Texas Crud!

We arrived home late Saturday night after spending Easter break in Texas at Grandma and Grandpa's. It ended up being a pretty rough trip for us as everyone ended up sick! For some reason I was able to escape the "Texas crud" but everyone else felt miserable. Faith came down with it the day after we arrived. She woke up that morning throwing up, fever, and just slept for 3 days. Poor baby! Not a fun way to spend a vacation. Luckily we were just hanging out with family and not on some adventurous trip somewhere. Our main purpose of the trip was to check out locations and schools for our possible move to Texas maybe as soon as this summer. We should know more in the next couple of weeks if this will be happening for us. As much as we love California with the expense of living here and having family in Texas we are hoping this can work out for us. The thought of moving again literally makes me sick to my stomach. It would be our 10th move in the last 17 years and our 1st big move not being in the military. Meaning we will be on our own to do it all.......yikes!

I didn't take many pictures from our trip with everyone feeling so rotten, but did manage to snap a few. All in all the kids had a great Easter just for the fact that they were at Grandma and Grandpa's house. With moving as much as the kids have over the years Grandma and Grandpa's house is the one home that has always remained the same for them over the years and they find comfort in that. It is the same house I grew up in.

Here are some of the photos I managed to take of the kiddos.................

This is how poor Faith spent her first few days at Grandma and Grandpa's.......sleeping.

Reed very happily displays his Star War lego sets from Grandma. Also shows off his two front missing teeth!

Feeling a little better to do some Easter egg coloring................

I did it!

Reed keeps his eggs in the dye forever so they'll be nice and bright

Faith writes her name...............

deciding how to decorate the egg

waiting patiently for his yellow egg

turned out pretty cool

I love my blue egg!

Reed proud of his eggs!

Ooops! Of course it is a tradition for Faith to have a spill! Seriously, she does this each year!:)

(Reed with my niece's pet snake)

The boys are in heaven at my sisters house as it is full of animals! Seriously! She has
2 dogs
2 cats
2 birds
2 rats
tank of fish
1 snake
1 mouse (that is now named Lucky as it was suppose to be the snakes meal and he never did eat it....is now a pet)
1 hedge hog (yes, I said hedge hog!)

The boys with the hedge hog named Bindy after Steve Irwins daughter.

With everyone feeling a little better we went to a wildlife safari where the animals come up to the car to be fed. It was hilarious! This is the first time I was so close to a Long horn!

Long horn coming up to the car..............

oh this was gross, but so much fun! He was licking the car and was really just the sweetest thing!

Dean feeds the zebra..........

and gets a kiss from him!

Yikes, here comes the ostrich!

Faith enjoying an animal a little more her size!

Now we're back home and everyone is well again! Feels good to be back into a routine again! I better enjoy it while I can because I may soon be loosing my mind with a big move!