To Texas We Go......

It's spring break week at the Huston house so we took the opportunity to visit family.  We generally only make the trip once a year because of the distance and well of course Scott has to keep his job.  We decided to begin our trip on Saturday after a function at the church for the boys' grade.  We were to "set sail" at 12:30.  Scott had the idea that he could get in a round of golf in before we departed.  I thought that'd be okay too but reminded him it was a loonnggg trip so make sure he'd get back close to 12:30, no problem....

Uneventful is good!

So at 2:15 we took off and had a relatively uneventful trip.  We drove to Little Rock and slept over in a hotel there, very nice and clean, thank you Comfort Suites.  We hit the road again around 8am and once again covered lots of miles with little adventure.  I like it when the actual driving portion of my trips are adventurless, its safer that way.  We got to Grandpa's early evening and had a lovely visit on the porch, until dark that is and then we moved the party inside the house. 

Monday was spent just relaxing around the house while Scott, his dad and brother hit the links.  I think Scott shot a pretty decent round but he is still trying to develop a relationship with his new clubs so we won't judge him yet...  Allye spent the day doing with her cousins Halie and Sydney girlie things like taking pictures of themselves and doing nails.  The boys caroused about with cousins Scott and Sawyer.

Tuesday we took the boys(all 5) to Mr. Gatti's for a few hours of all you can eat pizza and arcade games to blow some money on enjoy.  We followed up with purchasing new air soft BB guns and yes even of initially I didn't remind them to wear them I did get safety goggles.  So once they we well armed and full stocked with ammo we came home to send them out to attack one another.  For the evening entertainment the cousin's Luke and Ben came over and joined one or both of the armies.  We finally got  to meet our most recent niece, Nikki.  So precious.  We had yummy, burnt on the grill roasted hot dogs for dinner and cake and brownies for dessert.





Ready to roll!!!



Wednesday my boys, Scott, Sawyer, Dad and Grandpa headed out to the Ponderosa.  What is the Ponderosa you ask?  Well most of you probably didn't but humor me.  It's a piece of property owned by Scott's dad and he has developed it into a family retreat area.  Over the past 10 years he (Grandpa) has created a replica of a one room cabin that his great grandfather built in order to settle here, G'pa's grandfather was born in it and lived there into adulthood when he built a house on the same land. This he did because as he always says, "It's important to remember."   He put in RV pads, built a pavilion with a kitchen, laundry facilities, full bathroom with stone tiled shower stall.  He installed an air conditioned bunk house that sleeps 8, added a frisbee golf course, archery area, volleyball, go cart track and built a bridge across the creek for fishing.  It's awesome and is a true declaration of love to all of his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.  So yep that's what the guys did on Wednesday and Thursday.

Girls just having fun!!!!

While the boys we off being manly the ladies did what ladies do, we lunched and shopped.  We shopped in San Angelo on Wednesday and tackled Abilene today.  We got back home around 7 and we are pooped.  The men beat us home by about 5 minutes so we decided to just find something to eat on our own.  Grand pa decided on summer sausage, cheese and crackers.  I walked over and was awed by the beauty before me.  these crackers we a thing of beauty.  I love my crackers very, some may say overdone, but I love them very golden.  They have such a great crunch and perfect flavor, I almost died.  I too a picture so you too could see this perfection.  I do not however think that, even if you were here, I would share them.



It's okay to feel jealous these were perfect!



This and that

Is anyone getting the impression that this blog is not  a huge priority?  In case you were wondering, I have left a trail a undone, partially finished excellent ideas in my wake.  I hope to save blogging from that same fate.  I have just been busy, I always think that I will get this or that done when I am not so busy, I am thinking I'd be better off accepting the reality that this is my life and it isnt in danger of getting less busy.

Okay enough with the true confessions of a distractable housewife.  Let me tell you what I've been up to.....

I made a cool wand for the White Witch in our Narnia play.  I finished her dress, and passed on the crown creation duty to a talented helper friend.

I only forgot to fix dinner a couple of times and honestly I will remember my promise to make Tucker french toast tomorrow.

I made a Naiad costume, a cool Father Christmas, a pretty groovy Maugrim and unicorn costume.

I bought a new laptop(not because I wanted one)  and it has a groovy cool fingerprint scanner.  I realize that I am a technical simpleton but wow, how cool is it that I don't have to type in my user names and passwords ?  I just rub my finger over the little light thingie.

I am recently addicted to playing dominoes, its the ipod's fault.  I play whenever I am waiting for things, you know on the way to church, co-op to be over, pumping gas, Dr.'s visit.  It's harmless really and I win nearly everytime, apparently my ipod is a moron.

We finally made the time to play cards with the Z's,  we played Euchre.  The girls won handily the first game and lost the same way the last 2.  Not our best work.

I was having trouble with my laundry not smeling so good, it was problematic since I've been hoping to have a pleasant family smell.  A pleasant family smell isn't as easy as you may think with 3 boys who consider bathing to be a consequence for poor behavior.  Gain is the smell I was hoping for not sour laundry.  Turns out my machine was set on small load when I only ever fill it to a super load size.  I'm hoping we have only been running around in dirty clothes for a short time.

 

Tonight we went to Jack's first birthday party.  He is such a sweet baby.  We love him so much.  I love the way he thinks Scott's bald head is a toy, the way he says "ehh uhhhh ehhh!!!"  when he sees his family across the room.  I love the way he snuggles when he gets sleepy and the way he makes me appreciate God's handiwork. 

His silly momma said we shouldn't bring gifts and we all ignored her.  I made him some T-shirts and we got him a book to chew on read.  The first shirt I made in blue and gray and then appliqued a "J" for Jack on it.  The second I went golf guy on because his daddy and Uncle Scotty are golf buddies. The last is just an UNO shirt for the big one year old!

He likes shiny, smooth round things ......

....like balls and heads.





He really wanted to love the cake, I think we were too pushy.