Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Time for ice cream!

Lisa and I took the 7 cousins to Brenham recently. We started the day at the Blue Bell Creamery. It's a popular destination and they were busy. Our tour lasted about 30 minutes. They took us to two viewing rooms where we saw the machines making ice cream and the workers on the assembly line preparing and packaging the ice cream. After the tour we enjoyed a small bowl of ice cream outside. We got a few pictures of all 7 but they were not very cooperative!



For lunch we went to a popular spot in downtown Brenham called Must be Heaven. Great sandwiches and the kids were very well behaved. We walked off our lunch and Lisa and I found a cute boutique where we bought bracelets and got more crafty ideas for our future business. :)

It was finally time to drive to the Monastery of Saint Clare miniature horse farm. Megan fell asleep on the way and Alex wasn't into the horses. It's a neat place and worth the drive but I think they kids were disappointed that the horses weren't friendlier. After a long, hot afternoon it was time to head home. A stop at Starbucks made the drive home better!

Happy kids

I love that my kids wake up happy. They are so full of energy from the moment they wake up. Morning is my favorite time of day. August has been a busy month... we've had a great summer but I am ready for MDO to start and get on a more consistent schedule. I will work at David's office one day a week in addition to the work I do from home. The kids will be in school Tues/Thurs, Alex will go 1/2 day on Wednesday followed by swim lesson and our wonderful playgroup will continue to meet on Fridays. Here are my happy kids:




More summer fun:

David and our water baby
Future rock star:
Painting wearing his school smock
Talking on her cell.. must be a serious call:
Painting his ATV at the glazery
Oops! My skinny child 'fell' in the legos box!

David's birthday vacation

David and I had a wonderful romantic weekend last month to celebrate his birthday. We stayed at the Inn above Onion Creek for the first night of our getaway. It's beautiful and quiet with nice views of the hill country. They serve breakfast and dinner and the meals were very good. We met nice people but mostly had quiet time to enjoy being together. We took long hikes and went swimming. We drove out to the Mandola winery in Driftwood to buy a few bottles of wine. The wine is okay and it's a beautiful vineyard. We'll have to try out the new restaurant next time. The next day we made our way down to San Antonio. David wanted to stop in San Marcos to shop at Nike then we went shopping in Gruene and ate lunch at the Gristmill. We made it to San Antonio and spent the rest of our afternoon enjoying margaritas on the Riverwalk. We stayed one night in SA. We came home on a Saturday morning so David was able to enjoy the weekend with our kids. I love my hubby and think he had a very special birthday. It was a FUN trip and hopefully we'll do it again soon!

Our room was amazing. Furnished with antiques, has a big comfy bed, seating area, desk and french doors that open to the nice hill country view. The bathroom has another set of doors by the bathtub and the shower has a window. They really know how to take advantage of the view!
Picture taken from our hike. We love the rocking chairs on the big porch.