Ezra and I went to Texas to visit my sister Debbie and her family! It was so fun. Just a trip for the fun of it. (And Ryan needed to take another test so he spent a week cramming and we were able to get out of his way while we were there).
My pictures uploads of the trip came up in an odd order. Things like this always make me feel like such a rookie. So this is the end of my trip to the beginning.
Ezra and I for went to Chicago the first time... to change planes :) I wanted to get a picture of us doing something cool in the airport but Ezra just kept running away from me. And people who were standing around waiting to help were unseen. The most helpful airline workers were those off duty, standing around with a jacket only partially concealing their staff uniform. But even those were scare in my moment of need. So I got a picture of the little man pretending not to hear my pleas to stay close. He's the one wearing the white shirt and monkey backpack
We made plans to go to a Science center and paint the town green but unfortunately Debbie's daughter Alexis took a spill on her scooter. It was pretty scary. She was in a lot of pain and we (or maybe just I) thought it was broken but it turned out just to be a sprain.
We did have some other exciting happening before the scooter incident. Alexis and I painted each others nails.
Here are our toes.
Cute, eh!?
And our fingers
This is the actual painting. We couldn't find another available photographer so Ezra actually took these 2 pictures. Not too bad his first time-except the top one you can't tell what we're doing and ...
this one cuts off Alexis's head a little.
We spent a lot of time doing soccer. Alexis is the goalie (the one holding the ball). Glad this one turned out. I just pointed the camera at the sun hoped something would show up :)
Sorry Cousin Tim, none of your soccer pictures turned out :(
Ezra and cousin Nick played soccer on the sidelines during the soccer practices.
Alexis's school allows the family to come to eat lunch with the kids at school....so we did. This is the only good picture I got with my sister Debbie.
Debbie's Texas home has a pond within walking distance, providing refuge for the local ducks and geese (and entertainment for the boys)
Even though we didn't go out much Debbie's home provided a plethora of entertainment (Heffe, would you say I have a plethora of entertainment:) Ezra is on his back in this one but this is one of the only pictures I got with cousin Tim (standing with the striped shirt in the middle).
Ezra and cousin Nick got to go to their own soccer activity. It wasn't exactly a league or a game but a pre-league soccer for the young-ins. Ezra's the one in the orange (opposed to all the other boys in orange). Orange shirt, blond hair
And of course the boys played around the house (who can resist new toys). I attended a photo seminar. It said things like get down on their level, to catch your children being themselves, just playing and being boys. I got this one
But first they couldn't resist shining for the camera.
Boys, be natural, just keep playing. Pretend I'm not here.
It's so hard to get them both not looking at the
camera. Now Nick's become my poser.
I remember the days before digital and the instant reminiscing. I would take one shot or maybe two just in case someone was blinking. Now I snap shot after shot in the hopes that there will still be a better shot out there if I keep working at it.
So those are some of the highlights. We also ate at the Cracker Barrel, watched the movie Gnomeo and Juliet and Debbie and I got massage and just over all played a lot. Ezra asks a lot about his cousin Nick and if he can come over to play. So Griffins you've been officially invited.
That invitation is open to the rest of our family as well. I forgot how much I miss them all.
We also gave the Griffin's some adoption pass along cards so they can give us another reason to come back to Texas soon. If anyone else wants a few (or a plethora) of pass along cards we'll travel to any state to get our child (and hopefully we'll get to visit someone else in the process). Let us know and we'll mail them out.
