Our second family trip of the summer was for a wonderful family reunion with my mom's family in San Antonio. It was such a great time. Our family stayed on the Riverwalk, which was such a fun time in and of itself. Scarlet is really big on the water right now. It seems to be her very favorite thing at this age. So, she loved that she could wake up and see the water every morning.
Waylen and I talked quite a bit about how great this age is especially with Scarlet because she is really for the first time getting excited about seeing new things and having real experiences. I told Waylen that I think adults are so lucky - we get to have two childhoods: one that we go throught but have a hard time remembering and the one we get to go through with our children and experience the fun all over again for a second time. Sometimes I think we're having more fun than our kids ;-)
Here are some of my favorite photos from our 4-day, activity-packed stay.
Cousin Connor gravitated toward the kiddos and seemed to like holding Will.
All the parents of little kiddos took them to the San Antonio Children's Museum. It was a blast and the time just flew. This is a great area where the kids could push balls through an air system that directed them through tubes and then back out again. I think Lainey is yelling up one of the pipes in this pic.
Momma and Will
Scarlet loved the ball area. She enjoyed turning all the widgets and knobs and watching how it all worked.
Next, it was on to the grocery shopping area. The little ones got their own grocery carts and went shopping through aisles with boxes of foods and plastic fruits and veggies. Lainey was very serious about this part.
Go, Scarlet, GO!
Aubrey and Scarlet were so funny to watch together. They were both so generous and kept helping each other load baskets. The parents and grandparents had just as much fun (if not more) watching them.
My little explorer...
Climbing through the maze. Hi Scarlet!
This was absolutely hillarious. Elijah and Scarlet spent quite a bit of their time milking this cow. The utters contained water and worked just like a real cow. Elijah (the little engineer) quickly figured out that the utters could be removed, so he pulled two off and stuck them to the bottom of the other two. We laughed till our sides hurt.
Will was involved, but was finding his own amusement in the dolphin we brought.
That night, we all went to a Mexican food dinner at La Hacienda. It was a huge restaurant with a great outdoor area for the kids to play.
This is the sight first thing every morning.
She would talk to the fish with Daddy and tell the ducks to "wake up!"
We took a boat ride eventually. I wish I could say that it was fun, but it was just too hot for the kiddos.
This was the view from our room. You can see the Alamo directly behind Scarlet.
Most of the reunion was hosted by Uncle Mike at his house in the evenings. This is a great pic of great Aunt Kathy tickling Lainey.
I think Lainey, Lance and Scarlet played in the pool for over two hours. It was a great big hit!
Will was just a bathing beauty in the sidelines with Daddy.
Great Grandma, Amy and Will.
Somehow water balloons made it out near the pool and then it was on! The kids went through all of them in less than 15 minutes.
Family portrait.
The last morning we were there, we had a chance to spend quality time with Aunt Mary and Uncle Steve. We had a wonderful time. Thanks guys!
Bye Bye 'Tonio...We'll be back!
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Yay!
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