Justin Annette and the Kiddos: A Week Full of Family

We enjoyed a Thanksgiving week full of family fun! Friday afternoon, as soon as the boys were out of school, we loaded up and headed to Cedaredge. Our activities included lots of catching up with mom and dad, playing with and feeding the horses, driving the 4-wheeler (apparently Alayna likes speed), playing games, watching movies, bbgun shooting, and the big boys even went out small game hunting twice. Unfortunately they did not see anything but they had fun trying (and getting all muddy.)

Not sure I've mentioned it yet but Coltin completed the Hunter's Safety Education course in Oct. He is official with his hunting license and sooo excited to have it. We have been proud of how mature and responsible he has acted. This also excites Justin to have a buddy to take out. Me? It seems a bit unreal that he is old now and doing older activities like this. Guess I'm still stuck in the preschool age way of thinking. ;)

Climbing the mountain of hay was quite exciting for some.

Tuesday we left for Payson, UT. Getting there ahead of what was supposed to be a major storm, turns out we only got a few inches. But it was enough to play in! They have an awesome sledding hill we enjoyed for a few hours with the cousins. We finally met our new niece Madison, at 9 months old. She has such a cute dimpled grin. Gramie and Papa took us rollerskating, well it started off that way. The adults tended to like rollerbladin and the kids, after falling down, switched to scooters. That was nice cause they were all happy and independently racing around. We played many games and ate wonderful food and got caught up. We also enjoyed an afternoon at the pool. They had like a two story water slide Coltin just loved and a few smaller ones that Corbin enjoyed. Alayna probably had the most fun. Getting in tons of girl time with her cousins. (Who btw were concerned who she played with since she only had brothers.) ;) Well Savannah and Paris invited Alayna to have a sleepover. She did good and can't wait to do that again. It was great how well the 4 younger ones played.