Random Thoughts

I added a new post on the movie Wall*E. Well the post contains a few of my thoughts and a review by Roger Ebert. I had started the post a few days ago so it posted in chronological order. You can find it in the archives under Wall*E.

We played Jenga last night as a family. Garrett and Meagan actually did very well. Meagan is really getting the concept of finding a piece that is willing to move. (If you have never played Jenga before - as you touch each piece some of them "give" and some of them don't. You only want to move the ones that "give" because you have a better chance of not knocking down the whole tower.) I really like that Garrett is getting old enough now that we can play games together as a family.


Jimmy and I are going to see Ron White tonight. I can't wait. Jimmy and I love to watch his comedy routine on T.V. We are going to go to dinner and then go to the show. Yea! A night out without kids!

We have plans for the whole family tomorrow but shh. . . don't tell the kids. We are going to drive to Aransas Pass. They have a really cool pool with slides. It looks like a whole lot of fun. I'll post pictures as soon as I can.

Yesterday I spent an hour printing out directions for vacation. With what I spent on paper and ink I probably could have bought one of those GPS things for the car. I am very excited about the hotel that Jimmy and I chose. It is very close to all of the things that we are going to do in Houston.

I also added some new music to the blog. I found some David Cook songs that I love. I was so excited that he won American Idol. I heard him on the radio for the first time yesterday. I can't wait for his CD to come out.

I told you this post was going to be full of random thoughts!

Vacation Plans

We have a vacation coming up soon. We will be going to Houston, Texas.



While in Houston we plan to:



attend an Astros game

go to the Galleria to ice skate


to the Downtown Aquarium


go to the Children's Museum


We are also staying near Herman Park which has lots of neat things to do. Our hotel has a pool, which the kids are thrilled about.


They are taking swimming lessons this week and next week (Thanks Grandpa!) and LOVE them. They can't wait to go on vacation and show off all of their new skills.

I will post pictures when we return!

Fun at Fun Trackers

We went to Fun Trackers and well . . . had fun! The whole family enjoyed all of the activities offered. I know it is a place that we will go back to. See the next several posts about the things we did because I am still new to this blog thing and can only get one picture to post on each blog. You can also click on my flickr badge on the left of the screen to see more of the pictures that I took that day. (I'm also new to flickr. It's really neat!) If you live in the Corpus Christi area I highly recommend Fun Trackers!

Soaked after the bumper boats

Soaked after the bumper boats
Originally uploaded by edbteach

The sign posted above the ride says DO NOT RIDE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET WET and whoo boy were they right! We were soaked!!

Ready to Race

Ready to Race
Originally uploaded by edbteach

Garrett was bummed that Dad and Meagan beat us on the Family Track. "Mom, we should have gotten a fast go kart like Meagan and Dad!"

He didn't realize that it was Mom that was slow, not the go kart!

Ready to Race

Ready to Race
Originally uploaded by edbteach

She really enjoyed driving the go karts.

Fun Trackers

The family by the waterfall, originally uploaded by edbteach.

A couple of weeks ago Jimmy and I took the kids to Fun Trackers. Fun Trackers is in Flour Bluff and is a family amusement center. We rode on bumper boats (and got toally soaked), played miniature golf, rode on various go karts and played in the arcade.