Memorial Day

Memorial Day marked our first trip to Lagoon this season.

"Whoa!"

And that meant while one parent rode roller coasters with the big boys, the other took the little boys plenty of times around on things like the boats.

James rode with brother Andrew, and then with cousin Phin.

After a case of mild whip lash on the Jet Star II (just for me, Ben and Max felt fine), we had some lunch with Papa, then rode more rides.

After Lagoon, James napped in the car while we drove to Provo to meet my Utah siblings at our brother Enoch's grave.

And we had a picnic dinner at Joe's house. Here are the Utah cousins on my side. We have other pictures of cousin Kaylee and James looking at the camera (and James doing a big cheesy grin like Andrew is below), but I picked this one because my brother Peter's baby David is sucking the nacho cheese Doritos flavor off of Maxwell David's fingers.

Kaylee is outnumbered by far. The only other girl cousin so far is a baby in Missouri. Another baby girl cousin is coming in the fall to join three older brothers.....in Seattle.

My brother Joe has dogs and cats and reptiles and tortoises and turtles, and Andrew was in heaven.

It was feeding time while we were there for Joe's monitor lizard. Bye bye, little mouse. I felt like singing "The circle of life" while we watched, but I refrained.