We decided yesterday, last minute, to  tag along with Seth to San Antonio where he had an interview at 7 PM.  Rather than he drive there 4 hours, interview and then drive back late the same night, we found an awesome deal at a Hilton hotel for $69, and we stayed the night.  We considered this a little practice run for our road trip this Christmas to California.  We got there in time to check into our hotel, call and have a pizza delivered and then Seth took off to his interview.  I was a little concerned about the kids being bored in the hotel with me, but that place turned into a great little playground for them.  I don’t know if they were hyped up on soda and pizza, or if they were just ecstatic to be in a new place, but we had a ton of fun while waiting for Seth to get back.  The above picture gives you a basic idea of how silly these kids were.  I’ve never laughed so hard with my own children when they were actually trying to be funny.  Good times!

 

It’s 70 degrees outsside, the kids are playing on the swing set, windows open to let in the breeze, and I’m baking....life is good!  South Texas in one of those places that you might HATE in the summer, when it’s flippin’ hot and freakin’ humid, but come October until about March, this place  rocks!  I know a few of you out there would beg to differ, but I hate snow, so mild and cool in the winter is definitely my preference.

BY THE WAY, I am well aware that the last time I posted anything was about 3 months ago, and to be honest with you, I really haven’t missed blogging, but I have an excuse!!  I am currently 17 weeks pregnant, and just getting over being crazy sick.  In fact, as I sit here, I am feeling a little queezy, but nothing like I was feeling a couple of weeks ago.   My big plan was to wait to announce anything until we knew what the sex of the baby is, but so many people know already, I might as well just let the rest of the world know.

 

 

Some of you may be wondering, others of you may be totally oblivious, but we were indeed pounded this week by a hurricane.  It’s kind of funny in the sense that it has been YEARS since our area was directly hit by a hurricane, so most people really had forgotten what kind of damage they can really do, but this “little” hurricane definitely was a wake up call to a lot of people in this area.  

Seth stayed home with the kids while I went up to Corpus Christi to run.  It was a fun, but very short, all girl weekend.  We had a blast!!  1,705 teams of 6 competing in a relay marathon race.  Our team came in 237th overall and 14th in the all-women team category (out of 180 all-women teams).  Our overall time for the marathon was about 3 hrs and 39 mins.  It was so much fun and I can’t wait to do it again next year!!