Monday, June 13, 2011

Nielson Family Fun

May 2nd-9th we had some of our good friends from Utah come visit!

Tom and Jarrod have been friends since they were little guys. When Jarrod married Melanie we all became great friends and have been great friends ever since.

They hopped on a plane with their 3 boys, Preston, Cater and Wyatt and came to Houston to see us!

We had a ton of fun having them here!

Jarrod and Tom went wild hog hunting where they both shot some pretty big hogs. We got a ton of meat and sometime soon we will have a mounted hog head. Boy am I excited. That's what every wife dreams of is having a hog head hanging in her living room. Although, it will most likely end up hanging in the garage! Sorry honey! Love you!

Pretty gross

The boys also went fishing where they didn't catch anything and went to a gun range and shot their guns.

Cole and their oldest son Preston
got to go shooting with them


As a group we went to Brazo's Bend, the alligator park. We saw some small alligator's in the water but nothing too big and scary. The guys did a little bit of fishing here as well. The alligators could sense that they were fishing and came in to where they could snag anything they caught. Jarrod was the only one to catch anything.








We went to Space Center Houston, after me and Melanie ran to Conroe to see my sisters new baby girl, which is another post. Space Center Houston was a quick outing. We got there at 3:00, went on an hour and a half tour and then let the kids play on the playground that is inside. They got to play for about 15min. when it was announced that Space Center Houston was closed! We didn't realize they closed at 5:00! We would have just let the kids play instead of taking the tour if we would have known that. Who closes at 5:00 on a Friday night! Any way that Friday night we got a babysitter for all of the kids, besides Wyatt, their 3 month old, and went to dinner.

Lets see, what else did we do? Oh yes, we went to Galveston and played at the beach. The kids love the water. We also flew kites, built sandcastles, collected seashells, tried saving a jelly fish, and berried naughty kids. Another great day!


Cooling off with some cream slushies


The day came for them to go home and what a sad day it was! The time just goes by way too quick. Til' next time!

1 comment:

Mana said...

I like the third to last picture. Avery's smile is really cute, Dayna, you look really good, and Tom has an awesome shirt on :)