We took our first family vacation with Treyson this past week. It was a fun and fast time. Treyson was a great flyer, and Anniston is a pro at flying now and really thought that flying through clouds was so funny! We flew out of Fort Smith Sunday morning, and landed in San Antonio around 2. We rented a car, checked into the hotel, changed into shorts, and off we went to Seaworld. Anniston LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Seaworld....particularly Shamu. There are several pictures coming, so enjoy!
Anniston's face was priceless throughout the show. It started the first time Shamu jumped out of the water, and never really went away. Here's a few pics we got after the first Shamu show (can you tell we missed our nap??). 
And some pictures from the second show....again, she just can't believe what she's seeing!! Too cute! She also clapped along with the crowd (notice Treyson snoozing in Dadoo's arms throughout the excitement!). 
We wateched a Sea Lion show, then went to watch them swim up close. Dadoo gave us money to buy fish to feed the Sea Lions. Anniston wasn't sure at first, and Mommy had to feed one. She thought that was hilarious, and she fed the rest all by herself and wanted to buy more! 
We were hungry, so we decided to eat some dinner. Anniston hadn't had a nap all day (as you can tell from her face in some of the pictures), and said she wanted chocolate for dinner. Since it was vacation and we didn't feel like arguing with a nap-less two year old, we let her eat a Shamu bar for dinner....and boy was she excited! After she saw Mommy's pizza, she decided she needed to eat HALF of that too!!
Anniston's face was priceless throughout the show. It started the first time Shamu jumped out of the water, and never really went away. Here's a few pics we got after the first Shamu show (can you tell we missed our nap??). And some pictures from the second show....again, she just can't believe what she's seeing!! Too cute! She also clapped along with the crowd (notice Treyson snoozing in Dadoo's arms throughout the excitement!). We wateched a Sea Lion show, then went to watch them swim up close. Dadoo gave us money to buy fish to feed the Sea Lions. Anniston wasn't sure at first, and Mommy had to feed one. She thought that was hilarious, and she fed the rest all by herself and wanted to buy more! We were hungry, so we decided to eat some dinner. Anniston hadn't had a nap all day (as you can tell from her face in some of the pictures), and said she wanted chocolate for dinner. Since it was vacation and we didn't feel like arguing with a nap-less two year old, we let her eat a Shamu bar for dinner....and boy was she excited! After she saw Mommy's pizza, she decided she needed to eat HALF of that too!! We've been telling everybody that our daughter is a dare-devil, and isn't scared of anything. Here's Anniston and Dadoo on the water ride....
JUST KIDDING!!! She was too short to ride ANY rides (very disappointing). But she was loving watching all of the boats go down the shoot and had Jerry hold her close enough to get splashed. 
Good times at the hotel
Good times at the hotel
...some day when she's old enough to realize how embarassing this is, I'll have to remove it....but until then!
On Monday we went to downtown San Antonio to see the Riverwalk and tour the Alamo. We rode the boat on the Riverwalk, then had dinner on the river at the first Mexican Restaurant established there. It was quite tasty (and so were the margaritas and wine!)
On Tuesday we drove to Austin, with a stop at the San Marcos outlet mall--fabulous! The kids and Mommy did their own thing on Wednesday while Dadoo had to work. On Thursday morning, we drove back to San Antonio to catch our flight home. Definitely a fast vacation, but so much fun!
Treyson was in a great mood tonight (I guess I would too if I slept all day on a rainy day). He just hung out in Dadoo's arms pretty much the entire evening. Anniston hopped up onto Dadoo's lap to love as well. She has an obsession with holding Treyson's hand....all the time. So this allowed her to snuggle Dadoo and hold Treyson's hand all at once. 
Mommy went into Anniston's closet while she was loving on Dadoo and found something that MaMa had given us. It was a very nice pea coat and hat that Mommy wore when she was a little girl. I was hoping Anniston would be just the right size this winter...and she is! She was so excited to wear something that Mommy wore too. I could hardly get her to stay still long enough to take a picture. She thought that she was very big in this:
After the fall festival, we cheered for the Hogs as they beat Auburn...finally, an SEC win!!! We were so excited! As soon as the game was over we headed out to Mrs. Amber's for the annual bonfire and Hayride. Anniston was so excited to see Mrs. Amber. This is our fabulous babysitter that kept Anniston from 5 months until 2 years, and will be keeping Treyson when Mommy goes back to work. 
We also got to introduce Great Grandma to Treyson. She was so happy to meet him, and we are all so happy now that we KNOW our last name will extend another generation!
Here she is with Treyson this morning right before we were loading him into the carseat. He wasn't up for smiling....he's deciding to show his more serious side today!Have a great day! We've got a big weekend planned involving gymnastics, fall festival at church, Hayride at Mrs. Amber's, watching Arkansas play football, and cousin Michael's 3rd birthday party...stay tuned!