Trip to La Grange

Last Sunday, Mary, John, Meg and I drove out to La Grange, TX, a remote town about a 2 hour drive from Houston. Jim and Delrena, friends and neighbors of Pa and Nini, invited us to visit their son Barrett's weekend home. Our friend Cara and her daughter Mary O (we call her that to distinguish her from Mary F) also met us up there.

Barrett and his friend Nina were wonderful hosts. We went for a long walk to feed horses on an adjacent property. Delrena hid dozens of Easter eggs for the kids to find. And we all took turns driving Barrett's ATV over his expansive property. It was a wonderful way to spend a warm spring day. We were only a hundred miles outside of Houston, but it felt a lot farther than that -- in the best possible way.

The song in the video, BTW, is called "Free" and it's by the Zac Brown Band. We elected not to use the ZZ Top song "La Grange" for our video. But you can listen to that here.

Video of trip to Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Seems like we make one of these videos every year. Hope you like the latest edition starring me, Mary, John, Baba and Pa.

Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend started off right, with a trip to the West U. pool with Pa and Nini. We bought an underwater camera on the way and snapped some cool pictures.

Mary doing a handstand

Scaling the climbing wall

Leaping off the wall and into the water

Pa's entry into the pool from the slide

John swimming

John reaching for the camera

John's picture of Chris