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We needed a week like this…

Last Saturday we headed to the river.  We tubed for almost three hours and then had a picnic dinner.  It was fun to see the joy in Evan’s eyes every time we got out of the tubes to stop and swim.  He LOVED “fimming.”

On Monday I took the boys to Fiesta Texas, where we spent the afternoon at the waterpark.  (Evan kept yelling out “Feta Tacky!, which is how he’s saying Fiesta Texas these days)  It was a beautiful day, and we had a great time, despite the downpour of rain the last hour we were there.

Friday night was a blast!  It was Movie in the Plaza night, and the movie was The Polar Express.  Heading out to the plaza for popcorn, snow cones, and the movie would have been fun enough.  But they added a ton of games (candy cane fishing, a wreath toss, and a snowball toss)… and they even had SNOW!

Yesterday was cousin Connor’s 2nd birthday party at Planet Party.  All the kids got to play arcade games, jump in bounce houses, zoom down slides, and play with model trains.

Last night was River Mountain Ranch’s family bbq.  There was a clown, games, a one-man band, and burgers with all the fixings.  Despite the heat, we had a great time jumping in the bounce house, playing the javelin throw (with pool noodles!), and dancing (we couldn’t get Evan off the dance floor!). 

Today Nathan drove the boys down to Orange Grove to watch the tractors harvest all of Grandpa’s corn.  The boys ended up getting to ride in the tractor for about two hours and drive it for a little while!  Ben was pretty excited when they got home, couldn’t wait to tell me all about it and show me the dozen of photos he took.

And tonight, we all headed to the creek to feed the ducks and walk the park.  The boys loved feeding the ducks and the dozens of turtles that came swimming right up to us.  And we even got to see the three gosslings from the famous Dodging Duck Brewhaus nest.

(Pics attached are: Ben enjoying a waterslide at Fiesta Texas, Evan and I in the “snow”, Ben jumping in the bounce house, Nathan and Evan doing the chicken dance, and Nathan and Evan on the tractor)

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