Howdy Ya'll!

Howdy par'ner

The Grieves family has ourself a real live cowboy.  Our Little Buckaroo took his first trip to Texas - and came home a cowboy!

Hey ya'll....how's my accent?

Why drive 11 hours to Houston for the weekend you ask?  Two weeks ago our sweet nephew Joel was born.  He's working on getting big and strong at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, so Ryan, Cole, Eli and I loaded up to go visit him!

We left at 7:30 pm Thursday night for our 10.5 hour trek in hopes that Eli would sleep the entire trip.  Result of this experiment?  Success!!  Thank you baby!!!  We spent Friday at the hospital getting to meet and hold Baby Joel for the first time.  He is such a sweet baby boy.  He has lots of hair and smiles in his sleep - my favorite!!  He also made up some good diapers for his daddy to change.

Luckily for Eli, his GREAT Aunt Anita and cousin Lexie came to pick him up and take him to Kingwood to hang out with them for the day.  I think they were all in seventh heaven.  Later that evening Ryan and I also headed to Kingwood for the night.  Ryan crashed even before Eli did (not having slept in about 36 hours).

Houston cold front = beautiful spring day for these Kansans

Saturday morning, after some playtime and a walk in the beautiful Texas weather, Ryan and I headed back into Houston to hang out with his family.  As the good aunt and uncle we are, we made sure Joel was adequately clothed for his stay.

Such a smart baby.

Later Saturday afternoon Aunt Anita, Uncle Brent and Lexie, graciously drove back into Houston to drop the little man off.  Unfortunately, Eli didn't get to meet his cousin Joel, but I'm sure they'll be teaming up and causing trouble soon enough.

When you look up trouble in the dictionary....this is what you'll find.

We were all glad we got to make the trip and are so excited to have Joel in our family!  Unfortunately, I didn't make it home with many pics of Joel on my camera, but, don't worry, this baby has had his fair share of photo ops.