Weekend to Remember 2

Today we went to eat lunch at Hu Hots which is a Mongolian Grill. I had never had mongolian food before. It was really, really good! Then we went letterboxing. We found 7 boxes. There were 2 more in the series we were working on, but we had to stop b/c we had hit 99. We need to be with the kids to find #100. :)

So we're back in the hotel now. I'm about to take another Calgon bath. Scott is going to get my popcorn ready, then we're going to watch Hancock the movie here in the room.

I have enjoyed today so much. It's been perfect!

Weekend to Remember

Scott and I are in the middle of enjoying a WONDERFUL time away with just the two of us. We arrived in San Antonio Thursday evening. On Friday we left the kids with his parents for the weekend to stay at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa for the Family Life Marriage Conference. This is our 4th time to go to this conference.

When we arrived at the Resort we were in awe of it's beauty and the special treatment we got. A bell hop took our bags and put it on a roller. He watched our bags as we checked in then brought our luggage to our room. That was a first for us. Then we headed to the conference. There are over 1000 married couples here at the conference.

We left the conference a little bit early to head back to our room. I had been given an assignment. I forgot to mention a few days ago I received a text message from a secret "agent" saying that there was a very important mission to be accomplished this weekend and wanted to know if I would help out. I accepted. Well, during the conference I received another text from this agent telling me to go to the room, get my camera, then go take pictures of some of the things I saw in the hotel then return. Once I returned I found a note outside the room door that said the following:

"Enjoy a hot bubble bath. I'll get your popcorn ready while you soak. All of our sessions have been canceled for tomorrow. After your bath we can watch LOST. We'll sleep in and have breakfast in bed sent by room service. Then letterbox when you are ready."

I walked in and Scott had prepared a hot calgon bath for me. It was sooooooooo wonderful!!!!!

So far I have followed the directions to a tee and enjoyed every minute of this mission. :)

We slept in until 8:15. We had breakfast in bed sent up by room service. Then we did our "homework" from the conference so we're not totally skipping out. LOL (By the way, tomorrow we do plan to attend the conference again. :) Now we're about to go eat lunch and do some letterboxing. Then we're going to come back to the room and watch a movie.

I'm having a great time with my wonderful husband. :)

This first picture is in the lobby where they are in the middle of building a REAL candy land type thing. I watched as the men were putting real icing on the gingerbread house! It's amazing!!

This tree is down the hallway from our room.

The hotel had robes for us!! This is me after my nice, hot bubble bath.

Here I am enjoying my popcorn getting ready to watch LOST.

Day 3 of Houston trip

The day started out with us taking Scott to the conference. Then we attempted to do some letterboxing before the rain began. We went to Memorial park where there were like 45 boxes!! I had wanted to try to find 9 boxes so we could reach 100, however I figured out real fast that was NOT going to happen. So then my goal was just to find 1 so I could hide the hitchhiker we had found. The mosquitos were HORRIBLE!!! They were eating us up alive!! We tried to find one box but it wasn't there. So we tried the next one and it was there. After I stamped in we began back to the car. It began to rain at that point. So we found the box just in time.

Then we picked up Scott for lunch. He was able to be here long enough to see Connie and meet her kids!

I took Scott and Katherine back to the conference. (She wanted to go with him instead of hanging out with us.) We met back up with Connie and her kids and went to the Museum of Natural Science. It was pretty neat. We tried to find a box that was hidden by the museum, but we couldn't find it. As we were driving away we realized we had been looking in the wrong place! ARGH!

Then came the big headache of driving back. Traffic is unreal here!

I went to the Church and picked up Katherine and Scott. He drove us back to the hotel so he could have the van. I took the kids swimming for about an hour and am now relaxing watching Dancing with the Stars.

Tomorrow we head home. I can't wait to get back.

Day 2 of Houston trip

This morning we woke up and went to the convention. I was able to enjoy the singing part and got to hear about 10 minutes of some famous Christian baseball player before I had to leave with Christopher and Kyrie. I was able to look at all the different booths there and got some info for our women's ministry.

At lunch my friend Connie who I haven't seen in about 15 years met me at the convention. We went with the kids to eat at Whataburger. Then we came back to the hotel to let the kids swim in the indoor pool.

After that I went and picked Scott up from the conference since he had a 3 hour break. He swam with the kids, then we all went to dinner. Now I'm sitting here in the hotel room while the littles are destroying the room and being wild. LOL I'll be glad when Scott gets back.

Day one of Houston trip!!

We left for Houston today to go to the Southern Baptist Convention of Texas. We headed out around 2:30.

We stopped in Lufkin for lunch.

We made it to Houston at about 7:30. We are staying at a really nice hotel! Because of the convention we got a really good deal! Here are some pics of our suite.

If you go down the hallway from our room just a little bit you'll see this view.

Pumpkin Patch and Letterboxing

I took the kids to Pittsburg today to go to a pumpkin patch there with our homeschool group. The kids had fun.

First we had to begin by taking some pictures of my little pumpkins. :)

Then they went through a hay maze.....

had a potato sack race...

climbed a big hay mountain, then went on a hay ride.

We ended our time here by decorating some pumpkins.

Then we got in the car and went to McDonalds to eat. After that we headed out to go do some letterboxing!! There were 4 boxes there in Pittsburg. The first two we found at a cemetary. The other one at a museum. Then the last box was at the World Headquarters for Pilgrims Pride. We got the biggest surprise at that box. There was a hitchhiker in there!!! Our very first hitchhiker find!! I was soooooooooooooo excited!!!! This hitchhiker started in New Hampshire, then went to Montana, Colorado, then Texas. I'm going to plant it this weekend when we go to Houston. I only have a couple of pictures of our letterboxing adventures today. I forgot to take pictures at the first 3 stops.

This first picture was a cool car we saw. I just had to get a picture of it. LOL Then the other picture is in front of the Pilgrims Pride Distribution Center.

We went letterboxing today!!

Letterboxing season is back in full swing! Since it was our homecoming at Church today the evening services were cancelled. So we went to Kilgore to get some of the boxes that were planted since the last time we went there.

I tell you what, I love the adrenalin rush I get when I find a box. It's so much fun!! We found 3 boxes in different parts of the town. Attempted 1 other, but it wasn't there.

Then we headed over to Synergy park where there is a little lake and another box. :) After we found that box we had a picnic dinner.

It was such a nice day. The changing colors on the leaves were absolutly beautiful! I LOVE being outdoors with my family in the fall.