Our week in San Angelo

Since Dru comes home every weekend and Mina and I were already down there for the baptism, we decided to stay the entire week and then come back home with Dru the upcoming weekend. While Dru was in class all day each day, Mina and I still had fun AND we got to see Dru EVERYDAY that week. We miss him so much while he is gone during the weeks.

We found a park to play at and Mina sure did enjoy that. We put her in a swing for the first time and she loved it. She loved exploring the park, playing with the rocks, watching the other kids and even writing with sidewalk chalk. We spent hours at the park.

When Dru would come home each day Mina would wait at the windows and watch for him. The windows went down to the floor and Mina loved that. Then we'd go out shopping or out to eat or just play in the hotel. We ate at some tasty restaurants, too. If you're ever in San Angelo, Joe's is an amazing Italian restaurant. Lucky for me it was in the parking lot of the hotel we stayed in so I was able to order it for lunch and walk right over to pick it up. I ate there several times during my stay.

All in all, it was a wonderful week with just our little family. We can't wait until Dru is done with training and we can be together all the time.

Her first time in a swing waiting to get pushed.

First push!!!

She loved watching Dru.

He's pretty goofy and the chains on the swings were so long so you could go really high!

Silly Daddy!

Dru had her giggling like no other.

"Way too much fun, Dad! I don't know if I can take it much more!"

"Whasthat?" (That's what Mina says every time she points at something.)

Look at her hair just flying.

I don't think she quite knows what to think about the slides yet.

Static.

She loved the swing more each day.

I could watch her all day. She's so entertaining.

What a cutie pie.

She got more comfortable and relaxed the more she was in the swing.

She spent a lot of time playing in the rocks. She would throw the rocks behind her back and several fell into her shirt. When I went to change her diaper later, no less than 10 rocks fell out of her onesie.

She did try to eat them occasionally, but for the most part she just looked.

She just ran her hands back and forth in the rocks.

What fun.

Check out those chompers!