Down in the West TX Town of Uvalde

Whelp...I did it! I drove 5.5 hours, with the quads, all by myself to visit great grandparents and family in south Texas (Uvalde and Brackettville). The kiddos did surprisingly well during the car ride (thank you, Jesus!). There are a billion pictures, so I am splitting this post up into 2 days! Meanwhile, its back to laundry, cleaning, and packing for our next big adventure...

LOOOOOOVE my grandparents' beautiful backyard! So neat to see my little ones playing in the same yard where I spent countless days as a child.

Sweet Savannah and her tiny baby doll (Okay, so funny story...Joe, I'm about to "throw you under the bus": I had to run errands before our trip on Thursday night so I left right when Joe came home from work. When I got the kids out on Friday morning, I noticed Sav had a black eye and Ben had bite marks all up and down his arms. I called Joe and asked him what in the heck happened the night before? Why did Sav have a black eye? To which he replied, "what black eye?"...........oh heavens. So, to answer several questions a couple of posts ago---I have no idea how she got it! lol. It started to look more like an insect bite after a few days)



Sweet Benny giving Grandpapa a kees kees



Ben and Drew with their "emergency vehicles"



Enjoying a little Saturday afternoon in the gorgeous weather!



LOOOOOVE this pic of Papa and Sav giggling



Ok, so don't ask me why---but the kids love putting anything on top of their head and saying, "bucket head"...meet, Buckethead Sav



and Buckethead Ethan



Boo Bear...handsome lil devil



E-bud enjoying a little "me" time with his beloved cars



Twinkie-dinks (Andrew, Ethan)



...couldn't stage this stuff if I tried!



Papa and his Grandquads



Mama giving Sav a piggy-back ride (someone is ALWAYS on my back)



"Oooooh...elephaaant ears"



Stephen Calvin, Jr...Benjamin Stephen...& Stephen Calvin, Sr (notice a trend? Ben was named after his maternal grandfathers)



"Air-pane...zooooom!" (Sav acting as a koala and Drew soaring through the air)



Grandpapa & Andrew



Aunt Sandra, Uncle Mike, and cousin Andrew stopped by to love on the kiddies! SOOOO good to see you guys!



Big Andrew and Ben

Here's some footage of "the clock"...Andrew was OBSESSED with Grandpapa's clock and the sounds it made. FYI: the kid doesn't have a "mute" button. Drew talks nonstop, all the time. (Its funny for...maybe the first 5 minutes) He gets stuck on certain words like "vacuuuum" and "lawnmower" and then repeats them in sentences over and over and over...(many of you know exactly what I'm talking about)...kid is so quirky-hilarious. This particular evening, Andrew kept talking about the clock ("there's a clock in there")...the numbers on the clock, etc. So funny to watch kids attempt to learn new things and figure stuff out.


Part 2 coming up tomorrow!