Laney came to Texas! Laney and her mom moved out of Texas about 8 years ago and have not been back since. Thankfully, I have been super lucky to be able to travel with my mom in order to see her just about every year since she left. Laney is one awesome girl! I hope that my kids continue to have a relationship with her so some of her awesomeness will rub off onto them.
We picked Laney up from the airport in Austin on a Friday and took her to Juan in a Million for breakfast. I'm not sure if she was very impressed with it though. We wanted to show her a little of Austin so we took her to Hula Hut for an early dinner and then to see the bats fly out at the Congress Bridge. Both were kind of failures! I didn't even think about Hula Hut being a Hawaiian restaurant. Not a great place to take her for her first dinner in Texas! Then the bats did not fly out until it was dark. Fortunately, people took flashlights so we kind of got to see the bats but we didn't see them fly out in a swarm.
On Saturday, we went to Goldthwaite for our family reunion. On Sunday, we drove down to San Antonio to stay the night at the Hill Country Hyatt Regency. We got a late start because William was sick. After we made it to the hotel, we got William to take a long nap and everyone went to swim. William felt much better after a long nap and did not throw up anymore. On Monday, we went to the San Antonio Zoo and then to the River Walk. Monday was another long day but it was worth it. We got to see a bunch of cool animals at the zoo and show Laney the River Walk and the Alamo. After all of the San Antonio fun, we drove to Corpus Christi. I think Laney was amazed at all of the driving that we were doing while staying in Texas. In Corpus, we went to a Turtle Release, a Hooks baseball game, to see the Fourth of July fireworks at the aquarium (never again because of the traffic though), across the ferry, to the beach, and did a lot of swimming at Nana's! It was a fun week that went by way to fast. It was sad to leave Laney but I know she is doing great. I can't wait to see her again!
Miss Katie asleep on the couch.
The boys watching a show before bedtime. Look at that belly!
Wade playing with William's hair!
At the beach in Port A! It was filled with sea weed but the tractors were trying to clean it up. It smelled so bad though so we quickly left. Laney felt bad for us for not having beautiful beaches like Hawaii.
Wade was tired. William had been sitting next to him but when he got up Wade went over.
Wade loved my breakfast taco!
Playing outside one morning. We made the ice chest a water table for the boys.
Back in Austin.
How William greeted me one morning.
These boys make a cute team!
Enjoying ice cream!
First visit to the dentist! The boys did great. I don't know what helped more--the tv in the room or the fact that they both got to sit in the chair together. I wasn't even in the room for a big chunk of time since I had to change Katie's diaper (she had a huge blow out on the way to the appointment). Dr. Jenny did say that we need to start encouraging William to stop sucking his thumb,
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