Our Great Sea Adventure

My Aunt Carolyn is the best. Many of you who read this blog have had the chance to meet her because she comes to every single thing that every single one of my children are involved in. She never misses a thing. She did the same for me when I was a child. For her birthday we decided to take her to the Dallas World Aquarium. We knew she would love it but would never go by herself. We loaded up early Saturday morning and headed to Dallas for the day.

Posing with Aunt Carolyn

The Sloth

The Manatee

Leafy Seadragon

Just one of the beautiful aquariums

The incredible dancers we say

A flamingo, Abi's favorite

The Jaguar. I am amazed at how God made their spots so perfect

Aunt Carolyn "petting" a sea urchin

A shark swimming over our head in the shark tank.

An adorable penguin


After our fun at the aquarium (and thanking God we went early because the line was around the block when we left!) we headed to Cheesecake Factory! It was sooooo good! I cannot even describe how much our family loves this place and we were so excited to share it with Aunt Carolyn. She loved it! After lunch we went to the Container store (my new favorite store!) and to Barnes & Noble. We headed home after a great day! We crashed in front of the tv to watch "Harry Potter" (thanks Aunt Jessi and Laura!) then crashed in our beds.

Sunday was early service for us then to mom's for lunch. It was great to be at church. I just needed to feel the love of people of who love Eric and I. Lunch was delicious! After lunch, we headed home and did nothing for the rest of the day.

Today was filled with catching up on chores, a bit of school and other little things. Andrew has a friend spending the night and I am sure that Abi is in her room practicing her rendition of the musical "Cats." It's her new obsession.

I really miss my hubby and daughter but I know they are off doing wonderful things! Eric has 2 boys this week that are a handful so he could use the prayers. I haven't heard how Chels is doing with her girls so I am going to take that as a good sign! Tomorrow is a busy day so I am off to bed. I haven't slept good since Eric has left and I don't think I will until he is by my side again! But until then, we will lift each other up in prayer!