One of the joys of getting to stay home with my kiddos is taking road trips whenever! This one lead us back home to my parents' house for a few days. Like an idiot, I forgot my good camera so these pictures will all be from my phone=/ So excuse the poor quality.
We hit the road Tuesday morning and headed to our usual Texarkana Chik-fil-A stop. It's the perfect half-way point with good food and a playground perfect for both kids. I wish all of their restaurants had the same play area as this one! Joaquin just becomes giddy at this place. He wants to be a big kid so badly! That's the best shot I could get of him. He was having too much fun.
We arrived at 3pm and enjoyed the rest of the day hanging at Mimi and Poppi's house. The next morning we ventured out to Little Rock to see the Game and Fish Nature Center. It was a neat little place. The kids got to see two, live baby alligators, a couple of snakes and a variety of fish. I'm disappointed that I only got the one picture above. Natalie wasn't scared to touch the snake! After that we jumped on over the Heifer International building. This was a neat place but a little over the heads of my kids. Here is a link to learn more about this project: http://www.heifer.org/about-heifer/index.html.
The next day was spent with my Granny. We took her shopping for her groceries. Her list included: chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, garlic bread, and a few other yummy things. When I'm 93 my list will look the same! The essentials.=) Loading two kids and my Granny along with 3 other adults was quite funny. We ate at Chicken Express which pleased everyone! After our running around we returned to her house for the afternoon. Natalie got to see and pet the neighbor's goats and Alpaca (random, I know) so she was happy.
Before we left, Granny and Natalie needed to enjoy a cup of ice cream and a cookie!
What a pair! Love the one of her and JZ too.
On Friday we met my dear ol friend Sarah and her kiddos at Chik-fil-A. I was so excited that she let her oldest skip school to come see us. The last few visits we have coordinated have been without him so it was a nice surprise. I failed to get any pictures of any of the kids=( But we had a good visit and watched Londyn and Joaquin both be brave and climb up the playground and go down the slide! Fun times.
We spent as much time outside as we could while at mom and dad's house. Friday night was pizza on the patio and it was just perfection. We stayed outside all afternoon. Joaquin popped a few wheelies on his scooter! Natalie and Poppi rode the truck and then she fell asleep in my arms in the rocking chair. Sweet girl.
We had a great week away and could not have asked for better weather!
