We got to travel to Houston right after Christmas. I mean RIGHT AFTER. We opened our presents and promptly packed to make our flight at 5 pm. It wasn't the optimum flight time but the ticket prices were quite convincing.
My sister Katrine lives in Texas with her family. I have been there twice to visit her but Jeff and the kids have never been. We were able to see our new neice Holly who was born at 25 weeks and is now a fabulously healthy 11 month old.
The weather was AMAZING. Our kids were in need of some outside time and it was great to see them spend hours outside.
Katrine has taken pictures of every critter she found in her yard for our boys to see since they moved there. Joshua is an animal lover/freak. He loves all kinds of animals but bugs, snakes, grasshoppers, spider and other crawly things are his specialty. They wasted no time and the first morning we were there Joshua found a little frog under a yard brick. It was super cold for Texas at the time and he was quite lethargic. He allowed Josh to cart him around and pet him. This cute little frog was so obliging to the kids. He never fled his hidey hole to escape the clutches of such an eager boy. Joshua would go out each morning and find his froggy friend.
Katrine breathed a huge sigh of relief because the animals are not very visible during the winter and we were worried that after all our talk about Texas critters, we wouldn't see a single animal the whole time. (Because it was winter the only other cool Texas animal we saw was a dead 'possum on the side of the road. The native Texans must've loved seeing us make 4-5 U-turns to make sure each kid could see the gruesome sight.)
My sister Katrine lives in Texas with her family. I have been there twice to visit her but Jeff and the kids have never been. We were able to see our new neice Holly who was born at 25 weeks and is now a fabulously healthy 11 month old.
The weather was AMAZING. Our kids were in need of some outside time and it was great to see them spend hours outside.
Katrine has taken pictures of every critter she found in her yard for our boys to see since they moved there. Joshua is an animal lover/freak. He loves all kinds of animals but bugs, snakes, grasshoppers, spider and other crawly things are his specialty. They wasted no time and the first morning we were there Joshua found a little frog under a yard brick. It was super cold for Texas at the time and he was quite lethargic. He allowed Josh to cart him around and pet him. This cute little frog was so obliging to the kids. He never fled his hidey hole to escape the clutches of such an eager boy. Joshua would go out each morning and find his froggy friend.
Katrine breathed a huge sigh of relief because the animals are not very visible during the winter and we were worried that after all our talk about Texas critters, we wouldn't see a single animal the whole time. (Because it was winter the only other cool Texas animal we saw was a dead 'possum on the side of the road. The native Texans must've loved seeing us make 4-5 U-turns to make sure each kid could see the gruesome sight.)
Katrine and I were able to take our beautiful daughters out for a movie. We got to see Tangled and the girls were SO FREAKIN' CUTE sitting there entranced with a cute fairy tale, popcorn and a Sprite to share.
We tuckered them out as you can see here....
We tuckered them out as you can see here....
Here the kids are mounting a fallen bamboo limb. I'm not sure that's what you call it though. We had a nice time walking around these botanical gardens.
TWINS!!
Well they do share the same birthday only two years apart. They had just finished a Princess Bubble Bath and Katrine dressed them in matching outfits, matching hairdos and cute shoes. Katherine didn't enjoy her girl cousin's company at all (hear the sarcasm).
We had our candlelight Christmas dinner the day after we got there. This is a tradition the Clark family has done for every year. It so fun to eat by candlelight. Katrine is much better than I am keeping with these traditions. I will repent of my wrong ways Grandma Glover!
