Vacation 2013

I have not posted on here for a long while! I had a very rough winter, and did not get on here. We had a very nice vacation. We went to Oklahoma then Texas. It was nice to meet the little ones in the family in Oklahoma. We hadn't met Alyvia and Edison yet. We started out on a Thursday and spent the night in Springfield, Missouri. We went to a zoo in on Friday then traveled with my sisters for most of the day. We had a big lunch at my Aunt Shari's house, and spent all day visiting Saturday. My grandma brought a bunch of pictures, and it was nice to look at them all. It is so good to have good family time like that. I think we all enjoyed ourselves. We went on Sunday for a suprise visit to Terry and Valerie Basham in Lawton, OK. We drove by the Witchata Mountains. Also, Oklahoma seems to be known for its many turbines.. we saw a lot of them. We enjoyed lunch with the Basham family and another couple from their church. Morgan made friends with Lacey and Leslie. RaeAnn talked with them all I think. Reagan and Macy stayed close to me most of the time. It was very nice to visit with friends! I wish though, that one of us would have remembered a camera that day! We then ended up going out of our way for a fan motor for our van (a different AutoZone had the part, then we didn't need that part after all the trouble) We were going to spend the afternoon with family, but by the time we picked up the part, and headed back to Weatherford, OK it was evening. Then Morgan ended up with a fever, so I took her back to the hotel room, and everyone else went to Lucille's. Andy did bring us some food. And while I am mentioning hotels, the Holiday Inn Express we stayed in was great! They had great beds, and a great breakfast.... you could eat pancakes, waffles, or french toast... eggs, biscuits and gravy or sausage... blueberry or banana nut muffin, a few cereal choices, yogurt, milk, juices, or bagel with cream cheese or peanut butter. We went to the zoo in Oklahoma City the next day, then went back to visit with family again. Tuesday we headed down to Texas with the air conditioning in the van still not working. So it was very warm. Our family tried to help get it working, but we didn't figure out until we got to Texas, that it was a switch of some sort that was bad. We had a nice cook out when we got to Texas, and all but Macy and I went for a swim. (She is not liking swimming pools right now, but she loves baths) We rested for a while the next day. Wednesday we went to Pizza Hut, and Morgan got sick in the middle of the restaurant. No fun! The poor girl was not feeling well for a few days. We found out that there is a great donut shop, and had donuts and crescent bacon, egg, and cheeses for a couple days. Thursday we ate at Saltgrass (a yummy restaurant) in the evening. Friday we went to Galveston, TX. We rode a tram for a historic tour, then ate lunch at Fish Tales where Morgan drank 3 glasses of pink lemonade. We later took a Dolphin Watch tour which was great! Then took the ferry across the Bay, only to end up going the opposite way than what we needed to go! We were good at detours this vacation! Morgan made a friend of a boy named Levi while we visited Uncle Kenny and Aunt Tish in Texas. We ate Chick fil a for dinner that evening, then went to Dairy Queen for ice cream with Aunt Tish. (Uncle Kenny didn't want to go, but Mary and Levi went with us.) That Dairy Queen was chilly! We then finished our stay with a late lunch at Bennihana's on Saturday. That was neat! They grill your food right in front of you. The man cooking had a fake ketchup bottle and pretended to squirt RaeAnn with ketchup! He also started to put the scraps that he scrapped off the grill onto her plate! The kids all wore the silly hats there, and the cook made an onion into a train! I wish Andy would have been recording! Macy latched onto Uncle Kenny, and called him grandpa, even though, we told her several times that it was Uncle Kenny. He does look like his brother, Andy's dad, so we can't blame her for that. We headed towards home then. We made it to Texarkana, and stayed at a Holiday Inn Express again. We found a good Baptist church to go to there, then headed towards home. We AGAIN ended up going on a slight detour when two interstates split up. Andy does have a gps, but we still managed to not have it on when we got side tracked! We made it safely in last night. Thank you, Lord, for all the safe travels and great family time!