Ranch Weekend

Last weekend, some of our friends, Matt and Jenna, invited us up to her family's ranch house in the hill country for the weekend.  We had such a fun time just relaxing, hanging out with friends and escaping from life for a few days.

Landon and I started the days off with a little exercise (though I think his 3 hour bike ride counts more than my 45 minute walk :)).  The weather and the scenery were beautiful though--I am wishing we had some of that cool weather in Houston right about now!

 

Then, we spent a lot of time relaxing and just hanging out with friends,

and cooking and eating yummy meals.  Isn't it funny how schedules in vacations tend to get planned around meals?

Saturday morning, after an awesome breakfast, we headed out on four wheelers (and the Ranger for the pregnant girls and their husbands :)) for Matt and Jenna's guided tour through the HUGE property.  It was gorgeous--and fun riding around in the ranger/four wheelers!  We saw some animals, got out and walked around a little, took a few group shots, skipped a few rocks.  You know, the usual. :)

After the ride through the property, the guys and some of the girls went our shooting.  I opted to stay back at the ranch house with Wendi and Brittnie, where we spent a lovely 2 hours just rocking in the rocking chairs on the porch and talking.  I might have gone with them, but we'd been reading that Aedan can hear everything now and we didn't think there was any need to have him right around those loud guns.  Plus, sitting and talking seemed a lot more fun to me. :)

However, everyone that went out shooting seemed to have a lot of fun!

Later that afternoon I ended up going down for a few minutes to see where they were shooting, because they were doing a different kind of shooting that wasn't so loud.  After everyone had a chance to shoot that kind of gun though, Ben pulled out his little gun.  And, it was crazy because of the five or six times he shot it with me standing there, Aedan kicked me right after three or four of them.  I have no doubt he could hear it--and it made me feel kinda bad for being down there, like it was making him jump each time.  After I felt him kicking like that, Landon brought me back to the ranch house to hang out.  It's so amazing to me how he can be inside of me but still hear everything.  And, it's crazy how protective it made both Landon and I feel.  I can oly imagine what it'll be like when he's here in our arms and not in my belly!

After I left, Landon shot some more too--he did awesome at all the shooting games they did this weekend. :)

Then, that night, we loaded up in the truck and rode around looking for wild hogs (or any other animal). Unfortunately though, we saw nothing.  Oh well.  

Apparently though, his is how Brandon dresses when he's going to look for wild hogs!

The next morning, after a leisurely pancake breakfast and some last shooting games and four wheeler rides for the guys, we packed up, stopped for some delicious mexican food and hit the road.  Back to reality...

Thanks for a fun weekend, Matt and Jenna! :)

And, this is as close as I got last week to taking a 31 week picture.  Everything still going well--I still feel him moving around and kicking like crazy.  The newest development though is that I'm HOT all the time--which is so unlike me, because normally I'm always freezing.  Now, I'll wake up in the middle of the night burning up  and look over and see Landon all under layers of blankets.  So fun, ha!  But, totally worth it for the sweet little boy we're 9 weeks away from meeting!