Weekend Family Fun

We had a long weekend of family fun spending time with our 5 teenagers.  Friday night we started it off by going to an outdoor theatre in Wimberly (small town near here) to see The Avengers.  The movie was actually very good.  We had taken Kayleigh there last summer when she was here on the hosting trip, it was Michael's first trip there.  Late night followed by an early morning for Dylan and I as we went out to Hamilton Pool (up by Dripping Springs) for black belt photos with the new PKC black belts.  That was a lot of fun, Dylan has grown up so much this past year and is turning into such an incredible young man.  Then back down to San Marcos for Alyssa's 1st dance recital, she did awesome!  She is loving dance (had done it for a year now) and is doing awesome at it.  Pit stop at the house and then on down to Corpus Christi to visit family.

We had a great weekend down at the beach.  Got to see my aunt & uncle, Jim & Glenda and their family (cousins and more cousins!).  They were all excited to meet Kayleigh and Michael and have been incredibly supportive through the adoption process.  Lots of fun eating, swimming, fishing (a LOT of fishing, the kids had a blast with it....), sleeping (hey, teenagers....).   Drove back last night and our family of 7 hit the rack.

It was so much fun watching the kids enjoy being together and having fun.  Often I have to pause and be amazed that only a few weeks ago, these two kids were in an orphanage with no future.  Now they're in the pool with huge smiles on their face, a family, and happiness.  Awesome.