Thankful!

So, just to get on my soap box for a minute...what is up with everybody putting up their Christmas stuff a week before Thanksgiving?

It is weird to have Christmas trees up while eating your Thanksgiving turkey. What happened to being thankful first?? I really feel like it is important to give Thanksgiving its due time and remember what we are thankful for.

I am thankful for LOTS of things...but just to name a few:

1. God
2. My Husband
3. My Kids
4. My Family
5. Our health
6. My friends
7. Our church
8. Our home
9. Rest
10. Thanksgiving

Hope you have a GREAT Thanksgiving! Enjoy your family and friends!

Should have just done the road side park!

So we went to Austin for the weekend (read below). Did lots of cool things, ate great food, and bought some neat stuff. But we really should have just gone to this road side park, cause the kids LOVED it! Jason and I found this park a few years ago on one of our many Austin trips.

We decided to stop there on our way home from Austin and show the kids, I am pretty sure it was their favorite thing...Go FIGURE!

Austin- Went to the Capitol

So JB had a play off game outside of Austin and it was Jazzy Jay's 7th birthday, so we decided to make a weekend of it and take the kids to all of our favorite places in Austin.

The first place we went was the Capitol. The teacher in me wants to always make things like this a real learning experience, BUT I should have learned my lesson from taking JB to the Capitol several years ago.

JB was probably 12 when we went the first time. First of all he was very confused about Texas' Capitol vs. the White House, so I think he was very disappointed that we were not at the White House. But, I decided to make the most of it so him and I walked all around looking at the pictures and reading all of the signs. I thought it was pretty cool and he seemed to be soaking everything up. But, when it came time for us to leave...he looked at me and said "So you are telling me that all these plaques and pictures are of people who are dead?" And, I said "Yea, most of the people are not alive." And his 12 year old response was "Oh, that is weird!"

Out of the mouths of babes! What can I say???

SO this time, I thought I would have better luck...I did the whole "teacher" tour! And at the end, I looked at my kids and said "Now guys, why is the Capitol so important?" And Jazzy Jay says...Ready for this one?

"Cause it is the big letter that starts a sentence."

Its a good thing I am a teacher and not a tour guide at the Capitol...cause I apparently REALLY stink at it!

But, we did take some cute pics...I included them below.

Austin- Amy's Ice Cream and Shady Grove

So, our 3 favorite places in Austin are Kerby Lane Cafe...BEST pancakes EVER! Amy's Ice Cream and Shady Grove...so when we go to Austin...we always go to each place at least once. The kids LOVED all of the places. Here are some pics...