Summer Visit to "Jackson Family"

Connor and I have tried to start taking a week to visit family in the summer time. Last summer we spent 1 week with each side of the family and had a blast...This summer our week in Jackson was a little altered due to my mom's heath. Thank you everyone who prayed and was concerned. Hopefully she is on the road to GREAT recovery.
So our FULL week was not truly a FULL week...but it was jammed packed with FUN!

We have Brad's side of the family living in the Jackson area...I say that because I don't think any of their actual addresses are Jackson. We've got Terry, Raymond, Brandon, etc.

We stayed of course at Grandmomma and Grandpa's house...i call out in the "stix"!

We visited the Natural Science Museum, did some outlet shopping in Vicksburg, shopping of course around Jackson, painting at Harry the Potter, playing with all the fun toys at Grandomma & Grandpa's house, and eating out at some of our favorites!! (my awesome Father-in-Law truly understands my passion and deep love for Dairy Queen and always takes me there! Girl Scout Mint Blizzard--YUM YUM!!) We did get to spend some great quality time with all our relatives...I hope and pray that Connor holds these memories dear to his heart. Going to Grandparent's and family for visits can be such sweet times. I love and cherish all the time we spent there last week. While I won't bore you with all the details-here are the highlights.THANK you precious family!! We love you MUCH!! Never enough time when we come-no matter how long we are there!

This is "GREAT Gran". She and Connor and I ate at a cool ole homecookin place (Trace Grill) where she learned of Connor's love for fried okra.(Of which she then made a batch for him before we went home.)She helped read and put him down for his nap in this pic.

Connor with Pappaw and Memaw. It was actually close to Papaw's bday...so we took him his annual gift of goo-goo bars and a "miskelly" gift card (McAllister's really)

Memaw pulled out really cool cars for Connor to play with this time. He still likes to line everything up like a train.

We met Aunt Vickie and Grandpa one morning at the Natural Science museum where we all had a GREAT time! Lots of cool animals.Connor added a baby turtle to his own personal animal collection from the gift shop.Go if you can...VERY NICE!

Shopping in Vicksburg was way successful for Connor...lots of new clothes and a brand new MONKEY!! Hoping maybe to replace luvie monkey with this "toddler version". Connor is into lemons now a days and Grandmomma let him have hers at McAllisters where we refueled before more shopping!!

We met Grandpa and Aunt Vickie again- this time for painting!! FUN time by all!! Connor took some lessons from the ever talented Vickie who taught him squiggle lines and dots. Hopefully all our pieces will turn out as masterful as we expect!!

Saturday morning before we left Connor had hours of BOY fun in the yard...DIRT PILE and WATER HOSE!!!

O.K. This trip REALLY could've been called "cookie visit"...If you know me well, you know that we don't do much "Sweets" with Connor. But this trip was all about COOKIES!!

Connor needed to go "potty" while at Beagel Bagel...as we walked to the restrooms...he says, "momma, I see a thing that can be GREAT dessert for us". Sure enough he spotted a super cool flower cookie. He was quite nice to share (as always) a petal each to Grandmomma and me.

Grandpa taught Connor how to eat Oreo's:

While Primo's has great food...their desserts are by far the best thing about going there. Connor chose a SUPER HUGE cookie covered in sprinkles that he could not even come close to eating "all gone". We did bring daddy his favorites home as a treat from here.

We even made our own ice cream sandwhich cookies...of which connor called ice cream pigs. LOTS of fun and tasted GREAT! Might have to start making this a tradition!!