Busy this Spring

Three great minds at work!


Setting up for the concert at the Houston Rodeo


Christa and Greerson watching the action


Mimi, Brenna and Stephen


Shanda feeds Brenna lunch


Greerson on the boat ride in San Antonio


The Tundra hooked up to the trailer


Christa and Lucky

We have been really busy in February and March. In February Greerson graduated from Cub Scouts into Boy Scouts and immediately started working on merit badges. Daryl took him to the University of Texas Merit badge college and they camped at McKinney Falls. Then a couple of weekends later they went to the A&M Merit badge college in College Station. This was just a trip for the day. He really enjoyed the Nuclear Science class, but said Engineering wasnt quite as fun!
Spring Break was fun. Greerson had the second week and Daryl had the third week in March, so in typical fashion we vacationed the last part of Greerson's week. We went down to San Antonio on Thursday and camped a lake Medina at Thousand Trails and spent Friday at Sea World and saw the baby whale. It was born January 7 right after we had been there for New Years. We went with the Howards and the boys had a blast. After a little Sea World we went to the river walk and ate at Casa Rio and had rio pollo (I think that is spelled right), anyway Daryl translated it to river chicken and the only thing that resembled a chicken were the pigeons. So we joked about having river pigeon for an appetizer. We ate outside so the kids spent the time feeding the ducks chips and chasing away the pigeons. After lunch we rode the river boats then went to the Container Store. After dinner at the Salt Grass we headed back to camp and played a new word game that the Howards brought.
Saturday came early we left the camp about 5am to head to the Woodlands. We went to Christa's brothers house and put on our rodeo clothes and met her parents and headed to the Houston Rodeo. It was awesome! We ate lunch under the tent and then looked at the exhibits. Christa's Dad was looking for something and I guess he found it. Greerson watched a chicken hatch and checked out the rabbits. We also saw the dog trials. I don't think Lucky would do so well, but some of the dogs looked like him! We saw somebody Shelton at the rodeo. I recognized one of his songs, but to tell the truth I was more interested in watching the staging and the special effects. We were on a higher deck than Christa's parents. Bill Franks a close family friend was the Chuck Wagon boss or something like that and he drove one of the wagons out at the beginning of the rodeo every night. He got them tickets before we knew we could go, so our seats were a month later afterthought. They sat right above the chute where everyone came out. we were on the deck above them on the front row. I really like our seats I could see really well!
Oh the other big news during spring break was that we said goodbye to a longtime family vehicle. We traded our Honda Pilot in on a Toyota Tundra. We had the Pilot since May of 2002, it was a great car and was still doing fine, but we really needed a truck. The Tundra pulls the trailer better and should handle the Rockies in August just fine.
Daryl is preparing to judge two one act play contests this month and Greerson is preparing to take the TAKS test soon. Daryl is also directing a Tennessee Williams play, Summer at the Lake for Navarro College in April.
Angel Food is going great we had 45 people take advantage of it this month. We are also studying Revelation in small group this spring. It is a look at the imagery of Revelation and is very interesting.