Instead of Austria....

As usual, hardly anything has gone as planned lately, but that's okay. We found out a few days before heading to Vienna, Austria that Paxton's Grandmother passed away. What a wonderful way for her to go.... 93, not sick, went peacefully in her sleep. She was a really sweet lady, and the funeral was very upbeat and made you think about your life. We will miss her, and know that she is in a much more happy, and more comfortable place (no more bad hips or knees!). While we were there, news starting coming in about the volcano. Well, we waited on pins and needles to find out if we were going.... found out the night before, no we were not going. So SAD, let me tell you. But my wonderful mother-in-law offered to keep the kids for a few days, so off we went! We had 1 nice relaxing day at home, and then headed to some friends' house, Heath and Laurie, in Kerrville. We had a BLAST!!! And I love it out there.... I could move out there in a minute. So pretty with all the green trees and rolling hills. You can see us in the beautiful Indian Paintbrush field we found, and Paxton was so embarrassed that I made him stand next to the road in a field of flowers and take a picture! We went to Heath's Dad's weekend house, and went to some neat downtown restaurant and bars, and then hung out in Fredericksburg on Friday. On Saturday we decided to go to Uncle Ed's ranch to meet the kids, so we spent a night there, and drove home last night. But while we were there, we enjoyed getting fresh air, and the longhorn cattle were so pretty.... I love cows, don't know why. They were so friendly, I even got to pet one! Chann and Jax were scared to death!!!