Thomas the Train

Ryan is home and we are super excited.  Yay!! He started work today at his new job in the Woodlands.  We are trying to decide if we want to stay in our house or try to sell our house and move closer to his office.  We already tried to sell our house in the last 2 years and it didn't get many viewings, so we don't know yet what we are doing.  

I visited a friend's blog recently and saw that she and her family did A Day with Thomas and it looked awesome.  We lucked out in that it was in Rusk this past weekend which is only 3 hours away from us.  So we packed up the kids on Thursday and took them on a suprise trip to Rusk, TX.  The kids were very excited about sleeping in a hotel and stayed up till 10:30, eek.  We got up early Friday morning and went to the train station.  We had so much fun and the people were all very friendly.  The Thomas train will be in Burnet in September and we might just have to go do it again. 

Goobers

I haven't taken many pictures lately because we have been taken over by sickness in this house.  We've been sick about 7/8 times since the end of December.  Many times we get sick just 2 weeks after getting better from the last time we were sick.  So I have rarely taken my camera out, but I am hoping to rectify this soon. 

 We got new couches in December and the kids love to bounce and play all over them.  I decided to take some pictures of the kids being goobers.

Zoo in December

The Zoo in December

Portrait Innovations 2010

Ryan came home for 10 days in December and we managed to get some family pictures before everybody got sick and before Daddy went home. The kids weren't very cooperative but we managed to get a few great shots!

Beach

This summer I took the kids to Corpus for a few days and one of our main goals was to go to the beach.  Of course, we picked a day where there was not any breeze(almost unheard of in Corpus) and it was over 100degrees.  Schroeder's cheeks get red if it's 85 degrees outside, so we didn't get to stay long.  We did manage to play for a little bit and I got a few good pictures.

What is that on my toes?

Blgh, it feels gross!

This sand is everywhere and won't come off!

Family Pictures

We took family pictures this summer when Ryan was able to visit us for a few days.  Mackenzie would not smile and Schroeder managed to smile a few times in between the crying.  Oh well, we will try again in December and next summer.  One day we will manage to get everybody to smile in the same picture.

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Soon

So we have been very, very busy in the last couple of months. We have been out of town often and/or we have been sick and stuck in our house.

We have one last trip before the summer is up. We are going to the river this week to hang out with my dad and stepmother. When we return we will have no more trips for awhile AND the kids start Mother's Day Out. Yay!

Once we are settled back home again after our last hurrah trip, I will begin to recap all that has gone on the last couple of months.

P.S.- Ryan was able to come home for two weeks in July, so we were able to hang out and enjoy him for a little while before he had to go back overseas. Here are a few pictures of us hanging out together.

San Antonio Vacation

1. Sea World

• Well, we made it to Boerne and we all loaded up and went to Sea World. We had to stop at Grandma's school first so she check on some things and we ended up getting to watch a cement truck pouring concrete for a patio/sidewalk. The men let Schroeder and I hold the drain while the mix poured out. It was great until I got some on my leg and I had us move away. Schroeder still remembers it getting on my leg.


• We got to Sea World a little later than planned but we went to our first show and the kids did great. We went to lunch afterwards and the melting began. My kids are less trusting when I walk away b/c for all they know Daddy walked away and hasn't come back yet. So as I'm getting food the kids are with Grandpa and freaking out hysterically. I don't know until I'm checking out and I hear them and then see them. Let's just say nobody got to eat food for about an hour and a half, we finally convinced the kids to eat popcorn and they were better. We got to see the sharks, dolphins, fish, pengiuns, sea lions and seals, feed some birds and some seals. IT was a great day!!

2. Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch

• We had so much fun doing this and it was only a half hour from my inlaws place. We took Grandma, Grandpa, me, Schroeder, Mackenzie, and grabbed Nonni when we got there. Mackenzie got a snack when we got there and couldn't be bothered with animals until it was gone. Schroeder had so much fun seeing all the animals. Grandpa was the lucky one that fed the animals and many of then came up to his window to get the food. A few ostriches were done eating and we started to drive off and they decided they wanted a little more so they stuck their head back in and gave us all quite a scare. There were some animals that had these bugeyes that gave me the hibby-jibbies just looking at them. But overall we had many giggles and animal viewings while there.

The animal that gives me the hibby jibbies. Look at its' eyes.

This zebra came to my window and stared at me. It really wanted me to feed it but my window is broken so I couldn't put food out for it. Poor zebra, he really tried to stare me down for some food!

We weren't sure if he wanted food from us or was dancing to scare us off. He put on quite a performance.

Schroeder feeding the goats.