Various and sundry

This weekend we took a road trip to celebrate our 3 year anniversary! I told Michael that I would plan our trip...and didn't tell him where going:) I love surprises so it was fun to get to surprise him!

We took of Friday from work, so we left Friday morning with me driving and Michael still not knowing where we were headed....until we turned on 290 going to Brenham! We have been wanting to tour the Blue Bell Creamery (I went probably 20 years ago and Michael had never been). Tickets are first come first serve and they only start selling them 30 minutes before the tour. (I overheard the lady on the phone telling someone that they are not taking group tour reservations for the summer because last summer they averaged 2,000 visitors a day, people were waiting 2-1/2 hours for tickets and they have no room for buses! WOW!) We are big Blue Bell lovers so we enjoyed hearing about and seeing how it was made. They give you a serving of ice cream after the tour and it was Michael's lucky day because since ice cream is dairy I am not eating it still for Ryan's (and our :) sake...so Michael got 2 servings of ice cream.


(On a side note, like a lot of women I know, I am a big Beth Moore fan...and I read the blog that she and her daughter's write. Her daughter Amanda and her family were on our Blue Bell tour! I saw her husband and her son Jackson first and thought they looked familiar...then I saw Amanda and Annabeth! We were on the elevator together because we both had baby strollers but I didn't say anything to her about knowing her....never know in those situations if you say "hi, just wanted you to know I read your blog and I thing yall are so amazing!" or just not. So I chose not.)

Anyway, enjoyed that and then headed on to Bryan to stay at this really neat bed and breakfast!

We stayed on the 2nd floor and it was so clean and cozy! The lady who owns/runs it was so sweet. From our first conversation, I thought she was a Christian...isn't it cool when you get that feeling about someone before they even say anything about the Lord?! We visited her for about 45 minutes when we got there and as she was telling us the story about Abigaile's Treehouse she talked about how the Lord opened all the doors for her to buy it...so neat to hear. We enjoyed sitting outside on our porch and relaxing.



I know it must be SO beautiful there in the spring/summer! Everything was just starting to bud.

We had lunch at Freebirds (Ryan's first time :)



Then we went to the George Bush Presidential Library. It was so interesting! I have always liked President Bush but I like him even more after hearing more of his story.


Ryan did so well all weekend! He is a good traveler and such a sweet boy! Yes, I know I write that a lot.

Ryan has been drooling a TON the past few weeks and I realized Saturday night that he is getting his first tooth!!! Michael was laughing at me because of how excited I got :)It is the bottom left (his left) tooth. It's just the very tip but it is there! I am amazed at how FAST things change with him. Wow. It is too small to get a picture of yet but I took this sweet one of him on the way home. He likes to chew on our finger through the paci.

We we got home I got out the bouncer and it says 4 months and up. Ryan will be 4 months on Wednesday so I figured we might try it out.


He kinda liked it some of the time...it might be an acquired taste for him. But I think he will really like it later! Also, 4 months and up is the exersaucer. It's fun that he is growing into some of his toys! Lots of fun ahead :)