Randomness

Caleb has turned into quite the animal lover.  And as you will see in the rest of these pics, Lexie is his favorite. ;-)

My mom's new cat Precious.  They got her from the pound but she must have lived with children because she is VERY tolerant of kids.

 

One day in the summer when poor Ethan was sick.  :-(



Caleb was sick at the same time.  Both had high fevers.  He needed heat from Papa...which if you know Caleb, he is ALWAYS hot so you know he was sick if he was cold!

He was singing "Jack and Jill" with a bucket on his head.

 

Ethan striking a Michael Jackson pose.

Playing with Precious again.

Being silly at Nana's.

 

He said "Look Mom, it's a picture of Caleb!"

Helping me give Gracie a bath.  She was not amused.

Colton and Carson's little sister Ashlyn.

Harry Potter.

Ethan let Gracie sleep with him for several nights.  Then he permanently kicked her out after he said she made too many weird noises in the night.  She is pretty whiney.

Being a cowboy in daddy's boots.

Having a sword fight with a sprinkler.

My dad got me a Duck Dynasty hat.  I love it!

Caleb hurt his foot after jumping off of the swingset.  I think he might have had a tiny hairline fracture because it was swollen and he limped for almost a week.  We kept it wrapped and elevated and he survived without a doctor's visit.  That's what you get when you're a nurse's kid.  ;-)

He found my old bear.  That thing went EVERYWHERE with me when I was younger.  And yes, it's huge!

Again, Precious the tolerant cat.  I think he got a few scratches after holding. 

We recently switched scrub colors at work.  We were wearing hot pink and black but now all nurses have to wear royal blue.  I think this is the 4th scrub color change in the 12 years I've been there.  It's smurftastic!

And finally, Caleb and his sweet Lexie.  :-)

Final Vacation

We took one last vacation to San Antonio at the end of the summer.  Just our little family.  We went to the JW Marriott.  It is a great hotel with a mini waterpark!  We went a few years ago and loved it.  You don't even have to leave the place.  It was a nice relaxing time with the boys.

There is a new Buc-ee's between here and San Antonio.  We're weirdos and get excited about a gas station.  But this is no regular gas station...it's the mother of all gas stations!  There is tons of merchandise, tons of specialty food, and tons of super clean bathrooms.

We bought the boys a little Bucee keychain for their backpacks.  It was very hard not to spend a fortune in there!

Caleb went crazy for these suckers.  And of course, he barely ate it and wanted to throw it away.

There was aisles and aisles of candy!  It was a kid's dream!

This is in between the guy's and girl's bathrooms.  That guy talks to you when you walk by.  The boys were facinated with him!

The hotel is in the hill country of San Antonio.  It's beautiful out there!

This is one of the pools.  There is a lazy river, a great little kid's area, and several slides too.

All ready for some swimming!

This is the bottom of two of the slides.

They both really loved this slide.  You can either get out at the bottom or slide down another little slide into the lazy river.  I loved that the boys are grown up enough to ride it on their own!

This is the bottom of the side in the picture above.

They played together so well.





Look at this comparison.  Caleb was so little the last time we were there!

One of the nights we were waiting for a table for dinner so we went outside.  There were kids running everywhere.  The boys had a great time playing hide and seek with some of the kids.

We ate at a restaurant inside the hotel with giant screen tv's.  The boys loved it!

And another night we let them eat at their favorite....Olive Garden. 

There were tons of great places for pictures but of course that's not what the boys wanted to do.  I was able to get a few though.

The last day of swimming they spent most of their time in the big pool.

Caleb eating a Push Up pop.

All dried off and ready to go home!

We stopped by Chilis on the way home...another one of their favorite places to eat.  :-)