Jonny Boy's Visit from AZ

Last week our nephew Jonathan (who will be 13 next month!) came out to visit us from AZ - on his first ever plane ride on his own! He made it to us safe and sound, and we hit the ground running with a trip for pizza to Joey Nova's & then a walk around Lake Excelsior. Nate got to take a lot of time off, so we seriously had something going every day - which was really nice because the "bored" moments were very few for Jon :). The list of things included: backyard bonfire, Mall of America (lego land & rode the Sponge Bob roller coaster), darts & ladder ball, playing with a buddy he met last time he was here, going to work with Nate, Valleyfair (amusement park), his 1st pro-baseball game seeing the Twins, making chicken wings & fries from scratch with Nate (Jonny tore up the kitchen!), catching his 1st fish, swimming at our friends pool, dinner at Burger Jones (ate his 1st cheese curds there) & breakfast at donuts at Yo-yo Donuts ... phew! We couldn't believe it when the Saturday for him to leave had come, the week really flew by. But I think 1 week was perfect. I'm happy he didn't leave bored out of his gourd or looney because of all the questions Sophie & Chason would ask him every 2 minutes "hey Jonny...", "Jonny look at this...", "whatchya doin' Jonny??" haha! They really had fun with their cousin. And the crazy thing is the week he was here we had a couple days with like 106 degree weather & it was in the 70's in Mesa - go figure :). Thanks Mom & Dad for sending him out to be with us, it was great - we sure love you Jon and miss you already! (Here are some pics in random order - still haven't figured out how to move pics around without deleting others & it's been almost 2 years i've been blogging, lol!).