Megan and Brooks' Visit - Tons of Pictures!

 First, a couple of photos of Josh, Bethany and Ben, before The Big Visit

 We met up with the grandkids and Megan and Melinda and Linda at the church

The grandkids loved riding on "The Short Bus" that Grandpa Doc was driving

 Then we visited in the Campbell's front yard

Here, Anya is showing Grandpa one of her early birthday presents

 Baby Bethany enjoyed the shade

 The girls gathered on Megan's all-purpose quilt

 Me, in my new, shady hat, holding Bethany

 Leto, looking dignified

 Eventually, tho, he gives me a look

"Where did all these kids come from?!"

 We got to visit the Tauphaus park zoo

 When Uncle Justin is around, Emme knows where to look for help

 Josh holding Dad's hand

It looks like he's thinking, "What are we doing?"

 Anya and Uncle Ben share a joke

 Justin and Megan share it too

 The most exciting animal at the zoo, the Siberian Tiger - right below us!

 Emme and Irelyn, preparing for Anya's 4th birthday party!

Enme likes to be the little mommy

(Alternating with torturing Irelyn, of course)

 Esther's youngest girl

 Kynwyn helps Melinda decorate

 Megan and Esther, figuring out how to color the white frosting

The store didn't have pink, they didn't have food coloring,

And we were all out of red (for pink frosting)

Finally, we borrowed some from the neighbor

 Anya was so cute, looking happily expectant

 Brooks shows Sabriel to Kynwyn

 Saber spent lots of time with Dad

She wasn't feeling so great

Turned out she had a double ear infection!

 Megan helped the kids do snaps

 Irelyn looked darling in her bibs

 Megan, helping the kids do sparklers

 Linda, helping out

 Josh, looking thrilled, then thoughtful

I'd sure like to know what goes thru his head

He's always so funny

 Kenya won the "smoosh your face into some whipped cream

and blow up the bubble gum" contest

Kenya doesn't look too excited,

But everyone had fun once they tasted the cream

At first, Josh looked like he thought we were crazy!

 This is Tristan and Alaina's friend Kayden, on the right

Anya seemed so surprised by her presents,

Especially when she opened the Polly Pockets set

From Mom and Dad

She said, "They got me just what I wanted!" to Brooks

 The pink cake!

 Emme adored the yellow cupcakes

(Grandma Doc thought they were pretty great, too)

 

 Audrey loves Uncle Phillip

 Anya, playing with her little horse set

 I love this picture of Josh and Emme

They always have a great time with each other

 Alaina couldn't get enough of that yummy pink frosting!

 Mom and Emme spending fun time together

 "The party's over..."

 Alex looks exhausted,
But actually he's listening to Willy Wonka songs

Alaina and Emme, hiding out in the sleeping bags

 These are pictures from the Haroldsen kids visiting Grandma Doc (me) one afternoon

Aiden and I found the old game, Tropix, that he used to play

And we fixed up his bug jar, which he'd been saving for two years (!) to do with me

 Audrey and Anya made little Best Friends books with stickers and markers

And the whole works,

While Ella Enchanted played on the tv nearby

 Tut seemed unfazed by all the visitors

 Another day, we went to the Splash Park at Rexburg

We had a great landing spot, under a huge shade tree

The kids loved running through the water, going down slides,

eating cotton candy, and baking in the sun

 We then went right over to the carrousel,

The one Megan and Melinda came to when they were young girls,

With Haley and Phillip

Our friends, the Andersons, restored the beautiful horses for this carrousel

 

We had a great time!

(More pictures to come!)