The Journey Continues

Well maybe I started this blog a little premature as people are now commenting “where’s your latest update?”. To be honest, a lot is and has been happening but that’s no excuse not to stay up-to-date with something once you start it.

Since my last blog, we have been literally 1500 miles from Arizona to California and back to Texas. With that said I will hit the highlights of whats been going on.

First our trip from Tucson to Long Beach to help Teresa’s Dad for a few weeks turned into a sad family occasion with a funeral for Dads wife Beverly. It was a blessing that we were able to be there to help during the difficult time following this loss but it also brought us much closer to family members and a reigniting of Christs love amongst all.

During our time in Southern California, we were able to visit my sister Jean in Palm desert and meet the wonderful new man in her life. Our time with Jean was a nice couple of lunches where we were able to share stories and plans for the future. It was so nice to see the new law offices Jean has opened up and I can mainly recall thinking how proud mom and dad must be of her.

Onward and back to Texas as we were expecting a new member of the family any day. That day arrived on May 1st when Ethan joined the world as our 3rd Grandson. What a great month we had in Corpus (Tears in my eyes just thinking about it again).

We stayed right on the Corpus Christie Bay at a great RV park and it was reasonably priced for the location. Everyday was full of sun and great weather. We took in the Texas State aquarium, went out for lunches and diners, had great BBQ afternoons with family and did a bit of babysitting grandchildren.

Oh how much fun we had with Elliot who wants to go for a ride in the Jeep, sit down, stand up, and be read too. His vocabulary is nothing short of amazing and everyday he was learning new words. He is a ball of energy and is definitely a handful when you just want to sit down and take a break but that’s ok you can count on him to tell you to sit down again at any minute.

Once the last week of May arrived, Trisha came to town with Parker to meet his new cousin. We all had a great time together enjoying Memorial Day weekend but is was soon time to go and Parker would join us along our journey for 2-3 weeks as we make our way back to Florida.

Our trip with Parker so far has been very busy moving from one place to another and doing all kinds of fun stuff. First we went to Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country. While there, we took a day out to Natural Bridges Cavern where we enjoyed cool 70 degree weather 180 feet below the earths surface.

Once that was done it was time for some fun in the sun so Grandmo and Parker decided they wanted to play on a ropes course….

Once finished there, and I mean finished, as both were exhausted and wore down, it was back to the lake for dinner and a cool evening before moving on to our next stop on this trip.

The next day we headed to Fredericksburg Texas (Also in the Texas Hill Country) where we spent two days enjoying a wildflower seed farm, climbing to the top of “Enchanted Rock” (You can see in the photo below the Geological stake for the summit) and eating at great German restaurants.

Next it is on to Dallas…Opps we just arrived last night so I will end this blog here and continue our blog later when I am sure there will be more fun things to discuss…..