The Kitchen Family

Best. Week. EVER!

Cort, Em & kids in TX for a week.

{April 5th - 13th}

Part Two 

Historical Stockyards downtown... 

 Watching these 5 together in the candy shop was the best thing ever! I wish I could have bought them all one of everything, just like they wanted. Parley had his first sucker from this shop! I think he loved it.

 THIS picture below is my absolute favorite of the whole week. Captured all their different personalities well.

Longhorn's have 6 foot horn span... 

How long is your reach?

 Brend's first time doing "the reach". LOVE HIM!

 Em and Corby wanted a pic on the bull, he was a LITTLE crazy and gave them a scare. He didn't want to hold still and turned in a circle. That was first time I had seen that! Well worth $5.

THE JUMP HOUSE!!

Cohen had this at the top of his list of things to do with cousins. We had a blast, even with a big crowd there.

 Cohen remembered this from the last time Cort stayed with us on a business trip, and wouldn't stop bugging Cort about it until it was done.....throwing/spinning the kids in the air and dropping them on a pile of pillows. I love how easily kids are to entertain! 

Ipad, Iphone, diggin' in the dirt...

So.... Em and I played beauty shop every day! Well, 6 out the 7 days. SO MUCH FUN! New cut, new color, I LOVE IT! Thanks Em!

Playing out front with toys and bikes...

Big boy Brend pulling sweet Parley James.

Picnics outside in the beautiful sunshine!

Friday was so much fun! Brock was able to do a poster presentation at his school about his big case report he did. We all went down to support and to see it and to show Cort and Em his school.

We showed them the "almost real" people. Haha. His school has these simulators that cost a million dollars each and they can have pretty much any procedure done on them. You can draw blood from them even. And in the other room someone in controlling them while you work on them. Pretty amazing!

Before getting back in the car, we let a little energy out with some races...

After seeing Brock's school, we all {even Brock} went to ride the Minature Train downtown...

Waiting patiently for the train to come...

Brend was TIRED but so good. And we saw LOTS of turtles.

Naoms is the cutest! And I love the art work that was a project to cover the graffiti. The sweet couple on the bottom right I'm sure felt like celebrities. I loved seeing them having a picnic in the park and little guitar jam! So fun.

My favorite face Parley makes! Glad I caught it. At the turn around point of the 40 min train ride, every one can get off and stretch and hit up the concession stand. Our boys only needed sticks and rocks for entertainment. So funny that they all went right to picking up sticks.

That night we had Cathy, Gabe & Chels over for Pizza and games. We had a blast!! We partied until midnight. It was so fun for them to see Cort's family.

Well, that's our week in a nutshell!
Felt like HEAVEN. 
Didn't want it to end.
Cort and Em AND their kids are wonderful examples to my whole family. They make me want to be better and happy always.
LOVE YOU CORT, EM, CORBY, NAOMI & PARLEY JAMES!
Miss you like Crazy.