New Braufels Children's Museum

August 2014

We took a litttle day trip to New Braufels to visit to the Children's museum with our friends the Gregorys.  Lots of fun, face painting, going into space, shopping at the store and dressing up!

Hair

August 2014

Haircuts!

Sitting in the jeep for haircuts

You can't have a haircut without a lolly!

Grandma Janette sent Lorelai and Gwen hair chalk!  They had lots of fun coloring their hair

Hair chalk!

Frozen Meet and Greet

August 2014

Learning Express in San Antonio had a meet and green with the characters from Disney's Frozen.  The girls were so excited to meet Anna and Elsa!  Of course Lorelai wore her Elsa dress and Gwen wore her Anna dress.  Such a fun morning with our friends, the Gregorys.  

Lauren and Samantha Gregory with Lorelai and Gwen

Gwen and her Olaf artwork 

Lorelai and Gwen love getting their face painted!

Lorelai and her favorite friend in San Antonio, Samantha

Summer Fun

August 2014

Dinner at Texas Roadhouse in Victoria, Texas

Long drive to Victoria 

Ice cream cones with our friends

A little market trip at our favorite Traders Joes

Country Life in Boerne, Texas

We spent our Saturday in Boerne, a quaint little country town in New Braunfels.  The girls had so much fun touching the cactus because they didn't have any thorns!  We ate dinner at the Gristmill, an adorable little country restaurant right along the Comal river.

Giggling about the cactus

Lorelai and Gwen were pretending they were cowgirls lassoing in this picture

Waiting for our table at the Gristmill

the girls were in heaven sharing a strawberry smoothie

Visiting McAllen, Texas

Ian was asked to go down south to McAllen, Texas and manage the facility there while the administrator was on vacation for a few weeks.  Because we are friends with them, they offered for our entire family to come down and stay at their home while Ian worked!  We got to hang out with their family for a day before they left on their road trip which was so fun for all the littles!  And then while Ian worked, I took the kids to the community pool, swam at their house and played with lots of fun new toys in their fabulous play room!  It was like a vacation for me and a great opportunity for Ian to do more training for his job.

These girls had so much fun dressing up!  Kirra Jones with Gwen, Lorelai and Charley 

Charlotte Lane (1.5) and Shad Jones (3)

Gwen, Kirra holding baby Kayza, Charlotte and Lorelai enjoying a snack

Since we had to do some long drives, I let the girls pick out a toy to take on the trip.  They each chose
a Mermaid Barbie and were so excited!  They kept saying "Thank you mom, we are so grateful" and
saying to each other "you are the best sister!"  So sweet!  

We did quite a bit of driving back and forth!  These girls are road trip pros!

Amazing dollhouse in the Jones' playroom

 The community the Jones live in has a beautiful community pool complete with water slides, and a fun splash zone for the littles.

On Saturday we decided to take the kids to the beach since we were so close staying in McAllen.  So we drove over to South Padre Island.  It was certainly not the kind of beach we were used to in California.  People actually drove right on the beach and where we were at there was tons of seaweed.  So much seaweed there wasn't much space between the water and the sand to actually build a sandcastle.  Ian and I were pretty disappointed but the girls had fun.

4th of July

We drove up to Oklahoma to spend 4th of July weekend in Oklahoma!  It was the perfect holiday celebrating with family, going to the local Yukon fair at the park, swimming all day and eating lots of food!  Amy's sister, Melissa and her family came over as well as Amy's parents Sandy and Larry!   Fun Weekend!

Loving the hotel and being sisters!

Ready to celebrate the 4th of July!

Uncle Doug and baby Charlotte Lane

Enjoying the car show at the Yukon Fair for the 4th!

Lorelai's first time riding a pony!  She did great and rode all by herself

Charlotte and Ian (Gwennie was too nervous to ride the Pony)

Tatyanna Dill (Amy's niece) and her son Remington 

Lane girlies Melissa, Gwen and Kat

Charlotte climbed onto the diving board!  Lorelai had become a pro jumper off the board!

Just sitting by the pool in tutus!

Nini and Lorelai at the gardens in downtown Oklahoma City

On our drive home we stopped at In N Out!   It was soooo yummy!
  I miss this nostalgic California hamburger joint!