We arrived in San Antonio and was expecting it to be warm, but it was cold and raining. We spent the rest of the day just hanging out with Clay's sisters family, the Kimballs, and his other sister Lacy and her family.
The next morning was Easter Sunday and early 9:00 church. The Easter bunny left a not for the kids explaining that he had a very busy schedule and wouldn't be there until after church.(wasn't that so convenient for us moms?) After Sacrament Meeting, Courtney and I headed home to hide the Easter baskets. Courtney has this family tradition that the hidden baskets have yarn attached to them and the yarn is strung all through out the house and the end tied to the front door. So Courtney and I had to hide 11 baskets and then string yarn all though out the house. It was pretty hard toward the end because we were tripping all over the yarn. When the kids got home they found the string on the front door with their names on it and had to try and follow it, where ever it led them through out the house until it reached their baskets. It really turned out to be so much fun and I think it will have to be our new family tradition a well.
After the kids found their baskets, Courtney had a Easter egg hunt planned in the backyard. All the kids were given a number and all the eggs had numbers on them, so the kids had to find the eggs with their number on them.
Luke went everywhere this week with those bat wings on. There are Little Clay's and I guess he never wears them, but when Luke found them, he never took them off!
Jess found the coveted "camouflage" eggs. These eggs were the "golden eggs" and were filled with cash! The kids, of course, looked for these eggs first before looking for their numbered eggs. Luke found the one with the most cash in it, a big $10!
Courtney was so nice and took this family picture for us on Easter Sunday. Luke is doing his "insane" smile that is now his trade mark smile these days.
Here is all the kids in their Easter Sunday clothes. Just so you know, when ever we went out of the house this is how many kids we had to take with us! Crazy!!!
That night we had movie night in Courtney's backyard. They have this cool blow-up movie screen that we used to watch Kung-fu Panda on.
The next day we went to Sea World! It wasn't as warm as I would of liked it to be, but by the afternoon the sun finally came out and it was perfect!
The day after Sea World we took the kids boating! This was the nicest day of the week, weather wise, and we soaked up every bit of sun that we could.
The kids just tubed all day, and the adults enjoyed working on their tan in the boat!The next day we decided to tour down town San Antonio! We ate lunch on the river walk, took a tour of the Alamo and just happened to be part of the "Tea Party" protest that they were holding at the Alamo that day. If you didn't hear about the Tea Party protest, they held them all over the United States that day, protesting the way Obama is spending out tax money. Of course we jumped right in with the protesters and had a blast chanting "USA" and other patriotic sayings!
You can see, even the children got in on the protesting! The funniest part of the day was when Luke asked why all these people were here and we told him that "they were mad at President Obama because he wasn't spending our money wisely." Then he said "But I voted for Obama!" We laughed so hard! Then we had to shut him up or he would of been eaten alive by those people there, if they would of heard him!
And it was just our luck that Glen Beck was the speaker at the protest in Texas that day! We love Glen Beck!!
This cute little girl was walking around the protest with her father and we just had to get a picture of her with the kids. And oddly enough her name was Savannah!
After the protest we took a tour of the river walk on the boat tours they offer.
The next day was cold and rainy again, so we took the kids to see the Hannah Montana movie, which I hate to admit was really cute! After the movie the kids spent the rest of the afternoon in Courtney's pool.
We didn't get to go to Schiterbaun on this trip. We found out it doesn't open until April 25th. We missed it by a week :( But I don't think it would of been warm enough for us to go anyways. We are thinking of going back this summer so if we do we will for sure go then!We had such a great trip and can't thank Courtney and Trent and Lacy and Jason enough for keeping us entertained the whole week and letting us crash at their houses!
4 comments:
So I want to know what the end of that little girls sign says. "I can't get a job yet, but I'm already....?" What's the end?
Your trip looks wonderful! You guys did a lot of fun things even though you weren't able to go to the water park! I especially love the yarn idea with the Easter basket. So fun.
Jess's hair is soo long! It looks like such a great trip. So fun and I also like that yarn idea for the baskets. I need to remember that one for next year. We are always so boring.
I am so glad you guys had such a good time.
It looks like you had a blast. Courtney's Easter egg hunts seem so organized and fun. What great ideas. Cute family picture.
I figured you would have to go private. Do you mind asking Courtney where she bought that blow up screen? We have been watching movies on the garage and that would be ten times better.
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