san antonio shenanigans

Logan and I were blessed enough to have the opportunity to ring in the first week of 2012 in San Antonio, Texas with family and friends. We spent the first few days with my dad, stepmom (Heather), and my sisters Macy and Mia. I'm so excited that we had the opportunity to spend some quality time with them over the break. We don't get to see them near enough as we would like, since they live in Dallas. However, we cherish the time we do have together. We stayed in a gorgeous condo and spent the weekend swimming in the heated pool, enjoying the hot tubs, playing ping pong, watching movies, shopping, river-walking, and of course eating lots of mexican food (my favorite!). It was really just a relaxing time of enjoying family. Below are several pictures of our time with the Van Curen's.

On NYE we roasted marshmallows and made s'mores outside the condo!

Mia and Dad making their s'mores!

Logan and I with our s'mores

                               

         

Macy Claire

After we had our s'mores, we found a guy singing country songs outside the hotel bar/grill. We hung out there to listen for awhile (:

Mia, Heather, Macy, and Dad

Later that evening the girls had a spa night (:

On New Years Day, we went down to the River Walk. We enjoyed the sights and sounds of downtown San Antonio, shopped, and ate some authentic mexican food!

The group of Hispanic musicians playing at our restaurant. SO authentic (:

Family pic with everyone at the river walk (:

Our time with the Van Curen's flew by all too quickly. We miss them and can't wait to see them again!

On Monday, we made our way over to Ronnie and Kristyn McCulley's home in San Antonio. We were so excited that our trip in San Antonio worked out so that we could spend time with our good friends. When we arrived on Monday, we packed up picnic lunches and headed out for Corpus Christi. It was almost a two-hour drive, but it was well worth it. We had plenty of "catch-up" time on the way there. Plus, it was a gorgeous day on the beach! Below are several pictures that were taken between Kristyn and myself.

The pier that we had lunch next to!

The picnic!

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Friends!!

Favorite

Logan absolutely loved playing with Ronnie and Kristyn's dog all week while we were there. It was Mia's first time at the beach. Although I'm not a dog-lover by any means, I will admit that she was pretty cute to watch.

The boys had fun chasing Mia up and down the sand dunes.

Kristyn caught me in a moment of awe at my Creator.

Me and my husband walking the beach again for the first time since our honeymoon (:

Cute couple.

Feeding the gulls....sooooo awesome. They would swoop down and take food from their fingers or catch it if they threw it in the air!

The next day we went down to the River Walk to see the gorgeous lights at night!!

Inside one of the old hotels on the River Walk.

The boys.

The last morning we were in town, Ronnie and Kristyn took us to the Japanese Sunken Gardens and WOW they were breathtaking!!

Wow, that was a lot of pictures. I'm afraid they didn't even do our trip justice though. We didn't take pictures of our Mission Impossible dinner and movie, the fun time we had playing bingo and seeing the military hospital and Ft. Sam, or our game nights! Kristyn and I also had some fun trying out some new recipes from Pinterest....always a good idea (: Thank you again to Ronnie and Kristyn for being such great friends, driving us all over SA, letting us invade your home, and cooking us great food (Kristyn). We love you guys and will be missing you til we see you again!

Haylee & Logan