We flew my Mom to San Antonio when Crew was born since he was another c-section baby so she could help out with the other boys. With a brand new baby, and a very slow recovery on my end, we didn't get to take her out to get the full effect of SA. So, my parents came in March and we made sure to cover a lot of Southern Texas.
There were a few visits to the Quad. If there is one thing that makes Fort Sam Houston unique it is hands down the quadrangle.
Guess what. My parents also love DOUGHNUTS so we had to spend a day in Austin. I'd like to say it was mostly so we could visit the capitol, but Jer's favorite doughnut place is RoundRock Donuts... in Austin.
After our first to-do item (cough, eat donuts) was checked off of the list we went to the capitol building.
Funny side story. When Jer took the boys to the Monster Truck show, they drove past the capitol building. He casually asked if they knew what the building was. Our first grader, Brock, replied telling Jer that it was the capitol building and the governor of Texas is Greg Abbott. Brock asked Jer if he knew how Gov. Abbott became paralyzed and continued to tell him that he was out for a run when a tree branch fell on him. Jer was very impressed. But, if you know Texas, you know they are a very proud state and. They boys also knew the Texas state song because it was part of their morning routine at school.
We went to Lulu's bakery for breakfast on one of the days they were visiting. There was a long wait for a table so we decided to find a different place. There was a huge event going on so traffic was horrible, the short drive took much longer than we were used to. We ended up getting breakfast tacos from Taco Cabana. As Jer was ordering in the drive through, Cael asked for a chocolate milk so I told Jer to order one chocolate milk. Then probably Brock said he wanted a chocolate milk so I told Jer to make that two chocolate milks. So he did. Then Troy said he wanted one, the same time my Mom said she'd take one, so as we were changing the order to three, then four, Jer (who hates ordering in drive throughs) yells out, "who DOESN'T want a chocolate milk?!" And we all busted out laughing! Then, we went to Shipley's and bought some doughnuts to go with our tacos, bahaha! By the time we got home with all of our food, we could have waited for a table to open up at Lulus! It's ok though, we went back a different day so mom and dad could give the ginormous cinnamon roll a try:)
We went to the zoo to ride on "Cael's train"
LOVE this place. I'm craving the tastes of Texas right now.
Insert our visit to Corpus Christi and the Aquarium *here* Its the large post directly following:)
In October when Jer's mom and Grandma visited we took them to the Japanese Gardens. It was such a hot day that we stayed in the main lookout and called it good. The temp in March was much more friendly so we walked around.
One of the days that Troy and Brock were in school we went to the RiverWalk
I love that the boy's school welcomed parents to eat lunch with the kids. The kids always LOVED it because they got to eat up on the stage instead of on the main floor with their classes. We went in twice so we could eat with both Brock and Troy. These two loved when Jer and I would come in to eat lunch with them, but add Grandma and Grandpa in the equation and it made for the best school lunch ever!
My least favorite part of these visits were the "see you laters".
Crew was never super outgoing when others tried to hold him but he warmed up to his Grandpa and Grandma so fast you'd never know he lived thousands of miles away from them.
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