Thursday, June 18, 2009

Texas Trip: Day 5

Today was our day to visit family. Travis started the morning by heading out to the arrowhead mounds again. He practically lives there when he is home. He came home all excited because he had gotten things all prepped for me so that I would most likely find an arrowhead next time I went.
After he came back we got all the kids ready and ourselves and headed over to Pawpaw's house. Pawpaw had a 4wheeler that he wanted to use the old gas out of to put new gas in.
Then we headed out to visit Grandpa. As we headed into town to the nursing home where Grandpa is we prepped the kids about being quieter. The conversation was struggling, the kids were getting bored and misbehaving, and Nana suggested I played the piano because Grandpa loves music. Of course I hated this. But seeing him only once every couple of years softened my heart and I played. The older people started to gather in the room happy to hear someone playing. Such a simple thing and I couldn't believe how happy they were.
After naps we headed over to Travis's cousin Grace's house. She also has a little boy Kody but he is four. They had a swimming pool and all the second cousins had a crazy swimming party. It was super fun. We then toured their new house which we had never seen. Her husband is a cabinet maker and so there were these incredible cabinets but not only that but she had this amazing furniture that he had built all over the house.
After we headed back home for a dinner and a little birthday party to celebrate Travis's birthday since we are never in Texas in January. The kids had an early bedtime to get ready for our next big day. After the kids were in bed the adults laughed and watched basketball. Just being with family is so much fun.

3 comments:

Panda said...

love the new family picture in your header!

OwenEveryone said...

yeahhhhh!!! We made the blog! We had lots of fun with y'all and glad to hear y'all did too!Kody keeps asking where the boy with the spikey hair is, and when he's coming back to play, I keep telling him his name is wyatt! and He lives a long ways away. Thought you would get a kick out of that one!

jaime said...

So glad YA'LL had such a great time!! :)

I just had to use "ya'll" in my comment... if you had gone anywhere in PA I might've chosen "you's" or "you's guys"...CA would've been "dudes" and "rad time!"... but Texas needs a good YA'LL in there, right!?

Love all the pics... keep 'em coming! :)