the richardson boys: Missouri trip

I'm finally posting our trip to Missouri! I've started it a few times and something always took my attention away from finishing it...so anyway here it is. We had a really great time, we were able to see everyone and got to experience a little fall weather and some winter weather with snow :) all in the same week.

Here we are on the plane...ha ha Cohen was alittle sleepy! We had a really late flight.

"OK so where are we going now?"

We first drove down to Springfield to visit with some family there. Cohen got to meet and spend some time with his very sweet great grandma Iva!

It was a perfect fall day and Cohen got to go play in the leaves for the first time in great grandma Iva' yard.

We had about a five hour drive from Springfield to Albany and Cohen slept 4 of the 5 hours! It was getting colder and colder when we were leaving Springfield and this is what it looked like when we got to Albany...snow everywhere!!

We spent Thanksgiving at Ernie and Nonie's home. It was delicious and we had a lot of fun visiting with everyone.

More fun playing in the snow!! Sledding for the first time... Cohen thought this was so much fun. A few days later after the snow had melted he went out to the sled and sat on it in the grass.. waiting for it to slide down the hill!

Kinda dark but..Kathy's house all pretty and decorated for Christmas.

The night of the Albany parade. It was sooo cold that night but Cohen was a good lil' trooper and enjoyed watching all five of the floats go by!! Aunt Gail came to see us that night.

They had a live nativity seen down town. Cohen really liked the little donkey..isn't he so cute!?

We visited the big hunting lodge that Kathy works at, it was really prettyand the lodge was super nice.They raise the deer there on the ranch then turn them loose so there where deer everywhere. They even had a male and female lion and tiger. This is in the game room. They had all kinds for animals in there. Cohen enjoyed petting all the dead animals...he even gave the zebra head a hug! It was pretty sad!