Grampa, Grama, and Jake came down from Idaho and visited us this past week. It was so nice to have them here and to be able to spend some time with all of them. This was our first time to see Jake in over 3 years as he recently returned from serving a 2 year mission for our church. We kept trying to get him to stay here in Texas with us, but I think there is something he would like to get back to in Idaho/Wyoming:)
The kids love Grampa, and Grama!
We did a little touring around the hill country and stopped by Luckenback, TX.
The kiddos also got to do a lot of playing and some much anticipated wrestling with Jake. Cade kept telling us before they got here that he was going to use his karate to cut Uncle Jake's head off, and cut his eye out, and his other eye out. Luckily Jake escaped the ordeal in tact with all his extremities firmly in place. Between Grampa and Jake, Cade had lots of wrestling opportunities and it was so much fun to watch Cade beat up on the guys......it was even nicer that he wasn't trying to wrestle with us for a while.
DeLoy and his little 'mini me', aka Cade, had so much fun playing baseball one evening. The weather was great and we all played ball, the rules got a little blurry, and I am sure there were some illegal plays, but we had tons of fun and laughed even harder.
One evening we all took out in hopes of finding some coons. The moon wasn't out, the wind was blowing hard, so I thought for sure we wouldn't be seeing many coons. But guess what?? We killed 5 coons and stayed up til 2:30 in the morning.....and we still came in earlier than Jake did.
Emily fell in love with uncle Jake,and she would get silly and giggly and she kept making chicken jokes. Every question you would ask her, was answered with "Chicken" and giggles.
The San Antonio Rose Palace, such an awesome arena! The only think that would have made it cooler, is if George himself would have been there.
The temperature was between 60-75 degrees most of the days they were here visiting, but the day we went to sea world it decided to get hot! Our car thermometer read 108 as we were sitting in traffic on our way home. Despite the weather, we had a great time at Sea World and made some wonderful memories. Some of our favorite parts of the park were the shows, so we tried to catch as many as we could. Here we all are waiting for a show to start.
Here Emily and Grama are trying to pet the dolphins at the dolphin exhibit.
We figured out pretty fast if you didn't go buy the $6.00 package of fish, there was no way you would be petting any of the dolphins. Emily loved it!
the killer whale shows were amazing!! Such powerful, smart, and beautiful animals.
There was even a baby killer whale swimming around with his momma, soooo cute!
Grama, Emily, and Shamu
Most of us agreed that the sea lions were probably our favorites, they had a really cute mystery they acted out with the animals.
We had so much fun with our Idaho family, and we hated to see them leave!
We had so much fun hunting Easter eggs and hanging out with our cousins...
.....riding Strawberry........
...playing down at the barn on all the trailers...
.....and riding Strawberry some more.
We had a great Easter weekend and we are so grateful for our Savior who died for us, and was resurrected, and this holiday that focuses on the fact that He lives! I love that we can take this time to think of Him and all He has done and continues to do on our behalf. We hope all our friends and family had a happy Easter!
