The Wildlife Ranch

Emma woke up ready to go the morning after Sea World.

We got up and hit the road to visit the Wildlife Ranch at Natural Bridge Caverns. We had a great time and highly recommend a visit if you are near San Antonio this summer.

When you drive up you get bags of food and then you start driving your own car through their 4 mile trek. Throughout the four miles you see many many animals and they walk right up to your car to say hello. Of course they are hoping some of your food makes it out the window to them.



We saw all kinds deer, buffalo and rams. There were giraffe and hippos but those were kept behind their own extra fencing. Most interesting and a little scary were the ostrich and zebras. We had a zebra stick his head into the back window and say hello.



After you drive through there is still more to do including a petting zoo, restaurant and gift shop. We had a ball feeding baby goats and we let Emma pick her souvenir....a monkey.



So fun!

Sea World

Last weekend we made our first trip to Sea World with Emma. Beth and Josh and the boys met us in San Antonio.



Just arriving was exciting and once we got in the gates it took Emma a little while to understand that it is ok to leave one activity to go to another. The first thing we did was visit the dolphins, unfortunately it wasn't the feeding time so we watched them swimming and then decided to head over to the sharks. Emma didn't want to leave....

We loved the shark aquarium and spent quite a bit of time in there, Emma loves Finding Nemo so I think she was intrigued to see "Nemo" not on the TV screen. But again as we decided to move on to the next thing, it was a battle to get Emma out the door.

She rode the Merry Go Round but wasn't quite brave enough to sit on one of the horses.



Emma's favorite event was the Beluga whale show, she cheered and clapped.


We wrapped up the day in the kiddy splash pad area. Colson and Emma climbed and splashed and played for what seemed like hours.

We definitely enjoyed the park and are looking forward to our next adventure there.

Reading

Tonight when we were reading our goodnight stories, I was asking Emma "where is the toothbrush?" and "where is the shoe?" She looks at me and says "Mommy, where is the dinosaur?" It was awesome!

Cousins

Here are a couple of pictures of Emma's visit with Caleb and Colson.

Having lunch!


Jumping!
Emma and Colson jumped and jumped and then they would plop down at the same time. Repeat! Over and over and over! And it was hysterical to them, they had a ball!

Easter Vacation

We all had a great time this last week. Thanks to Aunt Beth and Uncle Josh, Emma spent most of the week playing with her cousins while Frank and I had a nice little holiday in Cancun. The parents had a nice relaxing and much needed vacation and Emma had a blast!

The visit started out with a fun time at Nana and Gramps for an egg hunt and Easter dinner. Emma had a lot of fun finding eggs. I think she enjoyed the candy quite a bit too!

Caleb and Colson showed her a fun time of swimming and dance class and plenty of play time. Loved seeing these pictures of them together!

Slide

I have been meaning to post this picture for weeks now....Emma graduated to the biggest slide on the playground and went down all by herself!

Visit with Grandma

Grandma Ann came to visit us last week. We had an awesome time and had lots of adventures. We hit the playground on the first day. The second morning we woke up and drove to Sweet Berry Farms to pick strawberries. The fruit was quite yummy and we had strawberry shortcake with whip cream for the rest of the week.

On Saturday we woke up and headed for the Austin Zoo. This isn't a large zoo but you can get up close with the animals. There is a train ride and a petting zoo. We saw many fun animals, including a pot belly pig, the fattest turkey ever and some deer that were heckled by some geese.

Grandma helped us plant many flowers at the house and she rewarded her hard work with a dip in the pool. The FREEZING pool .... no way any of us Texans were getting in.

On our last day together we went to our music class. We had fun singing and dancing and playing instruments. We all had a great time with grandma and it was very sad for her to leave. Each day since she left, when I pick Emma up at the end of the work day she say, Grandma?