Our Weekend Adventure

For the 3rd week in a row, I had a busy, travel-out-of-town weekend. But this time my whole family went with me, which was good. We went to Houston, to visit Mike's family. Mike's Mom lives in a personal care home now, and the first thing we did Saturday was to visit her. She had been falling whenever she tried to walk, so they're having to belt her in to her chair, which makes us sad. But they are so sweet to her there, painting her nails and talking to her about us, helping her finish her meals. It is a huge blessing and ministry to us. She seemed to know who we were this time, not by name maybe, but her eyes looked like she recognized us, and she hugged us back.


That afternoon our niece Andrea joined us and we went to downtown Houston to the Children's Museum.


It was huge, with lots of things to do in many different areas. One area got them exercising, several were kind of science-y (see Rebecca dancing to make the lights dance on the wall?)

but their favorite activities were all in "Kidtropolis," a pretend city. It had a bank, stock exchange, town hall, art academy, grocery store, etc.

(random lady)


Jessica's favorite thing was the TV station, where they got to film themselves doing the news and then watch themselves!
(random little boy)
Mikayla loved being a vet,

and Rebecca had fun in the diner.

They even had things outside, like baby chicks (Rebecca took this picture)
and a water area--we all loved that, too.

We had a lot of fun, but it wore us out. But it didn't wear us out so much we couldn't eat Double Dave's pepperoni rolls and play 10,000! We went home the next day, and...had a flat tire just outside of Minden, Louisiana. Mike pulled over and I was helping him with the spare when I felt the fire ants start biting--we had put the car mats and spare tire right on their nest. I only got bit 3 times, but I hate those things. We tried to get the tire fixed at the Minden Walmart, but they said it was unfixable, so we drove another hour on the spare and made it home. Bought a new tire yesterday, and now we've lost the hub cap! Aargh. I'm thankful it's just things.