Pa-Pa Comes to Town

My Dad (Pa-Pa) came to see us for a few days and we had so much fun! My dad has been here so many times though it's hard to find new stuff to do. But we managed to do some new (for him) things, which I think was fun for him and for the rest of us too! Pa-pa sure loves his grandkids and it's safe to say his grankids sure love their Pa-Pa! Ethan and Pa-Pa are the best of buds now. It's pretty darn cute if you ask me!

We celebrated Easter together, which was nice. I don't get to spend many holidays other than Christmas with my family so it was nice to have my Dad here to celebrate with us, and Alex's Mom and Stepdad joined us for dinner as well. It's so nice being with family who love you and who we love back! We had a super laid back easy going day. We dyed easter eggs, let the kids hunt for eggs and had a ham for dinner. All in all a great Easter, oh, of course there was LOTS of candy! Boy oh boy do we have candy!

Easter Baskets~

Dyeing Eggs~
Ethan had a great time!

Abby wanted in on the action but we didn't let her, although she managed to get a hold of two eggs (with the aid of a certain Grandpa) one in each hand and had fun clapping them together. Needless to say we ended up with some broken eggs.

AND...

These picutres are of the kids at the church playgroup Easter egg hunt, the Wednesday before Easter...Since it was part of the Easter "Egg-stravaganza" (you like that? I have all kinds of egg puns rolling around in my head, no yolk, I do but I've scrambled the idea of using all of them just to spare you) I thought I'd include these pic.'s.

Ethan was so sweet with Abby helping her find some eggs and putting them in her basket. He's a good egg (sorry couldn't resist).

We went to Sea World in San Antonio, had a whale of a time! OK seriously no more puns! We didn't get to spend a huge amount of time there, because we got a really late start leaving Houston. And Sea World is only open until 5pm this time of year, so we spent about 3 hours there. Which was probably just enough for the kids and for the Pa-Pa. The Shamu show was fun and one of the mama whales had a 300 lb. baby in January so they let the baby swim around with the Mama while she did her tricks. The baby even got in on the action and did a 'big' jump. Pretty cute. Apparently that was baby whales (baby has a name but can't remember just now what it is) big debut that day.

Ethan was SO excited to see the whales and dolphins! He loved it! Here we are looking at the dolphins.

Alex convinced Ethan to ride this roller coaster, and, well Ethan didn't really like it too much. Until after he got off. That's Alex on the last car, Ethan is on the other side of him. And don't be fooled by the blurry-ness of the picture, the coaster wasn't going THAT fast. The photographer needs to work on her photo taking skills! After we left Sea World we went to dinner in San Antonio at the riverwalk, here Abby's looking down on the river at some boats.

And we went to an Astro's game. It was a perfect evening for baseball, nice and cool and breezy. It was Ethan and Abby's first official baseball game and Ethan got an official Astro's hat and loves it. We had great seats and unfortunately the game was a little slow and by the end of the 5th nobody had scored. So we left. Apparently all the action happened in the 6th, of course, but the 'stro's' ended up losing anyway. But it's still fun to see professional athletes in action (even if they are losers-ha! just kidding). And oh yeah! We saw a marriage proposal, you know on the jumbo-tron, aaaaaawwwww-cheesey! Actually it was kinda sweet, Alex and the rest of the crowd gave them a standing ovation. The girl was truly surprised and fortunately she said YES!

Thanks Pa-Pa for coming to see us! Come back and see us real soon--ya hear!?