Six Flags Over Texas

The past few years, we've gone to Six Flags on homeschool day. It's not as crowded, tickets are cheap and the weather is perfect this time of year. We got there early yesterday. Seems like we're always first in line. A lot of my family met us there. More of them came this year than the past years and it was GREAT getting to see them.

We hung out at the front gate. My kids wanted to sit in Granny's car with her.

I'm not too sure about my new camera. I need to play with it more. Kyndal looks really light in this picture.
The kids were leaving with my mom so Karly just HAD to sit in her carseat. Why doesn't she want to do that in our van?
They opened the gates at 10 so we parked and had our lunch. Better than trying to leave while we're riding rides and miss out on all the fun!
This was the first ride we went on, check out the lines! It was like that everywhere!!
MR FREEZE!
Caleb is finally tall enough (with the help of certain shoes) to ride this. If you click the picture you can see him and Jarrett in the front car.
All of the kids together. Lined up by their age. It's too bad my other two cousins that have kids couldn't be there. It'd of been really cool to get their kids in this pic too.
Waiting for the Cave Ride! I'm sure it has a new name now, but I don't know it.


Karly thinks she'll like it...
But it's really dark, she's not too sure..hehe
This is inside the cave. It's a pretty long cave. It's loud too and we get shot at. Ok, not really but they have the Bug's Bunny theme going on in there.
Getting ready to go on a ride with Daddy!
Boy was it hard to catch them when they came by, they were going fast.
Most of my pics came out blurry.

Kyndal & Bailey very happy to see each other.

All together for a pic again.
My kids
Erin's kids

Tami's kids
Waiting on the big kids to get off Mr Freeze, again.
I'm surprised again that Karly wasn't afraid of the characters.

My mom took Karly when we got there, so us big kids could go ride some big rides. When we met up, this is what they were doing. Karly got to drive.

And she loved it!

Big chair but she wouldn't even look at me. Brat.
One of the older rides is the Judge Roy Scream. I decided I'd take pics while riding it. It was soo cool! I'm glad they turned out. I wish I had rode in the front. Maybe next time.
Front view of the park going up the first hill.

And behind me
The roller coaster! Coming down the first hill.
Second hill
I just like this one cause Connor's hands are up.
That was fun!

On the hot air balloons that spin.
This is a fun ride in the kiddy park. (Looney Tune Land)
Hold your hands up!

This ride, as small as it is, was pretty darn fun!

Another ride Granny took Karly to.
On the swings....
Tea cups? Sort of?
Karly riding the roller coaster with Aunt Kathy.
After Six Flags we all met up for dinner at Chili's.

I took a LOT more pictures but I figured 50 would be enough to post on here. We had a good time. I'm already ready to go back. The kids are at my mom's house. It's quiet here and I'm catching up on everything. I think we'll be heading out there this afternoon. Unless Jarrett ends up working late or something else comes up.

New Camera

Well, the purpose in getting a new camera was to have something smaller to carry with me. My nice camera is just too big and too expensive to take certain places. I've been around the block with camera's and helping other people decide, but when it came for me to get a back up, I couldn't pick one. I really wanted the Canon Powershot S5 IS but that would pretty much defeat the purpose of getting a smaller camera, since it's close to the size of my nice camera. But I also really wanted the features of that camera. So I went with this one. Canon Powershot SD870 IS Digital Elph

Anyone have this one?

I'm nervous about it. I have it charging now, so I'll check it out later. I just hope it does a good job. If it doesn't, I can take it back but they'll charge a 15% restocking fee. UGH.

Wish me luck!!!

Severe Weather

...is in my forecast for today. Lovely. Hopefully it'll miss us completely. I'm tired of my yard being wet and muddy.

Something from the book I'm reading

Found this interesting .....

Is the Bible an out-of-date Book? If it is, how does it happen that it so accurately foretells today's world news- so understandingly pinpoints human nature? It says, "The carnal mind is hostile toward God." And that is certainly true. Where God says, "Remember," everyone immediately forgets! When Jesus said, "Think not I am come to destroy the law, " everyone proceeded to think He DID destroy it! If God in the Bible, said, "Observe Christmas, New Year's and Easter," then nobody would!

Sundays

Sundays are usually so boring. Nothing is open till the middle of the day, then everyone is there, so we normally don't do much. But we decided to get out of the house this Sunday. We went to Arlington to Barnes & Noble. Then had lunch at Chipotle. Jarrett has been bragging about this place for a month and finally decided to take us there. It was ok. I wouldn't brag about it too much. After that, we came home and everyone took a nap. Except for me. I read my book. When everyone got up from their nap, we went grocery shopping. It's funny how we always spend less when Jarrett is there. So this time we got out of Wal Mart spending less than $200. We ate dinner on the way home. Chicken Express. Yuck. I don't have to ever go there again after last night. I'm just not big on someone else making my chicken for me. I like how I do it. We stopped by the outlet mall cause I wanted to see if there was a date that Gymboree will be opening. There wasn't. BUT the sign was up! So hopefully it'll open soon. I can't wait!

Then we came home, the kids played outside for a bit and it was time for bed. The day went by too quickly.