These pictures are not in order. Grandma and Grandpa Mead came to Little Rock around the 13th and we all headed to Branson, MO together and had such a great trip! Branson is only 3 hours away and we went to the Dixie Stampede show which is owned by Dolly Parton. It was a Christmas show and absolutely amazing! There was a live nativity scene with a manger scene that came down from the roof, live animals including three camels for the wise men, etc. Austin and Axel were entertained the entire time which tells how amazing it was! We ate the yummy food with our hands.
Here is a picture of Grandma Mead with Tom and Austin at Silver Dollar City. It was SO freezing and we were grateful grandma had packed her Ukraine supplies to help keep us all warm. This was right before the Christmas parade came by.
Here is Grandpa Mead with Axel, Austin and Tom at the entrance of Silver Dollar City.
There are these cool tunnels for kids to climb up and down at Silver Dollar City. You can't really see Austin very well because he was going too fast to get a good picture!
Silver Dollar City has this huge area of balls where the kids can shoot the balls up 5 stories and it is complete chaos of fun!
Tom and Axel on the boat ride where we shoot the "bad guys". Austin could not get enough of this ride!
Axel and Austin with Santa at our playgroup activity. Our neighbor came as Santa and the older kids loved it and Axel well....he wasn't so appreciative. But Axel did eat 4 candy canes from Santa!
Axel is obsessed with lollipops! If he is ever grumpy, a lollipop will always cheer him right up. He was not happy that he didn't get to go with dad and Austin on this ride but the lollipop made it all good. For Christmas we could have given him 20 lollipops and been done. He literally had a lollipop in his mouth for 4 hours on Christmas. He had every color of saliva dripping down his arms.
The boys made a gingerbread house with grandma and grandpa!
Here's the fam on a the train at Silver Dollar City.
Austin went in for the first bite on the gingerbread house. Those cookies can break a window! I bought a kit and was worried the cookies might have broken....the only thing I needed to worry about was Austin's teeth breaking when trying to take a bite!
We went to a really cheesy dinosaur museum in Branson that was super overpriced and the kids were too young to be interested. Austin had found some quarters that grandpa left in the hotel room and wanted to use them in the video games in the lobby. He kept putting it in the "claw" machine and Austin kept winning 3 pairs of fake teeth and was thrilled that we left with about 15 sets of these fake teeth!
Here is our Christmas tree with all of the gifts. Austin is pretty good on the bike with training wheels! Austin keeps trying to have us give Axel's 3 wheel scooter to him...however, Axel is very well aware that is his and will not be giving that to his brother anytime soon!
We have SO many leaves in our backyard! Luckily we just hired our neighbor to clean them up. It would have taken about 12 hours to clean up!
The boys didn't want to take turns in the ladybug at Silver Dollar City!
Here's Axel with grandma and grandpa in our backyard.
Axel loves to dig in this pot of dirt on our back deck. Caught him in the act! He loves being filthy.
Here is Tom and Austn wrestling at Silver Dollar City!
These pictures are not in order. Grandma and Grandpa Mead came to Little Rock around the 13th and we all headed to Branson, MO together and had such a great trip! Branson is only 3 hours away and we went to the Dixie Stampede show which is owned by Dolly Parton. It was a Christmas show and absolutely amazing! There was a live nativity scene with a manger scene that came down from the roof, live animals including three camels for the wise men, etc. Austin and Axel were entertained the entire time which tells how amazing it was! We ate the yummy food with our hands.
Here is a picture of Grandma Mead with Tom and Austin at Silver Dollar City. It was SO freezing and we were grateful grandma had packed her Ukraine supplies to help keep us all warm. This was right before the Christmas parade came by.
Here is Grandpa Mead with Axel, Austin and Tom at the entrance of Silver Dollar City.
There are these cool tunnels for kids to climb up and down at Silver Dollar City. You can't really see Austin very well because he was going too fast to get a good picture!
Silver Dollar City has this huge area of balls where the kids can shoot the balls up 5 stories and it is complete chaos of fun!
Tom and Axel on the boat ride where we shoot the "bad guys". Austin could not get enough of this ride!
Axel and Austin with Santa at our playgroup activity. Our neighbor came as Santa and the older kids loved it and Axel well....he wasn't so appreciative. But Axel did eat 4 candy canes from Santa!
Axel is obsessed with lollipops! If he is ever grumpy, a lollipop will always cheer him right up. He was not happy that he didn't get to go with dad and Austin on this ride but the lollipop made it all good. For Christmas we could have given him 20 lollipops and been done. He literally had a lollipop in his mouth for 4 hours on Christmas. He had every color of saliva dripping down his arms.
The boys made a gingerbread house with grandma and grandpa!
Here's the fam on a the train at Silver Dollar City.
Austin went in for the first bite on the gingerbread house. Those cookies can break a window! I bought a kit and was worried the cookies might have broken....the only thing I needed to worry about was Austin's teeth breaking when trying to take a bite!
We went to a really cheesy dinosaur museum in Branson that was super overpriced and the kids were too young to be interested. Austin had found some quarters that grandpa left in the hotel room and wanted to use them in the video games in the lobby. He kept putting it in the "claw" machine and Austin kept winning 3 pairs of fake teeth and was thrilled that we left with about 15 sets of these fake teeth!
Here is our Christmas tree with all of the gifts. Austin is pretty good on the bike with training wheels! Austin keeps trying to have us give Axel's 3 wheel scooter to him...however, Axel is very well aware that is his and will not be giving that to his brother anytime soon!
We have SO many leaves in our backyard! Luckily we just hired our neighbor to clean them up. It would have taken about 12 hours to clean up!
The boys didn't want to take turns in the ladybug at Silver Dollar City!
Here's Axel with grandma and grandpa in our backyard.
Axel loves to dig in this pot of dirt on our back deck. Caught him in the act! He loves being filthy.
Here is Tom and Austn wrestling at Silver Dollar City! 
