Summer road trips

I can't believe it is already July! Last weekend we headed to Dallas. I had a conference to go to during the first part of the week, so we went a little early to do some visiting. Thanks to facebook a college friend and I reconnected and realized that we live way to close together to not see each other! She lives close to Dallas, so we headed up there and spent Saturday and Sunday with them. It was so much fun to watch the kids play together and get a chance to reconnect with an old friend.

Here is Will with his new friend (and my old one!) Heather...you can't see her, but Heather's adorable daughter Lily is hanging on to Heather's neck too in this picture. Heather was a champ to be in there with both of them because Todd and I didn't have suits!



On Sunday we tried to take the kids to the park, but we got there and all of the equipment was way too hot to let the kids play. Since we had driven there (and we were all crazy hot) we decided to instead go to the splash pad in town. The kids had a blast!! Of course we hadn't planned to get wet, so we just stripped Will down to a diaper and let him have at it. Ah...those were the days...:)



When we showed up we made sure to win Lily over with gifts. :) She quickly decided we were all right and spent most of the time we were there following Todd around. Here they are with one of her presents -- which turned out to be the best gift ever, who knew? Silly putty! Her favorite thing was to have us "make bubbles" in it so she could pop them.



After we left the Russell's house we went to Fort Worth to stay with Eric and Sania. It was fun to get to spend time with them and I know Todd appreciated having someone to hang out with while I went to my conference. Will loved being spoiled...especially by Aunt Sania!



It was a great trip spent with great people. Now we are preparing for our next ones...Todd and I are going to Oregon (without Will!) and then I think we will make the ultimate road trip of summer -- we'll be Nebraska bound! We should probably all start mentally preparing for that now...