Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Backyard fun

We had a short playdate with Natalie and Tice this morning. I swear Mason was there too but he was always on the move so I didn't get a picture of him. There is so much to do in their backyard! The sand table, seesaw and swings were a hit. The mosquitoes, not so much! :) I must have some super sweet boys! (cough, choke!) :)





Lost Pines

Last weekend we went on a board retreat with Andy's company to Lost Pines in Bastrop. We had a blast! There is so much to do! We were there from Thursday to Sunday and still didn't do half of the things there!
Alex and Austin walking to our room in their matching shorts!
Each night you can roast smores around this huge fire pit. Yum!

Walking down to the Colorado river

A view of a portion of the hotel. It's very spread out. There are many "wings". We were told it's so spread out because they were trying to avoid cutting down trees. They only cut down 4 trees (pecan) to build the entire hotel. They took those trees to the mill and used the wood for the floors in the lobby. 

Excuse the fogged up lens but this was the view from our balcony. We overlooked the "Butterfly Meadow".

Looking at our rooms from the entrance of the butterfly garden.

Austin's favorite part was all of the animals. There were longhorns, miniature horses, donkeys, alpacas, and full size horses.













We were so spoiled and got to have two rooms. It was nice to have the extra space! Pic of the kids room.












We ate lots of junk (powdered sugar donuts for breakfast!).
















The pool was the best. I didn't get pictures of the main pools, beach or lazy river, but they were so much fun!
















They had an indoor activity room that was awesome! They had a huge jump house, ping pong, bowling, movies, board games, life size connect 4 and life size legos. 































We rode a horse drawn carriage.












We rode a kiddie train. The big boys took one for the team!
















We watched a horse get some new shoes!
















We rented bikes to ride. I am out of shape!












Austin rode the fake horse in the lobby!












Rumor has it we get to go back next summer too!Yippee!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Pville Park

The boys had to make their usual trip to the park while we were in Pville. I decided to tag along and take some pictures of the fun. Austin can climb the stairs and go down the slide all by himself. He had so much fun!




When you are too old for the playscape, you have to get creative on how to make it fun! They were standing on top of the playscape.

High five for getting up the stairs by yourself!


WHEEEEEEE!

It was HOT, so the boys wanted to put their feet in the water. Lucky decided to lay down!





Big shot!

Last week the boys got their haircut and Leianne put blue gel in Alex's hair. He thought it was the coolest thing ever and wanted me to buy some. He settled for blue hairspray. We are still working on the technique of spraying it more evenly! But it definitely looks cool! 

Bubbles

This weekend we celebrated Casey's birthday. While he was grilling part of his own birthday dinner the rest of us were being entertained with bubbles.



Although it's sort of embarrassing even showing this picture, it was too funny not to. Mason and Austin were trying to catch the bubbles with their mouths!

Austin got to a point where ONLY Uncle Casey could blow the bubbles!


Happy Birthday Casey! Only 10 more weeks as a family of 3!

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Heather's baby shower

Yesterday we threw a baby shower for Heather. I think it turned out really nice. There was a ton of food,  lots of friends and family, and a whole bunch of baby presents. Can't wait to meet Baby S and be an aunt!