Happy Spring Break!

This past week, we had my brother and his family visiting from Cat Spring. When the cousins get together, there is always something going on. Games, trains, tree climbing, chase, playing restaurant....you name it, it happen this week. The noise level in my house increased by threefold when everyone was here. But everyone had a great time and were sad to say good-bye.

Kevin, Dawna, Kiera, Kaylee, and Kevin Jr. arrived on Monday afternoon. We just laid low that afternoon, took a walk around the pond, and played at the park. Tuesday, we went to Lifetime Fitness (our gym) to play in the indoor pool. They had the slides running, so Kiera, Payton, and Ian each went about 10 times :) Tuesday night, Aunt Lucy came over for dinner for steaks - yum!

On Wednesday, we took the show on the road and went on a train ride. We traveled on the Grapevine Vintage Railroad from Grapevine to the Fort Worth Stockyards. Kevin Jr. is very much into trains right now, so he was glowing with excitement. The train ride was fun and surprisingly relaxing.

This was our conductor, Bob. He was 6'4" and super nice :)

The only drawback to the ride was that when we were 5 minutes from the Fort Worth Station, we had wait for four other trains to move while we sat on the tracks for 45 minutes. I don't think it happens too often. So, we got to Fort Worth late, and stayed later to accommodate some sight seeing.

We let the kids have a pony ride.

Saw the cows moseying down the street.

Got a couple of souvenirs and were back on the train for the return trip.

It was a fun, but long, day.