Corpus Christi 2016

After our fun filled Monday in Corpus Christi Eli was worn out. He has slept with his hands like this since he was born.

The kids and I swam most mornings after breakfast while Bradley was at the conference.

Eli usually napped while we were at the pool!

Big Sis and Little Brother!

Little Brother, Big Brother and Melon (the cow).

Cason has since named her Melon, yes it is a girl.

I love this sweet picture of all 3 of my babies!

Cason riding Melon!

Emory enjoying her nachos!

Baby Eli!

The USS Lexington from the bridge.

The big bridge all lit up at night.

We visited Chuck-E-Cheese one day. We got there just after they opened and there was hardly anyone there. It was nice and quiet!!!

Cason and his new cowboy hat!!

We had a fun little vacation in Corpus Christi!!!

The Spot

Monday morning the kids were getting ready while watching tv on the couch. Emory got up to do something and Cason took "her spot" while she was gone.  When she got back they started arguing over the spot and I told them to stop fighting because no one spot on the couch had anyone's name on it. I went back to my bathroom to finish getting ready for work. A few minutes later Bradley discovered this.

She is such a mess!

The Beach

The first trip to the beach we drove over to Mustang Island and went to the beach near Port Aransas. It was super windy.

Eli was not a fan of the wind.

Going  over the bridge headed back to Corpus.

One  evening we went to a small beach in Corpus to look for sea shells.

It was still incredibly windy.

Sweet little Eli. He was such a trooper on this trip!

Attempted another group picture! This one turned out pretty good, to bad they weren't in their color coordinated clothes!

Crazy Windy Hair Picture!!

King Ranch

We started our vacation off Monday morning by heading to Kingsville to tour the King Ranch. Before the tour we did a little shopping at the King Ranch Saddle Shop.

The tour of the ranch is a bus tour and last about 2 hours. It was long but the kids seemed to enjoy learning about the ranch and seeing all the wild life. We saw horses, cows, wild turkeys, coyotes, and deer.  

This was the Kings carriage house and it was huge. Back before the ranch was called the King Ranch it was called the Santa Gertrudis Ranch.

Another view of the carriage barn.

A few hundred cacti!

Eli slept for the first part of the tour.

Then he woke up and enjoyed the ride!

They are a little blurry but there are two wild turkeys.

The main house.

We only rode by the side of it and it is huge, so I was unable to get it all in one picture. The family still comes and stays at the house.

Part of the old  horse barn when they used to be big in horse racing. We saw the old jockey quarters too!

We enjoyed the tour of the ranch and were all glad it was an air conditioned bus because it was hot!