Lions and Tigers and Bears OH My!

Whew! What a summer! We bounced from Virginia to Colorado to Texas to Oklahoma! We spent the 4th of July in Virginia with my in-laws. The girls had a ball visiting Mount Vernon, The National Zoo and Williamsburg. Of course there's always fun to be had when your with the grandparents!

After spending some time in Virginia we headed West to Colorado. We only spent a few days but crammed as much fun as you can into those few days! We took all the kids including my younger siblings down to Canyon City to the Royal Gorge Bridge, stopped by The Garden of the Gods, watched my sister compete in a swim meet, and got a little R&R by Grandma's pool! Michael and I also celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary and went back to the restaurant where we had our first date! All in all it was a short but fun visit!

Michael had to leave and come back home for work... So the girls and I jetted down to Dallas to spend a couple of days with Aunt Courtney and her girls! The six girls always have SO much fun together and don't get to play together often enough so it was great to have that special time together. We took the girls to a sandbox/splash pad, swam in the pool, shopped and built some new friends at Build a Bear, Visited Legoland, and enjoyed some good 'ole fashioned visiting!

The last stop of our trip was to Oklahoma to visit my dad and grandparents. The girls were so excited to go fishing in the boat... Let me tell ya I have some little fishermans... Or is that fisherwomans? We spent many afternoons with my grandparents what a blessing it is that my girls have not only grandparents but GREAT grandparents! We fried up some fish we caught one night and had a  good 'ole fish fry... Soul food! We went out to Papa G's deer feeder and filled it with corn... Who knew that could be exciting! Oklahoma is in a serious drought and EVERYTHING is dry, dead and crunches under your feet. The extreme heat of 105+ degrees each day isn't helping either. Ponds are drying up and farmers are having to carry water to their cows and horses. Crops are failing and it is putting a hurting on many families that depend on those crops to feed their livestock through the winter. They are in desperate need of rain and lots of it. The grasshoppers were prolific and the girls had fun catching them to use as fish bait! Walters was holding its annual rodeo and pow wow. The girls LOVED both! I think we better keep a close eye on Isabel or she'll be riding bulls! The child has NO fear of them! We headed out to Sultan park and watched the beautiful dances and the costumes of the Comanche. All in all our summer was full of family and fun!