Memorial Weekend

Well, I haven't been the greatest updater lately because we have been kind of busy. Memorial weekend was a whirlwind of a trip to Austin! We've never been there and Kyle had something important to do there (further posts will explain) so we thought we should make a weekend of it. And we were so lucky to have our best friends come and play with us there! The Meegans came down from Dallas to visit and it was so great to see them. All the kids got along so Clarissa and I had time to chat it up (which happens to be our favorite thing to do when we get together!). We also got to see our great friends from our Idaho days, the Ottleys. They were great and it was so fun catching up (sadly, I left my camera at the hotel the whole time we saw the Otts.)
Even though we were only there for a weekend, we tried to squeeze in as many things to do as possible, one of those things being the bat bridge. There is this vehicle bridge that goes over a lake in downtown Austin (I know, you're thinking "There is a lake in the city?!" It was an amazing city!)where thousands of bats live and they supposedly come out every night during dusk to go catch bugs and what-not and give the people a spectacular show. Now I say 'supposedly' because we were all sitting under that bridge for close to 2 hours and didn't see one bat. It was the first night we were in Austin and all the kids were worn out so we decided to bag it and head for our hotel before the bats came out. So the next night, after all of our friends left to go back home, we thought we would give it a second try. The kids had taken naps, we were rested, and we thought for sure they would be out the next night. Well, we waited and waited... and waited and nothing happened. It got really dark out and suddenly Kyle goes "There they are!" I turned to look and saw nothing. I seriously thought he was pulling a prank on me until I caught a tiny flutter of wings with my eye. If you blinked you would miss it. And to be honest, it wouldn't have been that bad to have missed it. All that trouble for a little wing flutter. Oh well, it made for a good story. Anyway, it was a fun trip and I'm so glad we've got great friends who will travel far and wide to see us! Thanks guys! More trip posts to follow! Brighton had the best time with Gracie and Alli. She already misses them!

Isn't Miles the squishiest, cutest little baby ever?!

And this is what eventually happened to little mister thank goodness!

Brighton and Kyle heading out for round 2.

If you look closely to where the arrow is pointing, you can see the flutter like I did. Awesome right?!