Sea World

We had a great weekend. We had plans to have a relaxing weekend and while I'm not sure we totally succeeded at that plan, we had a fun weekend. We didn't do much of anything after getting Em's ears pierced on Friday. Saturday was fun at home with Dad and I spent the morning doing something rare...clothes shopping for myself! It was so nice to shop by myself and for myself and actually find things I liked and that fit well. I still have a few more things to buy but hopefully now I won't feel like I wear the same thing everyday, now it will be more like once a week! Sunday morning we met Rosey, Jimmy & their kids at church. Church was nice, but Micah got scared by a puppet that jumped out and lost it during Sunday School so I quite surprised to be paged out of the service to get him not Emmie. Apparently the puppet show starts with all the kids yelling "Hi Freddie" and then the puppet jumps out. Well I guess the combo of the yelling and the puppet appearing out of thin air scared Micah to death. His teacher said he was crying and shaking and was really scared. Rather than let him cry they paged me and he was doing better by the time I got there but still was too worked up to stay. He did make it over an hour so that's a pretty big success and he even told his teacher as we left that he'd see her next week. I think he truly had fun but once he gets scared and worked up he's done. He's such a sensitive kid but we love him.
We went out to eat with all the kids and they did great, even sitting at the end of the table kind of by themselves without getting into trouble. It was an enjoyable lunch which is a big thing to declare after eating with 4 kids under 5 years old! We're definitely enjoying San Antonio, we love having friends that are close enough to hang out and meet at the park and other places. Sunday evening we decided to go get our Sea World season passes. Again we met the Perez family at the park and spent an hour in the water park playing. The kids all loved the water, well Isaac wasn't too sure but he'll go back! Emmie's favorite part was the wave pool, Zac just held her so she would go up and down when the waves came and she started giggling at each wave. A child giggling is something so sweet to hear, it's nice to know that your kids are truly enjoying something, it makes all the effort of getting there worth it. We had a little food and then ride Shamu's express, a little roller coaster that Micah & Elijah are big enough for. Micah only rode once and said he had fun but didn't want to do it again. I'm just impressed we got him on once. Maybe he'll go again next time, but at least it didn't end in tears! A fun time was had by kids and adults and everyone was very tired.
Here are a few pictures Rosey took of the kids. I'm glad she thought to bring her camera!


We are also excited around our house because Aunt Amanda & Matthew will be here on Tuesday. We hope their drive is easy and uneventful so they can get here faster.