Wednesday, November 15

The Hardy's Come to Texas: June 2004


The Shamu raft was quite popular with Jacob & Rachel!












Kerri helps Rachel perfect her breast stroke!


Jacob, Lana, Rachel take a moment for a picture.







Jacob became quite the expert swimmer, no floaties or anything!


We all went to dinner at Pappadeaux to celebrate Mom's birthday,
Father's Day & Blake and Kerri's anniversary!




We headed down to San Antonio to do some sight seeing.


We took a river cruise through the canals of the Riverwalk.






Mark, Lana, Jacob & Rachel walking down the ramp to the Riverwalk.

Blake, Kerri, Jacob & Rachel infront of the Alamo.

Jacob & Rachel in front of a tree that has been at the Alamo since the very beginning.








On the way home from San Antonio we had to stop and check out some long horns. Only problem was that these long horns weren't very old so their horns weren't very long. They were more like "short horns". LOL






Unfortunately we had a lot of rain the week they were in town so we had to spend most of our time inside making our own fun. We told Jacob not to shake the rain stick but...he did it anyway! LOL


The cats were a good source of entertainment...only problem was that I had to hold them down so Rachel could pet them.


Mark enjoys a pudding snack with Jacob & Rachel.

Of course on the day they are leaving it clears up and gets sunny. We put the kids to work cleaning up the pool and back yard...not really but they were both determined to clean so we didn't stop them. Jacob got every last worm out of the pool and Rachel was "swepin the ment" (sweeping the cement)! I guess the 4 days of rain hadn't sufficiently cleaned it! Hahahaha




Jacob & Rachel
being goofy!







Goodbyes always stink but it was time for them to leave. One last picture in front of the house and they were headed back to Iowa!