Texas and September fun!

Well another month and more time away from home. In September Scotty had his last interview rotation in San Antonio so it is a huge relief to finally be done! For those of you who don't know Scotty is going into Pediatrics and wants to specialize in Gastroenterology. He still has his residency to decide if that is what he wants to specialize in but for now that is the plan. We are excited and anticipating graduation but sad we are moving away from what we have made our home.
In San Antonio we were lucky enough to stay with my brother and his family and we had so much fun!

I took this picture before we left to celebrate the fact that all three of my kids are finally in the same diaper size. For a while I was having to buy 3 different diaper sizes you can only imagine the looks I would get at the grocery store, especially living on the east coast. Of course Barrick is now potty training so to be down to two kids in diapers will be awesome!!

This is what the ride down to San Antonio looked like. I drove most of the time because ever since I got pregnant with the twins I get so motion sick I can't handle being a passenger. Scotty would take over at night when it was dark so I could sleep. The kids were AMAZING, a 26 hour drive is a long time and they were such troopers. I really was amazed at how good they were!

Here is Lilly trying to fall asleep. On the way there and back Lilly only cried one time and it was because she had a stinky diaper on. I know amazing right??

Barrick being his cute little self. Good thing he is good at video games because I don't even want to think of how many hours he spent playing on Scottys i touch.

Here is Liam, he by far had the hardest time but even he was better then I anticipated any of them being.

Of course when we got there we were welcomed with a nummy dinner helping hands, and a big portion of there house just for us! It was so nice to have my sister in law Andrea there to talk to during the day; with 3 kids being so little I don't get out much by myself so to have some adult interaction was so good for me! I needed this month to gain some sanity back!
The take out runs, date nights, tv nights, late night snacks, talks until way too late, and most of all those 4 kids of yours made our stay absolutely perfect!! We love you guys so much!! Thank you for putting up with our crazy family and for being such great examples to us!! We miss and love you guys so much!

While we were there it was our 7 year anniversary and Austin and Andrea watched the kids so we could go out. Scotty planned the date and we went to the Tower of the Americas which you can see in the 2nd picture and went to dinner at the Chart House. It was so good and the restaurant was amazing. The restaurant is at the top of the tower and the outside wall is a huge window and the restaurant rotates completely around in 1 hour. It was beautiful to eat looking out over the city and to have a changing view!

Another big event that happened while we were there was my nephew Hyrums baptism. He was sweet enough to wait 2 months so we could be at his baptism, so of course my parents came out and we had such a great weekend just spending time together.

Here is a picture of Lulu and Barrick with Gpa.

Hyrum got to pick a restraunt for his celebration so we went ot Red Robin. Here is some of the crew.

Hyrum and little Lilly, isn't this the most precious picture!

Hyrum on his big day! Don't they have the cutest family?
Hyrum we are so proud of you for the decision you made to be baptized we love you and thank you for sharing such a special day with us!

Of course between all of these big events we had a lot of fun outings, and just a lot of fun goofing around.

Here is Scotty being the horse for all of the kids. If you can't tell these kids loved him, and sadly more then me. Of course he did some bribing for there love with candy, games and gifts, but oh well at least Scotty and I are a package deal and when they get him they have to get me.

Here are some pictures at Hyrums baseball game! Barrick LOVED it, and kept telling me all night he wanted to play like Hyrum.

We also went down to the river walk and ate a this fun Mexican restaurant right on the river. Lilly was at the end of the table and got about every person who walked by to stop and talk to her. She is such a social, loud happy little thing!

Here is the whole group at the restaurant.

While there we also went to the Alamo, which was cool to see, but I think the snow cones were a bigger hit for the kids.

Last, we had a fun day at the park. Here is Lulu and Barrick; these two little ones were quit the pair, they loved each other but also loved to bug each other. It was pretty funny to see.

And of course we couldn't go to the park without a picture of these little ones. Lilly LOVED the swing and laughed the whole time she was on there. Liam on the other hand tolerated it.

Also while we were there Shauni and Colby came down from Temple to visit one weekend and it was so good see them! Unfortunately I was running a fever and sick the whole time to I had to spend most of my time in bed. All though I was out Scotty was able to go to a movie with them and go downtown to the River Walk and see the Alamo.

Here is a picture with all of the kids when they came back from the Alamo.

We had such an amazing month! Thank you so much again for everything we love you guys!!