November Party

We are very spoiled when we do anything with family.  And November was like one big party month.  It was Hadley's birthday, my birthday, and both sets of Hadley's parents were able to come in November.  Blayne and Leslie came a couple days after Had's birthday, and were there for mine.  We had so much fun with them and got to do some really cool and fun things.  Beware, there's gonna be a picture overload here. 

First we went to an alligator park.  It's a park where we just walk along the paths that the alligators might actually be walking on or crawling across.  There's a whole bunch of swampy lakes and the gators are all over in them, and on the banks.  There are no fences or anything, so it could get a little freaky.  We were literally like 3 or 4 feet away from this alligator.  Blayne was wanting to go yank on his tail to get him to move.  Good thing he has a paranoid wife that wouldn't let him get near it.  :) 

Aww, look how cute this picture is.  We didn't even tell them to walk like that.

(Their clothes were not planned by the way.)

Look at that big dude that Ashton spotted, and the baby alligator we got to pet.

Blayne had some classes he had to go to in San Antonio for work, so we decided to make it a trip and go to Sea World while we were there.

(For some reason Had thinks its cool to look like he's mad in pictures.)

 

These three little twirps were so excited they could barely contain themselves.

Waiting for the show to start

All the shows were great.  I can hardly believe they train these creatures to do the stuff they do.  It's pretty amazing when you think about it.  I loved it when this huge walrus started doing sit ups in the sea lion show.  Hilarious!

They had a little alligator pond at Sea World.  Check out these alligators with their arms around each other in the top picture.  I think they're boyfriend and girlfriend.  They're so in love they don't even realize there are turtles on their backs.  We actually got to see something "that doesn't normally happen".  An alligator snuck up on the school of fish that they have in the pond with the alligators, and snatched one up.  Then, it took it up on the bank and started crunching on it.  Then another alligator started sneaking up to try and get a bite too, so the one that had the fish took it back down into the water to finish his meal.  We watched the whole thing go down.  The worker told us the alligators don't eat the fish.  HAHA

Feeding the dolphins was pretty cool.  The kids loved it.  I was happy to be the camera girl and not touch the smelly little mcnasty fish they were feeding them.  I did grab the dolphin's chin though.  Then the workers announced over the speaker, "DO NOT TOUCH THE DOLPHINS!"  Woops.  For some reason it doesn't seem as gross to me when they're huge and look like they're smiling at you.  I like dolphins.

Oh look, he can smile.

We also went to the wax museum.  It was pretty entertaining.  I've never been to one before this, and it was fun to see how real some of them looked.

 

The Last Supper was pretty dang sweet.  And I had to get a pic with Will Smith, because, well.... I love Will Smith.  Harrison Ford looked real.  And Michael Jackson, well, Jete's face says it all.

We went to a 4D movie.  That was also pretty sweet, and a new experience for me.  I loved it.  Jerzi said she liked when it snowed on us, but she didn't like the seats moving around cuz she thought it was gonna dump us out. 

Probably my favorite part of the whole trip.  None of us could stop laughing throughout the whole Alamo experience.  Here's a good shot of Had and how he really feels about going here.  Cheering with excitement!  Get a good look Fuller family, Had's at a historical site, smiling.

 

As we were walking down the street, right in front of the Alamo, we hear this loud cheer, "We're going to Hollywood!!!"  We looked over and sure enough, they are filming the kids that just made it to Hollywood on American Idol.  I ran over and snapped some pics and watched as they had to redo their cheer like 15 times for the cameraman. 

We also got to take a little boat ride down the river of the famous riverwalk.  It's a pretty romantic atmosphere.  And we had Jete, Jerz, and Ashton with us.  So....

we ignored our children, and let the grandparents be grandparents, while we pretended we were by ourselves on a romantic boat ride.  It was pretty fun.

After our trip to San Antonio, they came back to our house for the rest of the week and we played and ate and partied some more.  These three had a blast playing together.  It always makes me sad to see how well they get along, and how much they love each other, and yet we can't live close enough to see them all the time.  It's definitely hard.  But it makes the times we do have together so sweet.  We love our family so much!  Thank you Blayne, Les, and Ashton for coming out and partying with us!