A Day in the Life of Our Texas Adventure: Busy April/May

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Busy April/May

We had a very busy April/May, therefore no updates, well that and my ipad has been having some issueswith pictures but thats another story. Carl started traveling to Denver for work since he is now in charge of a new building going up there. So he's already had 5 or 6 trips there for meetings, fortunately he is only gone a night or two at the most. We are so proud of him and his hard work and for getting to be project manager so soon after starting! We had some friends from Iowa come visit in April. We had lots of fun visiting and the kids so much fun playing! We even got to go to the beach together! I have pictures but for some reason I cant get them to show up on my ipad. A few weeks after they left we celebrated Easter(which I also have pictures of but cant access) with my Mom who flew down one way so she could drive back to Iowa with us the Monday after Easter. Carl doesnt have much vacation time this year with starting a new job but we wanted to be able to visit a little more then what he could be away so thats why we drove up early. When we arrived the kids were ab,e to see lots of friends and the boys were even able to visit their old classes at school for the day. We were also able to go up to Algona for the day to visit the great grandmas, Bone, Grandpa Matt and Grandma Nancy and of course Rona(again I have pictures but....).

The reason we went back to Iowa though was for Danielle and Grants wedding. The boys were the ring bearers and Callie the flower girl.

The wedding was beautiful(despite Danielles broken leg and weather that just didnt quite cooperate) the kids did a great job(well Ezra actually went home with Grandma and Grandpa because he was EXHAUSTED) and we all had lots of fun. Weddings really do tire a guy out.

We were so honored to be a part of Grant and Danielle's special day.

It was a long drive back to Texas and hard to leave friends and family again but at least this time we werent going to an entirely new place, theres something more comforting about the familiar I guess. When we got back the kids have been staying busy finishing up school, catching these cute little guys

We have found 2 of them, we were able to keep the 2nd one and soon he turned into this.

Nd just Monday we found him like this!

It was fun to watch the transformation! We also were able to go to a Sugar Land Skeeters baseball league(a pro baseball league but not affiliated with mlb) tickets are very inexpensive and we had so much fun! Well Ezra had fun till the fireworks afterwards, he was NOT a fan)

We've also been spending lots of time at the pool, we have a neighborhood pool that you can get a membership to and then you have 24 hour access to it, it has been nice being able to go whenever we want to the only drawback is no lifeguards so lifejackets are a requirement for anyone under 8. Kids have loved being able to swim and jump off the diving board.