The Great State Of Texas

So all month we were in Texas and oh yeah Oklahoma to but we had an awesome time there (in TX I mean). First my mom and dad went to the Inn Above Onion Creek for my uncles 40 th birthday. My Uncle and Aunt live in a little town called San Marcos which is about a half hour out of San Antonio. Our 3 cousins are crazy. Well at least 2 of them. Jonah and Madeline are the crazy ones. Maisie is definitely not as crazy she just loves playing with her moms I-phone. The inn was amazing! It had very homey rooms, sunken tubs, and fire places that were on both sides of the wall. Willy Porter, an amazing guitarist, did a concert for the birthday party! I have never seen anyone move their fingers so fast and change chords so rapidly! My brother, sister and I stayed with our Aunt who took us to see the Water Horse. That was a great movie and it had a great story. It was a little scary for my sister. She still liked it though. We stayed at my grandad's house. He is a Resistol salesman and has lots and lots of cowboy hats.

Then after the party weekend we went to Grammie and Paw Paw's house in Hondo. While we were there we went fishing at a little ranch and also went paddle boating. I caught the only fish of the day and my brother was very disappointed he didn't catch anything. My grandparents gave me and my brother Texas T-shirts. Then we headed back to San Marcos were we switched cars with Aunt Melissa.

They have 2 hybrids that I just loved. One was a Toyota Highlander and the other was my favorite. It was a Honda civic with a GPS system. We loaded up in the Highlander and headed to Oklahoma. We couldn't drive the entire way so we stopped in Dallas and stayed the night in a hotel. It had a pool and we swam all night it seemed.

The next day we had lunch with the Franklins in Sulphur, OK and then headed to Tulsa and spent the night at the Murphy's house. On the following day we had a party with all of the friends we've known since they were in college and came to my mom and dad's church or Bible studies. Now they have lots of kids and I got to be babysitter. That was an interesting experience and we had chaos with the kids for about 2 hours! The next morning we went to U.H.B.C University Heights Baptist Church where people just walked up to me and knew everything about me but I knew nothing about them! That evening we went to the Smith's for dinner. They have 4 boys and the youngest, Sam, I've known for forever it seems. We spent the night at the James' house and in the morning we headed to see more Oklahoma friends. The Jones' and the Meffords who have 4 girls and 1 boy. We played lots of pool and ate really good fajitas.

The next day we drove to the Graf's house in Georgetown, TX - friends of my mom and dad's. They have 4 kids our ages. But they had school in the morning and they couldn't play for long. We headed back to San Marcos where we played on the rocks around Grandad's house, had a Christy movie marathon, went to see the new Veggie Tales movie, visited the Texas Museum, and the Harry Ransom Center where we saw a copy of the Guttenburg Bible. We also got to go to Enchanted Rock with Uncle Stu and Aunt Melinda and the rest of our San Marcos family. Uncle Stu took Maisie, Jonah and me into Enchanted Cave. That was so much fun and it could be dangerous. In some places there were only 12-15 in. wide cracks to crawl through to keep going and cracks that slid away to who knows where! We didn't get to play much with our cousins though, because they had the flu. I really liked our time in Texas.
Sorry if this post was a little long