the out of towners...

Because we are not in ANY sports right now, we are able to play around a bit on our weekends. It's not something we are used to doing, since we are normally wrapped up in soccer, basketball, baseball, cub scouts, or any combination of the 4. BUT, we are off for about 4 months, and I hope we are able to just find something to do with ourselves.

So, we took our 3 day weekend and headed down to Rockport to see the family. My parents have lived there for almost 5 years already, and we hardly ever get to go visit.



We went to a restaurant in Key Allegro and the kids found this cool leopard eel and made me take a picture. Brandon, of course, looks like he has to pee, as he does in all his pictures. It's embarrassing.







While we were in Rockport, we got to catch up with some old friends (Jeff & Connie Sue) that we hadn't seen in 3 years since they moved to Corpus from SA. They moved to a sweet house that happens to have a lake, a boat, and a pool in their back yard. The kids were happy!



Here's Brandon and their daughter, Jordan, on the tube.

Here's Cam and their son Caleb.

They have this pole off the boat that helps the kids learn how to ski and wake board. I guess it's a pretty common thing in boat world, but here in Taylor non-boat world, we thought it was pretty cool! Camron was a natural!

Our friends are having Caleb's 5th birthday party next weekend. He is having a Spiderman party, and a friend of theirs decided that he wanted to buy Caleb a Spiderman pinata. He got it, and Connie told the guy, "This isn't Spiderman, it's a Mexican wrestler". We walk in to see it, and Brandon freaks! It's a Power Ranger, not a Mexican wrestler. And since Brandon thinks HE HIMSELF is a Power Ranger, he falls in love and wants to take it home. He finally settled with a picture.

Sunday night we were able to head to Jack & Joanie's house in Rockport and have dinner with them. (Insert picture here, if I would have been on top of it and actually taken in my camera!)

We got to finish up the weekend with lunch @ Johnny Carrino's with my Mom & Dad, sister Toni, and brother Leo and his family. (Sorry Mar...we missed you.)

That does it for the weekend. We had lots of fun, and MAN was it hard to get back to the school routine!