Lake Conroe Fun - Spring Break '08

Bryan's parents got us a week-long stay at their time share condo in Lake Conroe, TX. It's about 4 hours south of us near Houston. (Or if your name is Bryan - 3 hours...) So we packed our bags, added an extra child (Cara brought a friend from church named Sarah) and took off on a well-needed relaxing week.

We stopped on the way down to check out the Sam Houston Memorial Statue. It is VERY large and located near Huntsville just off the side of I-45. To let you get a feel for how tall he is I included a photo of Sam with some teenage vandals who climbed up on him...

View from the condo balcony. Over to the right were picnic tables and grills.

The first day or two was fairly rainy and windy. My sister, Alison, called to see if we were okay becuase she saw tornado warnings for our area on the news. Happy to report that everything was fine. :) So we spent a lot of time on things like this:

By Wednesday we were doing things like this:

I did not get in the pool because, as I explained to the kids, I am not crazy. It was in the high 70's, low 80's but the water in the pool was super cold. The girls thought ducks at the pool was pretty awesome.

Thursday we planned to meet our friend, Eric, at the Houston Temple. He was going to an early session and then would take the girls back to the condo so Bryan & I could do a session.

Literally 4 minutes from the temple Jordyn puked.

Not sure who's idea it was to let her have Coco Puffs and chocolate ice cream for breakfast but she now had a blanket of disgusting choclate vomit all over her and her car seat. Whoa. We stopped at CVS to clean her off and clorox the van out. The smell was over-powering... I also found an adult size long-sleeved shirt there, cut off the arms, slipped them onto her legs and put the shirt on her. I think she thought she was stylin'... Needless to say, we were not able to stay for a session but did walk around the temple grounds for awhile. Cara and Sarah kept oohhing and aahhing about how gorgeous the Temple is. I have to agree!

All in all, we had a fabulous time! It was nice to get away and spend time together. I finished two books, a 1,000 piece puzzle and a cross-stitch pattern I started when I was pregnant with Cara while we were there... So that's what I used to do before the Internet... hhmmm...

One more picture of Cara & Sarah the day we came home - good times, good times...