Mother's Birthday weekend!

My mom turned 60 last month and her birthday was less than exciting. She said that what she would really like is to have us all together. We talked about some plans and this past weekend we worked it out and celebrated.

Friday night we went to downtown Houston and stayed in a hotel. We ordered pizza, played a few games, and watched a little tv. Unfortunately our hotel accommodations were not as promised and so this hotel didn't even have a movie channel but we did the best we could. The kids had fun just being together.
Saturday morning Chira, Coleton, and Caden joined our famliy in the 15th annual Rockets Run. Our family loves this event every year. We were well within walking distance from the hotel, so we woke up early and walked over to the race! 

The kids were excited about the kids 1 k. Everyone in my family ran the 1k along with their two cousins and Aunt Chira. I later ran in the 5k.

 They were lining up!

Pre race selfie!!

Deacon saw a huge sign like this next to the start so he just kept saying "Ohhh James Harden" over and over until the race started! Caden finished first in 6:30 and then Coleton, Cavin, Ella, Channing and Chira who kindly ran with Channing, and then Deacon and Ragnar came through in about double Caden's time. Ragnar said Deacon ran the whole way! Nice job for a barely 2 year old! 

My race was right after and I finished in 22:52. Not terrible, but not as good as in my prime. I was 11th out of 580 women and 97th out of 1325 total racers. It was a fun, good race for me.

Here are the cute kiddos afterward minus Ella who was watching her friend finish.
After the race we went over to Discovery Green and played at the park!

After a long race for Deacon, you'd think he'd be out of energy! That boy was on a mission! He kept going on everything and going down the slides. At one point he went on a short version of the monkey bars. He held on for a couple and fell off, as I was watching I was waiting to see if he cried since he fell on his stomach. Nope, instead of crying he jumps up and cheers "I did it, I did it!" He is an active boy who loves to use his body!

Chris only had about a foot to go on the slide ;)

After that we went back to the hotel and had a late breakfast and got cleaned up to go back to my parents house. We played games and then my brother Corey who had flown into Dallas for a conference came in as he had driven down to meet us. We went to Lupe Tortilla as just adults and it was nice to enjoy a quieter dinner!We missed his wife Stephani and my sister Marisa and her husband but were glad to have 4 of the 5 siblings there.

Chris engaged the kids in a flag football game as we ate homemade icecream and hung out!

This is how the kids looked on the way home after about 10 minutes in the car. I would call that a successful weekend! It didn't go perfectly, but I hope my mom knows how much we love and appreciate her and that she felt loved. We are so grateful for her in our lives and I am so grateful for the example she is to me and what a wonderful support she is to our family. We love her!