Friday, April 7, 2023

Houston!

We were dying the day we left to Houston to look out and see the sprinklers going on the golf course amidst a bunch of snow ha ha.

Always nice to leave snow knowing you are headed to better weather. We decided a month or two ago that we wanted to go to visit Chandra in Houston for Spring Break. We told her we were coming. Then we discovered that flights were like triple the normal cost during spring break. So we ended up flying out of Salt Lake and getting a layover flight to make it more affordable.


Our layover in Las Vegas was only supposed to be an hour and a half but a couple weeks before our trip our flight times changed and the layover was now going to be 3 and a half hours.


Jackson's first flight! He is the best little traveler and absolutely loved it.

Our layover got longer and longer and ended up being over 5 hours. It took us 13 hours to get from our door to Chandra's door and we pulled in at like 12:30 am. Phew!

The kids did so well though and hardly complained at all.




Houston!




The weather in Houston was so bad. The kids didn't care though and went swimming anyway and had a blast playing with cousins.




Our first day there we went to go see the new Super Mario movie since it was raining outside. Then the kids swam in the rain.







Thursday night Brandon and I went to dinner with Chandra and Roland at a really nice steak house. The food was delicious. Don't have any pictures from that, but we had a good time and drove home on the freeway in pouring rain with lightning flashing all around us.


The next day was more swimming in the drizzling rain.



Then they wanted to take us to lunch at one of their favorite BBQ places. It was really yummy!








Super rainy outside and chilly.

Downtown Houston getting lost in the clouds.

The kids had so much fun playing with cousins. Our kids match up really well with Chandra's kids and they had a great time together.


Tyler and Kade played lots of Fortnite.


Jackson and Grayson were adorable little friends.





 

Monday, April 3, 2023

Spring Break

So school got out for spring break. Nothing about the weather felt like spring though, ha ha. We went to see the new kitties at the Robins' house. They are so stinking cute!





Kristen came over with her kids and Kayler randomly was wearing a dress that had the exact same print as Ava's shirt. Too funny!

Ross invited us to his ward Easter Egg Hunt and breakfast. Jackson was such a stinker and didn't want to pick up any eggs. He cried a lot throughout but with Brandon's help he eventually got his eggs.






Then home to watch General Conference. While we were watching Brandon wanted to go through some things in our storage room so we were looking through our old boxes and Mckinley tried on my uniform that I wore to Carlingford High School in Australia. So fun!

Back to see the kitties again!

Kallie made sure we made our traditional Easter nest cookies. Man are they good!! We had a trip planned to Houston for part of spring break and were going to be there on Easter so we made this a week ahead during General Conference.

Jackson and Ava are great friends.

Ava's best friend Harper broke her leg! It's been so sad (and cute) to see her in a wheelchair at school.