Ike

Russell/Krista Mimi/Rich(Aaron and his acorns)
(Audrey and my grandmother's hat)
(Audrey playing outside)

(Planting acorns/deer)

On the 10th, we decided to "flee" from a possible hit from Hurricane Ike. Harvey was leaving the following morning to evacuate the planes to Las Cruces, NM. So, the kids and Ruger in my car and Connie and her dog in her truck pulling a trailer with a lot of our precious belongings drove to Georgetown, TX north of Austin. My cousin Mary and her husband Roy have a large home there with a lot of land, and they graciously offered to put us up. We had a lot of fun gathering acorns, playing outside, getting chiggers (mommy and mamaw), peeing off the back porch (Aaron only), watching the deer that were EVERYWHERE, shopping at the outlet malls in Round Rock and San Marcos, going to a Central Market grocery store (awesome), seeing the movie Space Chimps (not good), playing with Mary and Roy's 3 dogs and 3 cats (one of which we never saw) and spending time with our family. We got to see cousin Mimi and her new husband Rich as well as cousin Russell and his girlfriend Krista. We had a great time and since Ike didn't affect Corpus, our trip turned out to be a little vacation. Thank you, thank you Mary and Roy! A very stressful situation turned into a lot of fun!

When we got home, Aaron made sure that he and daddy planted a lot of the acorns that were gathered all around Georgetown (and in his pumpkin hat from last Halloween no less)!