Texas Ratcliffs

We went to Lumberton Texas to visit Erik and Sarah Ratcliff. They are such good friends we met at BYU. Dave and Erik were in some of the same classes. We talk often but haven't seen them for over 4 years. For our anniversary we decided to go on a road trip to see some friends. We had such a blast! Dave and Erik spent all day Saturday fishing which is the perfect day for them and Sarah and I did some shopping and took the kids to a kid fest. I wish we lived closer, we always have so much fun with them! We will have to make seeing them an annual event. Thanks so much for letting us crash at our house and play for the weekend!

This sums it up!
Erik and Sarah! We love them!!

Friday morning we went to a bounce house in Beaumont. The boys love the Bounce house. We have one here in Jackson but they liked this one better because it had the girls!!

Dave and Erik decided they were just the right size for them so
they hopped in and had a party. The big boys may have had more fun than the little kids.

Friday evening we ordered some Pizza Hut and headed to Silsbee Park and went fishing. We had some much fun. The boys had a blast and it was fishing so Dave couldn't think of a better way to spend Friday night. I love to fish especially when I can stand on a bridge and fish without touching the grass and weeds.

There was ducks at Silsbee park. We wanted to feed them tortillas but
they weren't interested in them, we found later there was a HUGE bag of corn
spread over the other side of the pond.

Sam's first fish. He is an awesome fisherman!

Logan's first fish! He was so excited until it wiggled, then he was
over it and wanted to play.

I tried to hold it still for a picture, without actually touching it.
Logan feels it is way to close to him. If that fence hadn't been
behind us he would have jumped in the water to get away.

This is the biggest one of the day. Dave loves spending time with Erik.
I'm so glad we got to visit.

Madelyn touched every fish we pulled out while my boys won't touch any of
them so Erik held this one and made both boys touch it. The next second Sam touched
it's fin and it poked him. No more fish for Sam.

We were catching whoppers!

On Saturday Sarah's brother told her about a kids fair going on so we decided
to check it out. It was AWESOME!! They had so many booths and the kids walked away
2 bags of candy/stuffed animals/crafts each. We had so much fun driving the firetruck
and checking everything out.

The kids got their faces painted (Sam-Tiger, Madelyn-Kitty, Logan-Batman)
I had them stand behind this fence and pretend to be in a zoo. This was the
best picture I got.

Lindsey, just SO CUTE!

Sam and Madelyn (his 'sister') They absolutely loved each other. Sam still
a month later doesn't call her by her name just 'my sister'. I love it.