Grandma Grandpa and Emily = Sunbirds

Let's get together yeah yeah yeahhhh... With family in town who knows what will happen! There were crazy parties with so much alcohol I don't think anybody was sober the entire weekend! Well, in many other families this may have been the case, but ours does not indulge in such activities. It's as useless as playing a harmonica I guess. There was much done over the coarse of 4 days. We tried to do as much as we could in hot Arizona. Almost everybody who reads this was a part of what happened, so I won't go into too much monotonous detail. I'll just list a few items we did to jog the old noodle for when we're older: swimming, video games, movies, BBQ, card games, AZ science center, church, fixed car, killed scorpions, cheered for USA in world cup, Rach and Joe had a date night, B-day celebrations, Father's Day celebration, smores, eating, eating, eating...

For Father's day I got Mario Kart for the Wii. Which we all enjoyed, except for Brandon and Greg. Grandpa got a DVD set about the planet earth, some pistachios and some other stuff I'm sure but can't mention because I wasn't paying attention. He couldn't enjoy the nuts due to him ruining his dentures while bobbing for apples at his 60th B-day party. Actually, he got a stomach bug for all of Sunday. Who knows why. I have a few theories: mentally turning 60 the body wanted to revolt, he never really got a stomach bug and just wanted to sleep all day in the recliner (I ruled this one out as soon as he threw up), or he got a bad hop from the Bud Light he drank. It's a wonder people who drink beer are still alive with all those bad hops around!

Let us list the ways in which Grandpa did not fair very well physically during this vacation: stomach bug mentioned earlier, pulling shoulder out, and tweaking back mentioned below.

It was great to see my niece, Lauren have fun with my kids. I got to hear her say, you're crazy Brandon in her sweat voice. Sean had tons of fun at the science center. His favorite were the noodles hanging from the ceiling. The kids had fun playing with Grandma and Grandpa. It kind of made me feel old to hear my son wake up this morning and say, Hi Grandpa to my dad in the living room. Grandma and Grandpa walked almost a mile with all the kids to the field with the soccer goals - without strollers!. It blew my mind! I knew the kids could handle it, but Grandma and Grandpa??? God is good they made it back to us :-)

Rachael, Grandpa, and I also made it to that field earlier in the week where we played tag. It seemed like Sean never stopped running. I was "it" and started chasing Grandpa. Grandpa decided to get tricky and swerve out of my way. He hurt his back. Thankfully it wasn't that bad. We ran into a puppy Great Dane on the way home. Austin loved him and wanted to do nothing but pet him. Lacie didn't want anything to do with it. I can see Austin coming home with a lizard or something and scaring Lacie half to death with it. I can also see him coming home with a dog or cat and having Mom force me to keep it.

Grandpa + Me + Sean + Oz = 3 men (which is better than 2.5 men)