Lagoon '09

Every year in September we go to Lagoon with Brian's extended family. We camp at the campground next to the amusement park. It is a lot of fun and we look forward to it every year. The girls love riding all the rides.
Maya is tall enough to go on a lot of the bigger rides now, so she loves to go on the more exciting rides with her dad and Grandpa Hughes. The girls get to ride on all the kiddie rides with their cousins. There are 4 little girls.
Maya is the oldest and then the other three are all about the same age. It goes Macy, then Kaitlyn, then Riley. They had a good time riding the rides together. It will be fun to watch those girls grow up and see them be friends. I enjoyed having lots of cousins that were my age.
This picture is of two grown guys sitting in a car together on Puff.
It is Brian's brother-in-law Mark, and his friend John (who is married to Brian's cousin). They got in line on the ride to ride with their daughters, but then their daughters chose to ride together, so the attendant person told them to get in the car together! Kaitlyn and I were right behind them, and I was hysterically laughing. The attendant asked if everyone was ready, and everyone yelled except the two boys, so she said,"Are the two gentlemen sitting together back there ready?!" I thought for sure I would wet my pants. They were totally squished into that seat and both trying to pull to the side as to not touch each other as much as possible. It probably is a 'had to be there' moment, but it was definitely a memorable one for all of us!
It was frightmares at Lagoon also. The kids got to go trick-or-treating, and there were lots of people dressed up that had candy around the park.
We didn't make it to any of the haunted houses, but they looked like they would be fun. I hadn't ever been to frightmares before, and it was actually really fun. I wouldn't mind going to Lagoon at that time every year. It was kind of cold in the tent at night though! Who goes camping in Utah at the end of September anyway?!
Later that night, the older adults watched the kids for us so we could all go back into the park and ride some rides with our spouses. Many of you know Brian has muscular dystrophy, so getting on and off the rides is always a challenge. I think he was more tired this time around because it was bad. We finally got a pretty good system down though. John and Shandel were with us so John lifted Brian out of the rides and placed him over by the rail so that Brian could then stand up. I lifted him out once or twice too. It was quicker than letting him try to get out and hold up all the cars behind us. But we created such a scene by carrying him out of the car that all the attendants and riders stopped everything to watch, so everything was held up anyway. I couldn't help but laugh a lot at the two of them because it was hilarious. Bri was a good sport though! Only Tyler and Hillary can truly appreciate what we went through!