Parents Come to Town

I think we ALL know how we managed so much rain down here...my parents brought the rain WITH them! Of course! Luckily, they arrived the night before the monsoons fell, so their flight (even though delayed 5 hours) arrived safe and sound. On Friday, just as we were walking into a store, I happened to look at the clouds. It literally looked like doomsday...wish I would've snapped a picture!

Even though the rains persisted through the weekend, we did not let that hinder our fun. Kyle and I learned how to play Sheephead (it's actually REALLY fun), we talked and laughed and grilled and saw some sights! Even though it was soggy, the temps were still high allowing us for shorts.

Take a look at some of our adventures!

Mom and Dad at the Buckhorn Saloon.

The saloon part of the buckhorn saloon.

 The Buckhorn Museum features wildlife from all over the world; including fish from the seven seas, animals from every continent and strange animal oddities which have been collected for over 100 years. The exhibit halls are comprised of over 520 species of wildlife—many of which are record holders.

Established in 2006, The Texas Ranger Museum, houses hundreds of Texas Ranger artifacts including revolvers, automatic handguns, sawed off shotguns, badges, photographs and much more. They also have a "ranger town," which is a recreation of what San Antonio looked like at the turn of the century. 

 

We managed to walk along the riverwalk in between spouts of rain.

While dad and Kyle checked out Cabelas, mom and I stayed back and planted flowers!

Heavy rains brought beautiful sunsets.

...they also brought out CREATURES. Seen in the grass is about a 4 foot SNAKE. Kyle almost stepped right on it's head while out for a walk at the park. SCARY. I screamed bloody murder (literally the scream heard 'round the park), mom jumped up and ran to the front of the path, and Kyle leap-frogged in front of me with Tucker. That was the first snake I have seen down here and HOPEFULLY the last!

May 2013

All in all it was a wonderful and relaxing weekend with the parents! So good to have them visit! Can't wait for the next time...I know Tucker is looking forward to it...he LOVED dad's "snacks" from the table!

Hope everyone else had a safe and fun Memorial Day Weekend!

Betty Crocker(s)

Over the weekend the two Fisher girls visited me for a day. We whipped up some of their dad's favorite cookies (reeses peanut butter cup cookies) and a pan of my favorite bars! They love to get in the kitchen and bake, and I love sharing the time with someone in the kitchen, teaching just as my grandma taught me!

As you can tell, we did not shy from the mess and dove right in!

I was really glad Kyle wasn't home, he would have been twitching from all the flour...and sugar...and, well, the mess in general! We did clean it all up, though! We baked and played games and sang and danced and played some more. Such a fun girls day!

They are SO yummy when they are warm out of the oven!

We then watched a movie and enjoyed some popcorn and m&ms.

And played games. They had never played Trouble before, and that was one of my favorite games growing up so it was a must! They LOVED it! We also played Farkle, Wii Just Dance and Wii Mario Kart.

Then we went outside to play fetch with Tucker, roll down the hills, and enjoy the pretty sunset!

Tucker loves them just as much, as they played hide and go seek and fetch all. day. long. with him! It was such a exhausting fun day!

I'm ready to NOT see flour, sugar, or reeses for a long time now :)