Houston Weekend

After arriving we went straight to bed, and somehow, despite all of us sleeping in the same room, we all got an awesome nights rest.

We had a wonderfully lazy morning

 Stacey's house is always stocked with the best food

 Unfortunately Grace had to wait until after her nap to finally see Carly and Taylor.

 I just love these two kids.

They got some face time with Christian as well

That night we headed to one of our favorite restaurants, Lupe Tortilla. We were sitting out on the patio and right next to a ginormous fan. It felt like we were in a music video, or a wind storm.

 As Aaron sent me pictures from D.C. I kept him in the loop with us and making sure to send Goodnight pictures,

And good morning pictures.

The next day we headed to the grand opening of a donut place just down the road. It was super annoying to take two cars everywhere we went so... we may or may not have crammed all four of our kids into the back seat of Stacey's car. (I think it's time someone got a Suburban, eh Stace?) ;)

 Since it was the grand opening, there was face painting and balloon animals.

 Grace with her purple monkey.

We of course made a stop at McDonald's, or Mickey-Donalds as Grace calls it, to let the kids run around at the playplace, and most importantly to get large DDPs

 Grace was in heaven having playmates and a different set of toys to play with all day long

Christian seemed to enjoy himself too.

And, yes, at one point when the kids were in bed all of the adults in the house were eating bluebell ice cream straight out of the container.

The final day of our weekend trip we got dressed in our Sunday best and headed to church

While everyone napped after church I got our things together. I woke everyone up to say a quick goodbye and then we hit the road. By some stroke of serious luck, both kids fell asleep and stayed asleep for the first 2 1/2 hours of the trip.

Once Christian was up and ready to eat, I pulled off at a Sonic and nursed him (don't worry- I used my hooter hider this time and there were no fire ants). We then ordered dinner, and took our dear sweet time hanging out before we got back on the road.

 I love my girl

The second half of the trip was just as blissfully uneventful as the first half. I made it home in enough time to get our stuff upstairs and get the kids bathed before we had to be at the airport to pick Aaron up. Third successful airport pick-up this month- cue serious pat on the back.

After a super eventful weekend on all accounts we were glad to finally be reunited.