Our family Vacation July 2011

This year we got to travel to Alabama for a family reunion! Charles' mother's dad turned 96 last fall and his grandma turned 95, so their family organized a family reunion of that side of the family. There were 54ish people, including about 15 children :) We flew out on Thurs 7/14 and then came home Tues 7/19. We enjoyed meeting new "cousins" and family - all 3 kids did really, really well flying (They actually LOVED it) and other than being exhausted, the trip was awesome. :) Hudson is a champ - he handled the travel, chaos and all the extra love without any trouble at all :)
One of their favorite things...riding the luggage carrier :)
Grandma Jayne got to meet Hudson
Great-Grandpa and Grandma 96 and 95- such an amazing thing to live so long and be well!! :)
This is Aunt  Caroline, Jayne's Sister. It was great to see her too!
We spent 1/2 a day at the AL zoo - it was AWESOME!!!
The Savanna Area :)
The lizard was staring Wyatt down :)
Sleepy gorilla - he actually looked really nice :)
We got to watch this alligator eat lunch - 2 large (dead) rats....not very exciting, but the kids loved seeing him move around :) 
Grandma JuJu bought this gorilla mask for savanna...she wore it EVERYWHERE. We had to finally make her take it off....and not allow her to take it into the airport :)
Vacation is highly underrated :)  but man are we glad to be home.

Coming up next post - beach pictures!!!
OH, just a funny. Savanna went to the dentist for the first time this past week, and DID GREAT!! Then she came home and was playing dentist on her brother and friend Addie :) Glad it was a good experience :)

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