Grandma Jackson turns 80

Grandma Jackson turned 80 this last week and what a celebration! We started with a small get together at our house on Thursday night followed by a trip to Oklahoma for the weekend and then a lunch on Sunday to finish it out.

We loaded up the boys and the rest of the family - Roger and Jana, Grandma, Amy and Paul (Jeremy's older sister) and the 4 of us in a large van - and headed for Mounds Oklahoma. I took this opportunity to match the boys for the first time. They did great traveling to Oklahoma - 5 hours in a van...not bad! We visited a lot of Grandma's past including her old church, graveyards of family members and had lunch with some old classmates and family of hers.

The 2 grave sites that I have here are Jeremy's grandfather and Grandma's husband (Pappa Fred) and then Pappa Fred's parents - his Mother was named Evelyn.....side note - if I ever have a little girl, she would be named Evie after Evelyn....who knows if there will be a third child or a girl for that matter but that's what it will be.

After our visits on the first day in Oklahoma, we headed to the hotel and enjoyed our first night out of our house with 2 little boys in a hotel. Jax enjoyed it. I was nursing Jake and watching Jax in the bed next to me. He was having fun watching tv, playing with the phone and reading books to himself.

He's a funny little boy. He did great on his first trip out of Texas. He can even say Oklahoma. We headed back to Texas on Saturday and Jax was done with the car seat. It was a rough ride home but we managed. Happy Birthday Grandma. We love You!

Until next time, we'll keep you posted!