Anthony's First Visit to Great-Granny and Great-Grandad's House

I put it off for as long as possible. I told myself that putting my car-hating child on the road for over 3 hours was insane. I didn't have any free weekends coming up, and going alone would be even more insane. I told myself there was waaaay too much work to do to be making trips to Dallas.

Then I realized that all of that stuff didn't matter. The little man needed to meet ALL of his great-grandparents, even the ones who aren't close to Austin. Tuesday morning the baby and I loaded up the car (with some help from Big Anthony!), and we set out for Dallas (well, Richardson). After I picked up my coffee (thank you drive-thru Starbucks!) he fell asleep, and he didn't wake up until around Waxahachie. He was pretty upset, and I even missed my exit for 75, but we made it! Granny and Grandad were so excited to see him!








Granny will probably kill me for those; her patio is usually a lot neater, but I had to post every every every cute pic!








Granny decided to take some bread down to the pond and throw it in for the fish to come up and nibble. We had a good time watching all the teeny little perch swarm like piranhas around the frozen crumbs of bread. Some turtles joined in on the fun too, big bullies. Then some WHOPPER catfish started coming out of nowhere and stealing the bread. Compared to the tiny perch it was like a whale coming out of the water :) Many know my personal hatred of catfish. Granny suggested we get some poles and catch one! We walked back to the house, got some poles, got laughed at by Grandad for thinking we could catch one, and off we went. This is what happened.


(Those purplish looking things would be the fish.)

















Accidentally got a turtle :/
















Got him!!


















Throwing him back. Maybe next time Isaac comes he can catch it with Granny again :)


Granny holding up the fish that I caught. That's right, I'm gonna have him mounted! Just kidding, it was all catch and release. I'd like to add that I caught this goober with a plain jane old hook. No bait, just a hook. That's natural selection at its best.


Sharing Grandad's chair!







Granny has bathed most of the grandkids in her sink, and I didn't want her to miss out on that with the little Anthony.









Look at that face! Don't worry baby, mama hid all the private bits from the internet.




Once the little man would go to bed, Granny and I would sit up late playing card games she would teach me. I had a blast and would love it if we lived closer so Anthony could spend more time with them. Hopefully they'll make it down for his first birthday!