Grandma Weezie and Luke
G W and Allie

Climber

Awesome treehouse

Laughing boy

We are back in Texas! We arrived without incident on Monday after breaking our rule of not driving on the weekend. We spent Saturday and Sunday evenings enjoying the Wal-Mart campgrounds in Mississippi and Alabama. We got lucky and didn't have any truck running or rv generator running next to us either night. Sunday we made a detour to the Vicksburg National Battleground for a short visit to the visitors' center. We learned the importance of the battles fought there. We opted to postpone the 22 mile driving tour of the battle sites until a return visit. We didn't feel we could do it justice in the rain. We arrived back "home" at Shallow Creek RV Park around the corner from Jeremy and Jennifer on Monday. We spent Monday evening and all day today visiting and playing. The kids in the pix above are Texas cousins to Madeleine, Simon, and Judah in Ohio. Allie (4 1/2) is 6 months younger than Maddy and Luke (1) is a year younger than Simon. Duane and I really enjoyed playing with these two as much as with the Ohio cousins. Their personalities are very different, so we had to power down from the high-energy Ohio kids. We were sad we only had two days to get reaquainted, but tomorrow we move on to Celina Tx (north of Dallas) to play with the twins. Ava and Emma have changed a lot in the last three months and we are ready to see how much they've grown.

Enough for now!

Louise and Duane