Happy Mother's Day!

In celebration of Mother's day I was looking through photos of my mom and I and realized I don't have many at all!  We will have to work on that the next time we see each other!  Here are the few I do have, one from my wedding


One from late 2008 when I was pregnant with Jason


And a throw back one from when she was the age I am now and pregnant with my little brother.

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms and in particular my wonderful Mother!

Camping and training

On Thursday night we told the kids we were going camping this weekend and they were STOKED!  Jason was especially excited and stayed up an hour past bedtime talking about going camping, he could not wait!  Jeff was supposed to be home around noon and it was especially hard for Jason to wait until he got home around 3:30 and we finally got on the road.  We went to Mission Tejas State Park, the site of the first mission in Texas and set up the camper.  That evening we cooked steaks over the campfire and had s'mores, Elizabeth's first time and she was a fan!  The park had a few really neat buildings we checked out the next morning.  After that we took the kids on adventure: we went to Rusk to ride Texas State Railroad and to say that the kids were excited is an understatement!

We got to explore the engine

This is one excited little boy

Little engineers!


A family photo on the train thanks to the conductor

The kids with Daddy, who knows why Elizabeth was yelling

That afternoon after a bit of a nap we took the kids to play at the playground at the camp site




The kids loved going camping and we had some beautiful weather for it this weekend.  It was a bit cold so we were happy that our camper has a heater, but I'm so happy we got to go before it was too hot.