Busy Week!

Wade has over 7 weeks of vacation that he hasn't used, so he decided to take a week off! We have just done some fun things around here, but it has been a very busy week!

On Monday, Avery and Andrew had Apple Camp (at the Apple store in The Woodlands Mall) from 9am-12pm. We all went and Austin played for the first time at the play area at the mall. Boy, that place has really gotten dingy and yucky! But, I wiped him down really good when he was done :)

It almost looks like he posed for this picture :) Sweet little muffin!

Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!



He kept saying "ooooohhhhhh" a lot! I guess despite how yucky I thought it was, he was fascinated :)



Later that evening, we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. Here is Austin with his daddy.

And Andrew!

And Avery!

Austin waiting for his pizza!

Austin on a little firetruck ride :) He rode that at least 5 times - he loved it!

And Austin riding with Chuck E Cheese :)

Andy playing a game!

Wade on some sort of ride with Austin.

The kids with their stick on gross noses from Chuck E Cheese! We were at Best Buy and everyone who saw them laughed!

Tuesday we took all 3 kids boating at Lake Conroe. This was Austin's first boat ride. He didn't cry, but he didn't really like all the wind in his face. BUT, when we got out to swim, he LOVED that! We went boating again on Wednesday with the Edmonds, but Austin stayed with mom.

Today we went to Brenham. We took the kiddos to Blue Bell. We've been there quite a few times, but the kids love it and we enjoy it too!

The older two with the Blue Bell cow :)

After Blue Bell, we went to see Grandpa. We visited for a few hours and then took him to his favorite buffet in Brenham :) It was so sweet that Austin reached for Grandpa as soon as he saw him! Sorry this pic didn't turn out to well, but the other one I took was even worse and a few people had their eyes closed!!

That's it for now! It's been a busy week with Wade home :)

Cows, Camp & Cooking

Friday, July 10th was Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-Fil-A! If you dressed like a cow, you got a free meal. So, we all donned some spots and cow masks and our entire meal for all 5 of us was FREE!! It was totally worth it :)

Here is the little heifer, aka Avery!

Austin would not let me hold up his mask, but he LOVED the Chick-Fil-A cow!!

Here's Wade!! Yep, even he participated :)




And Andrew! He spilled chocolate milk on himself before I got this picture! And darn it, there are no pictures of me!! That's what happens when you control the camera :)

The kids went to music camp at the Apple store yesterday. 3 hours and we found out when we got there that parents had to stay in the store the WHOLE time - YIKES!! Fortunately, Austin was awesome, ate snacks and even slept during this time. We were also allowed to use any of the computers to surf the net, so that helped.

Avery at Apple Camp!

And Andrew!

Avery again....

Last night Avery helped make dinner. She pulled out one of my recipe books from when I was a kid and chose spaghetti pizza. I did the prep work that she couldn't do and then she put it all together!

Hard at work! The result was quite yummy and definitely something we will make again :)