Vacation 2010 And A Little More

The rig: Pickup, camper trailer and jeep

We met Whitney and Jason in Throckmorton on Saturday at noon to pick up the girls to head out for vacation. They were excited about the trip. We were not sure how Kennedy would handle the drive so we decided to break the drive up and we drove to Amarillo and stopped the first night. We set the trailer up and went to the Big Texan for dinner that night. It was late and we had to wait a while to be seated. I can definitely say they ate good that night. I think they ate almost all of my steak and chowed down on PaPaw's too. The next day we drove to Red River and spent the night there since Fun Valley was filled up and they said they would have some openings the next day. (They do not take reservations). We made it into Fun Valley after lunch the next day. The girls made the trip great. Morgan told me, Gana you get to be kinda like a mom this week and I said I sure do. It was great, and to hear those little voices calling me Gana all week just warmed my heart. Needles to say, I did not get to sleep any while we traveled this time. Ha! We got the trailer all set up and while we were there we went down to the river and waded in it , threw rocks in it, went fishing and Morgan even caught 7 fish. Kennedy had one to the bank and we lost it. We rode the paddle boats, fed the ducks, cooked smores and had a big mess with them. We loaded up in the jeep one day and went jeeping to the top of the mountain, had a picnic, climbed the mountain and even got in a little snow storm. We looked for deer and elk and saw some! At night we would go to the little street dance or get together and have fun doing the chicken dance or whatever else and meeting new friends. We headed back home on Thursday and stopped back in Amarillo to break the trip up coming home. We went swimming for a bit but the water was too cold for Gana. The next day we headed on into Olney. It was nice to be home even though we enjoyed our trip. The girls enjoyed doing their usual fun things at the house and helped with the horses and the garden. Their mom and dad came thru to Olney Sunday afternoon to pick them up. I think they were glad to see them since they had been away from them for over a week. They were really good and never got homesick as far as I know. They were little troopers the whole trip. Thanks for going along with us Morgan and Kennedy. We will do this again sometime and maybe Cooper will go with us the next time around. I will cherish these memories forever and just hope that I will be able to make memories like these with all of grandkids someday.

Ready to go eat in Amarillo, It was cool there

because of the rain.

The Big Texan: The steak was great too!

Cowgirl Kennedy

Cowgirl Morgan

I was telling Kennedy to give me her paci

but she was definitely guarding it with my

sunglasses on.

Waiting for the fireworks

PaPaw must be getting sleepy!

4th of July

Dinner at the campground...Morgan is the photographer

It was a little cool there at night.

In a daze...think we were watching "old" people dance, or maybe bored. Ha! It was a little comical I would say.

Morgan dazed too!

Street dance with DJ there

Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast

Gana the cook, thank goodness for the cap (bad hair & no makeup)

Kennedy screaming with Morgan's shoes on.

In the jeep and ready to go fishing (there in the campground)

Some serious fisherman here!

Morgan being patient????????

Morgan's first fish to catch that day

PaPaw and the girls with "his elk"??????

Paddle boating

Feeding the ducks

Running, running, running

Enjoying the singing

Enjoying the song and dance and new friends

Morgan climbing the mountain side

PaPaw and Kennedy going down the mountain side

Kennedy running in the meadow

Having a little picnic on the mountain

Looking for elk

See the cloud coming up...

Kennedy found a little chair in the tree

The snow we got into going down the mountain

This is the Big Lacey Dog we ran into at Creed

Having smores after hot dogs with new friends

Oh what a mess!

Two tired girls after a big day

The long road to home

Riding home but still making it fine.

Sacked out for awhile on the way home.

The Captain:

Leaving from Amarillo headed to Olney

Back in Olney, had a good ole scrubbing and fingernail and toe clipping and now a good ole ice cream sandwich before going off to bed.

Before church Sunday morning

About to pet the baby colt.

Morgan and Kennedy loving Ida

Morgan picking the garden.

Kennedy taking in the goodies

Swinging away

We celebrated our 35th Anniversary July 3rd.

Aren't you proud of us!!!!!

Here is Cooper riding the suitcases out when we stopped back by from Houston.

These are pictures from Joz wedding. We went to Houston for the wedding before we left for vacation.