Spring Break Part TWO

Sunday rolled around and it was a HUGE day for us...

Discover the Dinosaurs was being displayed at the George R Brown Convention Center...

so we

of course

HAD to go!

We all donned our best dino tees (or in Billy's case, Johnny Football T) and headed downtown...

Someone was slightly excited when we got there!

The exhibits were very very cool...awesome lighting and the dinosaurs moved!

Deinonychus 

Spinosaurus

Dilophosaurus

T-Rex

Triceratops (John was not impressed)

And a dig sight (John WAS impressed)

And then it was time to actually RIDE DINOSAURS!!!

Giganotosaurus 

And they MOVED!

T-Rex

Dilophosaurus

Triceratops

John was unimpressed with the idea of riding large fake reptiles so he chose to take a break and eat...

Next it was on to the miniature golf course...where Will actually made a hole in one shortly after this photo (John was still eating)

Next we hit a maze and ended up in a dinosaur play area for Johnny B

He absolutely fell in love with this purple Sauropod

And then the Pteranadon

It didn't take long for Will to get bored in the baby area so he began doing things that gave me hearburn...

Finally it was time to leave.

As we headed back to our car we found this great spot for a quick photo...

A photo which pretty much shows you the difference in our kids...

One likes to pose nicely and follow direction...

One likes to try to climb walls and ignore us!

(Thanks Billy for editing it!)

And finally...the best 'sign of the times' (pun INTENDED)

Apparently the convention center was also hosting another little event...

GOD BLESS TEXAS!!!!

Spring Break Part ONE

Spring Break started out basically late last week with a field trip at Will's school.  Their two classes carpooled up and headed down to the Houston Zoo (and I was lucky enough to chaperone!).  

It was an eye opening experience on many accounts...

one of which is captured below...

which I witnessed...

all

day

long

Note to self...Will is not dating until he is 35 years old...

Greats Part Two

So this is the second post from LAST weekend when Will and John's Great Aunt Sharon and Uncle Chuck were in town.  Sunday rolled around and I had to fly out to San Francisco for some silly work matters so the rest of the fam took Sharon and Chuck to, where else, the Museum of Natural Science.  From what I've been told, they had a great time...check out the pics!

Here is Will making his best Smilodon (Saber Toothed Tiger) face...

And apparently he was feeling quite sassy in this photo...

Finally a normal photo!

Every time I see the Megaldon mouth I am amazed!

They saw a really cool Imax 3D movie...Sea Rex...I'll have to go there soon to check it out!

Thanks for visiting...come back soon!!!!

Greats Part One

Last weekend Will and John's GREAT Aunt Sharon and Uncle Chuck came in to hang out and go to the rodeo!  The weekend was absolutely fabulous, especially since John decided NOT to hate them!

On Saturday we headed to the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo...it was a blast!

We kicked off the morning with a pony ride...

Will hopped on "Tex", I'm guessing because it was the closest he could find to "TRex"...

John was less than pleased with the idea of pony rides and let about 3,456 people hear about it.

Next we headed over to the petting zoo where John (after a bit of coaching) became extremely aggressive with the animals!

Everywhere he turned, he was poking, prodding, and hugging livestock haha!

Yes, this IS a Wallaby...and yes, John did hug it!

Will also enjoyed the petting zoo, especially the Wallaby and letting the rest of us know when an article of our clothing was getting eaten by the deer...

 And we HAD to stop by the longhorns...

We had a ton of fun at the livestock show and after a quick drive home and back (to drop off our littlest)...

We returned for some bronco riding, bull riding, chuck wagon races, and barrel racing.

Yeehaw!

Touch A Truck 2013

A couple Saturdays ago, The Woodlands held their annual Touch A Truck...and having two boys, we knew what we had to do...GO, of course!

It was A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

There were garbage trucks, semi trucks, helicopters, school buses, construction trucks, monster trucks, cop cars, ambulances, fire trucks, and even Homeland Security showed up!

The boys were able to get up close and personal to a bunch of really cool trucks...

Like fire trucks...Will got IN one...

John got ON one...

We checked out some super duper sized tires...

And hubcaps (BTW---self-kudos to me on this photo...I'm loving it!)

My boys found out what the inside of a cop car looks like from a felon's point of view (fyi---they will NEVER experience this outside of Touch A Truck :) )

And of course, we checked out some big customized trucks...

Before heading home we stopped by to visit some construction trucks...

And by the time we got home, John had had enough excitement.  

FYI -- Billy actually changed his diaper after this photo was taken WHILE HE WAS ASLEEP and he didn't wake up...ha!

Living For The Weekends...

I don't know about you, but our weekends are always JAM PACKED with one event after another.

The other weekend, we all had a VERY VERY busy Saturday and subsequently all fell asleep for a nap.  I fell asleep stared at John with loving mommy eyes while he slept for an hour (notice my shoe made it in the photo) as I held him while the two oldest Brown's fell asleep in this peculiar position.  

Hey, whatever works right! 

Texans

Love it or leave it, my children are Texans...and as such, will be celebrating "Go Texan Day" once a year in school...and I, will of course, document it :)

This year, Will got to wear a hand me down from Billy's youth, complete with purple pearl snap buttons and his daddy's name embroidered on the collar, while Johnny B got to wear his big brother's first rodeo shirt!

Yeeehaw boys!!