Two: Texas Vacation

Oh sweet sweet vacation. We definitely were ready for a vacation come end of May when we flew to see my mom and stay at her house on the river. We had an easy time all through security and the plane ride to Dallas, both kids did great on our "early" flight (9am) and both fell asleep on the second leg of the plane ride...yes let me repeat that, Logan fell asleep. On a plane. In the morning. All by himself. With no prompting or bribery. Miracle. Although he was never the one I worried about on the plane now that he is older. Fiona's first plane ride was easy, no problems with her ears or anything, ugh she's just so good sometimes.

Our little pilot

Sleeping on the plane

We got to spend a week at my mom's and her house on the river was a lot of fun. Logan was busy from morning to night riding anything and everything that had wheels. He had his own little mini tractor car to drive and he became a pro at that real fast haha. He helped Craig drive the real tractor and the boat, helped Granny Mo drive the golf cart, helped daddy drive the jet ski, rode on the tube with daddy and mommy, got to sit on the motorcycles and tried out the plasma car toy. When he wasn't doing one of those things he was versing us in what animals lived in Granny's yard (armadillo, fox, fire ants, and a lesson on poison ivy ;), swimming in his own little "pool" aka the hot tub, fishing with Granny Mo, playing with all the new toys Granny Mo got him to have at her house, it's a miracle and a blessing that he would actually stop and take a nap everyday!

Logan loved going fast on the jet ski!

the wind blown look while driving the boat with Craig

The big kid tractor

the little kid tractor

Showing granny Mo and aunt Kas how to drive the golf cart

tubing on the river with daddy

Fiona was busy being entertained by Granny Mo and various relatives who got to meet her for the first time. She was like at a baby hotel the way Granny Mo prepared for her and she was a sweet baby still, just a little problem going down for naps some days. She gave Umpa some giggles and she was smiley and ready to be held by everyone that came around. Granny Mo was nice enough to babysit for us one night so Dom and I did a double feature (Xmen 2 and Neighbors) and she got to give Fiona her bottle and wrangle both kids into bed. We also burried Fiona in the 90s aka all our old beanie babies haha. It was fun to look through them again and remember, Logan had fun playing with them too and even got to take a few home with us. Spammy and Umpa also wanted to take us to ToysRUs to spoil Logan and Fiona, Logan had fun picking out legos and Fiona got some cute clothes and teething toys.

Meeting Great Grandma Spammy for the first time and Fiona's namesake, Harriet

Meeting Great Grandpa Umpa for the first time, she loved to giggle at him

snuggling up with Granny Mo

Uncle Erick even got to hold the baby ;)

Great Aunt Kas loves her babies

so relaxed she fell asleep at Spammy and Umpa's house

getting a ride from big brother ;)

cheese baby!

enjoying some tummy time

my baby in the beanie babies

Dom and I had fun doing nothing! haha we did a lot of fun things too but when you have two kids to look after 'nothing' is something you rarely get to do! My nothing consisted of reading a book during daylight hours and finishing it in a few days, small miracle. We watched hgtv and all those silly home shows for no good reason. We sat on the porch and listened to music and drank beer. I got to take a shower whenever I wanted not just when the timing was right so that every child was asleep or safely entertained. It's the little things right! Oh and I ate a crap ton of sweets my mom made and all her delicious meals she had planned. So yes, all the above in itself was a vacation for me! But for the fun things we did, I got out on the tube with Logan and Dom (Logan was somewhere between horrified and exhilarated) then got to go with just Dom which meant I held on for dear life so as not to have to fall into the river...I know what lives down there ew! Went on a few jet ski rides with mom and Dom and rode on the boat cruising with Craig, Uncle Erick, Dom and Logan. We got to go to a place called the Homestead and enjoy some yummy lunch and walk around to some cute shops. We also had fun getting to see my moms side of the family and hanging out and drinking Uncle Colt's home brewed beer. We went fishing our last morning there and I caught a few plus a river house record catfish, thing was huge! I also got a surprise visitor in our bedroom upstairs the first night we were there...while sitting on the floor and taking off my shoes, I look over to my left and under the table I see a snake. I thought it was fake at first (Logan had just gotten a fake snake toy earlier that day) but then I realized that it was in fact alive and oh so real and I could reach out and touch it, I quickly vacated the area to see who was the best snake wrangler in the house (I knew it wouldn't be mom haha) and so Craig came up to save the day but when I went back in the room the snake wasn't there (ahhh!) so I jumped on the bed faster then I knew I could and then peeked under the table from there and saw that luckily the snake had just retreated farther under the table, phew, I didn't want to wait around in that room and find him again by accident! Craig got the snake in a bowl and took him outside and far away. Still a mystery how the snake got into the second story room...

We had a great time visiting my mom and family and enjoying our time on the river. We look forward to doing it again!

drinking and talking with the fam