Thursday, February 23, 2017

Girl's Weekend in Dallas

Such a fun weekend get away with these girls!  BIG thank you to our amazing husbands who stayed at home so we could go play!
Introduced these girls to Chuy's!  Yum!
Reunion Tower - we visited at sunset, so we got to see the view during the day and at night.
George W. Bush Presidential Library
Bishops Art District
 Texas shaped waffles @ our hotel, yes please!
 JFK Sixth Floor Museum
 
That awkward moment when JFK checks you out . . .
OMG driving in Dallas was NUTS!!!  Even our GPS was confused most of the time!  Luckily we all survived, even after the one way street incident downtown😂😂😂 
 Last stop, the Dallas temple.  Thanks for an amazing weekend ladies!

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Corpus Christi

John had to work in Corpus Christi for a week, so I had a really tough choice to make.  Stay home with the kids and adult in the doom and gloom of January, or go to the beach.  Okay, so it wasn't a tough choice.

"Freedom is the miles I'm rollin' on...
out here cruising to a backroad song."
 A 10 hour drive through crappy Texas traffic

and we were at the beach!
While John was working the kids and I played at the beach.  After a few hours we'd come home, eat dinner, then go back to the beach in the evening with John.  It was an awesome week!

Padre Island National Seashore
Jellyfish!
While playing in the ocean Gabe got stung on the back of his leg by a jellyfish.  To try and take the sting away I told him he needed someone to pee on his leg.  Quentin was happy to try so he came over and peed on the ground completely missing Gabe's leg.  Next we asked Porter to try.  He was willing, but he got a little stage fright and couldn't perform.  So we asked John and he flat out refused.  By this time Quentin thought he might be able to pee some more and this time he was successful in getting the pee on Gabe's leg!  Unfortunately, Gabe thought it stung more and didn't feel soothed at all by his brother peeing on his leg.  We walked to the visitor center and explained to one of the rangers on duty what had happened.  She knew just what to do for Gabe's leg.  She sprayed some white vinegar on his leg and informed us that peeing on a jellyfish sting is an old wive's remedy that is ineffective.  

"So you're telling me I let my brother's pee on me for NOTHING?"  -Gabe

Black hawks and tide pools
First time driving on the beach!  I was pretty excited😃
 USS Lexington
Naval aircraft carrier
It was so windy!
 The Atomic Tuna Tower @ South Texas Sushi!
We found a dead puffer fish on the beach and someone may have even taken the smelly thing back to the hotel with us😂😂😂
Our last day in Texas was cool and windy, so we flew kites on the beach. 
So long beach.  We will miss you!