An Odom Kinda Life: America the Beautiful: July 4, 2012

This fourth of July was definitely a good time for the hubs and I! We decided last minute that we wanted to go spend it with two of our fave peeps, Mr. and Mrs. Vanessa Hawley--> cliche and overused joke but still funny! Anyway, we adore them and appreciate any time we get with them!

On 4th we floated the Guadalupe River. Of course, our fears were that it would be like Cancun on spring break, JAMPACKED! But, we braved it anyway, hoping for the best and it was worth it! Sooooooo relaxing and only moderately populated. Great time! I mean, who doesn't want to spend several hours in the beautiful sunshine floating down a river? With sunscreen of course! Fun fun fun!

Our sweet sweet hubbies insisted on carrying all the tubes. We weren't going to argue...we were pooped!

This pic says it all! We were exhausted after the river so the rest of the trip was pretty low key. We had dinner at Two Step in San Antonio that evening. This is a fun little place with great food and live music on the patio...btw, BEST chicken fried steak I have EVER had! We highly recommend it!

Aren't they adorbs?

To end the night we came home to the Hawleys' humble abode and watched a terrible terrible movie. But...we made a giant pallet complete with lots of candy and soda and took it back old school to the college days, making the movie a little less terrible. Does it get any better than that?!?

On our way home, MoMo (me) and CoCo (Chris) got to stop by and have dinner with the Swaffords and see our sweet girl, Kenny boo boo! We even got to read her bedtime stories. Yes, please! Oh and remarkable attention span for an 11 month old!

Chris took his reading seriously!

To end the week, we went to a Ranger's game with my sissy. It was her first MLB experience and now she can't wait to go again. Planning to squeeze one more in before she leaves us! We also got the fireworks show we skipped out on for 4th. Yay!