El Paso Trip Part I

I have a ton of pictures and stories from our El Paso trip so I decided to separate then into several posts instead of just one long one. First off, Andrew had the time of his life and I don't know how he is going to get back to his normal boring life now that we are home. He just thought Grandad was awesome!!! Andrew followed him around like a little puppy. He walked right behind him every time he came home asking "Grandad, where were you? Where are you going? What are you doing?...........". He wouldn't even leave the house to come with me and my mom. He told us "no, I want to stay with Grandad". This was in part to the fact that Grandad took him to the park to play baseball and golf on more than one occasion. He also had a good time seeing all his cousins. Firsts, he got to visit with "My Friends" (Elizabeth's family) on the way up there, then he got to see "The People" (Kathrine's family) and "John Michael" (He refers to Michael's entire family as John Michael) during his visit. Which was great for me, I didn't have to entertain him for a second. He replaced "Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy" with "Grandad, grandad, grandad.".

Our firsts activity was a visit to Western Playland. For those of you who don't know, Western Playland is a little amusement park in El Paso. It has been there "forever". I have pictures of me as a baby on some of the same rides you will see Andrew on. He had a great time. First, with Joseph and Elise, and then the rest of "The People" came later on. They have lots of rides just right for a kid his age there. But, typical Andrew, he wanted to do some big kid rides and cried when he couldn't go on the bumper cars.

Grandma also has a HUGE water slide that she can put up in the backyard. He liked playing and splashing everyone. Then he decided that he was going to hit golf balls on the top and then climb up to get them down. After playing in the water he and "The People" decided that they were going to play in the mud. I think they ended up playing longer in the mud than in the water slide. Typical, "you buy a kid a toy and they play with the paper". So this ends the first 2 days we were there. More posts and pictures to come in the next couple of days, so check back.