Mom's just dont know anything!

Why on earth would you need all this fancy dress up?

When you have a grocery sack?

Madilyn loves to play dress up and be princesses.  Landon's high chair is her "princess chair."  She'll even turn around and stand up so she can "talk to her people"...if you notice, she doesn't even need a real crown.  Bracelets just work better!

January '10

It always amazes me how fast the months fly by! This month has NOT been a fun one! We just can't kick it. We've had to deal with: Double Ear Infections, Upper Respritory Infection, Congunctivitus, Bronchitus, and the stomach flu! At least we were able to do a few things!

Madilyn LOVES to... play with her baby!

She had ANOTHER Mickey Mouse Birthday Party

She still falls asleep eating dinner!

Landon is getting SO big! He's not my little baby anymore...

Ron finally skinned and cut up his elk.

SICK!

-He shot it the day before we left for Texas!

Madilyn is learning that when she makes a mess...SHE cleans it up!

And sometimes she just gets sent straight to bed!

We got LOTS of snow! So we went out side to build a snowman. PLAY in the snow!

and Landon got all bundled up to watch!

I guess we really have had quite a bit of fun!! Hope you are too!

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TEXAS!-the drive HOME!

We weren't sure exactly when we were going to leave.  Landon was sick..REALLY sick.  He had run a 104 temp for two nights!  Since it was a holiday nothing was open! I really didn't want to sit in the ER with him so we were hoping he could make it.  His fever broke the day we were supposed to come home so we took off-insteading of going to a clinic!

The drive home wasn't too bad at all. The roads were great except for a stretch through Wyoming. 

Madilyn slept TONS more on the way home! But she still loved her movies...and new sunglasses!

As long as we were moving, Landon was content in his carseat...he slept MUCH better there than in the hotel!

We should have stopped to take a picture of the EIGHTTEEN tower pivot!! But these grain bins were huge too!

The hotel we stayed at.  We got a smokin' good deal! Ron talked them down to begin with plus he got us a hot tub! THEN when we couldn't get the cribs we asked for,  they gave us an even bigger refund!  Apparently they were more upset about the cribs than we were-some on going battle about keys for the night shift...

Madilyn and Landon living it up in the hotel!  They LOVED it!

So we made do with what we had...just pushed two chairs together for Madilyn-she didn't seem to mind!...and Landon was too sick to sleep so he didn't need a bed anyway-no, you'd never be able to tell by THAT picture!!

These next few pictures were taken with in hours of each other! 

We thought this little canyon was beautiful!

But we REALLY didn't like what was on the other side!

Luckily it didn't last too long and had sunny skies all the way home!

TEXAS!-InnerSpace Caverns and Temple Train Depot

Granddad took us to Innerspace Caverns! I was a little nervous about going to a cave and seeing the bats. I made sure I was right next to mom and dad. (They were kind of happy since the whole trip I only wanted my aunts and uncle.) But it wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be! The only bad part was falling in a puddle!

We got to ride in the pull cart down into the cave!

Some pretty cool formations...

They let me touch this one!

See my dirty bum!

On our way home from the caves we stopped at the train station in Temple. It was lots of fun climbing on the train!

TEXAS!-San Antonio Zoo

San Antonio was lots of fun too. We met up with all the Aunts, Uncles, and cousins from Corpus and went to the zoo! Unfortunatly, with such a big group it was hard to stay together. We all wandered around and did our own thing.

There are TONS of pics...so I'll just put in a few of my favs!

HIPPO...

LOVE this one

and of course Ron is encouraging our child to be a delinquent

ok so this made me just a tad bit nervous..THEN I saw the pictures!  WOW!

Love Love Love this one!

After the zoo, we headed over to Lulu's Bakery and Cafe-known for the "Best Chicken Fried Steak" and their 3 POUND cinnamon roles! Not even kidding, they had a whole page in the menu dedicated to chicken fried steak! (Then again they were HUGE 'steaks'...seriously bigger than both of your hands put together!)
Ron was wonderful. He sat in the car with the sleeping kids while the rest of us enjoyed our dinner-don't worry his order to go came out 45 minutes before anyone else's!

TEXAS! -Fort Worth Stock Yards

Since we didn't make it on a tour of the stadium.  Dad took us to see the old stock yards in Fort Worth.  We were all thinking "Woowho!" Some old corrals!"  We were all pretty impressed with what it was.  I'd have to say it was one of the best "attractions" we went to!

Madilyn and Landon riding the horse...

There was this really cool human maze.  I told Ron I'd only do it if he wouldn't lose me in it!...

He tried pretty hard...till he'd meet a dead end! :)

The over look...planning our route.

Of course the best part was the train!

If you know anything about me...I LOVE TRAINS!

..she was just mad Camille couldn't hold her for our family picture!

Then we waited...

for the cattle drive down Main Street!