Dustin's Second Father's Day

For Dustin's second Father's Day, I planned a day of fun. We went to the Witte Museum in San Antonio......where they had dinosaurs!

The guys loved it. My dad, Dustin, Southern, and I went all over the musuem. We went through the moving dinosaur exhibit as soon as we got there. Then we saw art, stuffed animals, rocks, dresses, mummies, Native American tools, early Texan furniture, and more.

We also explored outside. They have a path to the river, a pioneer village, and a science tree house (that was 4 stories tall). The video below shows just a little bit of the fun that was had in the tree house. This part was geared toward children, but as you can see, children of all ages enjoy it!

And of course we had to walk through the dinosaurs one last time before leaving the museum. In the video below, you can see just how life-like they look. Some kids were afraid of them, and one little girl had a screaming fit until her mom took her outside. We didn't know how Southern would react, and he was a little worried at first, but in no time he was growling right back at them.

Happy Father's Day to an awesome dad! :)

House Re-modeling

As always, we are working on projects around the house. We have done so much in the 2+ years we have lived here, but there's more to go. Our latest project was upgrading our light in the kitchen. Dustin also took the time to center it over the island.

Southern loves trying to help out. He enjoys digging through Daddy's tool box and finding some good things to play with. He also likes to watch Daddy work...We've got just about everything done downstairs that we want to attempt right now (eventually we'd like to put up a backsplash, do some tile work, and maybe paint), but we're still working upstairs. We've got 2 ceiling fans and 1 light to install as well as cabinet knobs in the bathrooms. And we're in the process of clearing out the computer room. I moved the bookcases out into the movie room this past weekend. We'd like to have an extra bedroom soon...

A Bass Pro shopping experience

We drove over to San Antonio yesterday afternoon to celebrate Carly's birthday with her. On the way, we got a little side-tracked...


No, they're not really on a pier at a lake - it's just a backdrop! But we had you fooled, huh?


We stopped by Bass Pro Shops. They are having a "summer camp" experience for kids during certain days this week, and we just happened to be by on one of those days. Most of the activities were for older kids - target shooting video games, soft dart arrows for bow shooting, a fish identification class, etc. But they also were making s'mores outside, and eating is an activity my son can definitely participate in, so Southern got to enjoy a gooey graham cracker. Yum!
He also enjoyed riding around in the buggy looking at everything. He liked all the neat merchandise, but what really caught his attention were all of the animals. He pointed them out to us and even tried to tell us what he saw. We got the "d" sound for deer (when he saw any deer or African species with horns), "du" for duck (any bird he saw), "do" for dog (when he spotted a coyote), and "t" for cat (when he saw the lions). And of course Dustin found another big-ticket item to add to his wish list...