Another Trip

This past weekend, we took a trip to Hattiesburg to visit my brother and his family. Kennedy loves spending time with her older cousins Sean and Tyler and seeing her younger cousin Aiden. She looks up to Sean and wants to spend every minute we are there with him, following him around and trying to do everything he does. She was a little hurt when one of Sean's friends came by to play. Apparently there is a game that uses small plastic pellets fired from a toy gun that is all the rage these days. Well Sean and his friend wanted to shoot their guns so I took one of the less powerful ones to show Kennedy how to hold and fire a gun. I am one of those parents that wants my child to be aware of how to properly handle a firearm instead of keeping her from them and having her find one at a friend house one day and not knowing what it is or how dangerous it can be. Anyway back to the guns. Earlier I said toy guns, by that I mean guns that are capable of firing these pellets at a little over 463 fps. Now for those of you who are unsure how fast that is, it comes out to a little over 315 mph. Lets just say it does leave a bruise. This game is played like paintball only there is no paint. Pain stops you from continuing to play. This game is called airsoft wars. Not sure who thought of this type of game but that person is evil. Of course the kids wear protective gear but still this is the equivalent of being shot with a bean bag round from a police shot-gun(or so I've heard...). It doesn't kill you but the pain makes you wish you were. Yea, what fun. Kennedy did talk the boys into playing there Wii since she calls the guitar hero game "her band". She plays her Hanna Montana Guitar(not part of the game) while the boys play the game. She just can't understand why they keep messing up. She never does.
While the kids played on the trampoline and shot targets, the adults had a great visit and my brother kept the bugs away by burning his fire pit. Sure we may all die of black lung from the creosote since he was burning pine but it was fun watching him chop fire wood. What a man.
Aiden was napping most of the day but meal time brought out the beast in him. He would growl any time his mom would take his spoon out of his mouth. He wanted that spoon and did not care if there was food in it or not, it was his. It was only a day trip so we came home the same day, but Kennedy loved spending the time with her cousins and we enjoyed the conversation and lung cancer with Greg and Jan.