Camping in Austin

Our last day in Austin, the adults were all busy packing up and preparing to go... so we let the kids CAMP in the living room! Notice the blazing fire? (This is my kind of camping by the way...)
Sam thought it was fantastic.
Trav did too, but then found other things to do. Which is why you won't see him in many of these pics.
Sam and Soph loved to switch sleeping bags.
Here's one pic of all four kids in their bags... mostly anyway.
Cute little Soph
Here they are "sleeping"
Zack LOVES to pretend to sleep.
Sam catching some Zs.
Soph's sleeping too.
Then, about 2 minutes later, they all woke up!
This was a hit activity. (Thanks Bryce for setting everything up)
And, we had to go home. Here we all are in the van going to the airport. Notice how lovely and healthy Trav and Soph look? They were SO sick! Poor little cousins!
Thanks for the fun time, LaPs. We loved coming to visit! Come visit us soon!

Austin Random Part 2

One day in Austin, it got really quiet for too long. You know - the dangerous quiet? I went to investigate and found these cute cousins coloring together (and Sam playing too). Luckily, no coloring on the walls, white bedspread, or anything else. They were color wonder markers they found. Phfew!

Zack and Soph actually get along really really well.
They colored happily together for about 30 minutes.

Then Trav and Zack went outside to play. The light was perfect, so I had to snap some pics.

This picture is hilarious. This is the look Zack gives anyone (including me) if he feels we are interrupting his important current task.

But, then he waved to me. I love his waves.

Trav was pretending to eat berries off of the bush behind him. Leese wasn't too thrilled. :)

Trav thought it was a fun game...

Zack loved playing with the chalk.

And showing it to me.

Sam was playing outside, but then I couldn't find him. Turns out, this empathetic soul went in search of his sick cousin who was watching Little Einsteins. Empathy or tv addiction?

Sam stayed with Sophie for a long time.

Poor Soph felt pretty miserable.

But that didn't stop my silly Sam - who STILL hasn't caught this bug! I'm pretty sure it's gone for good now... Wish I had his immune system!

FHE Never To Be Forgotten

First of all, Zack has started smiling for the camera! I LOVE these smiles!

For FHE (Family Home Evening), we re-enacted the Samuel the Lamanite story from the Book of Mormon. We cut out paper arrows for the kids to throw at Samuel the Lamanite.

Here's Zack with his arrow.

Sam being Samuel the Lamanite
Here are all the "bad guys" with their arrows.

Throwing their arrows at Sam...

Soph was concentrating very hard...

Soph showing me her arrow

Now it's Soph's turn to be Samuel the Lamanite.

Sam being the bad guy

Sam and Bryce throwing arrows!

Look at these "bad guy" faces! I think Soph would win...

Meanwhile, poor Leese felt pretty sick. In the end, Trav and Soph caught it before we left. I had it last week. And Zack is just getting over it now. Ick!

Cute cousins
Somehow, this ended with all the cousins on the stairs.
Being silly.
ALL cousins looking somewhere close to the camera. AMAZING.

It was so much fun! Sam insisted we do this for FHE at our house when we got back.

Austin Random

We did lots of OTHER things in Austin. We ate at this AWESOME barbeque place with some of Bryce and Lisa's friends.

Sam and Soph were CRACKING up playing with Sophie's Look and Find Fairies book.

Sam would point to a fairy for Soph to find...

And miraculously, she knew where they were!!!

They must have been a little tired to find this so funny, but they did. They were laughing SO hard.


Then, there's all the time these cousins spent playing in the Pack N Play where Zack slept while we were there. Soemtimes Trav was in on the action too, although not in this pic.

And, winking. Yes, Zack is starting to "wink" too. Check this out.

We spent many hours at all the different parks around Lisa's place.

And cousins had to be silly...

But they sure love being together!

Luck o' the Irish

A belated Happy St Patty's Day to you...