On May 7 we met my parents in Branson for a little family weekend. Since it was the week before Andrew's birthday my parents brought their gifts to him and we had a mini party our first night there. Let me start off by saying my parents picked an amazing place to stay. It was a 2 bedroom suite with 2 full baths, a living room, dining area, fully stocked kitchen (not with food but with cookware, plates...etc) and a sun porch. If I remember correctly it was called the Lodge at Fall Creek. I would highly recommend staying here!
Looking from the dining area into the living room. The front door is behind Adam and behind the gold curtains is a sliding glass door leading to the sun porch.
the kitchen/dining area
one of the 2 bathrooms. They were both identical with a jacuzzi tub in each :-)
Andrew getting ready to open presents. In case you're wondering my Mom ran out of b-day bags so a few of his gifts were in Christmas bags (Andrew didn't seem to care)
Adam helping read the card
sweet Ava quietly watching her brother open gifts
Nana and Pawpaw got some major bonus points with this present. Andrew loves his scooter!
showing off how to stand on it
Andrew shared a cake with his Pawpaw since their birthdays are only a week apart.
On Saturday morning we got up and headed to Silver Dollar City. I haven't been since I was a little kid and Andrew had never been so we were all looking forward to the day. The day started out great. While waiting in line for tickets to get in we had a nice family offer to give us their visitor passes that were about to expire. This allowed us to get in for free. I am all about getting things for free! Of course we offered to buy them lunch or something to show our appreciation but they refused. We had no idea how grateful we would be for these free passes a few hours later. We walked around for a while and then Andrew rode a few rides. Everything was going great! Both kids were in a good mood and things seemed to be going well. After the rides it was lunch time so we stopped to eat before continuing our trip through the park. I was so excited to see a place that sold big pickles. You know the ones you get at ball games and such. Andrew LOVES pickles but had never seen one that big before so of course I had to get it for him at lunch. Now I feel it is time to mention just how bad Andrew's allergies have been since we moved to KS. He is on 2 different meds daily to help combat allergies. Something in MO did not like my poor boy. His allergies were kicking his tail this day and as lunch was ending we found out just how bad. As we were finishing up eating Andrew started to complain about not feeling well. Adam and I both assumed that was his way of not wanting to finish his food (he uses that excuse rather often). We both played him off and told him to finish eating when all of a sudden he went white and got sick everywhere. It was not pleasant to look at or smell :-) We tried to continue through the park because I knew it was just drainage from his allergies causing it, but he got sick 2 more times in about 45 min so we decided to leave. We got back to the suite and he took a nap. When he woke up the boy was as good as new which further proved the allergy drainage theory. Despite this is was a good weekend. We are hoping to go back again sometime soon and try the park again, especially since it's such a short drive.
watching the glass blower
on the roller coaster in the little kid section of the park. Andrew and Adam are in the 3rd car
Andrew and I waiting on our ride to start
on the teacups
taking his scooter out for a spin later that evening
The outside of our building. We are the door just above the bushes
This shows the sun rooms. We were on the 2nd floor
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