Trip to Grandma and Grandpa's House

Sunday, February 03, 2008

We ended the month of January with a bang and took a weekend trip (coupled with work) to California where we got to stay with and visit Grandma and Grandpa Gardner. Jordan's parents drove down from Clayton to spend the weekend with us too. We had such a great time. Grandpa showed us the ropes at the swap meet and Grandma spoiled us a couple times with her great meals. The weather was nice and cold, but we felt cozy inside by the fireplace, where Grandpa would burn a couple of his cazillion logs from the Arial Woodpile Moutain Range. :-)

One of the many highlights of our trip was taking Jackson to Disneyland for the first time! We weren't sure how it would go but he did great! He was so facinated by all the people and and fun things to look at. We took him on lots of rides and surprisingly he did very well. (Even on Pirates of the Carribean and the Haunted Mansion!) His favorite though had to be the new Nemo Submarine ride. He spent the entire time with his little head right in the porthole. It was so cute! Sporting our Mickey & Minnie Ears!

Jackson's first ride on the carousel.

He didn't quite know what to think of Mickey. We couldn't get him to look at the camera, he just wanted to stare!

The Gang hangin' out in Mickey's Toon Town.

Jordan had to work on Tuesday, where he gave a presentation to pretty large audience - ~280 people. Randy actually went along to understand what it was exactly that Jordan does for work. So we know at least 1 person was there for the presentation while the other 279 probably came for the free Laker's tickets. He had to give the same presentation in San Francisco on Thursday - so I flew home on Wednesday (with Jackson) - and Jordan drove up with his parents to spend Thursday and Friday in the Bay Area.

Now we're both back in Austin and trying to get Jackson back on a schedule. I've started on some new home decorating projects. I'll be trying to get them done before I take off for Florida to watch my sister at the Cheerleading Nationals!!