Road Trip!!!!!!!

We took another raod trip to Fredericksburg over Presley long weekend off of school! It was a super nice trip. We got to spend some quality time with Grandma Beth and hang out at the ranch with the rest John's wonderful family!

We took the LONG route there in the hunt for the perfect plate of BarBQ! By long route, I think it took about 8 hours to get there! But we found some pretty good BarBQ. Not the best, but it was good. It wasn't like up here in the DFW area where you get a huge selection of sides. Down there, you got potato salad, cole slaw, and beans. I only like one of the three.

The Salt Lick outside of Austin... 

Girls are thinking

"After that long car ride....this better be good!"

 The meat....smells really yummy!

 Not $13 worth of food!

 Here neither!

Piper: 1 thumbs up!

Presley: 2 thumbs up!

Back on the road to Grandma's house!

So we spent most of Friday on the road, we did finally make it to Grandma's house about 7:30 ish at night.  We just hung out there for the rest of the night.

Saturday, we went to the Ranch!  That was FUN.  The girls had a blast and LOVE the country!

We went for a walk to hunt for rocks and the cow kept following us.  I think they thought we had food in the red bucket!

Here come a heard of goat!

Feeding time!

Those guys were H-U-N-G-R-Y!!!

Always posing.  She found a way to make an old feeder look cute!

Piper kicking over rocks and finding the perfect ones!

Poor goats......if they only were aware that there is no food in that red bucket.  They sure were hopeful and still hungry!

Darlene and Clyde Thomas' stove in their cabin.  So cute!!!!  Clyde Thomas totally restored it to working order!

1st time in an actual outhouse  

 Girl's 1st rides thru the ranch in the back of a BIG truck!

The guys shooting at stuff.  Guy stuff........ 

Even Joey took a turn.

Kids had a blast running around and playing with the new pup, Bonnie

I even caught a deer checking us out!

After being at the ranch and getting all dirty, the girls welcomed a shower and bedtime!

Sunday afternoon, we spent packinh up and the girls played on the front porch and with Joey.

Last, very important stop, The Spunky Monkey!  A must!  The girls favorite toy store ever!  Even better that cousin David works at it. :)

We had a GREAT trip and I look forward to our next one!

Hopefully real soon!

The School Picture....

I have learned that they haven't changed much. Still the same old drab background.  But OH MY how sweet they are!!!!

We just got Presley's back.  I dug out John's Kindergarten picture too.  And mine as well.  I don't know if it is a school picture or not, but I am about 5 years old in it.   I have to get these three framed.  And we'll add Piper's to the wall when she starts kindergarten.

John...he swears his mother never combed his hair.  I absolutely love this picture!  You can already see his personality in it!

My sweet sweet Presley.  Wearing an outfit her Grandma Ragan bought her.  So exciting!  Her first school pic! 

And me....looks like I was just healing from another trip to the hospital from some stitches I got due to playing at Grandma Ragan's house.

Gotta love those school pics!

Fall Baking Has Begun!

Piper and I made some cookies today.  Sugar cookies with M&M's smooshed into them.  Piper's says they are super yummy!  And her sister and Gilbert (the little boy we bring home from school) will love them.  I love the Fall season...makes we want to bake all day long!  I am hoping to have some bananas ready to make some Chocolate Chip Banana Bread tomorrow.

I think I may be a little obsessed with my little beauty!  How many pictures of her eating a cookie can I take?????  I can take tons! 

I love the happiness a simple M&M cookie brings to her!

Look at those little hands reaching for a cookie!

Mmmmmm, the 1st bite is always the most heavenly!

It was truly a beautiful day with a beautiful little girl!

P.S.  Presley and Gilbert loved their cookies!

Weekending

We had a GREAT weekend!

It all began with Fun Friday.  While Presley had fun at school, Piper and I started our day at Pump It Up.

Our local Pump It Up has 8 bouncy houses, slides, etc.  This was Piper's 1st time to go without Presley.  Since Presley was at school, like at The Tubes, I had to be the one to go thru the mazes, climb the walls, and slide down the very slick steep slides with Piper.  Don't get me wrong....I had fun!  But I did make Piper do some of those things on her own.

This one was fun.....big steep slide on the other side of that climbing wall.

We kept loosing our balance and falling....so Piper and I took a moment to take a fun pic.

Piper won't dare go thru this one....But it's Presley's favorite!

This one is a smaller version of the 1st pic.  I made Piper do this one on her own.  It took some bribing but she did it.

There she goes....up the wall! YAY Piper!

She gets to the top of the wall and the start of the slide and realizes, "Hey, I am really high and would rather not do this...."

So she tries climbing back down the wall.  Little does she know, there is NO turning back!  So, she starts climbing the wall again....

She's a brave horrified little girl! 

Yay!!! She did it and realized it wasn't so scary!

This one was fun too.  Super small and easy for the toddlers.

The noise of the air pumps kept getting to her.   She tried jumping like this...with her ears plugged by her lil' fingers.

This is where she spent most of her time. 

Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy!!!!

This slide was so much fun!  WEEEEEEE.

The only not so fun part is when I skinned my elbow from the friction caused by mine and Piper's speed! 

That was a fun morning and quite a workout!  We didn't stay for the entire 1 1/2 hour session.  Thankfully I had a coupon for a free session.  Piper was ready to head to the mall to go walk around and eat lunch!

Saturday was another great day!  We started the morning by going to watch Presley's friend, Lindsey, cheer.  Oh my they were super cute!!!!  And Presley and Piper got introduced to football. It was like a whole new world to the girls.   And now, of course, the girls want to be cheerleaders.

This picture is so funny...do you see the boys fumbling. Half of the team fell.  BUT OH MY they were cute!

I can't remember any of the cheers, but these girls were adorable!

Presley's new and strong motto!

Lindsey, Presley, and Piper

When we got back home, the girls played outside for a bit.

The weather was perfect for out door activities!

Sunday was open house at the Fire Station #3.   I didn't get to get a whole lot of pics....my camera battery died!

Presley also had a school project to do.  She is Student of the Week, so we had to decorate a poster board with pics of her. 

 

She likes these kinds of projects!  My too....lets me stroll down memory lane!

We had a wonderful weekend!  I hope you did too.