God’s Love and Snow Cones

Last night, our family joined a group from church to witness during Austin’s First Thursday arts, crafts, music and food fair. That was a huge blessing! It’s not often that we are able to serve in ministry as a family. It was also awesome to see the boys in action. They were with a couple [...]

Longhorn Caverns

Well, since the Goat Cave/Karst trip was a bust and J was begging to go and see a cave we decided to make the treck out to the Marble Falls area to see the Longhorn Cavern and do the tour. We packed a lunch and lots of water but not before checking the weather to [...]

Wild Basin Preserve

Well, we were really supposed to try and find the Goat Cave Preserve. We tried and were attacked by the cave’s hordes of evil mosquito guardians. We ran back to the truck to put on a coat of bug spray. The bugs hovered behind us then, but mom lost the mental will to stay and [...]

Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory

I know I have a backlog of posts to do, but today was fun so I have to start off with that. Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory: whodathunk it? When I asked some moms if they’ve heard of bird observatory/water treatment plant in Austin they’d never heard of it. I’m not sure I remember where I [...]

Spiderssss

Ewwww. Taken while on a walk at Circle C park (pics later). The boys are calling for me to hurry; they see a way to cross the creek and I better hurry. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice movement and see the inside of this tree hollow just moving.

Fredricksburg

So two weekends ago we headed out to Fredricksburg to see if we could find some peaches to bring home. It would have been a waste of a few good hours to stay at home and sit in front of the computer, know what I mean? Texas Hill Country is just awash with wildflowers right [...]

Town Lake Walk

Really, I had no idea how much I missed walking around Town Lake/Lady Bird Lake. We went yesterday afternoon and walked for several hours. Austin was wearing its Sunday best, the temps and humidity was perfect, the blooming flowers perfumed the air and it was just gorgeous. Just gorgeous! And I had the camera the [...]

Mayfield Park

We didn’t get to do much this past week since the boys have been congested and we’ve had to deal with the tiredness that comes with that. But after church today, we headed out to Mayfield Park to take photos of the peacocks (and peahens…no one ever remembers the peahens…). Besides peacocks, flowers: But, really, [...]

First trip to Jumpy Gym/Mary Moore Searight Park

We’d never really been to a place like this except maybe once when J was a baby and NM was invited to a friend’s birthday party. A warehouse full of different jump houses? Right up my boys’ alley! Can’t tell, can you? We were with some of our friends from church so the boys had [...]

Our Hike at Mary Moore Searight Park

This past Sunday, we finally had an opportunity to take Abba to see Mary Moore Searight Park which we last visited in January. The weather was beautiful so we just had to take advantage of it. J remembered to bring his field guide with him, so we enjoyed learning about the creatures we spotted. Hubby [...]

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