Pics from Texas

The pictures are out of order :) These first few were taken in my Grandma's backyard. Ray was sword fighting with the kids.

I love this little boy!!!

She LOVES dirt! She was so happy to be digging and playing in it.

We took the kids to the East Texas Oil Museum. Love that place. You can click here to learn what it is all about, and they actually have some better pictures of the inside. They have a cool elevator that takes you to the center of the earth, almost. Aspen questioned its validity :) she said we would melt if we went to the center.

My friend Josh Ritter, who owns several horses, let us all go horseback riding. The kids loved it because he rode with them instead of just walking the horse around. As Aspen said it was 'real horseback riding, not baby horseback riding'. I rode too. I would post a picture of me on the horse, but I had to seek counseling myself after seeing the picture. You never look so fat as you do when you are up on horse, it squishes all the goods out for all to see. But I would get on that horse a million times over pictures or not for that FEELING. I wish I would have had longer. It takes a minute to find your rhythm. I will have horses one day, and I will ride all over these beautiful mountains. In the meantime I am grateful to friends who let me ride. The property the horses were at was just beautiful. There is a picture of the property that I when I took it I told Ray that when I am out on land like that, that is where I feel at home. There is something just so peaceful to me about a beautiful landscape and horses.

We put Alexa in her car seat during the festivities because we forgot the stroller. She was such a good sport she feel asleep :)

Oh the exciting car ride :) I am so scarred I believe it will be several decades before I EVER drive further than hour or so away from home. We were going down a hill so the kids put there hands in the air. They call hills roller coasters :)

The storm we had to drive through the morning we left.

Just a cute picture.