HELLO, Wisconsin!!

This year we were fortunate (very fortunate) enough to make it to the annual family trip to Wisconsin. 
Each year Nana & Papa host all the grandchildren (over the age of 5) for one week.  The cousins get to bond with each other & the Lord as Nana & Papa lead them through the week.
  (Cousin Camp by Ramona Roberson)
The following week the parents come out.  Rarely are all the cousins & all the parents able to make it, but this year was the exception!  Perfect timing to celebrate Papa's 70th birthday!  (Papa, it's your young spirit makes you seem so much younger.)


I always love getting to know our nieces & nephews a little more, it's fun to see how they grow & change.  To try to figure out who they will become. 


The baby did not disappoint.  He fell in love with a couple of the girls.  How can he not.. they are all so beautiful, smart & adorable. (it's too early for the "they're your cousins" talk)
He certainly got down flirting somehow, probably learned that from Auntie Lala. 
probably?  no doubt about it. 


*He reconnected w/ his 'real' dog buddy, Ruby. 
*He learned how to climb stairs. 
*A Watermelon entertained him for about 15 mins  
  while he tried to pick it up. 
*He got to play and lay and roll around in real honest 
  to goodness Midwest grass.  It was fascinating. 
*And he played with his daddy's Choo-choo everyday. 
   (all in pics below.)


OHH!!  and he's a full time walker.  He looks a bit like a drunken sailor & puts out *Jazz* hands to the side to maintain balance.  That boy always has me laughing!


He was amazing on the flights.  It's always refreshing when the passenger in the same row confesses her distaste for 'the little ones' and would like to put in the suggestion box... Please create a separate room for those without children, so they do not have to be bothered.  
Oh wee, this will be fun. 
After the flight ended & we were all waiting to carefully remove our overhead luggage, Cute-baby Hater said we had the best behaved baby she'd ever flown with!  
A huge compliment, I still smile ear to ear about.  


I bet you think I exaggerate on how impossibly awesome SBR is.  I really don't.  I don't have to.  
He's just that. awesome. 

And the icing on the cupcake for this trip, my BFFEandEandEandE, was just a hop, skip and a... smashed flower away!  Yay, we LoveLOveLOVE you, Lala!


Back to the story: I forget how absolutely beautiful the Northwoods are.  It's a photographer's little woodsie heaven.  I really need a not cheap, kick-butt camera!  But honestly, I will settle for ah camera.  I used our camcorder, which is very nice... but needs are needs! 

The weather up there was PeRFeCt!  68-75, nice overcast, rained a little, this weather is made for me.  The last day, humidity came back...  I do NOT miss you, Sister!  Nor your annoying friend, the Mosquito! 

It was so humid the last day, my clothes were still damp when I unpacked that night. 

Really, Arizona.... it IS a dry heat. 

The last day, I decided to do a photo shoot, I wish I would've thought of it earlier to have captured all the cousins & my SIL's, but next time, maybe I'll have a better camera by then. 




Placing a beautiful child, in the center of such a beautiful setting is just.... beautiful. 

Thanks Nana & Papa, for this week and so much more!  We love you!

*the below collage is my first attempt at one, sorry the photos are a little off center. 

Dear Lala, this, in part, is because of you.
We thanks you.