Missouri

On March 25th we left for Pleasant Hope, Missouri. We took a detour, and stopped in Oklahoma to stay with Nate's uncle Ben's family. While we were driving we went through a snow storm, and I got to see Pikes Peak ( I lived in Colorado Springs when I was little and that was my mountain). We stopped at a cool war memorial, that was mainly just a real tank from war where we took some pictures. We got to Oklahoma pretty late but his aunt and cousins where still up waiting for us, his uncle works nights so he was not home. We talking til later and than were woken up early by his uncle to go to his uncles company party (he works for an airline) and they were having a big Easter hunt at the Tulsa Zoo. I stayed at the house with the baby because it was a pretty cold rainy day. Nate, Collin, Trina, Kathryn and Ben all went to the zoo and had a blast. They got to ride on camels and went to Collins favorite place after HotDonalds (his rendition of Mcdonalds since he was little so we still call it that). When they got back we went out shooting with his cousins Regina, Trina and Andy on the backwoods of there huge property. We shot skeets and other random things, Collin also came and got to practice a little shooting too, but he was mainly interested in picking up the shells. We than went back and had a really good dinner his aunt made and visited some more. The next day we left for Missouri and were pretty happy it was such a short drive compared to the one we had been on a couple days before. When we got there Nate's Mom, Luke and sister Jasmine were waiting for us. His Mom had purchased Collin some Aquasand so he was really into playing with that, and we visited for a while. Than his aunt Susanne came over with her daughter Jenny who is Collins age, and they played and we all ate pizza. We than headed over to his Aunts house to have a sleepover and Collin and Jenny got to play some more. His aunt let Jenny miss school the next day so that they could play all day and we had a great time visiting and hanging out. Nates brother Trevor came over in the morning and needed some help with his cars alternator so they started working on it and spent the whole day doing that. Nates cousin Candy came over too and brought her cute little boy Tristin with her. She was there to pick up Jenny to take her to the mall to get her ears pierced, so we decided to tag along, and I ended up getting Azaria's ears pierced as well and they turned out super cute! We than left the mall and headed back to meet up with the boys and go to Nates moms house again. She had bbq some hamburgers and I got the kids asleep and than we all hungout and talked. The next Nates grandpa Bill came over to see the kids and had a fun time teasing Collin. Nate cooked us all a really good breakfast and his aunt came over and thought it was so weird how grown up Nate was. We wanted to go check out the Bass Pro Shop Headquarters that is close to her house and grandma offered to babysit. We had a blast walking around and seeing all of the cool stuff, it was SO HUGE! When we got back Jasmine was at his mom's again, and we all had dinner and hung out. Jasmine got out a box that had a bunch of pictures from when her and Nate were babies that were cool to look at. The next day we wanted to go to Branson Missouri. We left the baby with her grandma again and took Collin to have some fun. We rode on this amazing go kart track, and Nate and Collin had a blast on bumper boats. We went to a Ozark shop and purchased some cool cowboy hats and other fun stuff. And than we headed back and played outside at his mom's for a while and most of the night because it was a beautiful night. The next day we headed over to his Grandpa Bills for lunch, and met up with his brother Trevor again, it was such a hot day! Collin got to ride his grandpas motorized wheelchair and loved that. And loved playing with his video games with Trevor. We than went back to his mom's and watched Avatar and I ruined a perfectly good pizza (apparently I am not the "typical girl who can cook" according to Nate). The next day we went out to breakfast with his aunt Susanne's family at the Waffle house (yummy) and than took Jenny and Collin to "How to train your dragon" which was a great movie and they both loved it! We than headed back to his mom's and Jasmine and Matt (her boyfriend) were there again with about 12 different kinds of cookies that she had baked (they were SO good!) We had yummy shish kaboobs and than went over to his aunts to color some easter eggs with Jenny. They had a great time coloring eggs and Nate had fun talking guns with uncle Steve. We than headed back and got Collin to sleep and than got there Easter baskets going since we were doing Easter on Saturday instead of Sunday since we were traveling all day. We woke up and Collin was so excited about all of the fun Easter stuff! Trevor was over and Jasmine had purchased Collin a cool bubble blowing set that he had a blast with. Jasmine made some really good breakfast! We than headed over to Susanne's to hide Easter eggs. The kids had a blast finding all the eggs. We than had to leave so we could go meet up with his grandpa Bill at Red Lobster for lunch. It was such great food and we had a great time hanging out with Nates whole family. Than we headed back and had to start to pack. Collin had a blast playing frisbee with Trevor for a while. And Nates mom gave him one of his grandpas hierloom guns. We than headed home and spent Easter on the road. I hit a bird that was CRAZY and we had Easter lunch in Aspen. We dropped Collin off at his dads when we got home for a nice week long break. Our trip was AmazinG and we already miss everyone!