and thats all folks

what else you may ask did we do in the great state of Texas? well lemme tell ya. We visited with my grand parents.... my dad and his "friend", got to see all my uncles and aunts on my dads side which is a big deal. Visited with my aunt on my moms side. um got to hang out with my bro and his gal and marky and sarah... Spent some time with my pledge sis Cassie..... and my best pal from highschool Kat.

Went shopping with my mom. Quite a few times, came back with some cool stuff. Love Mom she is great to hang out with. Tay went golfing with Mark .....

Hmm really didnt do a whole lot aside from hold baby brynden and go crazy from lack of sleep... all in all a great trip....still dont know where all the time went.

Games we played

Here are some of the games we played while in texas, ROOK,Zombies, ROOK, more Zombies, ROOK, and did i mention that we played ROOK? We love a good game of Rook and luckily we have some friends in san antonio who play with us. Taylor's pal Marky Mark and his lovely gal Sarah beara played with us constantly. Taylor who gets quite worked up about it had some fun moments. Examples of these moments you might ask? Taylor has the Rook, how do we know?!? You might ask ..... CAW CAW is what taylor says out of nowhere while looking at his cards. ANother classic couples moment. 'where is the 14 of red?????" Mark tell me you didnt bury the 14 ..... "Uh, Tay, I did" imagine the hoopla that followed that!!!!!!

Zombies we played with my bro Jake and his girl Jen (kinda like jack and jill but mexican) Its a not quite a board game but it has cards and zombies and the first one to the helipad or 25 zombie kills wins... And yes i kicked some Zombie butt!!!!

ummm yep I think that is all the games we played, every night for 7 days.... dontcha wish you had gone with us!

Home again

I am so grateful to be home again. I love walking into my home, smelling our own smell and sleeping in my bed, showering in our shower and eating my own food. We started our trip friday the 28, around 9pm quite suddenly. Originally we were going to leave Saturday morning the 29, when Taylor gets a wild hair up his butt and decides he has to leave NOW so we load everyone up and trek the 7.5 hours to Oklahoma. Taylor was a trooper and drove the whole way i slept about 3hours on and off while the boys slept the whole way. We reached OK city around 4am. The boys woke around 7am so i got a total of 3-4 hours once we were out of the car. Taylor slept in and my kids drove me crazy.
Then we "rested"and got on the road again leaving okcity around 615pm and making our way home. Little did we know (because we did not watch the weather and our dear friends in stl didnt call to tell us, even though they knew we were coming in) that snow was acoming! we hit rain and heavy flurries the last leg of the trip about 3hours worth. The wipers were sucky so it felt like we were going warp speed(with out the multi colors) in a blurred blizzard. I am exaggerating of course but man it was tough. The boys slept through it all while taylor and i jammed out to various songs on the radio. Poor suckers. we finally made it in around 140am putall the monkeys in bed and unloaded the car.
We attempted to sleep in which didnt work since the kids slept in the car :( we were up by 7am having gone to bed around 3am and finally made it to church(it was my turn to teach and i must honor my committments) which went well then home again (starting to hate this car) and napping (love that)
all in all it has been a productive weekend.... there will be more to come on the actual vacation. Stay tuned!!!

vacation

So family time is a great thing, its been nice to have family around that i havent seen in at least a year. This year i have seen everyone, even my uncle who's never around. the trip has been pretty uneventful so far. The boys have been sick all week until today, even now they are fighting off a cough. The baby has been horrible, constantly waking up at night and my mom has to work real early so she hasnt appreciated the 230am wake up calls and keeps yelling at me to give him the boobie!!!! I cant wait to go home. Its gonna suck getting Brynden back on schedule ..............anyway gotta go watch tropic thunder.....