Tuesday

This morning Sammy and Jamie got up and left the house at 6:00 a.m. to go with my dad on his daily three-mile walk. Sammy was very much wanting to do this and I think she enjoyed it up until the very end, when she was getting pretty tired.

After they got back Jamie, Claudia and I ran over to Round Rock to buy the best donuts on the planet from a bakery over there. Jamie said he likes to polish off his work-out regimen with pastries.

After breakfast, we hung out, got Claudia and Jordan packed so they could spend tonight and tomorrow night at their dad's house and my dad measured all three girls. It's a tradition my parents have kept up since I was around 6 and Amy was around 2, that every year all the children are measured and it's marked on the door jam. When my parent's moved, the marks were recreated on another door jam and installed in the new house.




While we were in MF, my parents took Sammy to see Wall-E. They all said they liked it and Sammy brought home a huge box of sour gummy worms that she managed to polish almost completely off!

On the way back to Austin Jamie and I stopped and got carne guisada and potato tacos (sooo good!!)for lunch and then we went to Oak Hill to *try* to get some tamales from Rosie's Tamale House to take home for dinner but they were closed. I was *so* annoyed. So we went and got stuff for taco salad and some Blue Bell chocolate chip ice cream, which we can only get here. I love it so much with its dark chocolate flakes instead of chips.

This evening Sammy did a Which Way USA with my parents and after that she, Jamie and I made taco salad for dinner (Sammy asked for a cheeseburger instead and did a very nice job of cooking it!).

After dinner we watched part of a project my parents are working on. They're working with my mom's brothers and sister to create a film about all the houses they lived in while they were growing up in Memphis, Tennessee. They've counted 47 houses that their parents lived in during their marriage so far. It's neat to listen to the stories and the kids think some of the stories are very funny.

And after that there was a screening of the Bee Movie.