Happy Birthday Holly

Today is my Sister, Holly's Brithday!

We celebrated with dinner and cake at our Mom's house yesterday evening...

Then she opened presents!

Then Katie did a little dress up for us...

Happy Birthday Holly KaAnn...I love you!!

Couples Weekend at Cove Creek Ranch

This past weekend, Ryan and I got to go to Cove Creek Ranch for a Couples Weekend to Dove Hunt, although not much Dove Hunting took place...but we had a really good time.

Thanks so much to Scott and Laurie, Scott and Nisha and Matt and Leila (the owners of the ranch)!! We couldn't have asked for a better time!!

Our Cruise the First Night around the Property...

Laurie's the crazy driver!

Christie and Me

Then we had the game of "rocks"... so FUN...I almost won...and so did everyone else!!

But, then Jason won!! Sorry, Jason - I cut your head off a little!

Ryan and his washer partner won a little money playing washers!!

A little Dove Hunting did take place...see here...but I don't think they saw many birds!

Then time for the awesome brisket dinner fixed up by the boys...

Here, Matt is definitely eating more than he helped fix!!

Jeff and his cute hat!

Yes, Matt was about to eat this praying mantis for 20 bucks, but when no one took him up on the offer...it became is little friend...sort of like a BFF...sorry it left you Matt!


Pete and Liza

Me and Sandi

Matt and Christie

Me and Ryan

Jeff and Carrie

Matt and Leila





Scott and Laurie


Some of the guys playing washers!


Scott and Nisha



Jason and Sherri

The winners and losers of the washer game...the losers are in the dirt!!
Thanks for a great weekend...we loved getting to know all of you!

Our Family Portrait Day

We had these pictures taken in late August of our fam...here are a few...if you would like one, just let me know!

Have a great day!!

Sea World, San Antonio

This past weekend we went to Sea World for Rylie's first visit and Katie's second. We really enjoyed ourselves while making memories for the girls...

Rylie's pointing at the Clydesdale horses here...she loves horses!

This is the in the shark aquarium!

Then we went over to the pool of dolphins and watched them swim around and then got to feed them fish...well, Ryan and Katie did! Rylie did better than I thought she would, she was trying to reach down and touch them!

Once, one came straight up right in front of us from way down and made a big splash right in our faces...Katie was a little put off about that! She got over it, though...haha!!

Ryan feeding that dolphin a fish!

Then we went to watch the acrobat show with more dolphins and manatees!

This is an acrobat dressed as a butterfly...Katie thought this was very cool and Rylie kept pointing...

Here is a manatee pushing a trainer with is snout...see him through the glass wall?

Rylie loved holding on to her Shamu tub of popcorn! That and the huge drink and a couple of suckers kept her from going completely ballistic on us!!!! LOL!!!

Ryan is getting a little lick of Katie's sucker!

Aren't they sooo cute!!

Rylie would only stand there with Katie because we were bribing her with a sucker!

Now, they got them!!

Now, we are ready to see Shamu's Show, "Believe"!

Rylie fell asleep right as the show began...that OKAY...she needed it! So, she missed that show, but there was still plenty for her to see!

Ryan and Katie watching Shamu do his amazing tricks!

Rylie definitely enjoyed her time out of the stroller, she would just take off like she knew right where she was going!

We went to see the alligators after that and then time to walk out....

Tired little Katie gettin' a ride!!

The next day we started our drive home and thanks to a tip from Jessica we stopped, right outside of New Braunfels, to go to this restaurant (Gristmill) in this little community, Gruene. The restaurant was great...it was a transformed Cotton Gin and the little historic town was wonderful. They had antique shops and a General Store and more, we didn't get to go any many stores b/c it was nap time...

Hope you enjoyed our pictures!!

Have a Fantastical Day!!