Thursday, June 2, 2011

San Antonio with Gigi and Peeps!

On Tuesday, May 17 (I am SO behind!) we left Pops and Kiki's house and headed to Gigi and Peeps to meet them and head to San Antonio! This trip has been planned since Christmas and is their birthday presents to all of us this year - what a great present! Kendall was so excited to go with Gracie and Evy (and Val and Dohe!). She loves her cousins and has so much fun every time she gets to be with them!
When we got to Gigi and Peeps' house, they had the cutest little backpacks filled with stuff for the trip for each of the four girls. Kendall and Gracie put their's on and they were ready to go, watching us get the cars loaded and ready! I love this picture of them sitting waiting oh so patiently. :)
We had a great drive down to San Antonio....Randy and I had the little girls and Gigi, Peeps, Val, and Dohe had Kendall and Gracie. The hotel we stayed at was the Hyatt Wild Oak Ranch - so nice and such a great layout for our family! There were three rooms, each with their own bathroom, and a living room and a kitchen for us to cook dinners in. It worked out great! The facilities were super nice, too. There was an indoor/outdoor pool that was heated (which was wonderful, because it was a little colder than we expected!), and a lazy river with a beach! Wednesday we just stayed at the hotel and played in the pools and lazy river all day. Here are the girls posing for a picture....what makes them think to do that when you say "pose!" Monkey see, monkey do!


Playing with Val and Gigi in the lazy river. This part was NOT heated and I was not about to get in that cold water! :) I had a great time sitting in the sun on the beach with Peeps.

Here the girls are one night waiting for dinner, doing some painting. Kendall loved Gracie's color wonder paint things...we need to get some of those!

One of the things in their matching bags from Gigi and Peeps were matching dresses! We dressed them up in them for our trip to SEA WORLD! on Thursday. We had to get a picture of all four girls before we left - so cute!

What a diva!



Sea World was so much fun! We took family pictures as we were walking in:

The Davises

The Danes

and Gigi and Peeps with all four granddaughters! Strollers = best idea we ever had. It was a lot of walking!

Kendall loved all the shows we saw, but I think this first one was probably her most favorite. It had sea lions, walruses, and her favorite - the baby otter. Except she says it so cute - kind of like "oder." I don't know how to write it, but it's cute. :)



Taking a break in the Sesame Street play area with Peeps! Goofy girl.

There was a really cool climbing thing with slides in the Sesame Street area. Kendall decided she wanted to climb, and since she is usually scared of that kind of thing, I jumped on it and went with her just because I was so happy she wanted to do it - even though I was in a dress. Oh well!


Sesame Street Sing-Along! Again, we were not sure if she would like this or not, but she did fine! She is usually pretty terrified of anyone in a costume.
She loved it, though! Cookie monster did come up at one point and want to give her a high five, but I was able to wave him off and she was so brave! So proud of her. :)
The Shamu show! It was so beautiful - those animals are awesome! Kendall was very intrigued and we had a great conversation about whales and how they are the largest mammals. She loved the baby whales!



At the end of the day, we walked over to the dolphin feeding tank. Kendall had fallen asleep in her stroller, but Randy decided this was too cool to let her miss. He woke her up, bought some fish, and she actually fed the dolphins! We were super proud of her for doing this - and now she says that that was her most favorite part of the whole day!
Look how close they were! So cool!


Friday we did a little more swimming and then headed back to Lake Jackson. We had such a great trip and loved getting to go to San Antonio with our cousins and grandparents! Thank you so much Gigi and Peeps! We loved it!

1 comment:

Gigi and Peeps said...

We are so glad you enjoyed it because we did too! We love when we can all be together.We couldn't be more proud of all our girls.