Country Cousins - Deep in the Heart of Texas

Ok, here are some more pictures and thoughts from our Guadalupe River family reunion trip. All the female adults were reading the Twilight series.

Yep. That's one awesome series.

I just finally read the fourth (and final) book today, and it rocked.

It totally went in a different direction that I thought,

but I loved it and was happy with the way the author ended things.

No spoilers, I promise!

Sorry, back to the photos. We saw goats climbing this cliff at night.

There were skunks around and rumors of a bobcat.

I tried not to look for water snakes.

Or to even think about them.

I learned how to swim in this river.

It's colder than pool water.

and it has fish.

And plants that grow underwater and sometimes your leg brushes against them...

and you might hear little screams now and then.

Not me though, because I'm tough like that.
Totally.

Anyway, we're going to run through all the cousins one more time.

Just for fun, and because I love seeing their smiling faces.

Here's my Donny.

I've made my boys wear rash guards (those water shirts) all summer.

And lots of sunscreen.

I don't know why those shirts are called rash guards.

Something else to add to my Google list.

And my Remy.

Who could exsist on apple juice and chicken tenders soley, if I let him.

The Tiny here,

(with his arms in the air like he just don't care),

lives in California.

Remy followed him around all week.

He was so excited to hang with The Tiny.

This is The Tiny's sister, Schmoopie.

She also lives in California.

Now on to the Houston clan. This is Miss Thang.

You've met her before. She just got her first cell phone, so she can talk to her BOYFRIEND.

Yikes, the kids are growing up to fast!

However, no one told her that we don't get cell phone service out here. Too many hills.

Apparently you could get service if you want to the swingset on the other side of the parking lot and climbed to the top of it.

There was a line of adults waiting to climb the swingset, I kid you not.

There are no phones in the rooms. It's kind of cool to be cut off from the world. Kind of.

Miss Thang's sister, The Monkey.

And their younger sister, Sweet Cheeks.

She turned five while we were there, so we celebrated her birthday.

We all went to a musical at an open-air theater. Wanna know what production we saw?

High School Musical!

It was a lot of fun.

Another branch of the Houston clan is Wonderboy

and his sister Bunny.

We were missing two other cousins, the Maryland clan.

And The Bug and Rockboy, who leave for two weeks in Peru tomorrow.

We all stayed in these rented condos and grilled our meals outside in this common area.

I kept meaning to get a group picture, but it's hard to get that many kids in one place at one time. Someone's always hungry, or napping or throwing a tantrum or swimming

or fishing or in the game room. It's hard to keep up!

We love this place.

I still need to share pictures from the rodeo and from our canoe trip.

I didn't take my camera on either of those expeditions, so I have to wait for family to supply those photos.

We're off to Austin this weekend for a family wedding.

Don't worry, I'll have my camera and I'm not afraid to use it.