Texas Surprise!

As a surprise for my mother-in-law for her 60th birthday Scott, Ethan and I flew to Texas. We stayed with Scott's brother in Dallas and they came up with an excuse for Linda and Dave to come up for the weekend. Friday afternoon, they arrived to a wonderful surprise. Danny and Amanda's family, my family, and great grandma Shehorn were all there. Yeah, we surprised her all right. Especially when there was no plans for a Texas visit this year due to my pregnancy. But we decided to have the party a couple weeks early so I could come down before I started my 3rd trimester. It worked and it was so much fun to get together again and have the cousins play.Almost everyone... Scott is taking the picture and Aunt Carol came down the following day for another surprise for Linda.

We had a great time catching up and watching the kids play. Ethan really loved playing with Hannah. It was nice to see Ethan break from his shyness and get to know his grandparents and family he doesn't see very often.

This is a cute video of Hannah and Ethan.

Here are some pics of a few of our outings. We had nice weather, if you compared it to Utah's weather right now. We had a lot of wind, but nice enough weather that I got a nice sunburn.

Sunday... We had a nice day and Danny and Amanda got out the Jump House and Ethan loved it. He LOVES to jump!

Later on Sunday we walked up to a nearby park and flew kites. Ethan was entertained only for a few minutes... His interests were on the playground and the awesome slides. Scott was determined to get that kite up as high has he could. Eventually he succeeded!

Here are the cousins... Rachel, Ethan and Hannah... How we got them to sit still is still a mystery!

On Monday, we went to a "new big park," as Ethan called it. It was pretty fun watching Ethan run around and play. I told Scott he had to chase after him, there was no way I could keep up.

Monday night we had a true Texas storm with hail bigger than quarters. Thank goodness it didn't wake the kids.

A HUGE Thank you to Danny and Amanda for putting this all together. We enjoyed out time there and next time it will be our turn...