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We are home now. We actually got back home last Thursday, but quickly fell back into our everyday lives here and I got busy and didn't post it. Fun was had by all at my moms, but must admit that it is so nice to be able to sleep in your own bed!

Now the fun starts of getting everyone ready for school. We have all of Alex's school supplies already, but still need clothes for everyone and some little things before we are done. Hoping to get it done early so I am not scrambling at the end to finish it all up. I am already having enough anxiety about Alex starting Kinder and Blake and I being at a different school so I don't need anything else to stress me out!

Mud Island

The other day we headed over to Mud Island to let the boys splash in the water. Mud Island is a neat little place where they have a smaller version of where the Mississippi River runs and then they fill it with the "Mississippi River" and kids and adults can walk the path of the river. At the end of it there is a great little water fountain where you can actually run around and "swim". There are no water parks nearby here so there were actually people there in their suits with a little cooler letting their kids splash for the day. Just funny to think that this is their little water park...

The best part for Alex about going to Mud Island is that you get to ride a Monorail over to the Island. Alex LOVES any type of transportation, especially any type of train. This pretty much makes the trip for him when he gets to do this. He wanted to ride the trolleys after this, but since the temp here with the heat index was about 106 that day and I don't think the trolleys have air, we passed on that. Maybe at Christmas time!

Blake and Nena on the Monorail


Alex and Nena on the Monorail


Looking at the Mississippi River


Texas Boys!


Walking the "Mississippi River" with Nena


Blake in the river


Alex walking the river


Splash area at the end

Good Days Fun Times

Just corny

So today we headed over to one of mom's friends house to buy some fresh corn. While we were there the lady said that it would be fine if we took the boys to the field where the corn is grown so that they could see the corn fields. We went on out there and the boys even got to pick some of their own ears of corn. Stuff you dont get to do in San Antonio!

11 hours in a car

Well after 11 hours in the van together we arrived at Mom's house on Saturday. The trip was uneventful and the boys were so good. They are such good travelers and hate it when we have to stop for gas, bathrooms breaks or for some food. They want to be here as fast as we can. Doesn't hurt either that the van has a built in DVD player...that was a great investment!!

The boys were so excited to finally be at Nena and Grandpa's house. They love to be here and to experience all the things that you can't do in the middle of San Antonio. I am not a big fan of dirt, bugs and creepy crawly things...which they have plenty of at Nena and Grandpas house! While I dont like them though I love the fact that the boys love to get dirty here and hold frogs, chase after the dogs through the yard, watch the geese in the pond and go to sleep with lightning bugs in a jar.

We love it here and wish that their house was right around the corner from ours....but you dont get everything you wish for. (We are in the works of trying to convince them that Texas is better)

Here are some pics from our visit so far.
We have been to pick blueberries twice so far. You can get a hole gallon for just $11.00..and if you have been to price blueberries you know this is a deal! I believe that Alex also ate his way through one gallon while we were picking. One in the bucket and 3 in the mouth....



Making a blueberry pie with Nena!


There are also some pictures from a swimming outting that we had at Sarah's aka "Ancira" by the boys(Aunt Sarah)apt complex.

Headed to Mississippi

Tomorrow the boys and I will wake up before any human being should be up and will make the drive to moms house in Mississippi. Wish us luck and say a prayer. It will just be the boys and I since Alan has to work still. We will be posting pics when we are there of our trip and our fun that we always have at Nena and Grandpas house.

Enough Said

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Us and the rest of San Antonio on the 4th of July

What were we thinking?

We decided to head out to Six Flags for the night where they have a pretty big 4th of July show there. We headed out around 5 and decided that we would let the boys ride some rides before the show started at 9. As you can tell from a previous post...we love it there. Its never crowded in the kids area and literally the boys can get right on a ride without any lines and most of the time can even end up staying on the ride and ride it again without ever getting off.

WELL WELL WELL....We just should have truned around when we saw the parking lot, but we kept thinking that it would start clearing out since it was 5 and surely half of these people will be heading home to eat dinner right? Then it sprinkled a little and I thought that might scare some of the people too and they might leave right? SO WRONG! It was crowded as all get out....you had to have gotten tickets for the fireworks show earlier in the day becuase they ran out...:) hehe... and the wait for lines was outrageous. I actually tried to take a picture in the crowd just to post here so we could all play a game of find Heather and the boys in the crowd, but the batteries died...par for the course today.

So as any good parent would do...we got into our bag of tricks...and bribed! I think it went a little something like this..."So boys, how about we ride the GullyWasher, then we head on out and stop by the store for a movie and some ice cream to make milk shakes and we stay up late watching our movie...and then we can come back on Sunday for the waterpark and we can ride every ride there." The whole time I was thinking please god go along with this...and they did! So we waited for 35 minutes to ride the 3 minute ride...rode to HEB soaked...got our ice cream and movie and curled up together and watched a great movie. And as promised we will be retunring on Sunday for some waterpark action.

Here are some pics from our previous 4th of July celebrations that turned out a little better from years past!

Alexs First 4th of July....no digital camera yet if you cant tell...


First 4th of July with Alex


Blakers at the 4th of July Bike Parade in Hernando MS(2006)


Alex at the 4th of July Bike Parade in Hernando MS(2006)


Gosh look how tiny they were!