Texas Part Two

The second day of driving to Texas I forgot we had stopped at the Painted Desert in Arizona.  It's super pretty and really colorful but not exciting for kids.  

Tyler was having so much fun filling out the paper work to be a junior ranger......

 Kayla.........not so much!  haha

We were not there for long until we were back on the road.

Now back to Texas.  We got to Uncle Kades house and the kids put their bathing suites on and played in the sprinklers with their umbrella's.

The day we got there it was Aliee's birthday.  So we celebrated with presents, cake, and of course, birthday hats!

Silly kids.  I am really sad because I had a couple of cute pictures I took with my phone but this was the phone that a couple of months after this, got stolen.  Boooooo

Getting ready to blow out the candles....apparently Tyler thought he needed to be RIGHT next to her.

I love that I most excited you looked for all of her presents was the band-aids!!!

Older kids watching and talking

Kayla is in love with Ailee.  She still talks about her and keeps asking when we can go play with her again.

Cutie pie Cora.

The next day we wanted to take the kids to do something fun.  We decided to take them to the Children's Museum in down town San Antonio.  It was super fun!  The worse part for me was that it was too dark so either I had to use my flash, which I hate, or my pictures were slightly blurry, which I also hate so I just did both.

This was very popular with the kids.  They all wanted to be inside of a bubble.

It didn't work as well with the older kids because they were tall

We got it all the way up on Kayla

The children's museum isn't just for kids.  It's also for brothers who still act like kids!  : )

We spent the most time in this block room.  Go figure huh because at home our blocks aren't that popular.

Isn't Cora a cutie?  She kept stealing Kayla's shoe and I mean who can blame her.  They are pink and sparkly.

After the Childrne's museum went walked down to the Alamo.  We walked around there and got a few pictures and got to stamp our national parks book.

The kids all loved the fountain.  I wanted to take a picture here because we took a picture here before we had Kayla.  I would add it to this post but I have to find it on one of my hard drives first.

This next picture was Tyler's creations.  He REALLY wanted to take a picture where it looked like Daddy was throwing him in the fountain.

Did I mention Texas is humid and we are used to the desert now.  It's just as hot where we live in Cali but it's SUPER dry.  Being in the humidity was really different.  One time I went to take my sunglasses out of my purse and they were ALREADY fogged up!  Crazy

We had a fun day.  That night we had quick shopping trip for the mommies.  Emily and I got to TJ MAX about 30 minutes before they closed and got to shop for a little bit.  Then when we got back the big boys ( otherwise know as Cody and Kade ) went to the movies.

Well this is it for today.  I gotta get the kids ready for their swim lessons.  I love where we live because swim lessons is included in the price of our association so we do not have to pay for them.  WOO HOO

Hopefully, I will be able to finish this Texas trip up with two more post.  Our next adventure was seeing our good friend Sarah, Brian, Julia and Colin.  Then it was our trip back home where we stopped at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.

Until tomorrow....

Texas Trip FINALLY Part 1

I know I always say I am going to try and get caught up on here.  I really would like too because I go back and look at pictures on my computer and forget about stuff.  I would much rather remember the story behind the photo because I blogged about it.  For now I am going to try and update once a week and do an old post once a week.  Twice a week should be manageable right?  Let's hope so.

This morning I had to get up really early so I thought I would finally go through, edit and shrink our pictures from our Texas trip from LAST summer.  We don't get to go on  fun trip this summer so I'm glad we got to do this one last year.

We started out heading for the Grand Canyon.  I had never been before and it just figures that when we got there it was overcast.  It was still really cool to see but not as good for pictures because you couldn't tell how colorful it was.  It actually sprinkled on us most of the time we were there.  I was surprised to see how cool the kids thought it was.  I was also surprised at how into taking pictures the kids were but unfortunately for me, Kayla had blue all over her face from the sucker she had in the car.  haha  I got super cute pictures any ways.

I love this picture of Tyler.  I think it's so cute!

This last picture is just too cute in my opinion.  If I remember correctly, Tyler took this picture of Kayla and she was dancing for us.  I LOVE the look on her face.

That concluded our Grand Canyon adventure.  We only got to be here about 2 hours before it started getting dark, the kids were starving and it was starting to sprinkle harder and harder.

Next day we made it into Texas!

We made it to Copperas Cove that night and then hung out in Killeen with Jason, Lisa and Lincoln while Daddy went to For Hood and visited everyone from work.  I took a couple of pictures there too but they are on my phone and I'll have to find them.  Then we headed the rest of the way to GATESVILLE!

It was so nice to see this

That is a picture of the Gatevsille  court house.  It was a sight for sore eyes!!  We went to Kurt and Stacies and then headed straight for El Tapito otherwise known as the Patio!  It was delicious!!!

The kids were having fun posing for pictures after we ate.

Kayla had chocolate on her face

We thought this was funny.  The church across from Patio always has stuff written on their sign out front.  We thought this one was funny...and appropriate for our trip.

The Gatesville skies even gave us a rainbow!

ad a gorgeous sunset on our first night back!

Then we did some sparklers

This one was loud!

I missed seeing the cowboy hat outline from people riding in their trucks!

The next day we hung out.  I didn't take many pictures but we went to lunch and to the movies.  Then Stacie and I headed to Walmart while the kids played at the house.  It was just like old times.  Amandalyn came over with her kids and we all had fun goofing off.  The next day was church.  It was good to see everyone.  Then we ate at Stacies house and took some pictures.

While in the car, I crocheted like crazy.  My arms were seriously SO sore from constantly working on something.  I made Madison this hat.

Kayla REALLY wanted to take a picture with Uncle Kurt

Group shot. Can you tell by looking at Tyler we had eaten some green frosting cupcakes?!

After this we headed to Austin where our next hotel was.  There was REALLY bad weather and we got stuck inside of a Jack-n-the-box while the rain was just pouring down.  Finally we decided to run for the car.  We got SOAKED!

The next day we headed to San Antonio to see Uncle Kade and Aunt Emily.  I'm going to stop this post for now but I'll try and finish up the Texas trip either later today or sometime this week.