Trip highlights

So after two years, we were finally able to make it home to Texas. Even though we could have done without the 100+ degree heat, it was a great time with family and friends. You can read about the first few days here. Here are some of the highlights from the rest of our trip:

-Pool party and dinner with precious friends.
-Celebrating my sister in law, Kelly's birthday with her.
-Enjoying a family reunion & amazing fish fry with Aunts, Uncles, & cousins (& meeting our newest family member, Dax)
-Throwing my beautiful sister a baby shower to celebrate their first little miracle. I'm going to be an aunt!!!!
-Going shopping with my mom & sis. (The men were there too, but their job was childcare - yay!)
-A couple of days of golf for D (before 7am so it wasn't quite 100 degrees yet)
-Going to the flight museum with Grammie & Granddad. Afterward, Joshua built a model airplane with Granddad of the B25 Mitchel, the plane Joshua's Great Granddad flew in WWII.
-Getting to go out for a quiet evening with my hubby while Grammie & Granddad babysat.

So those are the highlights. You can see the plethora of pictures here. There were a few snags along the way: Joshua throwing up in the back of Aunt Kelly's car (we love you, Kel!) The 100+ heat (did I mention that already?), both boys getting car sick in Grammie & Granddads RV, & Caleb getting a nasty burn on his arm that required a week of gauze dressings. But hey, what would a vacation be without a few stories to tell. I may be a Nuzum but I still have certain Peek genes that are specific to vacation disasters. Oh, it's true - just ask my parents. It's a miracle we're all still alive to laugh about it...and laugh about it we do.

We did come home to a wonderful harvest of tomatoes & cukes from our garden (thanks to our precious neighbors who kept it watered for us - thanks Al!) We've been eating salad every night & Joshua gets so excited to go out & pick them each night for dinner. We didn't have a perfect garden. We lost our carrots, broccoli, & lettuce, & got bugs on our pole beans. But for our first time, I would have been excited about one tomato! The best part was planting it with Joshua and watching his excitement grow right along with the garden!