Surviving Parenthood One Sleepless Night at a Time: San Antonio Vacation Part 1

We had such a great time on our vacation to San Antonio last year that we decided to make it an annual event! We stayed at the Hyatt Wild Oak Ranch again and went to Sea World. (The Sea World part will be in another post.) We drove down on Sunday morning and came back Wednesday afternoon. It was definitely easier than last year with Caleb. He wasn't into so much mischief and he can talk. The only bad part was that I was sick with a cold/sinus infection. It started the day before we left. I lived on Sudafed, Benadryl, and Ibuprofin the whole time. The worst part was that Caleb got sick the last night. He was coughing and had a runny nose. Poor baby. Good thing Daddy was smart enough to pack all of the kid's meds. Enough talk, gotta get to all of these pics!

We had to stop at McDonald's on the way there but the kids ate in the car. Caleb looked so big eating his "chicken nunnets" in his car seat.

Ethan is a professional at eating in the car!

This was when we first got there. We didn't even know that the boys had matching tops. They look like they're the same age but Carson is about 9 months younger than Caleb.

Ethan wanted to swim and was not in the mood for a photo op. Caleb tried to make him laugh. He was not amused.

Finally...swim time!

Ethan got brave and went down the big slide...with his life jacket. He doesn't like slides that dump you out in the middle of the water. I don't blame him. I was glad he had the jacket on.

Caught him in mid jump!

Caleb is my water baby! He got so confident that he would jump in if you were ready or not. That's Mondo throwing him in the air.

No, he really didn't go down that super fast slide. Mondo just held him in the end of it.

We brought plenty of "guys" to play with.

The dad's gave all 4 boys a bath together the first night...that only happened once. :-)

All tuckered out. The room was actually pitch black and I couldn't tell where Ethan was sleeping. I took this pic and saw that Ethan and Colton were all snuggled together in the middle of the bed. How cute are they?!

This was the next morning. Poor Caleb wanted to sleep with the big kids too.

"This is taking forever!" Waiting to see if the rain will clear so we can go swim.

Unfortunatly, it was stormy on the second morning and the kids had to stay out of the pool for about 30 minutes. At least there was the splashy cactus...and Tyler showed up!!

I took the opportunity to take a couple of pics of the inside pool. So beautiful!

Another view of the inside pool.

Walking down to meet Ethan and Daddy at the "beach" and lazy river. His face was excited to see Bubba! He's saying, "there he is!"

I actually took this from across the river. Ethan and Mondo were in the hot tub.

Caleb kept his life jacket on for a few minutes then was done with it for the rest of the trip. He still can't float upright in it.

Lounging with Daddy in the hammock.

He's actually pouting in this pic because he wanted some kid's big shovel and he only had a little one.

The boys building a sand castle...or maybe they just destroyed the one Mike built.

The hotel has a really cool firepit area for smores. There are 4 little sitting areas on the sides and one big one in the middle. The boys always look forward to this.

Cooking marshmallows.