South Padre Island

We returned safely home tonight from our weeks vacation in South Padre Island, TX. It was a very fun vacation! We fit a lot into a weeks time. Greg &Susan and their 4 kids and our family all went in a 15 passenger van. We had 4 dvd screens and lots of movies to keep the kiddos busy. They all did awesome!! Ethan was a very good little traveler for us! On Monday we went to the beach, on Tuesday we went to Schlitterbaum sp? water park. It was a big loop of moving water and you could just exit into entrances of many different water slides with you innertube. Ethan fell asleep for his morning nap while waiting in one line and slept down the whole slide until at the end when daddy and him hit the water he woke up looked around and then went back to sleep. On Wednesday we went to Don and Roberta's and i will make another post about that with more pics after this or this will get too long. On Thursday we got up bright and early and Johnny and Greg went parasailing first while the girls stayed with the kids and then susan and i went parasailing. It was really neat, i have been wanting to do that for awhile. We both got a little freaked out when it got a little windy while we were up there and Susan was so kind as to mention that she thought we would probably die if we fell and hit the water:) Johnny and Greg and Caleb and Brendon spent some time surfing and the girls spent some time at the pool. On Friday we went on a dolphin watch boat ride and saw lots of dolphins and then we spent the rest of the day at the beach. Don and Roberta came down and spent the day with us on Friday. We ended the week with watching fireworks off the bay (which was Ethan's first fireworks show and he slept through the whole thing). Ethan brought in his top two front teeth the day we left on vacation and the day we got to the hotel he took off crawling! So as you can imagine he is a very busy boy now! It was an awesome vacation and it was fun being able to spend a week with Greg & Susan and their kids (the cousins had lot's of fun!) Now i get to spend another week unpacking!!