Our COUSINS came to visit! We hadn't seen the von Goertz' {my sister and her family} since May and the time was just too much! They came to visit in September and we had such a wonderful time! We were quite busy with four kids under three and didn't get a ton of pictures that I had hoped for, but we tried! We were able to get a lot of shopping in and the boys spent most of the weekend revolving around football!!
Our first activity of the weekend was a TCU game! This was the first home game that we were able to make it to so we loaded up two cars and headed to Fort Worth. Paul and Josh went to the game while Missy and I took the kids home after hanging out on campus. We had a fun time dressing everyone up in purple and playing out on the front lawn.
For some reason there was a longhorn there which you could take pictures with. Josh almost refused to take one because we are TCU of course... not UT! But Caroline hopped right up and loved sitting on the cow!
Miss Amanda even came out to say hi!
Our drive home is definitely something that needs to be documented, however I'm not sure I can quite do it justice!! We do have video to prove it and I am going to have to get it from my sister. We left Fort Worth - me, my sister and four kids! Emma and Caroline were in the third row, Ellie and Cooper in the middle and my sister and I up front. Yes we did fit 4 carseats in there, but it was tight! It was about 2 o'clock and no kids had taken naps for the day. Ellie was just not loving the car ride and was upset when Cooper started getting fussy as well. Well, we couldn't get them to stop and the noise was just too much for Emma. She started crying because it was too loud for her ears. Caroline lasted a little longer, but then dropped her bunny and also started crying because she was too far back and we couldn't get it! All of this happened as we came to stopped traffic!! There was nothing we could do so we exited the highway and stopped at Target. To make a long story {somewhat} short, we spent time walking around with sweaty, upset kids all dressed alike. We shopped a little, drank juice boxes and nursed kids all while in the store. It was quite a hilarious sight! Once everyone had settled down we made it back to the car, buckled all kids in and took a deep breath. Before we even started the car my phone rang and it was Josh saying they were on their way home?! WHAT? We still had at least 25 minutes left to go. Well at least traffic was flowing when we got back on the highway. :) Needless to say the guys got home and Missy and I left and spent the evening shopping!
These boys were destined to be brothers in law! For some strange reason God made Paul {a native Minnesotan} a HUGE Cowboys fan! He has rooted for them since he was young and it just so happened that we live in Dallas! Josh and Paul made a goal to see the Cowboys play in every stadium in the US. So, they have already checked Denver, Philadelphia and the old Cowboys' stadium off of their list, so they decided this year they would come and visit us AND see a game in the new stadium!! It worked out perfectly! They first took a tour of the stadium on Sunday and took both "big" girls with them. They were in complete awe! We hear that the cheerleaders were their favorite part... however we're not sure who's favorite part!! :)
2 loving cousins!
We spent a great morning at the park with great weather!
We had some fun play time!
We love our Aunt MiMi!!
Elle just looked on and wasn't sure what was happening!!
We had a wonderful time and hope they come back soon!! We all live too far away!
