More Guests!

Six days before Thanksgiving, nine new house guests arrived. Nathan's oldest brother and his family came for a visit all the way from Boston. He and his wife have five kids, so we had quite a house full! What was more exciting is that Nathan's parents decided to come up from Arizona to join the crowd! All of the kids had such a great time together - they don't get to see each other very often. Their favorite things to do were playing Disney Scene It and playing outside on the pogo sticks.

Nathan set a record at 500 jumps. At one point, Papa decided to get in on the pogo action. I think he ended up regretting it!

Papa hurt his wrist and finger and bloodied up his pants, but he was okay. Mason and Gillian were good pogo jumpers so they wanted to try and beat Nathan's feat. They quickly passed 500 and soon they were head to head in a pogo contest! Gillian passed Mason with over 1,000 consecutive jumps, but Mason was determined to reign supreme. He waited until Gillian was at school and went outside and jumped to a grand total of 1,306. After that, Gillian was unable to catch him!

Watching Bear in the Big Blue House. That's uncle Ben under the covers!

We had a lot of fun with Ben and his family. We did some shopping (well, the women did), playing, saw the elves at Gardner Village, spent an evening at Classic Fun Center skating bouncing and playing laser tag, and even squeezed in a photo shoot.

The kids were sad to see their cousins go, but they'll be back...someday.