San Antonio

Last week we took a family vacation to the Westin La Cantera resort in San Antonio. I love that our kids are old enough to be FUN on vacation instead of it being too much of a hassle! They had a great time at the resort pools and the nearby "Discovery Junction" with inflatable water slides. We made s'mores every night (except the first night when it rained), we went on a Nature Trail hike, and Daniel and I also dropped the kids off at the Kids Club one afternoon so we could enjoy some kid-free time at the adult pool :) One of the highlights of the hotel stay was doing the Looney Tunes character breakfast one morning. My kids loved it! The scenery around the hotel was beautiful and we had a great time.

View from our hotel room:

This thing was huge! Aidan loved it but Avery was too intimidated:

Both kids went down this water slide about a million times:

Trip to Coldstone in the rain:

Looney Tunes breakfast!

Kids Club:

Family pic before heading out for some Tex-Mex:

Checking out the koi pond by our hotel:

S'mores:

The kids CRASHED each night...we were up late and had no time for naps. We had a suite so Daniel and I had a semi-private bedroom.

Nature Trail hike:

We also got to stop in Waco to have lunch with the Steward clan!

Mollie's Wedding

One of my dear friends got married this past weekend! Mollie and I went to church together growing up, and we were part of a very mischievous, hilarious gang of girls :) It is SO fun to be around these old friends and laugh about our youth group days. The wedding festivities were all so special and fun, from the bachelorette party:

to the bridal luncheon:

to the rehearsal dinner:

to the big day!!

Congrats Mollie and Jeff!

Cousin Ellie!

Our newest cousin Eleanor Grace ("Ellie") was born on July 5th! She was scheduled to be born on the 6th, but we were painting our bathroom Thursday afternoon and all of a sudden there was a picture of a baby on my phone! We went to see her at the hospital and she is precious. Avery kept saying "She's so cute!" and asked if she could pet her, haha! Cousin Sage is a great big sister, and I bet Cousin Logan will come around too ;)

Happy 4th of July!!

We celebrated America's birthday by having Uncle Cody, Aunt Amy, Sage, Logan, Aunt Lindsay, and Uncle Jason over for a good old-fashioned cookout! I made Pinterest-inspired fruit kabobs, and Jason and Lindsay brought sparklers for the kids. We didn't see any fireworks that night, but we did have a great view from our driveway of the Sachse fireworks the night before!

Then today the four of us went to Hawaiian Falls for a day of fun! We were there for almost three hours, and might have stayed a little longer but Avery stepped on a bee and wasn't really in the mood to play after that. But we had a GREAT time and Aidan even saw his friend Brady from school!

Miscellaneous

Daniel has now officially painted every single room (except for a couple of closets) in our house! When we moved in four years ago, he painted everything except for our bathroom. We got bored with the drab beige and today finally decided to paint it chocolate brown. We love it!!

Before:

After:

The kids passed swimming lessons!

I taught Aidan how to play Yahtzee:

Here's Aidan with Tate and Chase at another church Fun Day Friday! They were the Three Musketeers in preschool and are still good friends even though they all go to different schools now:

Here's some random hanging-out-around-the-house pictures. I got the idea for alphabet items from Pinterest, where else?