Guy and Girl Time

I had some of my closest friends come to visit this weekend. We spent a ton of time shopping, eating, and catching up! We visited some great Austin places--Chuy's Bess's Moonshine...
I also drove them around to see some pretty areas of Austin.

The boys didn't really want to shop and visit so they did their own guy weekend.
They headed out Friday to a hotel. They ate out and swam in the hotel pool!
The next morning was the breakfast which Wes thinks is great to have that many choices and then they were off to a Wildlife Ranch. They saw too many exotic animals to mention.

Aoudad

They had a petting zoo also.

Last but not least they stopped at a snake farm!
Yikes!

WWII

To end our 4th of July weekend we headed to Fredericksburg's Nimitz Museum where they reenact a portion of WWII!

What a wonderful way to honor any and all who have served for our country.

Complimentary ear plugs!

Most of these men are volunteers!

If you have a chance I'd check it out!

Happy 4th of July

We had a wonderful 4th of July of weekend!
We spent time with family, had several cookouts, and did LOTS of fireworks!

Wes LOVES the smoke bombs.

Fireworks in the marshmallow gun!

Since Wes was an infant he has been very sensitive to sounds.
This is what he did for most of our loud fireworks!

In the back of Daddy's truck waiting for the BIG firework display!

Still waiting!

It was a great show and we had great seats. We were almost right under them.

A Day on the Lake

We took Wes to the lake on his actual birthday.
He was excited to be turning 7 while on the lake.
We ate at Hula Hut for lunch!

I love you Wes!

It was very hot so we spent most of our time in the water instead of fishing!

Wes loves driving the boat!

Cousin Scott's helmet for when he is going way, way too fast on the boat!
Wes wouldn't let us go over 50 so we did not really need the helmet!

Wes caught several fish when he actually tried to.

Lots of little perch!

The 360 bridge as we headed home that evening! What a fun day!

Wes is 7!!!

Wes turned 7 on June 29th. We celebrated more than normal, but he didn't seem to mind all the parties and special times.
Wes is really into the Longhorns so that was our theme.

Thanks Auntie Em for the amazing cake.
Not only did it look good, it tasted great!

Best picture I could get of the cousins!

Wes and Allyson are sitting in the wheelbarrow Grandpa and Mimi got him!

2nd Longhorn cake!

Wes invited a few friends over to our house to celebrate.
We had tons of sport things to do, all UT of course.

Water balloons and a pinata!
Everyone got several turns at the pinata.
We finally just let you at it and soon the candy was all out!

After everyone left this is what we found Kodi getting into!

The I've been caught look!

Wes we are so proud of the older boy you have become!
We are thankful that God has blessed us with 7 wonderful years with you!
LOVE YOU!!!