Texas Our Texas.

Well, as most of you have guessed, we've been in Texas for quite some time now... not eternally stalled in New Orleans as our blog would suggest. This is the final post to wrap up our trip.

We left Ruston around lunchtime, said goodbye to our friends, and made for the Texas border. We knew we were getting close when we saw the biggest tires ever (everything's bigger in Texas, remember?:)). Not on a truck, as some might think, but being carried by a semi. Seriously, two people could have lived in one of these tires and been perfectly cozy. Shortly after the tire spotting, we reached the Texas border. We had to get out for a picture (above) and some maps. It was a very big and nice visitor center. We expected the ladies at the counter to be the darned nicest people in Texas, but they weren't. They were nice enough I suppose, and gave us maps, and welcomed us to Texas. Maybe we were expecting a party?:)

Oh well, it was back to the road and on to Burleson to stay with my cousin Anna, her husband Steve, and boys Owen and Ben. We pulled in a little before dinner and got to meet my newest little cousin Ben. This kid has HUGE brown hair. He's only six months old, and they've had to cut his hair twice. He's got the biggest eyes and these little chubby cheeks - I dubbed him the Precious Moments doll. We spent the evening talking and playing with Owen, who loves his truck! He's very cute. I'm excited about being here to get to see my cousins and aunts and uncles more. Unfortunately when you live out of state and the extended family is spread out, you rarely get to see them. That's one thing that's nice about Tim's family, they all live close to each other, for the most part. After our enchilada dinner, we turned in for a night on the comfiest pull-out sofa I've ever slept on.

We began the next day with a nice breakfast and some play time outside with Owen. Around 11, we hit the road for Grandma's. We arrived at 11:30, just in time for lunch at "the home". Now when you think of a retirement home, I know cute doesn't come to mind, but my grandma's place is cute, seriously! It is a gated community with little red brick houses. Grandma lives there and has everything one person could need, and then some. She eats all of her meals up at "the building", which is a restaurant and community center type place. This is the place where I played bingo and went swimming as a kid. The food was tasty. We had a lot to choose from and it all was great. We visited a bit more with Grandma and then it was off to... Stephenville!