More Texas highlights...

We made it home last Saturday and had another mostly uneventful flight. Gunnar coughed almost the whole flight...poor guy :( and Ashton asked over and over if we could just "please go back to Texas." He was so sad to leave. But other than that, they proved to be pretty good travelers again.
Anyway our trip was awesome and this could be a really, really long post, but I'm going to try to keep it somewhat short (even though I downloaded 375 pictures off of my camera when we got home!) Plus 100 that my Dad took off his camera and put on a disk for me!

So where did I leave off?

Oh I guess Monday-that day we went down to the Kemah Boardwalk where there are lots of restaurants, rides and the boys' favorite thing...the area where the water shoots out of the ground. So after going on a few rides...

...we put them in their suits and they ran through the water forever while we found some shade, had chocolate shakes and watched.

Then we ate at Joe's Crab Shack and headed home.
Tuesday we drove to Galveston and had our day at the beach.

It was a beautiful day & we pretty much had the beach to ourselves. Ashton spent most of his time "wave jumping" and loving it.

Gunnar followed right behind him and would have loved to do it "all by himself", but he's a little small yet! So he had fun playing in the sand and chasing birds. They both spent a long time searching for seashells with Grandpa and came home with quite a collection.It was a fun day!
Wednesday we got up and got ready and took the boys to the Children's Museum of Houston. It was an awesome museum...lots of stuff focused on science, so it was right up Ashton's alley. But there were lots of fun things for Gunnar to explore as well.
Then it was back home for more time in the backyard pool...

Love your smile Ashton...pure happiness!Yum!It's been a long day Mommy~I just need to relax...This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip (even though it's not in focus)...It makes me happy.
Here's another favorite...most days the boys were worn out after all of the stuff we did. And this night Gunnar's fever spiked again and he zonked out on the couch at about 7:30 with his beloved nigh nights
Thursday we drove back down to Galveston for the afternoon. We had lunch at the Rainforest Cafe. On our last trip to Texas (3 years ago!) we took Ashton there and he was terrified of the "big monkeys". He was so funny-he never cried or screamed, he just put his hands over his eyes and wouldn't move them, until we finally moved to a different table not so close to the monkeys.

This time both of them loved all of the animals!

After that we went shopping down at the little shops in Galveston. My Dad and Lars took the boys to get ice cream while Michelle and I shopped. When we met back up with the boys...they were eating chocolate covered twinkies and wearing new tie-dyed shirts.

Thanks Grandpa!

That night Uncle Michael came over to hang out for awhile. Ashton loved having his uncle there to play Mario with him on the Wii... Gunnar warmed right up to him too... We don't get to see him nearly enough...so it was great.
Friday Lars got the opportunity to hire a fly-fishing guide and go out on his boat with him and learn how to flyfish for salt water fish. He was gone all day and had a blast! Of course I wasn't with him, so no pictures.
While he was gone, we relaxed at home, then packed a lunch and took the boys to another little close by "water" park to cool off.
We ate good food every night (and every morning actually...here's Gunnar having fun helping Grandpa make waffles)It was just so nice to not have to worry about cooking, dishes, cleaning, laundry, or constantly picking up my house.

Thanks for being so good to us Dad & Michelle...It's always hard to say goodbye...We can't wait for our next trip out...If Ashton and Gunnar had their way, it would be tomorrow!

(Wow, okay I tried, but that was not short...it's hard to narrow it down, and this post took forever!)