so as most of you know we spent the last weekend in
february in
h'ville/
houston/
austin. yep all three in one weekend! but it was a blast. so here is how the story goes.... well after much debate of even making the trip because deuce was sick with the flu then a touch of pneumonia, we hit the road or
shuld i say
skyways and landed in
austin where we were supposed to meet up with the
ellis' and be picked up by the chances' in the "
henke hooptie" (yes i realize that none of us are actually
henkes' anymore but we just can't let it go, and our husbands i think have finally learned to just live with it). once the
ellis' arrived after an hour delay we loaded up in the 15 passenger van (quite a site to see) that we rented for the weekend festivities! we made it into
h'ville with everyone
happily in tote except for deuce who cried/wined pretty much the entire way. we left the next morning for
houston pretty smoothly, minus the fact that we were all prepared for much warmer weather. the zoo was great with lots of funny moments. we then made the
treck to u.
lary and a.
linda's for his retirement party. it was great getting to visit with everyone before the party got started. then it was back to
h'ville that night, which we made poor
kelly drive and most of us fell asleep and those that didn't sure thought bout it. the next morning we got the whole crew ready again for church and then
kenzie's baptism that afternoon. plus deuce went to visit his great granny
repka and great
nanan marchoine. the baptism was very nice and
kenzie did great. then it was back in the
hooptie and on to
austin. deuce got to stay with
nanna for the next week.
dave and the
ellis' left out
monday morn and i stayed in
austin to visit with new mommy tam tam and the chances'. so all in all it was a great visit but once again i did terrible with the picture taking. so here are some of the few pics that i ended up with.
the first set of pics are of deuce battling the flu/pneumonia
the fevers kind of wore him out and he fell asleep watchn tv (backyardagains)
notice the soaking wet hair....its from finally breaking one of the many fevers he ran
after spending half the night in the emergency room he was having a hard time sleeping so he got to sleep with daddy (not me because he took over my spot)
he started to feel better thursday night before we traveled which is why we decided to go
next are the pics from the weekend festivities
so here we are loading up the "
henke hooptie" at the airport
i would say klayton has seen his daddy do that a few times!
deuce n i checking out the goldfish
daddy n deuce going down the slide at the childrens zoo
check out those prairie dogs
deuce talking to the frog
deuce jumped right in at the chance to pet the goats
everyone enjoyed the giraffes
cousins on the fisher side
deuce enjoying lunch after kenzie's baptism
the time i got to spend with tam tam n jillian and of course james was wonderful. just wish it could have been longer (but tammy may not agree). i was all about swaddling and scheduling! i know shocking coming from this free bird. but anyway thanks tam tam for letting me spend some time with your new little one.
me and jillian
new mom tam tam (who looked great), me and
jillian
i tried to get a pic with jillian and deuce but he just wanted to run around and play
so those are the few pics i remembered to take but it was a great visit and i guess we were too busy having fun to take pics. but i promise
i'll try to get better!
until next time,
luv me dave n deuce!
