Monday, August 16, 2010

Trip pictures

We had a good time going to Austin and San Antonio with Matt on his work trip again. We are hoping to make this a tradition as I'm sure he'll have many more trips. On our way home we saw this car in the parking lot and had to get a picture of it. The bumper sticker says "I brake just for the hell of it!" I guess that's what he gets. Too funny!
In San Antonio we stayed at the Westin Resort. It was really nice and we got a room with a balcony and view of the city and hill country. Six Flags was really close and they had fireworks every night. So we had so much fun watching them from our balcony.


The pools were the best part. They had 6 pools and a water slide and waterfall. The kids loved to swim from pool to pool.

Katelynn was sick for one of the days, so we mostly hung out in the room. It was cute to cuddle in their beds as a family and just relax.

More pool pics...
Every night they let you roast marshmellows and have smores. It was fun to do right by the pool and then we went on a nature trail around the resort.


And more pool pics.... You can tell where we spent most of our time..

Even Mckinley loved relaxing at the pool...


I had to include water slid pictures as this was the highlight for the kids. I think they went down at least 50 times!

Here was the view from up on the hill. Matt and I were almost giddy to see tree's, hills, and views again. Not much of this in Dallas.

The top of the resort with a view.


In Austin we went to dinner with friends and then went to see the bats come out from this bridge. We missed sundown, but could still see them everywhere just flying around the bridge and emerging from underneath. I guess there are close to a million under there. So crazy!
Another shot from the bridge...


Daddy's girl also had a lot of fun in Austin!

Right before our trip we went to a water park, NRH2O. It was a blast and I was so glad the kids were able to do a lot of the slides and pools. Even Matt and I got to do some of the big slides.




Here is a quick video of Brennon doing the steep slide. He is our dare devil and I love that he will try anything.




4 comments:

Danielle said...

Looks like fun! We've never been to NrH2o, we will have to go! As for the bats, we totally went canoeing under that bridge and got to see them all come out, it was pretty cool! Way to go on the slide Brennon!!

Melissa said...

So jealous of all your water fun. You would think that Vegas would have more but no.

Anonymous said...

Hello Alva's!
Its Britny Rudd (now Burnett) from the Schaumburg ward, I found your blog saved in my favorites on my Highschool laptop.
It is great to see you guys, on the internet lol.
I wish I found this a long time ago, I really wanted to send you a wedding invite, 2 Decembers ago.
I dont actually blog on here as of yet so Im sorry you wont get much info from mine, I hope you remember who I am! Your daughter Katelyn (i think) is SO BIG now!

Brian & Kerrian said...

What a fun trip to Austin, Cherise!!!
We love those resorts with slides and roasting marshmellows by the pool, such fun memories:) Hope we get to see you SOON!!!! xoxoxoxo

Our family is always up for a great adventure and we are all kids at heart, so we wanted to share our adventures and moments with you! Enjoy!