What better time than July the 8th to talk about what happened in May? None better I say.
Merit and I started the month off with a trip to Texas. I believe this was her 8th or 9th flight (thanks to her amazingly generous PaPa.) She has flown more in her first 15 months than I flew in the first 20 years of my life. Here she is showing outwardly how I sometimes feel inwardly on these flights.
One of the main reasons for this trip was so that I could get together with some friends from high school. I hadn't seen a couple of these girls in about 9 years, so it was so good to get together and catch up. This pic was taken on the bench in front of Chili's...where many a pic was taken back in our days at good ole Wylie High.
The rest of the time was spent with family. It is getting more and more fun to see Merit with her cousins. She was constantly entertained...swimming, box surfing with PaPa, even her first try at gymnastics! We were able to go to my cousin April's daughter's party at the Gymnastics Sport Center. I took Gymnastics there as a kid and nothing had changed about the place...the same smell hit you at the door, the same Mary Lou Retton posters on the walls, I believe even the foam pit was filled with the very same pieces of foam that were there 20 years ago. All of this, of course, made me very happy. (If you look closely in the top left picture you can see that Merit and my cousin Mindi's son Hudson are lost in the foam pit...)
Kevan came at the end of the week and was able to spend Mother's Day with us. He's the greatest and I love him. Just thought you should know.
Yet again, another fine trip to Texas. And for the two of you still wishing that you could hear more about May, don't worry, another post or two is soon to follow. Although I use the term "soon" loosely. :)
Merit and I started the month off with a trip to Texas. I believe this was her 8th or 9th flight (thanks to her amazingly generous PaPa.) She has flown more in her first 15 months than I flew in the first 20 years of my life. Here she is showing outwardly how I sometimes feel inwardly on these flights.
One of the main reasons for this trip was so that I could get together with some friends from high school. I hadn't seen a couple of these girls in about 9 years, so it was so good to get together and catch up. This pic was taken on the bench in front of Chili's...where many a pic was taken back in our days at good ole Wylie High.
The rest of the time was spent with family. It is getting more and more fun to see Merit with her cousins. She was constantly entertained...swimming, box surfing with PaPa, even her first try at gymnastics! We were able to go to my cousin April's daughter's party at the Gymnastics Sport Center. I took Gymnastics there as a kid and nothing had changed about the place...the same smell hit you at the door, the same Mary Lou Retton posters on the walls, I believe even the foam pit was filled with the very same pieces of foam that were there 20 years ago. All of this, of course, made me very happy. (If you look closely in the top left picture you can see that Merit and my cousin Mindi's son Hudson are lost in the foam pit...)
Kevan came at the end of the week and was able to spend Mother's Day with us. He's the greatest and I love him. Just thought you should know.
Yet again, another fine trip to Texas. And for the two of you still wishing that you could hear more about May, don't worry, another post or two is soon to follow. Although I use the term "soon" loosely. :)
