His Trip to GA

After not seeing his Uncle Andy, Aunt Kristen and cousins, Sonny and Makenzie, for almost a year, we headed down to GA with my parents for a weekend visit. It was a lot of driving and not enough visiting, but Jase made the most of the time he had with them. We left our house Thursday evening, met up with Grandpa Jack and Grandma, and hit the highway. We got through the first 4 hours of the trip before stopping for the night and finished the the second half of the trip Friday, getting to their house right as the school bus was dropping the kids off. Jase was a little standoffish the first night (mostly due to exhaustion and he wasn't feeling too good), but he woke up Saturday morning ready to go!

TICKLE FIGHT

Jase was the first victim as Makenzie showed no mercy taking Jase down to the floor in belly rolling laughter.

Then, with a little help from Grandpa Jack, Jase got revenge.

And then the two decided to team up and get Grandpa Jack when he least expected it!

MATCH BOX CARS

Sonny knew how much Jase likes playing with cars and trucks and brought down a huge tub of them. Makenzie then proceeded to teach Jase how to organize them all by color.

"See Jase, you put this car with the other purple cars."

I think Jase was more interested in playing with them, though, cause he kept taking the cars out of their rows as Makenzie was putting them in the rows.

So, then Sonny brought down the tracks that make up a little city. There was even a cool haunted race track.

Makenzie was showing Jase how the haunted race track worked.

And Jase found that if he sat in the middle of the track, he could reach the whole thing.

And I'm not sure who had more fun, the little ones, or the big ones.

TUB RACES

I knew two big empty tubs weren't gonna sit there too long before someone wanted to get pushed in them. So the tub racing began.

On your marks...

Get set...

GOOOOOOO!!!!!!

LUNCH

Grandma fed the the little munchkins lunch.

And Jase thought he was something else sitting on the big stool and with the Spiderman plate and cup.

MUDDING TO SEE THE DAM

Uncle Andy had mentioned this dam you can go to that was right by there house. Since we weren't in GA long enough to do any site-seeing I thought we could at least go see the dam. He failed to tell us that it was no official viewing post, rather we'd be walking through gravel and mud to get there.

But we all made it through the mud.

Some having more fun squishing their boots in the mud than others. Jase thought the mud was great while Rob was freaking out that his new kicks were getting dirty.

And when we got to the viewing site...you could barely see the dam...Good job Uncle Andy! LOL

There was a big gully, though, that Jase had fun throwing rocks in.

He would throw the rock in...


And watch it fall alllllll the way down.

O'CHARLIES

We met up with Aunt Kristen's mom and dad for dinner at O'Charlies. Although us hungry adults didn't care for the wait, the kids enjoyed themselves and each other's company.

The three of them waiting to be sat at a table.

And after we got to the table, neither Jase nor Makenzie wanted to sit it their seat, they decided to fight over my lap.

And even though they hid us in the back corner of the restaurant, I think we're a good lookin' bunch!

After dinner Sonny walked Jase out of the restaurant.

FAMILY PHOTOS

Since the last pictures we had before now of just the three grand kids were back when Jase was just several months old with no neck and too much cheek, we made sure we got some family photos while we were all together.

The Grand Kids

The whole family

JUST LIKE SONNY

Jase loves him some Sonny, and when he wasn't playing with Makenzie or chasing the poor cat, he wanted to do what ever Sonny was doing.

So when Sonny got comfortable on the floor watching "The Kids Choice Awards" Jase had to follow suit.

GOODBYE BREAKFAST AT CRACKER BARREL

Cracker Barrel is definitely one of Ma-ma and Da-da's favorite places to eat and I think it is quickly becoming one of Jase's too.

They have fun games to play.

And delicious hot chocolate (I'm gonna regret letting him have that for breakfast!)


And you could tell the kids were getting sentimental over us getting ready to leave when they asked for me to take their pictures at the big fireplace.



At first it was just Jase and Makenzie.



And Makenzie was getting very mad that Jase was ruining "HER" picture.



Then cool, calm, and collective Sonny came in to save the day.



And try to keep Jase sitting still.


And before we said good-bye, Makenzie and Jase got a quick game of Checkers in.

King Me!!!!

It was such a great trip, just way too short. Jase wasn't feeling to great the entire trip, but still managed to have a great time. And now we are missing them already!