trip when she's at my house next week for a picture re-do...
and finally IT WORKED!!!! I think it was the shopping that really got the smile in the end!! I'm pretty sure this little princess got her shopping addiction from me!! (I think I'm kind of proud of that actually...!!!)
That afternoon all the grandparents took the kiddos to a place called Bonkers where they have a giant indoor playground, arcade games and even some small indoor rides!! While they played their hearts out us grown-up cousins got the chance to visit in a quiet house and even play a couple rounds of Apples To Apples!! It was alot of fun and much needed!!
Then the dad's all took the kids to a water park that is just around the corner from where Josh and Jenna live!! On the way I think Maddox may have actually dozed off in the backseat of the car with his goggles on!! We were having so much fun but, as you can see, it was tiring...
Our third day in Dallas was packed full of fun!! Rae and Casey's family had to go home today because they have to be at church in the morning but the rest of us are planning on a good nights sleep so that we can have even more fun tomorrow!!
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