My grandpa turned 89 this year, and as always, we headed to Branson to ring in the birthday with the entire Dean Family. This year was especially important, because Grandpa just got inducted into the Army Ranger's Hall of Fame, but wasn't able to attend the induction ceremony. My Aunt Patsy and Dad went to Georgia and accepted his award and gave his speech in his place, and we got to watch a DVD of the event and Dad presented him with his medal. We are all so proud of my grandpa. He's the coolest! It was a fun weekend for us to spend with family, and Winnie had a blast playing with her cousins, especially Clara and Remi, who she seems to be getting old enough to hang with. A professional photographer even came and took family photos, but Winnie cried most of that time because she had to leave her little bike toy to be in pictures. Rush, as usual, did a great deal of sleeping:)

The birthday boy!

Swinging with Miss Linda

Andy went to Boulder this weekend for Mark's wedding (he didn't take any pictures or I would post one. they are a beautiful couple...especially Kara on the wedding day) Not wanting to be alone with Puddy, Winnie, and Rush for 5 days, I headed to Arkansas for some family time. We had an AMAZING weekend! Winnie really had a blast and seemed like such a big girl around her older cousins. We did so many fun things! And, looking back through all of the photos, her and Remi became best buds while we were in Conway. We spent the night with my brother and sister in law, Matt and Michele, and their kids-Grace, Owen, Clara, and Pierson, on the way down. The next morning, we decided that it would be fun for Grace to come to Conway with me, so I had a travel buddy! I am a terrible aunt, as most of the pictures I took were of just Winnie. I need to work on that. I was just super careful about documenting what she did, because I knew Andy would be excited to see the photos. I'll sum up the weekend in videos and pictures:

This is Winnie having fun running and jumping at the Jump Zone.

This place was like heaven for her!

But Aunt Jenny looks like she's having more fun that the kids:)

And the highlight of her time, the slides!

She looks like a rag doll, but she wanted to go down over and over.

Remi and Winnie...it's always about the belly for Winnie:)

This pretty much sums up Rush's weekend.

Doing ballet during a famous Dean Family dance party.

Sorry, Jenny, this was the one with the least amount of your footage.

It could have been A LOT worse. The fast dancing ones were awesome!

A couple shots of the Sunday brunch Jenny and Ryan hosted

After brunch, the kids did science experiments. They made geysers and volcanoes.

Even Winnie got to make a geyser!

Going down the "roller coaster" with Cousin Remi.

They had more fun doing it together than when they rode alone.

So sweet!

"Washing off" with Remi and Finn

Bathing beauties. Doesn't Remi have the prettiest hair?

That's if you notice anything other than the cute little cracks.

And the big hit of the weekend. A octopus straw cup--a gift from the McEntires that Winnie would not put down. I didn't even know she could drink out of a straw!