Deep in the Heart of Texas

Sunday, April 5th we hopped on a plane in Philadelphia and flew to Big D. Grandad and Dee Dee picked us up from the airport, and there our vacation began!!

Our first stop was Mexican food!!!!!!!! Papasito's was delicious! It took us a while to find since the GPS systems weren't cooperating, but it was worth the wait :)
We spent the night at Grandad and Dee Dee's "Cracker Barrel house" in Weatherford (that's a nickname Jordan gave their home), and the kids had a blast playing with the dogs the next morning. Cooper let Jordan sit on his swing for a while :)

Cooper and Jaron had the best time chasing after the bone...Jaron wanted to get a hold of it first so he could throw it. For some reason I never got a picture of Rowdy, the cocker spaniel. He was cute, too!!

Grandad had fun entertaining two of his grandkids.
While in Weatherford, we also got to see Grandpa Small for a few minutes.

Late Monday evening, we headed to Lubbock with Nana and Papa. We stopped on the way at a really good little Mexican food place. For the second night in a row I had tacos, and they were yummy!!!!!!!
It seemed like we couldn't get to Lubbock fast enough. We were so ready to see Granny and Candace and Wes and Jaden and Claire. We hadn't seen them in a year...look how much Claire has grown! She was shy for just a minute, but then we became great friends. She talked our ears off :)
Jordan and Jaden picked up where they left off........fussing at each other!
Jaden had a baseball game, and that's where we FINALLY got to see Granny and Aunt Candace. It was so good to seem them and HUG them.
After the baseball game, guess where we headed? You got it!!!! TACO VILLA!!!!!!!! Bean burritos all around!!!! Biting into that burrito was like visiting a long lost friend!!!!! PARADISE :)

Our first stop at Sonic was after we picked up Jaden and his friend from school.
Our second stop at Sonic was the next day :)
And how could we visit Lubbock without going to Furr's? The kids continued their tradition of draining Papa and Nana of all their money on the silly games out front :)
We got to visit with lots of friends and family at 50th street Caboose. Guess what? We had more tacos! Here's some silly little faces from that night.

Another Lubbock favorite........Beijing House. It used to be Chinese Kitchen on 50th street by Monterey Baptist Church.

Rough-housing with Uncle Chad.........we stopped by to see all of the hard work he and Janice had done on their new house. It is absolutely beautiful!!! They have worked so hard, and now they are getting to enjoy it.

Nana let the kids decorate the Easter cake with green coconut as grass and jelly beans as the Easter eggs.
Sadly, our wonderful time had to come to an end. We thoroughly enjoyed everything we did with everyone. The time went by way too fast!!





Nana and Papa drove us to Abilene where we met up with Grandad and Dee Dee again. Our vacation wasn't quite over yet. We still got to spend the evening with them and stay the night again.
The next morning was full of rides on the lawn mower and playing with the dogs again.
Isn't it funny that I remember doing the same thing with Poppie when I was a kid! Good times!!!

One thing that we will always enjoy about West Texas is the sky...what beautiful views we saw. (We did see an awful lot of blowing dirt) But how can you beat this?
Or this?

Sam Houston once stated that "Texas could survive without the United States, but the United States could NOT survive without Texas." So true, so true. Texas is a world of its own, and we will always and forever be Texans!!!!!!

We love all of you so, so much!!!