Zion's friend, Ben, came to stay with us this month. We decided to bring him along on our summer visit to my mom's house in southern Missouri. Sam was working, but he let me have the nice car (AKA the orange one with the built in DVDs, satellite radio, and GPS) so I could cart all 3 boys and Jedi down with us.
We had a short but fun trip. We enjoyed a break from a punishing storm outside of St. Louis on the way down. When the rain broke, we headed to our favorite campground for some fishing and stretching. A 10 hour trip turned into 14 hours, but we finally pulled into Ozark a little past 10:00. The boys spent the rest of the week hot tubbing, playing with neighbors Bradley and McKenna, using grandma's slip & slide (a very worthy purchase from Goodwill), and running wild and free in the country. Grandma treated everyone to a night out at Incredible Pizza. Ben and Zion enjoyed the go carts and bumper cars while Bradley and McKenna racked up the points for tickets and prizes. Zen was happy just to mooch rides off of anyone he could on the train and the merry go round.
It was awesome to be able to spend time with mom as well as Grandma and Jasper.
Mom's garden looks amazing, and her house is a peaceful respite, as usual.
The campground was such a popular choice that we spent several more hours there on the way back up north, swimming, fishing, and catching tadpoles, crayfish, frogs and minnows. This put us home at almost midnight, but it was well worth the stop. Enjoy the pictures!
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