Hamm Visit, Shelton Visit and More!

Where to begin? Since my last post a lot has been going on!
The last weekend in February, the Hamm family came to College Station for a visit, and so that Mary could shoot to qualify for nationals. Zac and I had SO much fun with Mary, Reed, Kaylie and Carter. Mary shot well, and this time Kaylie wasn't so scared of Zac. In fact, she loved him.

Kaylie was here on her 4th birthday! I can not believe she is already 4 years old. She is such a beautiful little girl, and says some pretty hilarious things. I made a list of a few of my favorite quotes of hers over the weekend she was here.

• Kaylie eating one of our Yoplait Whips yogurt: "I think your yogurt turned in to ice cream. Can I have a different one?"
• "It's my birthday?? I think I need more presents!!"
• Talking to me in the car: "You need a hair cut!" (I'm trying to grow it out for Amy's wedding in July.)

She really is SO funny.

March 8th I drove to Austin after work to meet Mary Alice, Jessica and Tiffani for the John Mayer Battle Studies concert. Yes, I have seen him several times in concert, and he does not disappoint. I think this was my 6th or 7th time to see him live. Love it. He is so talented.

And now Spring Break is upon us! Zac and I both had Thurs. and Fri. off. :) Whoop for working for TAMU! Wed. afternoon Tony, Barb, Tommy and Amanda drove down to visit us! That night we gave them a driving tour of campus, visited the Bonfire Memorial and had a fun dinner at Wings 'n More. Thurs. morning we got up, had an awesome kolache breakfast and drove to Brenham. We first visited Blue Bell Creamery! (All with hundreds of other families also on spring break.) We took the tour of the creamery, learned how they make their glorious ice cream and even got to try a scoop at the end of the tour. I had the most amazing flavor: Southern Blackberry Cobbler! If you can get your hands on it - buy some - it's in a lavender colored carton. Afterwards we drove in to Brenham to ride their antique carousel. I chose to ride a horse, and not sit on the benches. There was a sign telling adults to ride on the benches, but what fun is that? On the way back to College Station we stopped at Washington on the Brazos and walked the grounds before driving back for a Freebirds lunch. Everyone left full and happy. Then the Sheltons had to go back to Carrollton. We had so much fun with them here. :) 

This past weekend I went to a baby shower for a friend of mine from the museum. There was an exciting moment when one of the gifts caught on fire - the gift was not damaged and was extinguished by a glass of Sprite! At this momentous baby shower I ran in to my cousin! Natalie was in town visiting her God parents - and neither one of us knew that the other was in town. It was such a fun surprise. 

To see more pictures of these events, CLICK HERE! 

More blogs to come soon!

Me ke aloha, 

RAWE