With The Mauks

 My sister Kim and her family,

came to Texas to visit for

Thanksgiving weekend.

We haven't seen these loved cousins

in way too long.

We used to spend all the holidays together,

but it's been almost a year since we've

seen each other when they ditched us for 

New Mexico.

My kids could hardly contain themselves

with the anticipation of

seeing them!

We met up at the Dallas Zoo.

(right to left: Dan, Kim, Keira, Ray, Eliza, Rachel,

Ben, Grant, Emma, Larry, Sarah & Sydney) 

The girls riding the elephant statue.

The boys riding the elephants, too.

Grant is the closest thing Ben

will ever have to an older brother.

He loves him soooo much!!

They had a new little machine in one

of the display houses.

A wind room that makes it feel

like you are in a tornado.

It started off with low winds

and slowly grew faster and faster.

Here they are laughing like crazy with winds

at 68.8 mph.

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 Then in got all the way up to 80mph.

They had a blast.

But Eliza didn't like the knots it put

into her hair.

We were able to spend more time

with our cousins by having lunch

at In & Out,

going to a park

and then stopping for donuts

before we said goodbye.