I just noticed the last time I actually put a post on my blog.  How horrible is that.

I think I will attempt to get back into blogging on a normal or semi regular basis.  A lot has changed since the last time I posted but it’s all good.

hmmmm well Happy Monday!!!

No not me, but a family member might be next week.  It’s knee replacement time.  As soon as the final word comes back that it’s a go, I will be traveling up there tuesday night and spend a few days there to help out.  And now that I have an iPad, it makes it pretty easy to remote into work while I’m away in case there are any huge issues.  Sometimes that happens.  I remember my last surgery.  Just this last January.  The day of was just horrible, but after a couple weeks I was back to normal pretty much.  Well as much as my normal is anyways.

I hope to get back into blogging more often.  Our boys have kept us pretty busy over the summer and now it’s time to get re-focused..

Oh where, oh where did my Seattle vacation go?  Yeah I know I have been home for a bit now, but come on really Texas do you have to be this hot?  Since last Thursday till today and forecasted for the next 7-10 days, yes you will read this right.  101+  (Yikes)..  Last two night at 10pm it was still at least 90 out.  You cannot really do much outside since it’s so hot out.  I really have a lot of house work to do on the outside but at 6pm it’s just crazy heat out there.  The head indexes are usually a couple degree’s higher as well.  So, even though my parents house doesn’t have A/C and it was 85 most of our trip, I would gladly take that right now over 101+ temps.

So here I am writing this post at about 35,000 feet in the air. I think we currently are over wyoming and about to cross into Colorado. Which means vacation is over. Soon to be home and back to work and to get the kids ready to start another school year. I will post later about our vacation. But let me tell you it went WAY to fast.

So vacation time came and went. Although they always seem rather short, we sure had fun in short order.

1st day was a very long and tiring and exhausting day at Sea world. Now it was fun and all but wow was it hot and expensive. The boys had a blast and we did enjoy the shows.  We opened the place up and closed it down.  It was a long day.  Our second day was more of a relaxing nature since we were in the heat and on our feet all day yesterday.  We did some swimming and they we went into the little town close to where we were staying.  They had a frontier museum which was maybe 40% frontier related but we went through it anyways.  Next we walked around to some of the local shops on main street.  On the third day we took a cave tour at Natural Bridge Caverns.  Now that was a lot of fun.  It was 3/4 of a mile long and we got about 180 feet below the surface. After the Caverns we headed toward downtown and went to the Alamo. That was a lot of fun especially since I had never been there before.

After touring the Alamo and taking as many pictures as we could, we walked down to the river walk and just strolled around. It was pretty fun. It would have been more fun if I didn’t have Celiac Disease and I could just plop down where ever and get some dinner. So after trying to figure all that out, we opted to leave and just head back to the place we were staying and just cook some dinner. The next day was going to be a full one as well. We ended up driving North to Fredericksburg. We went there about 1 year ago to a bed and breakfast and just loved the town and atmosphere of the area. So we went to Wild Seed farms. This place is really cool. Lots of Wild Flowers and a butterfly exhibit. We also ventured to a WWII Pacific Museum. They added on since the last time we were there and we actually ran out of time to see the entire place. Or should I say time to absorb that much military history. We drove up and down main street a couple of times and stopped at the Amish store and then off to dinner. After dinner we went out to the Old Tunnel to watch the bat emergence. We had seen this before but wanted the boys to witness 1+ million bats flying out of a tunnel. It’s such an awesome experience. This time we sat at the lower level and we had bats flying right above our heads. So cool..!!

The last day we went back down town to check out 3 missions. They were pretty cool and we took tons of pictures and it was really hot so we didn’t go to any more of them. Just these 3 main ones. After the missions we stopped at a Gluten Free Restaurant that I heard about on Facebook. It was good just a little pricey.

We took our time driving back. I think it was about 6.5 hours with a couple of the stops we made, but overall it was a super fun vacation.

Here is a list of places we went/things we did:
1. Sea world

2. Natural Bridge Caverns

3. The Alamo

4. The Riverwalk

5. Fredericksburg

6.. San Antonio Missions

Almost 2 weeks ago I had shoulder surgery to fix an injury from 2 years ago.  I finally decided it was time to take  care of the issue and get rid of the constant dullness and other varying degrees of discomfort.  The surgery went pretty well.  And at this point I almost have my full range of motion back.  However it still gets sore from time to time and I find myself dropping some ice on it at bedtime (helps calm it down for bedtime).

Tomorrow is my follow up and I get my stitches out.  I’m sure it will only get better with time.