Kelly Comes to Play

My sister Kelly came to visit from Ohio and we had so much fun...of course! Kelly and I always have fun together and we managed to despite practically everything going wrong on the trip. Seriously why is this always happening everytime we have fun things planned lately? This trip included Kelly getting sick and me thinking it was from us, to her feeling better and us wondering if she had gotten food poisoning, to freezing ( like SNOW freezing) weather here over the weekend, to crazy delayed flights that made her have to leave earlier and end up flying way out of her way to get home in time. It was just crazy. Anyways, here are all the pictures I took while she was here. I love when Kelly comes because we act like 5 year olds and I totally forget that I am supposed to be a responsible adult/mom now!! Its great! We picked her up on St. Patricks day from the airport so Brayden and I made her a giant rainbow cupcake as a surprise

But the real surprise was in the middle! I wasn't sure it was going to turn out but we thought it turned out pretty cool.

We had some fun at the park and enjoyed the nice weather before the weekend of cold came along. Apparently everyone was doing this because the place was beyond crowded! Took a trip to Rainforest Cafe, a restaurant that is all decked out like a rainforest inside.

In my opinion, the food was so expensive and not the greatest. Maybe its just what we ordered but we all thought it was a ripoff. We had been saving a gift card we had been given for a "special" time and thought since Kelly was here we should go. Seriously I am glad we didn't have to pay for that food from our own pocket! Plus the place was SO packed since it was spring break so it was just crazy!

Brayden with his elephant balloon

And all Tyler got was a straw but he loved it!

Guy and I pretending to not have kids...even though the bottle up front gives that away

So the next morning Kelly woke up really sick and its a mystery to us if it was our yucky sickness that we picked up at the gross airport or if it was food poisoning from yucky rainforest cafe? Either way, she was really sick and felt awful. We had been planning on going to San Antonio for the weekend but canceled it and were just planning on hanging out. But the next day she woke up feeling much better (which is why we thought food poisoning maybe??) So we spontaneously decided to just go to San Antonio right then and there. And so we did and I was glad because apparently Dallas ended up getting snow! WHAT? Um, I'm glad we missed that. Seriously I just want it to get warm and stay warm here now (and I know I will regret that statement when its summer and we are roasting!) It was pretty chilly down in San Antonio too but we still went to Sea World and had some fun!

IHOP...Brayden tried bacon for the first time and loved it!

Gotta love Sea World!! I seriously do love it and even though it was kinda cold we had a lot of fun! Plus, an adult ticket is the same price as a pass for the rest of the season so we have passes now and will be going back for sure all summer while we are still living here! I am excited to have a reason to get away and it will be fun to go back when the water park opens up!!

Kelly with the boys...I was so happy she was feeling better
BB loved the shamu roller coaster for kids. I rode it once with him and Kelly did too!

We got to meet Shamu and we decided this was probably the one day where the person inside was actually glad to be wearing that costume. I always feel bad for them in the summer when its so hot but I seriously could have used a shamu costume to wear that day. It looked toasty!

Ty bundled in the stroller...again I was jealous of him too!

We loved seeing the sea lions

And feeding them fish

I have to say the shamu show is pretty lame now. The trainers do not swim in the water with them after that trainer was killed in orlando a little bit ago. Which I'm glad they are being safer but the whales just didn't really do much on their own. They just swam around in circles pretty much and occasionally splashed some water. Also, all the girl trainers have to wear their hair in buns now so the whales can't pull them into the water by their hair. I think the trainer in orlando had her hair in a braid and the whale pulled her in by it and wouldn't let her get back out of the water. So awful huh! I guess the best part was that they had a baby whale born in january so it was swimming by its mom during the show which was really cute! But other then that, not as exciting as before!

They had a really cute sesame street sing a long show which Brayden loved.

He went up in the mosh pit of kids and danced which was pretty funny

And my fav part of sea world is always the dolphins! There was a trainer training them in their tank so we got to see them do a few tricks

And feed them fish of course!

Ty was such a trooper all day and it warmed up in the afternoon which was nice. By the end of the day we were all so exhausted but it was fun and I'm glad we were able to drive down and miss the crazy Dallas weather!!

But the car ride back was awful. We were stuck in traffic most of the way and Ty decided it would be fun to cry most of the drive. Well except for the 5 minutes we gave him a granola bar which resulted in this awesome mess of chocolate. I didn't even see it happening because it was so dark or I would have put a stop to it sooner! Lesson learned...do not give babies chocolate chip granola bars because they will make it a full body experience! And the other thing I learned on this trip is that we need a bigger car! It is time to upgrade to more room because being scrunched in the back with 2 car seats was horrible! I'll just add that to my wish list :)

BB watchin his movies on the way home. He looks so comfortable, don't you think?? :)

So Kelly, I miss you and you need to come back and visit again so we can make up for this time around!! Next time no sickness and warm weather...I promise! It was seriously still so much fun to just see you though and hang out for a little while! Hopefully we'll see you the end of April...fingers crossed! LOVE YA and thanks for coming to see us!!!!! We all miss you! :(

A month later....

Hanging out on a turtle!

Ya, don't know what he's doing here!

Gosh, its been forever since I've been on this thing. Life's just been busy and I finally got some pictures loaded on here. My family came out to visit and were here all last week which was fun. We took them to San Antonio and did the whole Sea World, Riverwalk and Alamo thing. Yes, that's the only cool thing we've done in Texas so far so we just do it over and over!! :) It turned out to be a crazy trip because my brother Kyle ended up having to have surgery. He was complaining that his mouth hurt all day Tuesday and we all just kinda shrugged it off but on Wednesday morning my parents took him to a dentist and he told them that Kyle would have to have surgery. So everyone went to sea world except for kyle and my dad and we tried to have fun there waiting to hear what was going on with kyle. Later in the day kyle and my dad came but kyle was all doped up with lots of codeine so he was so out of it and ended up throwing up at the sea lion show!! He had surgery the next morning and I guess his mouth was all full of infection. This is gross but I guess they pulled this baby tooth out that had been bugging him and all this black infection stuff shot out.... yes, sick mental picture. Sorry! But he is doing fine now... kinda swollen and painful but better than before. It's so funny cause it seems like whenever they come on a trip to see me something like this happens. In rexburg one time Melissa got really sick and ended up having a ruptured appendix that she had to go in the hospital for!! Anyways, we still had fun and Brayden loved all the attention from everybody. Like always, it was a sad goodbye! My brothers hid my dad's keys before they had to go and we all thought Brayden had gotten ahold of them. As they were pulling out Kyle said, " I should have hid the keys better!" SO cute!! Well so now its back to being just me and Brayden all day which will take some getting used to after a week of a full house. I go to the doctor on Wednesday to see if I am officially hypothyroid. I had the radioactive iodine pill thing done about 6 weeks ago so hopefully my thyroid is shot and I can start taking the pill that just makes me normal. Texas is super hot now. We still haven't hit 100 yet which is really unusual for this time of year I guess but it is sooo humid. I hate it!!! Its like torture just to walk to the car!! Anyways, I don't have pictures from when my family was here but I'll try to post those later. Here's a few old ones!! Crazy nap hair!!

San Antonio

Sorry its been forever since I've been on here... first our internet wasn't working and now the computer. It's always something, right? Well, for Memorial weekend we went to San Antonio with my Aunt and Uncle and had a blast! It was sooo much fun! We went back to Sea World (even though we were just there in March!) The San Antonio one is a little different then the Orlando one... it has a water park which was great! Brayden loved swimming!! The kid seriously has no fear in the water. He was a maniac, walking all over the place. It was hilarious! On Saturday night, Brayden stayed with my aunt and uncle at the hotel and Guy and I got to head out alone. Yes... alone!! It's been forever since that happened! We went down to the riverwalk in San Antonio and it was seriously the coolest thing EVER!!! It's like an underground little world! You basically just head down from the streets of the city and theres a river with restraunts and shops on both sides that you can walk along. We went at night so it was cool to see it all lit up. We had dinner right by the river at a really good mexican place and then took a boat tour. I had never heard of it before this trip but seriously everyone should go there someday. So that was our fun weekend here... back to the real world now :(