Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Mini Vacation

On Father's Day weekend, we escaped to the Gaylord Texan for a mini vacation. It was partially to celebrate my birthday, partially to celebrate Father's Day, and mostly to just enjoy time as a family after a long Spring where Dave was working a lot. It was so nice to get out of town, even if it was only an hour away.

We picked Dave up early from work on a Friday afternoon, checked into our room, and then hit the pool.


Emma's favorite was the lazy river, but unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of that.

After an hour or two of swimming, we were ready for dinner. We changed and ran into Big Tex:

We ate dinner at the Texan-themed restaurant. It had a sports bar in the front with a HUGE screen. Maddie enjoyed relaxing and catching up on Sportscenter:

After dinner we wandered around the four-acre atrium.


We ended the night with a fireworks show over the Grapevine Lake. The girls enjoyed it, even though Maddie in particular was exhausted.

It was a great weekend!

3 comments:

Brooke and Ryan Steed said...

So glad you had fun! We LOVE that place!

Laura said...

I totally forgot to wish you Happy Birthday! So, here goes . . .

This day (three weeks ago) is such a special one it's birthday time for you.
We'd really like to celebrate this happy day (three weeks ago) with you!
Zip-e-dee eh and hi-dee-ho there's something we can do.
We'll sing a song that we all know. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU (three weeks ago)!!!

Excuse the off-key shockingly tenor singing voice.

p.s. Your tummy is adorable. I'm getting there.

Jenny said...

Such fun!!

And you are ADORABLE! I know that little guy is no longer in there (YAY!), but you are an adorable pregnant lady.