Our Trip

Ryan had a business trip in Grapevine for 2 days (Wed. March 25th and Thur. March 26th). I decided to take those days off and go with him. I was really needing some time off from work. My mom & dad agreed to keep the kids and get them to school so we headed out early Wednesday morning. We had chick-fil-A for breakfast... yummmm. When we arrived at our hotel we checked in and rested for half an hour before Ryan had to go to his training.

Our bed

Our sitting area

Our shower/tub

Sweet ...it's a Jacuzzi

When Ryan left I called Travis to see if he would be available for lunch. He came and picked me up around 11:30 and we ate lunch at Firehouse Subs. We had a nice lunch & a good time catching up. When I got back to the hotel I decided to go to the Grapevine Mills Mall. That is one big Mall. It was lots of fun looking in all the stores and taking as long as I wanted.

When Ryan got done we went to dinner at this steak house that was recommended "Love & War in Texas". It was kind of expensive and it was okay, nothing fancy.

The next day Ryan went to his training again & I headed off to the Mall again. I found a couple of purses that I bought & lots of clothes that I would have loved to get but didn't. I ate lunch in the mall. Ryan got done early so we headed home early. On our way home we stopped in Ft Worth to see one of my sweet little friends (from my class) who was just diagnosed with Leukemia (ALL) that week. I enjoyed playing trains with him in the play room.

We made it home that evening and picked up the kids at my parents it was a nice little get away.

Cameron Park ZOO

On Thursday we went to the Cameron Park Zoo (in Waco). We really enjoy this zoo because it is fairly small. It makes it easy to see everything in just a couple of hours. Which of course is all that our little ones can handle. My Mom (Meme) went with us and we all had a fun time.

We are so excited for the summer. We bought a zoo pass which is really cool because we have a full page list of zoos we can go to for free and several that we can get into at a discount. We can also go to some aquariums (Ryan is especially excited about the aquariums).

Discovering SNAILS...

Last week Ryan had a couple of days off so we decided to go to Waco. On Wednesday we relaxed and the kids had fun playing on the swing set and with Durango (Uncle Travis' dog). They had Daddy help them go exploring in Meme & Papa's backyard. They were so excited to find a snail. Daddy put it up on the swing set and they watched him crawl around.

They also enjoyed ridding bikes, roller blading, playing hockey and whatever else they could think of to play.

Family Vacation

I wanted to share some things that have happened this year. The last week of May we moved into a Townhome in Bryan. We started moving on Thursday and the following Monday Ryan left for California for work. He was gone 2 weeks and we were so glad when daddy came home. We had our first family vacation at the end of June. We took the kids to San Antonio and went to Sea World the first day. Ryan has a cousin that lives very close to Sea World so we stayed with them and the kids had a blast playing with Jimmy and Addy (who they love playing with and miss living close to). The next day we went to Fiesta Texas with Liz, Jimmy and Addy. That was so much fun. Sunday we went to church with liz and the kids and just hung out around the house. Monday we got up for our last day of vacation and went back to Sea World. The kids had a blast and to this day still talk about the dolphins.