To Grandma's House...

Last weekend we went to Grandma's for 2 days... Joe had a long weekend and we thought it would be fun to venture up North... Grandma and Grandpa live 4 hours from us... unfortunately on the day that we went up (Friday before the big Texas/Oklahoma game) it took us over 8 hours! The kids did so good considering how long they were in the car and how slowly the car was moving. It was insane! Traffic, accidents, more traffic, more accidents... one thing after another!

We stopped for dinner and the kids were happy to get out of the car and run around for a little while...


We made it to Grandma's just in time for bed. Molly was in love with Mudpie, the dog. She wanted to be by her all the time but yet just didn't know what to do with her. She would lay her head on her back and give her "loves". She always seemed like she wanted to touch the dogs nose, and would get close, but then pull away.


On Saturday we ventured off to the Botanical Gardens. The kids had fun running around and seeing all the different flowers and kid activities along the way. This was a big log that they got to run through and pop their heads up...




This little tree had mock animals inside of it. I think Caroline was looking at the woodpecker eggs or something like that. There were baby squirrels in one.. looked like naked rats..


We met one of the groundskeepers along the way. She was wonderful and showed us some things that we wouldn't have otherwise known was around. She took us to this bee hive and honey tree. The were little honey bees that didn't seem to mind us looking around. It was neat to see them coming and going..


Caroline, Molly and Daddy trying to find some itty bitty frogs in this little pond...




Grandma and her babes...




Caroline in Grandma's hat.... it matched perfectly and it was also a great place for Caroline to stash the treasures she found along the way....


One of her favorite flowers...


Nicholas checking out the pond and stream in the conservatory...




Little Molly enjoying some gummy life savers... we thought it was really cute that she figured out how to stick them on her fingers like olives.. she was happy as a clam for a while :)


We had a good time hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa. Caroline even tried to talk me and Joe into leaving her and Nicholas behind so we could come home and have some time without them. It didn't work.. but one of these days I think Grandma is going to kidnap them for a while :)

Joe is plugging along with school... Test after test after test and hours upon hours of studying. It is a real treat when we get to spend a little extra time with him and the kids just love it. We will find out in a few weeks where our next stop along this adventure will be......