Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Dallas Children's Museum

320 miles round trip in the car with 4 adults & 3 kids...what a way to spend a Saturday! But, that is exactly what the Bruce Bunch did this past weekend. Since Tristan's 4th birthday is on Memorial Day this year, we figured we better go ahead & get out of town to do our "birthday" trip before all of the holiday traffic. Well, although my butt was sinched up tighter than you can imagine cuz Eric was driving like he was in the Indy 500 & in a rain storm of all things - we did have a great time! Not to mention that we also had a flat on the way there, after we missed the 1st exit, so we had to detour around a residential area. Well, all the people were hanging out on this porch, yelling out at us that we had a flat. We slowly crept up the road, looking for a gas station to pull over - thinking that we were going to be sitting there a while waiting for roadside assistance - but Nope - we were right around the corner & there was a tire repair shop! Had that flat fixed in under 30 minutes & we were back on the road! The kids LOVED the museum! Aunt Chrissy came up with the idea, so we headed on down to Dallas. There were multiple little areas for the kids to experiment: bubbles, trains, dinosaurs, creeks/lakes, farming, school house, dentistry, wind tunnels/tornados & even some live animals...and I think that's it. We did ALL of it. Plus, we even took in an IMAX Coral Reef movie - which made me sick the entire time I was in there ( had to sit through most of the movie with my eyes closed). Eric hated it & Sissy wanted to run up & down the stairs....Man...told you there are no boring moments with a bebe Bruce kids!
So, then we finally got home after a long trip & we found our new addition in the back yard. Well, you know that Murphy & baby Murphy were attacked & killed last week...Dad was talking about getting the kids (and him I suspect) a dog. We came home to find a red healer pup in our backyard. He is about 3-4 months old, no tags, nothing!! We were so excited. We don't know where he came from & even Eric asked his friend who works for the animal control if there had been anybody reporting a lost dog & he said no...A sign? Who knows but we are thrilled to have Roscoe! He's been so great! The kids are so excited to get home to play with him everyday after school. Here is our new Roscoe :)






1 comment:

Eric and Lar Holquin said...

i love your bebe kidsthey are so cute!! and roscoe too!! i can't wait to meet him!!