Vacation Part IV - last one!

Finally! The last post from our trip. I bet you aren't nearly as excited as I am to have these done. :)
We spent the last part of our trip with my brother Will and his family, and then Dan's brother and his family. We spent the first night after Logan down with Wills family. His wife and I took the kids to a little party at a park they had there and that was fun. I didn't bring my camera, but I wish I would have because they had a band there, and Linc was jamming out pretty hard-core. It was so funny! Dan had to do some work that night and the next morning, so Ann and I took the kids to two parks...in the same neighborhood...my kids thought it was so cool to walk out the door and have two parks so close by! The nearest park to us here is at least a ten minute drive.
After we left there we went to Dan's brother's house. We had so much fun with them too! we went to some water-poppers, to a fun restaurant called Pirate Island, to visit Dan's friend and Grandma for a bit, and had a fun night with blow-up toys, water and a camp fire and had time to work in a photo-shoot for their family. I can't remember when we've had so much fun. This whole trip was just nice. We spent so much time with our big family and the kids are talking all about their cousins and aunts and uncles, it really makes my heart happy.
We took the southern route home, so we went through southern Utah (all the pretty red rocks!), Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and back to Alabama....I think we might have had Louisiana in there somewhere too...I can't remember though, all the states start to blend together after a while...rxcept Oklahoma...that one took forever...kinda like this sentence. :) The trip home was a longer drive than the trip there, but it was worth it to see all the beautiful desert scenery. The kids were exceptional once again...I was really very thankful for how well they behaved! I also decided that traveling with the air conditioning on is much better than driving with the heater on. I barely got car sick at all!

I guess I'll just post and be done now. Last round of pictures...coming up!

Pirate Island...













I have to say something about this group of pictures! Owen was soooo excited. This game takes three tokens and he snuck two in before Dan and I could stop him, so we gave him one extra token and he won the top jackpot. Everyone benefited from his luck too. Our trip to the prize counter was a lot more fun!