Summertime is upon us and we we're not ready for 105 degrees.

Soooooooooooooo off we flew to Tennessee on May 21st.

Paul really enjoyed the flight, though the questions never stopped on the way to the to the airport and the entire flight. We left home at 5:00am and I was amazed he never napped all day.
This is a little taste of what the day was like.

Why do the wings on the plane turn up? Where are all these people going? Are we almost there? Why are all these trees by the road? (two hour drive from the airport to Aunt June's house) Do you see what my puppy is doing? Why do I have to be quiet on the plane? Are we almost there? Why are you taking a nap? Why is grandma sleeping? Do you have anything to eat? Why are you guys laughing? Can I have gum? Are we there yet? How much farther? Do you have any treats in your purse? Can you buy me Cheetos's from that machine? Why do I have to drink water? Are we there yet?

Well I think you kind of have an idea what that 8 hours was like. Just remember it was worse than that in person, lucky for Mom and I we were laughing about it the entire way. Each time a question came out of his mouth we would look at each other and just laugh to ourselves, answer his questions and wait for the next one. He is one great kid.

When we arrived at Aunt June and Uncle Eddie's house Paul got his first taste of what it was like to have a cousin around all the time. My cousin Jim and his son Hunter (7) were there waiting at his parents house for us to arrive.


Hunter and Paul hit it off right away. The pool was the place to be the entire week. Paul enjoyed playing with Hunter, they were friends right from the start.
On day 2 of our trip in comes my cousins Brenda and Marcia and Marcia's three year old daughter Rachel. We are now up to 2 young cousins for Paul to meet and play with. Little Rachel was the monkey in the middle with two older boys around.

Day three brings in my cousin Tim and his wife Linda, and their two boys Sam(9) and Leo(7). Now our "cousin count" is up to 5, 4 rowdy Boys and 1 beautiful little Girl. We had an amazing day.

On the evening of day 3 Tim Walsh (too many Tim's!) arrived to surprise not only Paul but all the family too. Lucky him he finally gets to meet all of my crazy relatives.

OK can you roll your tongue? The boys have a lesson on rolling there tongues. We found out a few of us could and a few of us could not roll our tongues, genetics, go figure. Linda is in the "could not" group.

This was a great trip. As I put Paul to bed on the first night he ask are these my cousins forever? Then on day 3 after all the kids were there he asked again if all of these are his cousins for ever and ever? Of course the answer is forever and ever.

By day 5 he was really excited to have a sleepover with all the boys, sleeping in one room on the floor. Linda read the bedtime story and the boys passed out one by one, after a couple were asleep Paul snuck downstairs to get his blanket(cuddles) and his stuffed dog Oreo, then went right up and went to sleep.