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Date

24 JUL 09 | 10:44PM

Summary

A family trip to Texas Old Town for Pioneer Day

In celebration of Pioneer Day we joined others from the stake at Texas Old Town to enjoy music, food, dancing and handcarts. While I wouldn’t call it an exact recreation (I don’t think the pioneers had moon bounces back in their day) there were plenty of people who took the event serious enough to show up in full pioneer garb. As you can see, our commitment wasn’t that extreme.

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Unfortunately, we had to leave before the fireworks began, but between the music and watermelon, we really enjoyed ourselves.

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Date

11 JUL 09 | 5:22PM

Summary

A hot Saturday turns into a fun-filled day at Six Flags in San Antonio.

After six long weeks of Jill’s first summer session of school we decided we needed to take a break and go and do something fun. With Marcia down to her last few days with us, and based on her recent confession that she had never really been on a rollercoaster before, we decided that Six Flags in San Antonio might be the best solution for all our summer woes.

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While incredibly hot outside, we still had a blast and I think that Asher genuinely enjoyed all of the rides we took him on, although Jill later informed me that I might have taken him on a ride or two that he wasn’t tall enough to ride. Interestingly enough, these were the rides he seemed to enjoy the most, especially the kiddie rollercoaster, which after completing our ride, Asher would shout ’Again! Again!’ and go get back in line.

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Date

04 JUL 09 | 10:30PM

Summary

BBQ and fireworks on the Fourth of July.

Coming off of an extremely hot 3rd of July (our air conditioning went out Friday morning, but thankfully we were able to get it fixed by that afternoon), we were excited to head up to Brig’s house for some burgers and fireworks.

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While there was a county-wide burn ban in effect, we were still able to set off those little ’pull and pop’ things, which was probably better considering all the little kids around. Afterward, we headed back to Kyle to check out the local fireworks display. Asher was surprisingly pretty cool about it all. He enjoyed all the brightly colored fireworks and didn’t mind the loud explosions at all.

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Date

04 JUL 09 | 11:02AM

Summary

Taking Jill out to the range to shoot shotguns for the first time.

What better way to celebrate Independence Day than to go and shoot shotguns? Apparently, we weren’t the only ones to come up with this idea. As Matthew, Jill and I rolled into the gun range we were met with a parking lot full of trucks with people piling out to enjoy a day of shooting and BBQ.

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Jill had never shot a shotgun before and did reasonably well after nicking several clays. One new feature on the range is that they installed an automatic clay thrower, so gone are the days of hand-throwing clays and accidentally hitting people in the head with stray pigeons.

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Date

03 JUL 09 | 9:23PM

Summary

Hitting 18 holes of miniature golf has never been so much fun.

After getting in a few rounds on a real golf course, we decided to head over to have some fun with some mini-golf. It’s been years since Jill and I have gone and played, and it turns out that Marcia has never played before, so we went over to Peter Pan Mini Golf in Austin to play out 18 holes.

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While the course itself was fun, we had to stay active in keeping Asher in check. He seemed to take quite a bit of pleasure in wandering onto other holes and stealing people’s balls before they got a chance to hit them. We were a bit embarrassed, but lucky for Asher, everyone was pretty cool about it and thought that it was more cute than annoying.

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