Cousins Back for More!

The Clayburn girls are making it somewhat of a tradition to come down with their grandmother every April, and this year Lexi came along for the first time in a very long time. They did all the usual things of course, hit the beach, hit the Windfest activities, and otherwise had a great time.

Arrival at CRP.

Brooke getting older by the minute...

Lexi tagged along for the trip south!

"The World's Largest Bounce House"... not sure about that, but they had fun.

And got just a little sweaty...

Kickin' it in the cheap seats at Whataburger Field.

Paul not amused with his custom pancake.

There's a reason they call it Sunset Lake.

 

 

 

Stopped at the Aquarium, of course.

 

Gotta ride the rides at the annual Windfest celebration.

 
Didn't make it 100 seconds. Barely made it 10 seconds. Guy took a lot of people's money that night.

Annual Easter Photo Time

We've made of a tradition of dressing the boys up every Easter, but we haven't made the big Easter egg hunt in Rockport in the past two years unfortunately. Either way, a few of the Clayburn cousins were visiting from Montana, so all the kids got dressed up for some photos and enjoyed the early spring weather here in South Texas.

You're a daisy if you do... (or a Rose!)

Arizona is full of places to stop and see. On my map of the national parks and monuments it's overloaded (at least compared to Kansas and Oklahoma). On our way back from Tucson, we were going to stop at another monument, but decided to swing through to check out Tombstone. Having seen the movie (a few times), it seemed at least worth checking out. Surprisingly, it was pretty busy with a ton of stuff to see (even on a random Wednesday in March). It also happened to be extremely cold for those of us traveling up from South Texas. But we made the best of it, did a silver mine tour, checked out the gift shops, and walked the old town street. We even saw the world's largest rose bush! And that was Becky's idea, since they were selling buds from the bush you could take home to plant. Apparently they live a while, because the one in Tombstone was planted in 1885. So it was well worth taking the scenic drive to see the town.