Monday, July 20, 2009

Cowboys

We took a quick trip (if you want to call a 12 hour car ride quick) to Corpus Christi Texas over the weekend to visit Grandpa Bates. I was so excited to have him meet my wild little cowboys and he seemed to really enjoy their company, especially Theodore who sat still long enough for everyone to enjoy. We packed in quite a bit those few days besides visiting Grandpa. The first night we were there we had dinner with Ryan's Cousins and Aunts and Uncle, it was a full house! We enjoyed some texas beef bbq and played catch up with everyone while Buck chased cousin Adair around Grandpa's house.

Friday we hit the beach for a picnic after Buck and Ryan took a detour to the aquarium to look at the shoes(ie - Fish). Aunt Terri and Hillary found a great beach for little ones - shallow, calm, and beautiful. We ALL got in, T tried swimming for the first time and Buck really enjoyed himself and went far out into the water with Mimi - so brave! Ryan and Terri caught baby shrimp and crabs - super cool. Theodore fell in love with Hillary and Buck now has aspirations to play the guitar like cousin Ryan.

Saturday we took the boys to the king ranch saddle shop and the kings inn restaurant which had great seafood. Buck LOVED the put the quater in pony at the store, he rode 4 times - BUCKAROO!!

We had a great time with everyone and we were so glad to be there. We swear Theodore was happier in Texas than Tennessee, maybe we should start calling him Tex.

2 comments:

  1. It looks like you guys had a great time. I am so glad you all made it back safe and sound and in one piece- that is quite a long trip!

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  2. Glad you guys had such a good time....hopefully we'll get to go after some of the impending craziness in our lives settles. Talk to you soon!

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