Thursday, December 26, 2013

Texas August 2013

Roger, me and Daxton decided to take a fun drive across several states to go and visit Troys family. Wow that's a long drive!!! About 21 hours total. We stayed a night in New Mexico to break the drive up. It was so fun to have Daxton go with us. What a great traveler he was. He brought books, his Ipad and something to draw on to pass the time. He never complained. It sure makes the trip go much better when you have good little travelers like that. I'm glad we got to take him with us and spend some one on one time with him.
Troy, Kori, Colby and Adaline at Magnolias Pancake House on our last day in Texas. It's the best breakfast place ever!! It's a "must go to" place when we go and visit.

On our home from our trip we stopped at Four Corners so that Daxton could say he had been in four states at the same time. He thought that was pretty darn cool. 

We took the kids to a Safari place where we could see many African Safari animals right from our car. We also could get out and see some of the animals. 

Oh I love this little stinker. I relished every second I had. We love taking pictures of ourselves.
Ok..we're nuts I know. The kids get such a kick out of taking tons of pictures and doing crazy faces. 

Here we are visiting at the Wild Safari Park
We went with Troy to the San Antonio Zoo

Can I say dimples!! Colby sat with me as we drove in the car through the Wild Safari Park

I brought our new snow cone machine so that we could make snow cones with the kids. It sure came in handy since it was so hot and humid there. They loved making them!!
Here are a couple of the wild animals

Kori made a yummy dinner. Look how tan we all are from swimming so much

Look how much I was sweating in the humidity there. It was like stepping out of a shower. I don't know if I could handle that all the time. Guess I'd have to either have real short hair or have a hat on.

Nerds!! These boys sure had fun playing together. Colby was attached to Daxton the whole trip. 
Zoo day!

Kori and Rog watching me and the kids swimming. The pool area is so beautiful where they live.

We lived in the pool a couple of times a day. I brought this fun blow up toy and the kids loved trying to stay on it. 
We're at the zoo. Notice the sweat!!!

Rog taking a minute to check his blood sugar. 

This was a fun place to take a picture at the Zoo entrance. 

African Safari

I spent hours and hours a day playing with the kids in the pool. We laughed and played so hard. I'm so glad I love the water and not afraid to get in and show my fat body. I'd sure miss out on all this fun if I didn't get in.

For a few minutes I would get time to relax and catch some sun. But then I'd get someone coming underneath me and tipping me over. Hmmm I wonder if that could have been Daxton??? lol

This beautiful young lady loved watching grandma get ready in the morning. She'd sit on the bathroom counter and watch me put make up on and blow my hair dry. She wanted her lips like mine so I'd have to dab a little make up on her. 

My little stinkers. Oh they had so much fun together. They're little fishes in the water. Daxton is a great swimmer and Colby and Adaline are swimming now too. You couldn't take your eyes off of them because they had no fear. Most of the time they didn't even wear their floaties.
Troy's such a good daddy. He loves swimming with the kids too. 
It's always so hard to leave our family behind. But I know they're happy where they are. We miss having them at our family functions and being able to see them anytime we want. I'm grateful we can visit as often as we do. And I'm sure glad it's a beautiful place too. We love San Antonio. The people are so friendly, the restaurants are to die for. So here's to the next time we get to go back and visit. So long Troy, Kori, Colby and Addie.

Our August Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Jake on August 12th.
He's been such a great asset to our family. He's a wonderful husband to Shana, daddy to his 4 kids and a great son-inlaw. Always has a smile on his face, always giving service to others and is such a dedicated, hard worker. 

 Happy Birthday to Kori on August 27th. She's a great wife to Troy, and a fun mommy to Colby and Addie. Kori is a fantastic cook. Makes the best dinners ever! When they lived closer she was always asking us up for dinner which was so nice.