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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Spring Break week 2

 

Amy and I made a trip to Costco to prepare for the trip, $1000 and two carts full later we were ready!


Our house was the perfect set up for our group, it had a huge open downstairs- a kitchen with two big islands, two huge kitchen tables, and a living room.  It had a pool and decent size porch and backyard for everyone to hang out and then a million bedrooms for everyone to spread out. 

When we first arrived our neighbors were arriving also and it happened to be a huge group of Dripping Spring kids which Taylor and alot of the other kids knew.  It ended up being so nice because they all hung out a ton and didn't really leave the house except to go to the beach during the day.

Amy, Jade, and I spent the next three days cooking, cleaning, driving them to the beach, picking them up, doing laundry, and trying to keep up and keep track of 19 kids.  We hardly sat down or slept but we all had a great time.  The kids were all really good and had very little drama to deal with.  The weather ended up being amazing the whole time! 









Jade brought all kinds of St Patrick's day decorations and stuff to make jello shots, we celebrated on Saturday since we were leaving on actual St Patrick's Day.  






Some of us went over to the Bierhaus (it is literally right across the street from our house) and before you knew it the entire group was there and had taken over the DJ/karoke and entertaining the entire place.  The kids were amazing and so much fun to watch.  My high school friend and team mate Stevie and her family came also, always great to catch up with them. 






Port A year 3 was a hit and I am so truly thankful that I got to be part of it with Taylor and her friends.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Spring Break week 1

I couldn't wait any longer, the weather has been so pretty and my flower beds look so bad.  So I headed to Home Depot and loaded up on new flowers and plants.  Kendall had two friends from Baylor come in Sunday evening to stay a few days, it is their Spring Break.  They had gone downtown for breakfast, did some shopping, came back to shower and get ready.  Then they headed to the Domain for some more shopping and dinner.  Monday, Ryan came home earlier and we took them all out on the baot.  Katie had never surfed before so everyone pitched in and got her up!  She was so happy!  We stopped at Ski Shores for some dinner and had a beautiful ride back.  










The rest of the week is honlesty kind of a blur of kids coming, going, sleeping, fixing food, laundry, and never ending moving parts.  I did get to have lunch with K which is always some of my favorite time.



Kendall went back to school on Sunday and Taylor started her Spring Break.

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Kicking March off

Started March out with a great weekend!   Friday Ann and I went to Pedernales State Park for a hike and then grabbed some lunch at Little Darlin. 

That evening I loaded up with Kendall, Taylor, a bunch of her girlfriends, Greyson and 3 of his fraternity brothers and head to the Rodeo Cook Off.  Ryan had a tent there with two other customers.  Everyone had a great time and the weather was perfect.

Sunday, the girls and I went to church, grabbed lunch, and then headed home for a chill rest of the day.





















Thursday, February 29, 2024

Wrapping up February

 The girls and I have been going to get our nails together since they were in elementary school and it is truly one of my favorite things.  

Tuesday, Kendall went to the Baylor baseball game with Ann and then a bunch of them went to dinner. 




Taylor is headed to New Orleans with Greyson for his formal.  She has been planning and shopping for this weekend for a while.  Wednesday she was downstairs and said "ok I am going to pack" then proceeds to start walking into my room I said "I thought you were going to pack", she replies "I am but I have to shop your closet first".  When she walks out with an arm full of clothes and shoes she says "I'm really going to miss this next year". 😅😅


Thursday my AWFUL car buddy and I left to go to the lake.  Ryan was in Chicago for a meeting and getting Center of the Year for the 5th year in a row!!!  Taylor left for College Station since they were leaving for NOLA early Friday morning.   Kendall met me at the lake for a few hours, she needed a carry on suitcase as she is headed to Kansas city to visit Riley at KU.  

I had these fan chains made for the longhorn in the barn, love how they turned out.








The house was almost all framed when I got to the lake and the roof was going up, it looks so good.  I'm so excited!  Ryan came straight from the airport on Friday and then Saturday Lonnie and Leslie came up for the night.  We always have a great time with them.






Monday, Taylor and I hosted her classes NCL meeting and it was with the Lake Austin chef who taught them all kinds of things they can make and eat in their dorms along with some kitchen basics.  It was a  really great meeting.

The next day I had to report for jury duty, it was my first time!  It took over 5 hours of sitting, questions, and waiting but thankfully I didn't get picked!  That evening we meet Chris and Amber for dinner to catch up, we hadn't seen them since Mexico.






Thursday I was sitting at the kitchen table working and heard the garage door open, I was expecting anyone and it was too early for Taylor to be home from school and in walks Kendall.  I was shocked and yelled "what are you doing here?!?"  All her Friday classes got canceled so she came in a day early for her Spring Break.  We got to have a family dinner that night, first one in way to long! 



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