San Antonio, Part 1

We ventured off by car to San Antonio last week to visit my Grandmother. As we left the screeching saccadas in Tennessee we treached through terrible rainstorms in Arkansas and were finally greeted with 100 degree weather in Texas. Luckily we were also greeted w/ warm smiles from my wonderful family. Tonight Jason and Kaleb were talking to his parents on the phone and they asked him what the favorite part of the trip was and he replied w/ "Grandmommie, Grandmommie". He can be sweet when you least expect it.
My Aunt Linda was visiting from Idaho and Kaleb took to her right away. We hadn't been there but probably an hour or two and he asked her, "Can I sleep with you tonight?" So, gracious Aunt Linda (an experienced Grandma) set up a little pallet on the floor made from the patio chair cushions right next to her bed that was just perfect for him.
We were glad to meet my cousin Pamela and Uncle Pat for lunch after church on Sunday.
Pamela has a five year old son, Gage that got along with Kaleb really well. I think Kaleb is trying to look tough in the below picture, trying to be cool for his big 3rd cousin.
On Monday we went to Sea World with my Uncle Pat and Gage and we had a blast. We had all sorts of fun that I will blog about later. We had a fun-packed week and were able to see lots of family and friends. We saw two sets of friends that used to live in Nashville so that was a real treat too.

MOTHER'S DAY 2011

I had a wonderful mother's day once again. We attempted to go strawberry picking this year to continue our tradition for the past 3 years. The farm we usually go to was shut down this year b/c a neighboring farm's pesticides blew over into theirs and killed all their strawberries. So after a nice lunch at Fulin's we hauled ourselves up to Portland only to find the strawberry picking was closed on Sunday! ARRHH! We could not break tradition so we picked/stole a few strawberries (see, I'm confessing my sins to ya'll)

Too bad the law didn't understand...
And if that wasn't enough...
No, luckily we did not get in trouble from the strawberry picking and found that the farm also had a little "ghost town" with some other activities to keep us busy and make up for the long drive up there. I did think the above picture was a good rendition of time out.

They had a huge, very bumpy slide that kept us busy...
They also had goats which Kaleb had a blast feeding grass until he was leaning over to pick some grass and one bit him in the butt. Ha!
Chase wasn't sure what to think of the slide. He had that overstimulated blank stare on his face for a while.
We finished the day on the farm with some delicious ice cream.

I am so blessed to be the mother of these two beautiful boys and look forward to many more strawberry pickin' mother's days.