The kids and I have spent the last few days in Lampases, Texas at my parent's new home-in-the-country. The whole place is cute -- the house, the town, the local swimming pool that we went to TWICE. Yep, my parents are getting back to their small town roots...at least on the weekends.
Well, here it is.....it was mighty tight...what with the four kids and everything.
Just kidding...this is what we call the bunk house. That is, we hope it will be the bunk house eventually, but right now it houses the lawn mower and deer feed and other country necessities. Here Parker and my Mom are pulling out the bird feed. All southern duties are completed in PJs.
Parker is filling up this bucket of water for the deer. The white thing in the corner is a salt lick (also for the deer). We like our deer to have the proper sodium balance. As a side note: when I was little, like 9 or 10, my cousin, Chris, had his own salt lick (don't ask me why). We would have contests to see who could take the most licks before being totally grossed out. We should have been grossed out because we were all licking on the same salt lick...but that's not how I remember it. Hmmm. Salt licks. Good memories.
After the feeding and watering...comes the harvesting.
My mom made me bring a bunch of these home. I mean, how much squash and zuchinni and cucumbers can one woman eat?
What does one do in a small Texas town during a hot summer day? Well, we swam at the local pool, ate at the local restaurants, and then walked around the town square. We saw these lovely ladies at the bakery. They said they were out on a "hoot."
Parker was impressing the townspeople with his dedication to Texas A&M. There was Aggie stuff everywhere. Becca wanted me to buy a book at the local bookstore titled Born an Aggie. I had to seriously remind her, along with the rest of my children, that they were born Cougars. "YOU WERE BORN A COUGAR, DANG IT."
Here's the whole group (minus me) taking a rest outside of the shoe store. Only a few stores later the girls would find the animal print purses of their dreams. Also, Parker would shame me into buying him the most hideous saber tooth tiger figurine ever produced. Yes, we came back to Houston far richer in country goods. Can't wait to go back!!
That looks like so much fun! I love the red hat club :) You need to take a picture of the purses and figurine..
Posted by: Becca J | June 19, 2009 at 08:49 AM
love it sarah, you MUST enlarge the last photo, great of every one of them. Too bad you weren't in it!
Posted by: jane | June 20, 2009 at 07:41 PM
Is this a country lovin' dream? Cause it can't really be real.
What a hoot!
Posted by: Shauna Pierson | June 22, 2009 at 03:14 PM