Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Witte Museum

Some new friends invited us to brave the heat with them one day and go to a museum, the Witte Museum, in town. Part of it was inside and part outside. It was along the river and they had a place were the kids could explore some of the wild life of the river. Trying to keep track of 4 kids there was quite a fete, but luckily no one got lost for too long at any one place.


Hmmm....what's this?


Look at those flushed cheeks...it sure is hot outside!


Wesley cools his hands in the water.

Check this s(c)hell out Mom!


On our way out of the museum there was an Elephant for picture taking. Of course we could only get 3 out of 5 to look at the same time.





Random Summer Fun

We've been continuing to get to know our new home and people in the ward and trying to become acclimated to our new surroundings. Here is some of the evidence of our summer activities in pictures:

The Carlson family in our ward invited us to dinner a couple weeks after we moved in. Brother Carlson is a trainer for fighter pilots in the Air Force and let Wesley try on one of his helmets. Wesley thought it was the coolest thing ever!


We don't have a pool in our neighborhood (which is the only downside to this house), but there are some ward members in the neighborhood who do and they let us come to their pool. Ellie looks pretty determined to climb out here.


Tom and his posse. Tom detests swimming but I con him into coming once in a while.


Fun with a train of laundry baskets in the new digs...who needs toys?


A park nearby boasts some climbing rocks. Ellie looks enviously at her older sister.



A.J. ... our little fish (who has very few teeth this summer)!


The Man G.Q.'s it!


Sweet Pea!


Livin' on the edge!


A futile attempt at some shade from the hot, hot, hot San Antonio sun on the way to church!


The girls push the stroller to church. We walk every week since it is just around the corner...what a blessing. We are loving our new home!



July 24th Celebration

So I'm super behind on the blogging. For the 24th of July our stake put on a Pioneer Day Celebration at some land that the church owns near one of the ward buildings here. Although it started at 9 a.m., it was still really hot. I guess when you live here long enough you become accustomed to the heat...at least I'm hoping. We had fun even though we were very sweaty. The kids enjoyed pony rides, inflatables to jump in, cotton candy, sno cones, kettle corn, fishing for toys, pinatas, and sugar highs! Tom and I were warn out by the time 11 o'clock came around.