Rawson Reunion: Grammy's House

As the Daniel Rawson's fam visit came to a close, the cousins enjoyed playing together at Grammy and Papa's house.  If there is any indication from the way they interacted with Baby Liam, Kaleb and Isaac are going to be awesome big brothers.  

Beautiful faces.  Great camera work, Papa!

Until about last week, Liam was terrified of this elephant.  We saw it nearly every time we visited T.J. Maxx (twice a week?) Liam would ask to see "el-phunt?", but then not want to get too close.  It makes an elephant sound when you pet its back and moves its trunk around.  To Liam, it is real.  We would ask Liam if he wants us to "make it go" and he responds with a quick, short "No?", shaking his head.  He's much braver now, and "makes it go" regularly.  But Grammy hasn't taken it out of it's packaging, just in case he changes his mind... 

Rawson Reunion: Uintas

This is my idea of camping.  Build a fire, go on walks, play ball, make s'mores.  Who says camping has to involve actually sleeping with the bears?

Daniel made the Chicken-Cordon-Bleu of S'mores by craftily inserting Hershey's squares into a giant marshmallow and then roasting it.  He was very proud.  

The s'mores were SO worth going off of my no sugar/grains program.  I enjoyed every particle.  

Although some of it missed the target...

This little guy was a very happy camper.  He loved the outdoors, especially collecting pine cones (side note: Liam also calls ice cream cones "pine cones.")  I fear trying to actually camp with him...

So wrong, I know...but CLASSIC.  

He's such a tender lil' guy, I mean trained killer.  

We look forward to seeing the Daniel Rawson fam again soon, and next time with a new addition!

Rawson Reunion: Hogle Zoo

Cousins on a horse!

I think they were going for racial stereotypes here...

You can get the kid out of Texas, but...

Liam enjoyed his first corn dog!  No, they're not real dogs, Isaac.  

A little different than his last encounter with Mr. Gorilla...

Kaleb grew about a foot since we last saw him.  He's basically a teenager. 

Rawson Reunion: Lagoon

Daniel, Kaleb and Isaac flew in for a week toward the end of May to give Linda some much-needed alone time before baby boy #3 comes next month.  It was so good to see those little munchkins again, and Liam especially enjoyed getting to know them a little better.  We started things off with a day at Lagoon.  I have to say, Wicked is a pretty sweet ride, especially for Utah.  Liam liked the boats the best.

This was Liam's first big-boy ride.  You can't tell from the picture, but he was in heaven and talked about the "rockets" the rest of the day.  

Driving Miss Daisy?  Liam was a little wary of Isaac's driving skills...

Wyatt toughed out the day, mono and all.  We brought the extra stroller so that he could rest when his body gave out on him.