NWA

***warning: this post includes lots of pictures, probably more than you care to see, but I had a hard time picking out just a few. ***

The weekend before last I loaded up my kids and Mema and headed to NWA to visit my brother, his wife and their 3 kids.  My Mom and aunt Pam meet us there.  We arrived around lunch time on Sat and left after lunch on Sunday, so it was rather quick, but we had a great time.  We weren’t in town long before we headed out to Will’s baseball games.  He had 2 back to back.  We don’t get to see the kids playing sports much due to the distance, so it was  real treat to get to see him in action.  After spending a few hours playing at the playground at the ball field and watching the games we loaded up and headed out for a surprise from Nana (my mom) to all the kids.  She took them all to build-a-bear and let them build one animal each.  We ended up with 2 bears, a sheep, a dog and a bunny.  This was our very first time to ever even walk in to a build-a-bear store.  The kids ages range from 11 down to 2 and each one of them seemed to really enjoy themselves.  One of the steps in the process of building your animal is a heart ceremony where you have a little cloth heart that you wave around and repeat after the lady about loving the bear and taking care of it and at one point she asked everyone to close their eyes and make a wish.  Eli closed his eyes to tight as if he was going to wish his wish to life right there! 🙂  Anyway, when we left there, we hopped on a little train for a ride around the Promenade and headed home for some yummy dinner. My sil is a great cook, so any meal at there house is such a treat.  It was a full day, but totally worth it.  Sunday we went to church with them and then hung out, ate lunch and headed home.  Good times!  Here are some pics from our visit.