Our Oklahoma Trip-part one

It was a very hot trip to Oklahoma/Texas. One day it read 108!

While we were at my Dad's house, he and Pam babysat the kids so Alisha and Eric and Chad and I could go on a double date. We went to PF Chang's to eat, to an improv show called four day weekend and then to a dueling piano show. We had a blast. The kids had nachos and movies while we were gone and had so much fun with YaYa and PaPa

My sister and I took our husbands out for a night on the town in Fort Worth

Me and my little sister

Downtown Fort Worth

Alisha saw this interesting fellow at the dueling piano show and had to get a picture with him. He was very popular with the ladies..lol

The Improv was hilarious

Me and Alisha at the Improv show

Alisha with Katelynne




The next morning we went to breakfast with all 15 kids!! This is the first time in 8 years that my brothers and sister have been all together

Me and Chad :)




Mom

Alisha and Eric with Brynna, Elias, Parker, Skyler, and Chandler

JR and Nikki with Zach, Quintin, Katelynne, Quartin, Bradley, and Conner

Melissa, Brady, Daryl

JR, Alisha, Mom, Tina, Daryl

My mom with all her grandchildren

Front Row: Quintin, Katelynne, Brynna, Mom holding Bradley, Conner, Zachary, Quartin

Back Row: Elias, Jackson, Brady, Grayson, Reagan, Chandler, Parker, Skyler

Family time at my Aunt Evelyn's house for the 4th of July

Jackson and Daddy lighting fireworks
Reagan
Elias with his sparkler

On the way back...Mississippi River

The world's largest cross

Drove through the town where Carrie Underwood is from





The St. Louis Arch

Stopped at the oldest capital building in Illinois

Thought this was funny

The Great Wolf Lodge

Always the Joker :)

We took a mini vacation to The Great Wolf Lodge because Uncle Doug (Chad's brother) came to visit from Idaho and we wanted to take him some place fun.

It is an indoor waterpark hotel with lots of fun things to do. Here is a series of pictures of Reagan and Grayson going down the slide they have called "the toilet bowl"

The slide shoots you out of a tube into this bowl and you go round and round until it shoots you down the drain.



They loved this and went over and over again

Just a few pictures of the park

The gang..and of course we had to wait until I had wet hair slicked back in a bun after swimming..bleh! lol

Jackson was posing for this picture..lol He had fun in all the fountains

Chad and his brother Doug. I think they had more fun than the kids

Reagan and Grayson taking a break on the lazy river

Grayson jumping across the leapfrog pond

Reagan and Grayson racing across...guess who won!?

Jackson giving a "having a great time" thumbs up!

Jackson and Uncle Doug checking out the water park

Grayson with the wolf on the ouside of the hotel. It was really cool !

This kids sitting on the wolf...which is actually part of the building

The entrance of the hotel

Jackson in front of the clock tower animated show characters that are in the hotel lobby

We spent hours playing MagiQuest in the hotel

The kids had a fabulous time showing their "favorite hotel" to Uncle Doug and creating memories.

My wolf cubs

Gifts from Nana and Papa

Jackson got some nice gifts from Nana and Papa.

Thank you Nana and Papa!!