Beckam's Weekend Birthday Bash

For Beckam's birthday this year we decided to take a little weekend trip. It's hard to know what to get you child for his birthday when it's a week before Christmas. I think we had found a great alternative. I think we may have to take a fun little trip for Beckam's birthday every year.

After just a few short hours we made it to our hotel the Edelweiss in New Braunfels. The boys were excited to open presents. But we had to take a quick cookie break first.

Beckam got lots of fun presents all of which his big brother helped him open.

Dad, Isaac, and Beckam trying out the new "Quadzilla" aka a marble run.

The next morning we didn't have any plans for the day so we hopped in the car and started to drive. We took the road along the rafting river and made plans to come back to try that out. It was a really pretty drive. Then we drove out to see the dam and the reservoir.

The boys helping mom walk down the trail to the water.

I don't think my boys could ever get sick of throwing rocks...

...and more rocks...

...still rocks.

Hanging out near the water. We even built our own little dam.

Isaac also built a computer. He found just the perfect rocks. He even found one to be the mouse. Everyone had to try it out.

After playing with the rocks by the water we hiked back up to check out the dam.

The boys found these all along the way and thought they were pretty cool. They would run and then stop at the next one.

Isaac told us he worked at the dam and even found his rock key that he was going to use to open the gate.

I love to take pictures of my boys.

After the dam we went back into Gruene ("green") and after Beckam took a 15 minute nap we went and found some lunch. We ate at the Gristmill. We had a fun table that had a great river view and the food was really yummy. Then we walked around Gruene and check out lots of the cute shops.

We got back to the car just in time for a quick snack break and then we were off to our evening activity.

Isaac was so excited to see Santa again. The first time he had only asked him for the whole Star Wars and had forgotten about Kung Fu Panda. So he was excited he had a chance to redeem himself.

Beckam had the same reaction both times he saw Santa this year.

The boys loved the hay maze. They kept going through it over and over and we even had to go back a second time before we left.

That night we took the boys to Schlitterbahn. It's a huge water park just outside of San Antonio. Instead of water and slides. There were tons of Christmas lights, Santa, and some fun things for the kids to play on. This was the initial reason for heading out this direction and I have to admit is was kind of a disappointment. They made it look a whole lot cooler on their website. Although the boys did have lots of fun, we were very happy that we had had so much fun during the day.