Father's Day

For Father's Day the boys and I took Ben to the pool to hang out (we did our dinner out early to avoid the crowd)... they had fun playing, swimming, and trying to get some sun!

Swimming

When we got done at White Sands everyone was hot and sandy so we decided to hit the pool to cool off.

Ben thinks he is one of the life guards!

Kyler and the new penguin that Mamaw sent him... he thinks it is great!

He also thinks that he is a penguin!

White Sands

Ben and I took the boys to White Sands National Monument today... it is basically a HUGE mountain of white sand in the middle of the desert.  It was like being at the beach with no water.  The sand was really clean and fun to play in... the boys actually thought it was much neater than we thought they would!

Hot! Hot! Hot!

It is so hot here that we are spending a small fortune on popsicles and ice cream... every time I turn around the boys are trying to eat something cold!!

 

What we've been up to...

We made it to Texas finally and we have been having fun exploring a new city and finding fun things to do.  There are about 4 different pools and several big playgrounds that the boys have been enjoying.  Two of the pools have a couple of slides that they can go down and they have been having a blast on those.  I've found a Dr. and we will be scheduling a date for my c-section on June 18th, so I'll be sure to let everyone know when that will be going down!  I am definitely ready to be done with this!  I've gotten behind posting pictures because we have been packing up, moving, and my hard drive went out in my computer, so be sure to check out some of the post I did tonight if you have a chance... they go all the way back to our trip to Florida at the end of March.  We miss everyone back home, thank you for all of your prayers for safe travel, and we will be putting some new pictures up soon! 

Texas Trip - Day 3

Our halfway point for day 3 was Odessa, TX... and there's not much to see there!  We stopped and saw the world's largest jack rabbit.

Kyler thought it was pretty neat, but Bradley didn't even want to have his picture taken with it!!!  He was too worried about getting back to his video game in the car.

Then we stopped to see the place where the meteor hit Texas.  That turned out to just be a few little holes in the ground.  It wasn't even as much fun as it sounded like it was going to be.

Bradley complained the whole time and after we saw a sign that said to be on the lookout for Rattlesnakes... that's all he did.

Texas Trip - Day 2

On our way to Texas we tried to stop and do some fun things so the boys wouldn't get so sick of being in the car.  On our first day we had planned to stop at the Birmingham Zoo, but because of the rain we had to go to the Children's Museum instead (where we forgot our camera).  On our second day we stopped in Louisiana and went to Gator and Friends.  They had a petting zoo and a huge pond with tons of alligators in it.

The boys had fun feeding the deer...

.. zebra...

.. cattle...

.. and even kangaroo.

There was one kangaroo that let us feed and pet her for a long time.  We also got to see a kangaroo that had a baby in its pouch.

Ben even got in on the action and fed some ostrich...

.. and some camels.

We got to see the alligators in the pond being fed.  It was fun to watch them going crazy trying to get a bite of food.

Then the boys got to pet an alligator.

They both thought that petting the baby alligator was awesome.