Summer of the Skateboard in Mississippi

 We spent last week hanging out with my family in Mississippi.  There was lots of good food, good times with cousins, and skateboarding!

 Addie is a record holding runner.  You can tell by the determination on her face.

 Garner did an excellent job holding a very fussy Charlie.

 Viola loves her cousins!

Bailey has recently gotten into skateboarding.  His excitement is rather contagious and by the time we left Brian, Jake and some of the kids were also proud owners of skateboards.

 Gracie got in on the action.

 Trey looks pretty tough.

 Brian and Bailey practicing their ollie.

 Addie bit it pretty hard.

 But she got right back on the "horse"

 Anita Beth nearly bit it too.

 Recovery!

 Garner is getting really into the new sport.

 Bro ride.

 Prater even has her own tinkerbell board.

Brooke showed off her cart-wheel skills.

 We were invited to a swimming party at Aunt Pam's house and ended up with a few extra people.  Viola didn't mind she loves to be surrounded by cousins.

 There were cheetos provided in honor of Evie(my grandmother) as always.

 Some slight cheetos fingers.

 Breck loves Charlie and decided that he would be responsible for him.  It was so nice to have a break.

 Garner got sausage socks!

 I ambush dropped Charlie in Bailey's lap.  It seemed to go well.

 Charlie got his first shades.  He loves them of course.

 Guess who wants a skate board for Christmas?

This Charlie.  Whenever he came across an abandoned board he climbed on and stood up.  Not always a good idea.

 When we went to visit Weezie (my other grandmother) Charlie found a picture that he liked and carried it around for a while.  He must have thought that was a pretty little girl. (it's me)

 Weezie loves the kiddos!

 We explored Weezie's garden.

 Weezie's ghost plant.  She always had tons of it.

 Then we hit the pizza truck at Jake's house and some more skateboarding.

 Remember Brooke demonstrating cartwheels?  Well she was trying to do one on the balance beam Sunday night and ended up in the ER with a broken wrist.  But on the bright side now she has a place for every one to demonstrate their artistry.

 Papa even got Viola up on his board.

 There's that boy, back on a skateboard.

 First pizza!  I'm not sure that he gets it, he ate it upside down.

 Chillin'

 Mother of four rocks the skateboard.

 Addie's pretty smooth in her sparkle high-tops.

 The little girls dug some scooters out of the garage.

Cindy found a ribbon dancing apparatus for the one-armed girl.

 But every body wanted one so I dug around in Cindy's gift wrapping paraphernalia and put some ribbon on bamboo skewers for every one else.

 Headed home.  The flight went much smoother than our voyage to Mississippi.  Thanks for all the good times everyone!