Trip to Texas

 In May, Cooper had his last concert of the year.  He really enjoyed participating in choir and loved his teachers.  They did a great job on their performances and Cooper was able to show off his talents in singing.  The week before school ended, we pulled the kids out and headed to Texas on a 24 hours drive.  Jacqui helped me drive and the kids all did a great job in the car.  Just after we crossed over the Texas border, we sat on the freeway for 8 hours.  There had been an accident that had blocked the road, so we let the kids out to run around on the Interstate. We made some trucker friends. It was early morning around 4, so it was pretty cold and the kids slept for a few hours before waking up to face hours and hours of sitting on the road.

 We did so many activities while we were in Texas for those 5 weeks.  We were still in a transition phase because we didn't have a home yet, so we decided to stay for quite a while and it was so much fun to bond with our siblings and cousins and Grandma and Grandpa.

 We had a little incident one day while we were up at the University.  We decided to go up there on an unusually cool summer day to walk around campus and see the new stadium.  We had been throwing the football and talking and visiting when all of a sudden Parker looked up at Shayne and just smiled.  At that moment, Shayne realized that Perri was asleep in the car when he unloaded the other kids.  He instantly took off running as fast as he could and he found Perri still sleeping in the back.  What a tender mercy from our Lord to have an unseasonably cool day in May!

 We went to a Children's Museum while we were down staying with Sean and Kellye in Spring.  There were many activities for the kids and they had a great time playing in the sand, pretending to shop, and also driving cars.

 Steph and Paul stayed at the Marriott next to Mom's house and so one evening we all went over to the pool to eat dinner and enjoy the water. It is always a treat for me to watch my kids interact and create friendships with their cousins that they don't get to see very often.

 We went to Sea World in San Antonio and it was so hot. The kids had fun, but us adults were not quite sure what we thought about it.  We were sweating our guts out and there was no relief.  The kids liked watching the dolphins and whales and we even watched a show with some seals. There were some rides that the kids enjoyed and also the cold ice cream kept us going!

 WE also visited the Alamo while we were in San Antonio.  Bryce and Cooper went in and looked around at all the old artifacts.  Afterwards, we walked down along the RiverWalk and ate lunch at a yummy Mexican restaurant. It was definitely warm, but we seemed to survive!