Waltz Across Texas

We're still in Texas, on day 9 of our trip in honor of Reuel's grandmother's 90th birthday!  Her party was fantastic.  Tons of family piled onto a riverboat that glided quietly up and down the river in Austin with perfect weather, a breeze, good food, beautiful spring green shores and impressive riverside mansions, a local flavor trio for entertainment and of course, yummy birthday cake!  But the best was fun with the fam.  The kids had a blast.  Owen was very fascinated with all the instruments in the band...accordion, euphonium (we think?), eukelele, guitars, etc.  He woke up talking about them the next day.  The most fun was watching the kids dance to the band...Owen's white-boy dancing involves a lot of jumping up and down, and an INSISTENCE on holding cousin Hannah's hand.  He was quite focused on it!  Here's a wonderful clip Uncle Galen managed to catch:

Owen and Hannah Waltz Across Texas

After the party, we stayed with the fam in Austin, then Waco, and now in Dallas.  Coming to Texas this time of year is dangerous...the weather is still pretty nice :)  Beautiful, actually.  And the trees and grass are nice and springy green, not summer brown yet.  I hear Massachusetts is getting nice weather-wise too.  We would love to stay here longer, but a 10 day trip is long with little ones too.  It will be good to be in our own beds again.  But we're enjoying every minute with the family while we have it!  More details later, hopefully!