Austin

We left for Austin at 8 Sunday morning and arrived at the outlet mall in Round Rock before 2. We stopped to shop for a while in RR then met up with Shannon and Carey for some dinner at their house. On Monday, we went to the University Co-Op then took a few pictures on campus. After that, we went to Whole Foods for lunch (no pictures from there- they don't allow cameras) then to a splash pad downtown. It is 7pm on Monday now and we are getting ready to go to the pool and play. I will take more pictures of that and update tomorrow....Hubby is in Vegas- really miss him......



Lane on his first plane ride....

Lyric on a little "American Round"

Foam finger in a spirit store

Face shoved against the glass....funny!

Big Boy going down the slide all by himself....

Wagon ride after dinner

Shannon and carey have twins- Porter and Abbey....they always like to stop and talk to other people with twins. We saw these strollers coming towards us and thought they were twins...but they weren't. They were CATS!!! These women were walking their CATS! wow...what's the slogan here? Oh Yeah..."Keep Austin Weird"...They are helping keep that slogan alive.

Texax capital in the background- from the campus of UT

Foam horns...seriously- how awesome are those? Pretty freakin' awesome

Splash park fun....




Lane was soooooo sleepy...bottle after the splash pad

Lyric overlooking the Zen garden at the turtles and Coi....

We Are Boaters!!!!!!!!

Instead of being house poor, we decided to stay put and "live a little" courtesy of G-Dub and his economic crash policies....it turned out to be pretty good for us. We purchased with our stimulus check a 1988 bayliner capri and decided to take it out on Arcadia Friday afternoon....I grew up on the lake so I had forgotten how much fun boating was.... So the money pit has now commenced. Next are new life jackets, tubes, skis, ropes, new vinyl, the list goes on and on.....It was fun though. (Jason's first post on the blog)

Lyric chillin' in the front

Lane in is giant life jacket- he had a great time

Jason giving Lane his first driving lesson

Mom and Bub- wind blowing through our hair....

Shot of the ol' girl....fun times ahead....
We were thinking of naming it the Money Pitt....what do you think?

Fun Day

We went to lunch with nana at Subway and then ran some errands today. Lane was really difficult to contain at lunch- so we just put him in the booth next to ours and he had a blast. He was jumping up and down and yelling a lot- there weren't too many people there so it wasn't that disturbing for other patrons. We left there and went to get Lane som new shoes from Lynda's Birkenstock- my friend Jill's store- he got a couple of pair of Simple brand "green piggies"- made from post-consumer materials. After that, we went to the Asian Market and looked at the interesting grocery items- including lots of crabs, fish, and pig parts. When we got home, our Mccain't shirts arived, so we started worked on the website and some marketing strategies- plus dreamed big about all the money we are going to make.

Jumping around at Subway

More fun at Subway

Lyric on some sort of decorative Asian ball at the market

Jason modeling the shirts for the website.....

Frontier City

We met up with my friend, Leslie at Frontier City on Monday. We had a great time- even the kids hung in there for quite a while. Lyric and Aiden rode lots of rides- lucky for you I captured most of the action with my camera. We got pretty hot around 2 in the afternoon and had to bail out- we will go back next week- maybe take Nana....

Lyric and Aiden (almost 5) with little Noah(2) in teh background- getting ready for a train ride

See how excited Lane was to ride the train!

Lyric and Aiden on the roller coaster- in action

Fun!

Lane waiting for Lyric to ride the bumper boats

Lyric driving a bunper boat- I think this was his favorite

Lyric and Aiden in the swings

Paddling a little canoe

Leslie with the boys on the rapids

Lyric cheesin' in the jail

More from Destin

Here are a few more pics from our vacation to Destin...sorry I don't have it in me to write a lot about the fun we had....I am still trying to catch up here at home with cleaning and selling politically charged t-shirts....
Hope you enjoy the pictures, though!


Granny and Pa playing with Lyric in the pool

The 3 cutest boys on the beach

Seriously..Indianapolis Jones

Lane at Pompano Joes- check out our table-side view in his glasses

Chad and Lyric hangin' at the beach the last day

Destin Update

We have been here in Florida for about a week...pretty busy so I will post more when we get home....here are just a few pictures from the last week of beach fun.


Me and Jason at one of our favorite restaurants-AJ's



Baby Lane showing some American pride

The boys playing in the sand

Me and baby Lane on the beach

The boys on a raft in the pool...just feet

Lyric playing some volleyball in the sand

Finger Painting

I set out finger paints for Colin and Lyric last night- I don't know why I didn't think Lane would be interested- he was very interested. His favorite thing is to climb on the picnic table and stand up in the middle- having the table covered in paper and paint did not stop him. After the boys finished, he was right in the middle of it- on top of the table- covered in paints...washable of course.
He likes to yell- he gets a kick out of it- he usually yells "DA" at the top of his lungs, and then giggles after....totally cute.

The boys painting

Baby can't wait to climb on the table

He didn't try to eat the paint- just got it all over his face

Standing on the table

Shouting to the world....

So cute...good thing the paint all washed off!

Zoo Day

I took the boys to the OKC zoo on Monday. Jenn and Ian met us there along with Valerie and Joey. It was a nice morning/afternoon- we packed a picnic and ate lunch by the water. The boys had a nice time looking around and seeing the animals. We try to hit the zoo once a week- it is always fun for the kids, and gives us something to do during the morning. We got a family zoo pass for the boys' birthdays- so it is also a good "free" day. Other days we try to go swimming, play in the sprinklers out back, go to the mall and walk around, and play with arts and crafts at home. It is nice to have some structure even if we are on summer break.


Lyric and Ian on a monkey

Lane walking around

Lane trying to put on a hat

Got it!