Keepin' it Real.

Life has been crazy busy, crazy stressful and super emotional lately.  We decided that it would be good to have a "forced family fun" weekend.  F3 stopped awhile back and it wasn't intentional.  It seems that we just became happy with the status quo and somehow wallowing in our sadness and self pity.  What a shame.

Saturday we futzed around town, running a few errands.  We stopped at PetSmart and Wal-Mart. I am not a huge fan of Wal-Mart but I was in search of tea lights and the package I needed was there.  Normally I would go out of my way to go somewhere else.  It's not that the prices are bad, it's just mass mayhem every time that we go and I get overwhelmed.  It's not good.

That evening, we rented Frankenweenie from Redbox and had a fried chicken dinner.  It wasn't healthy, but it was tasty!  We all enjoyed Frankenweenie.  It wasn't as good as Hotel Transylvania, but, it was good.  We prepped for bed and I don't think that anyone stayed awake much longer than that.

We received word that my brother and sister-in-law became the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl! She was born at 2357 and weighed 7 lbs 11.5 oz and was 18 inches long.  She is a welcome addition to the family.  Her two older brothers are going to take care of her for sure.  With her birth, Lo is no longer the youngest grandchild and this also means that my mother is Grandma to nine girls and three boys! How fun!

Sunday brought daylight-saving-time.  This is the first time since 2008 that I've had to spring forward and I did NOT like it.  It seems to have zapped all of the energy out of me.  We had a moderately lazy morning and decided to have a little bit of adventure downtown.  We had tickets for the riverboat tour that we purchased not long after we arrived in San Antonio and just had not had the time to use them.  The weather was perfect for it on Sunday.  We loaded the girls into the car and drove downtown.

We had a wonderful day walking along the riverwalk and taking in all of the history and architecture.  We had a wonderful tour and ended the adventure with ice cream for ICE CREAM DAY which is another tradition that fell by the wayside when we got here.

It was a great day and a great reminder that no matter what life throws at you, you gotta keep it real.  If you let life overwhelm you, you'll never get anything but sadness and heartache. And that is NEVER worth it.

We needed a day like this for our family to reconnect.

I'll leave it with some pictures.