Day Trip - Pedernales Falls

Ahhhhh.  Hands down, one of my favorite memories in all of life.  Eventually we made it around to the part of this river where one can intermittently swim and lounge on the banks under old cypress trees.  We weren't prepared to swim, but went in fully-clothed anyway.  It was great.  At one point I looked over to see Eleanor, dripping wet head to toe, crouched in a smaller pool in the rocks, carefully, quietly stalking fish to catch with her bare hands.  She got a hand full of minnows.  That's a picture I hope to carry my whole life.

Day Trip - San Antonio

This weekend we took in the Alamo and the River Walk, both in San Antonio, Texas. On the way home we stopped in New Braunfels for a biergarten dinner.

Easter in East Texas

We spent the weekend out at the lake house my Dad has on Toledo Bend -- that lake sits on the border of Texas and Louisiana, about midway up the state and it is about a 5 hour drive from Austin.  Eleanor was able to have an outdoor egg hunt for the first time I can remember, and we packed a surprising amount of summer-like stuff into an early April weekend.  John, Kristanne, Zach (he's the other kid), Amy (+ Honey, of course) all made it in.  Here's to the lake having water in it again!

Day Trip - Bluebonnets!

Last week I gave a quick read of one, two, three, and four different Texas Bluebonnet sighting websites.  So on Sunday, we hunted up FM 1323 and stumbled upon County Road 307, all while generally making our way towards a great German biergarten in Fredericksburg.  On the way back to Austin, we stopped in at Wildseed Farms, the nations largest farming operation of wildflowers.  I know I keep saying this but it was an awesome day trip, made even more awesomer by the company of good friends.

County Road 307

Alison and son

Wildseed Farm near Fredericksburg, TX

Red Bluebonnets?  Yes.  "Alamo Fire"