longest, bestest weekend

just got back from our weekend in fredericksburg. we went out there to visit my grandparents and great-grandmother (thomas' great-grandparents and great-great-grandma)... it was an amazing visit.


saturday morning, nana and i went to the King Tut exhibit at the dallas museum of art. it was AMAZING!!!! dream. come. true. period... i highly recommend it to anyone to check out. especially if you, like myself, are obsessed with ancient egypt. i have four tattoos dedicated to it... the displays that are there are each at least 3-4,000 years old!!! and a lot of it looks like it was crafted yesterday. total life highlight


afterwards, she thomas and i hopped in the car for the five-ish hour drive to fredericksburg... i learned where billy the kid is from... hico, tx. i love learning when traveling!!!


spent sunday at church, riding the horses, chasing the peacock, dogs and cat. thomas enjoyed all the fresh air and the tractor. macie gave him a ride around the yard on that fancy piece of machinery...


monday, we visited with my mimi. she is 93 years and still going strong. thomas loved it. that would be a first, fourth and fifth generation together at once time moment in time there. i enjoyed being able to catch up with her. she really is the sweetest woman.


we went back to nana's and had dinner with cousin walton and uncle john. just great. i love them. walton is a great little boy. and i havent seen him since he was 2 months old. and here he is almost five now... my how the time flies... thomas and walton were able to entertain each other most of the evening, as well as get me into a rather intriging round of "ring around the posie"... i l-o-v-e-d loved it.



on the way home today, i decided to pull a u-ie and took thomas to dinosuar valley state park. it was a quick trip through, seeing as how its freezing outside and being able to see most of the track involves getting up close and personal with some water... but i did get him to see the gigantor dino displays (photo shown here). not completely impressed, but it was fun nevertheless....



needless to say, it was a totally radical weekend (thats right, i went there). my visit was a great one. i was able to spend time with my nana and macie in a one on one situation, vs at christmas when it was first come first serve on visiting wtih family and thomas got special time with very special people.



i think a lot of people today just dont realize how special it is to have grandparents, let alone great or even grea-great grandparents...