Summer 2011: Arkansas (Part 2)

After a few days in Arkadelphia, we headed to Hot Springs, AR to spend a few days at the Ranch with Brooks' grandparents, cousins, and aunts and uncles.  We had 3 jam packed days that were filled with lots of family time.  

Brooks and I are pretty close with his cousins and their husbands so we love getting to spend time together.  Between all of us, there are 6 kids under the age of 5, so needless to say, Gavin enjoyed playing and goofing off with all the other young kids.  We spent as much time as we could with everyone, but they were all working camp, so life still went on.  

The boys and I stayed with Brooks' grandparents, Mim and Pop, while we were at the ranch.  We had a great time eating and laughing, and sharing stories of our life here in Saudi.  We celebrated Brooks' Aunt Terri's birthday with a big lunch, we played outside, and went on four wheeler rides. Pop took all his great grandkids around the ranch and I think he loved it as much as the kids did.  I took Gavin around camp for him to see the horses, golf carts, and bumper boats, too.  We can't wait for him to go to camp some day.  

We stayed on the ranch for a majority of our time.  Gavin played on Mim's front porch, ran across her rock wall, and played soccer in her front yard.  Miles played around, too.  He and Mim bonded a lot while we were at her house.  He always wanted her and she entertained him like no one else could.  

Gavin got to celebrate his birthday, again, this time with Mim.  We drove to Little Rock one morning and Mim took Gavin to Toys R Us and let him pick out anything he wanted for his birthday.  He was in heaven.  After his shopping spree we had lunch before heading back to the ranch.  

 

 

Our time at the ranch was too short, but we'll take what we can get.  It was nice catching up with everyone.  I wish I would have actually taken more pictures of the things we did.  We already have a trip planned back to the ranch in December (as long as Brooks gets his vacation time) for one of our friends' weddings and, of course, to visit with the fam!