Spring Break 2013

For Spring Break this year, we flew the girls to Dallas and we drove down.  We were there for over a week total.  We had such a great time with the girls and with family.  Here are a few pictures of our adventures.

One of the days we took the girls to the new Perot Natural Science Museum in downtown Dallas.  It was packed...tons of people there.  I'm not and never really have been interested in science but Matt and the girls are.  It thought it was okay.  I think they thought it was okay too.

Matt, Lynzee and Abbey using their brain skills in the life science section of the museum.  Matt & Abbey are playing ping pong with their brain and Lynzee is trying to write her name viewing through a mirror.

 

The next day we drove about 2 hours south of Plano to Fossil Rim - a very cool wild animal park.  Matt and the girls have been there before but it's been a few years.  This was my first time.  It's about a 9 mile drive through the park and most of the animals roam free.  As we drove up and saw the animals behind the fence I got really excited.  I guess I must quite reserved around the girls because Abbey thought my exclamation of excitement was pretty funny.  Here are lots of pics of our adventures that day.  This really is the coolest place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a short drive from the wild animal park was a nuclear power plant.  Matt is fascinated by them and wanted to drive by it.  We could only get as close as the security gate so spent a few minutes in the visitor center instead.

On Thursday, we went to East Texas with Matt's mom and Grandfather.  East Texas is where Jody's parents are both from and where Matt's grandmother is buried.  I loved this trip because Pops was with us and shared so much great family history information.  There is a great cemetery near Winnsboro called Pine Hill.  This is where Nannie is buried and where up to 25% of the people buried there are either Pops's family or Nannie's family.  After Winnsboro and lunch, we drove down to Grice Texas where Pops's grandfather settled after serving in the Civil War.  He was from Alabama so he fought in the Confederacy.  Grice Texas is named for Pops's grandfather, John Jackson (J.J.) Grice.  I loved this trip so much.  We learned a lot, spent some great time together, felt connected with all the people we learned about and the girls even got to have some adventures.  We searched the Grice cemetery for Pops's grandmother Grice's headstone.  Lynzee found it and Abbey helped do a rubbing so we could make out what was written on the headstone.

Pine Hill Cemetery

Nannie's headstone

The home that Nannie lived in Winnsboro