Mo Ranch

**Emerson update**
They comfirmed yesterday that she has ALL (as oppossed to AML). Although serious, it has a much higher cure rate. This is great news! Pray hard for Emerson and her family!

This past weekend, we met my family down in the hill country. There is a Presbyterian retreat there called Mo Ranch. I spent many days there at church camp growing up. It was fun! We fished, swam in the river, canoed, drove around and looked at the beautiful scenery and shopped in Fredericksburg.

On Thursday, we met my parents in Llano to eat at Coopers barbeque. You pick your meat off the smoker and then take it inside and they slice it for you!

Then someone suggested going to Enchanted Rock and for some reason I agreed. I had forgotten about this rock, but I quickly rembered how much I hate it after I saw it!!!! You climb this HUGE rock (takes about an hour) and there is no shade trees...it's a rock! Of course the entire way up my parents had to remind me about the kicking screaming fit I threw when I was about 12...the last time we went up. Thank goodness I have boys!

This is before we started the hike.

Landon all sunscreened up and ready to go! Man, doesn't he have it easy?
Carter about a 1/6th of the way up.


We made it to the top!
On the way down....
Landon pooped after the exhausting hike!
Landon taking a bath in the sink. At first we didn't have a towel in the bottom, so it was slippery.
Which resulted in a fall and then he made this face...
A scenic stop on our drive...
This is Carter with Gran and Papa at the beer gardens in Fredericksburg.
Here we are on the VERY tall cat walk that crosses part of Mo Ranch. Very scary and very old!
The scene from the cat walk.
Carter trying to decide if he was going to brave the rope swing. Nope, he never did!

This is a slide that my Dad went down when he was a kid! I don't know if I quite trust it. Rich went down it...I didn't (I have in the past, but this part of the river was too cold for me).
This is what you ride on going down...then when you hit the river, you jump across it like a skipping rock!
Brotherly love!
Here is the rapid part of the river near Mo Ranch. You have to canoe to it, but once you get there the water is as warm as a bath tub. We did a lot of swimming here. Here is Carter going down the rapid.

Prayers Needed for Emerson

Our friends daughter, Emerson, was diagnosed with leukemia yesterday. I should find out more details tonight, but wanted everyone to please keep Emerson and her family in your prayers. Sunny and Nick also have another daughter Landon's age.
Emerson was having unexplained fevers for about 5 days, so they did blood work. They immediately admitted her and was to start treatment today.

Enough ALREADY!

Last night, we took out Landon's Christmas toys. I had put them in his closet until he was old enough to play with them. He is starting to sit up , on his own (for short periods). So last night, after doing so well sitting up, I run to get my camera. I was able to get this shot first.And then this happened shortly after...
We called it quits and swooped him up and off to bed!

BFF!

This week we went and visited Landon's BFF, Jaxon. We took the boys up to Green Elementary (my old school) to show them off. Then we had lunch with Jennifer. Here are some pictures of the boys.

Two Posts in One Day!

I was taking a picture of Landon on the floor today and realized that I had the exact same picture of Carter when he was little. I looked it up on our computer and Carter happened to be the same age as Landon, when his picture was taken.

6 month check-up

Landon had his 6 month check up today. He weighed 17 pounds, 10 ounces....50%. His height was 27 1/2 inches...75-90%. Not too bad!
Not too much else to report. He goes back to the ENT on Thursday, so I'll update then.

Then...

Now...

Dinner With Friends

We have had a busy weekend gathering with Friends. On Friday night, we celebrated Bern's birthday. We met up with the Helton's, the Kovar's and the Kolodziej's and had a great dinner! The girls used to all teach together at Green Elementary. We always have a blast together!

Happy Birthday Bern!
Landon's BFF Jaxon...
On Saturday night, we went to a get-together at Braxton and Ashley's house. Braxton is Jason's cousin (for those that don't know, Jason is Lindsey's new husband). It is always fun grilling out with friends and letting the children run around...even if we do spend the entire time telling them to put the sticks down and keep their hands to themselves!

Here is Carter and cutie pie Emerson...

Braxton is on the hammock letting the kids tickle him. Braxton can be one big kid himself!


Tonight we had the Tracer's over for dinner. We had Mexican Pizza (one of my brother's recipes). Good times!

Hope everyone has a good week!

"THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF SHIPS. THERE ARE WOODEN SHIPS ,PLASTIC SHIPS, AND METAL SHIPS. BUT THE BEST AND MOST IMPORTAINT TYPES OF SHIPS ARE FRIENDSHIPS."

- OLD IRISH QUOTE