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!