Our trip to Longview

We decided to take the Honda even though it was a tight fit. I was afraid to stress out my old van by driving all that way. We drove up on Friday night after Titus got off, so the kids slept most of the way. They didn't really rest, but they slept and that ws good enough for me. It rained so hard yesterday morning! We did time it pretty good gettin to the wedding, right in between down pours. It was a very pretty wedding and it was really good to see so many of the Cavels at one time. Usually Titus drags all over the place to visit this one or that one, but we didn't have to do that this time. The kids were ready for a nap pretty early into the reception so we decided to take the boys back to the hotel for a nap. On a side note...don't stay at La Quinta in Longview if you have more than one baby, they only hav one crib. At least we found out before we left home and took the play pen. Anyway, we got ready to leave and the bottom fell out. Titus made three trips out to the car to shuttle the kids and got SOAKED. We got to the hotel with little adventure. He and Mallory changed and went shopping so me and the boys could get a nap. When we woke up, we went to Papacita's. Not myfavorite Mexican food, but one that I miss. We had dinner with Thomas and Shauna. Our kids are always so good when we go out. Strangers even come up to us and compliment their behavior. But not last night. They had stored up all their bad behaviors for that one meal! It was awful!!! I'm sure it wasn't that bad for those around us. It was probably what you would expect to see and hear from a table with five small children, but since we are so used to them being so good it was very painful. We did get to visit a little in between cleaning up and getting on to the kids.
Today we went to visit friends at our old church Hope Community. We got there just in time for the Spanish service. They have the English service at 9:30. Oh well. I wouldn't have been able to get us all up and out by then. We did get to visit with a few friends and then headed to The Butchershop for lunch with Aunt Denise. It was so good to see her. Again all the kids were getting sleepy so we packed up and headed home. To my surprise all three were asleep before we made it to Kilgore. It was wonderful! We are almost home and they've been really good all squished up in the backseat for over four hours. They are wathing Jon and Kate Plus Eight on DVD because Mallory gets to choose. I don't know why that is still her favorite show. She asks why it doesn't come on TV any more. I guess I'll have to explain about divorce when she starts to school so I'll tell her about them splitting up soon. Now we are headed to Mom's so Mallory can go to Bible school at their church this week. I think I'm more excited than anyone else.