Fourth of July Weekend

I was soooo happy that I got off work Friday, Saturday AND Sunday for the weekend of the 4th! What a nice treat! We were able to go home to San Angelo for a family reunion on my dad's side out at our family's place on the river in Christoval. But before we headed out to the river, we had dinner with my mom, Gene and Grandparents for an early birthday celebration for my mom. Brittany and Grier also stopped by to say hello for a bit. Grier was not very interested in me or Jon, but then Julie got there and she had bubbles in her car (of course, my sis, the child life specialist would be equipped with bubbles!). Grier was a big fan and whoever was blowing the bubbles then became her friend. We had a great dinner at Mom's and she made the yummiest Apple Dumplings....oh my gosh! They were to die for...check out the recipe! The rest of the weekend was spent at my family's place in Christoval, which is one of my favorite spots in the whole world. We were looking forward to floating in the swimming hole all day Saturday, but were quite suprised to find two water mocassins in the middle of the swimming hole! In all the years going out there I have never seen a snake in the water. This of course creeped all of us out, so we went a little higher up the river and found a new spot to hang out. My cousin Ross was not afraid at all to jump in a float and try to swim out and shoot the snake with his pellet gun. It was great to catch up with family from multiple generations and we enjoyed some good food, lots of beer, fireworks and lots of laughs. Looking forward to the next Christoval Family Reunion for sure!


This was Grier's face Pre-Bubbles....she was still checking us out.


Yay Julie....we love bubbles!


Even Jon became her friend

With Mimi, Papa, Julie and Mom

View from our tent (we didn't put the rain cover on, and the roof was see through) A pretty site to wake up to!

Everybody's tents

Cutie Pie Ainsley who is now 11 months old!

Uncle Curtis and Dad cooking up some breakfast

Dad's Father's Day Present

Cousin Ashley and Jewels

Getting ready to swim (We were all smiles because we were not aware of the snakes in the swimming hole at this point)

There was one live snake messing with a floating dead snake....Gross! (click on the picture to make it bigger)

Crazy cousin Ross trying to kill the snake

In the back of Matt's truck watching Fireworks

My cousin Harley bought great fireworks that kept us entertained for quite awhile. Thanks Harley!

The cabin that has been out there forever!! We love Christoval!