Typical Tina!

Monday, September 23, 2013

UT Game!

This past weekend my hubby scored some free tickets and a parking pass to the UT game (courtesy of his brother). Thank goodness a storm came through Friday and dropped the temperature or else I'm not sure I would have gone. On Saturday it only hit a high of 85 degrees, perfect! It was a busy day as we took Ry to Safari Champs that morning, then went out to Dripping Springs to watch Evan in the drumline competitions (they took 6th place!) and then rushed back to campus to fit in an hour of tailgating before heading into the game. We had some awesome seats in the shade and the weather was perfect. UT played a great game against K-State, we stayed into the 3rd quarter before we decided to head home (that was a lot of standing for me at 34 weeks pregnant). All in all an awesome Saturday and great time at the game!

UT game 9/21/2013

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Tailgating is back!

Tailgating is back and boy has it been HOT! So far we've attended two tailgates, the first one was 106 degrees, the second one was 96 degrees. Definitely not very comfortable for me as I'm preggers and all. :P There is one more tailgate this month that I'll be able to attend. However I'm currently watching the weather and seriously debating not going if it's in the 90's again. Other than that we've had a good time as usual. Ry had a blast and even played (or tried to play) football with a couple older boys. ;) Surprisingly there are no home games in Oct, there are 3 home games in Nov (one on Thanksgiving day) but I'm definitely out on those as baby girl will be less than a month old!

Tailgating 8/31/2013

Tailgating in trees! 8/31/2013

Monday, August 19, 2013

End of Summer Fun

Summer is coming to an end (though you wouldn't think that with this heat!) as there's only one weekend left before school starts. I've already blogged about the first half of our summer adventures, so the pictures below consist of the recent fun activities we've done before the new school year starts. Now it's time to prepare for football and tailgating!
1st half of the summer: Austin Steam Train, Deutschen Pfest festival, Express Baseball Game, South Padre Island (see past posts).
2nd half of the summer: Quarry Splash Pad, RABB park, Rock'N River Family Aquatic Center, jumpstreet, Lake Austin boating time and of course random construction vehicles (Mighty Machines!)!

Lake Austin 6/29/2013

Quarry Splash Pad 7/7/2013

sand pit at Quarry Splash Pad

Play for All Ability Park 7/20/2013

dig dig dig

swinging with sissy

Rock'N River Water Park 8/1/2013

Ry is quite the water baby

Ry loves mighty machines! 8/4/2013

Adult time on Lake Austin! 8/10/2013

8/10/2013 - Party Cove

jumpstreet fun 8/18/2013

boing, boing

foam pit with sissy

Run Ry Run!

inflatable obstacle course

When you play hard, you crash hard. :) 8/18/2013

Friday, June 21, 2013

Beach Trip to SPI!

This summer we took a trip to South Padre Island with friends and family. We stayed at the Marisol Condominiums on the beach, each family rented their own condo. Our room was really nice and the place even had a pool. My brother and SIL flew in Tuesday to join us. We left early Wednesday morning as it was a 6.5 hour drive and we wanted as much beach time as possible. We arrived around 1:30pm and couldn't wait to hit the beach, my parents/brother/SIL arrived around 4pm-ish. Vacation had official started once my toes were in the sand! Most of the time was spent on the beach or at the pool, with only one activity a day. Thursday we explored Gladys Porter Zoo for a good 2 hours, followed up with lunch at Senor Donkey and the beach in the afternoon. I loved this zoo, there were tons of babies, cool exhibits and I thought it was nicely laid out with plenty of landscaping and trees. We had a long day at the beach Friday morning and afternoon. Then Friday evening the majority of us ate dinner at Padre Island Brewing and then boarded a boat for a Fireworks Cruise tour, which also included dolphin sightings and the opportunity to hold sea stars, sea slugs and a butterfly ray! Ry and Emma had a blast holding sea creatures. This was the one time I remembered to bring my camera, all the other pictures were taken with my camera phone. We did see several dolphins but my camera wasn't fast enough to catch them, all I captured were a couple fins. The fireworks display was actually really good. Ry was a little freaked out at first with the loud noises and he ran to daddy for protection. However he watched the whole thing and by the end he started oohing and awing. Saturday morning we visited the Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Ry was fascinated by the turtles so I bought him his own plush turtle from the gift shop. Afterwards we had lunch at the Pirates Landing and then began our trek back home. The next day was Father's Day and the entire family went to Walburg for an early dinner. We had a great vacation, nice and relaxing and we spent it with extended family and friends! Can't wait to do it again. :)

Ry managed quite well on this trip. The car ride down was great, he watched Cars, Shrek and Ice Age the entire ride. The first 2 days he only took a 30 min nap and by Friday the lack of sleep caught up to him, I think he took a 3 hr nap that day. ;) The ride home he was a little more restless. I was hoping he'd nap longer in the car but I don't think he was very comfortable. As long as Shrek or Cars was in the DVD player he was fine. Evan signed up for some summer ACC classes and was unable to join us on the trip.