Jake & Bubba after watching "Up" in3-DI had 20 days off of work for vacation.... SO nice! And SOO hard to go back;) We were gone almost that whole time. First we spent a week in Austin with Mom and Dad. While we were there, we all went down to San Antonio for a few days. We went to the Childrens Museum, the Alamo and the Riverwalk one day and then to Sea World for two days. It was a lot of fun....... Jake rode almost all of the rides (except two of the fast roller coasters) and loved them! His favorite was the Atlantis, which is a big boat that goes up really high and drops down a HUGE hill and splashes in the water. He really enjoyed the water park there too. His favorites things there were the body slides and the wave pool. He also liked being able to 'stay the night' with Nonni and PawPaw in their hotel room. He had us all laughing pretty hard one day at the hotel when he came to our room with mom and dad, knocked on the door and said in a high pitched voice, "Room service... Hot coffee and massage." Dad said, "What kind of hotels have yall been staying in?" But we got Andrew a massage gift certificate for Fathers Day, so I'm pretty sure that is where that came from. :)
On the Riverwalk
The boys at the Alamo
Nonni showing us how she answers the phones at work:)
Jake milking a 'cow' at the Childrens Museum
On the Riverwalk
The boys at the Alamo
Nonni showing us how she answers the phones at work:)
Jake milking a 'cow' at the Childrens Museum
We had one day at home to unpack, do laundry and repack before driving to Alabama for a week. We got to spend some time with cute little babies....... at the hospital with our friends Josh and Jennie after they had their fourth daughter. We also stayed the night with Alan and Sandahlyn and their adorable new son, Ridge who was four weeks old. He was such a sweet baby and so cute!! I think he just might have helped to kick Andrew's 'baby fever' into motion:) We had a really great visit with all our family and friends. Jake spent a lot of time at Uncle David and Aunt Carol's house in the pool and has become a really great swimmer. He even started doing front and back flips off the diving board (good thing I wasn't there to witness that:) When it was time to come home, Pop and Bobbi told Jake he could stay at there house by himself for another week or so and they would bring him home. He "thought about it for a while" and decided he would. So he had his own little vacation for a week (and so did Mommy and Daddy:)
We were excited to arrive at the historical Arlington Hotel on the main strip in Hot Springs. It has one of the few running bath houses left there in the city and part of our package for staying in the hotel was to have a mineral bath and massage. The whole bath house experience was quite unique and one that must be told in proper Misty form- in person, for the full-effect:) But it was overall relaxing and we can now mark it off of our to-do list. (Next is sky-diving, by the way.) We went on a dinner cruise one night and saw some really pretty views. We spent the rest of the trip eating at great little restaurants, going to tons of shops, laying by the pool and hanging out. Carissa and I always have so much fun together. And I am so glad to have met her friend Shannon. She is such a sweet person, who loves God and is fun to be around. Here is a pic of our hotel........
This is the ceiling in one of the bath houses........
And I can't forget Katie Belle, the pink poodle! We saw her at Snazzie's (one of the shops we went into a couple of times). She has been dyed pink (with some kind of cake frosting) since she was a puppy. She was so cute........
And don't feel bad for the boys......... Drew and Jake spent that weekend with our friends Dustin and Jill at their lake house. I don't have any pictures, but Andrew said they had a blast. Jake loved jumping off the diving board into the lake and swimming around with their dog Macy Lou ("the Lou dog"). We are looking forward to going out there for a weekend with them sometime soon! 
