Houston Texas

With Ty's job he gets to travel and visits some students at Texas A&M. He goes out about 4 times a year and sometimes more. McCall, Ty's sister, lives with her family in Cypress about an hour away from the Houston airport. Ty will go early and visit his sister and her family before he goes to work with the students. I was lucky enough to go with him because I don't have a job yet. We left Thursday from the ABQ airport after being delayed three hours due to the high winds, so very fun.  McCall picked us up from the airport around one in the morning, bless her heart. We stayed with McCall's family through Sunday and had a lot of fun!

Our first day in Houston we went to Kemah Boardwalk. This was a fun little place with little rides for kids and different places to eat right next to the ocean.

 Loved these rules especially the second one:)

 Ty's neice Brynlee wanted to ride the train with Ty and I. The train ride wasn't too bad and we got to see a lot of Kemah.

For lunch we ate at the original Joe's Crab Shack. The food was really good and for dessert got this huge Key Lime Pie. With the four of us we couldn't finish it off.

Some pics of us walking around the boardwalk. The weather was pretty warm and there was a warm wind. Pretty much the whole time it was overcast, a true blessing!

The star on Texas is where Kemah is located.

The next day we participated on our very first crawfish boil. McCall's neighbors do this once a year where they get together and have a crawfish boil. So much fun and it was really good too! The nephews taught us how to peel the crawfish and how to eat them. Here is Colton showing off his plate.

 The neighbors sitting around getting ready to start.

 Ty pulling apart his crawfish

 Cayden showing us how to do it.

 When they boiled the crawfish they also put in corn on the cob, sausage, whole potatoes and onions, and some mushrooms. It really was so good!

On our way to church and to Texas A&M we passed this road a couple times. It is by far my favorite of all favorite road signs.

We also went to Brady's soccer game. He is in the blue and middle. Right after this pic he collided with another player and rolled his ankle:( It was still fun to go to his game and watch him play.

The trip to Houston was lots of fun, humid but fun:) It was also great to stay with Ty's sister and her family. I would definently go again if I have the chance!

Gone fishin'

We went fishing to Lake Cochiti and it was FULLY AWESOME! On the lovely drive to get there Ty mentioned how he wanted to catch a fish called a Pike and that maybe it might just happen. Now these fish can get very very big measuring up to 40 inches. We got to the lake and I launched Ty off on the boat. I parked the truck and then met Ty down at the lake.

 When Ty went last month he caught a fish over by the dam so we went back to the same spot in hope of some luck. Ty caught a couple of Big Mouth's and we were able to keep one. Both of our lures kept getting stuck in the rocks and we had both lost some of them. Ty was nice enough to lend me his fishing lure and I started to cast off. After about 15 minutes I thought I got it stuck on a rock or a tree limb. I started yanking and told Ty that I was stuck again. Ty came over to help and that's when my line moved out towards the lake, I CAUGHT A FISH! It took a lot of coaching from Ty to keep my calm and not to lose the fish. Then the fish surfaced. . . holy fire this fish was huge!!! Ty was shocked and then he recognized the fish, a PIKE! That's when I squealed and Ty had to keep my calm. Once the fish was up next to the boat Ty caught him in the fishing net, a nice squeezed fit.

 Ty had me stand on the back of the boat because he didn't want me to get in the way of the nasty teeth. He also gave me direct orders to not get scared when the fish flopped and to not fall in the lake. . . what a nice and caring husband right?:)

 Here are some pics of the nasty teeth on these things. This is way I get nervous swimming in lakes and rivers.

 Here ya go folks. This pike weighed in at 5 pounds and 27 inches. Ty did an awesome job of the filets and the we had a BBQ. This fish was yummy and we hope to catch many many more of them!

The big 30!

Ty's birthday is April 15th and boy was it an exciting day. . . not really. We just got back from the honeymoon and had to get a lot of stuff done before he headed back to work. So the next day while he was at work I was able to run some errands and get things for his day after birthday.

 Ty loves cake donuts so that was his birthday cake. He blew out three candles for his big 30th birthday! Happy happy birthday Ty, I sure do love ya!!!

 This is a fun picture. Ty was shaving off his beard and then came into the room to show me this. . . the 1/2 beard.

Isn't he just handsome?:)