Texas Trip - Day 3 & 4: Dr. Nate, Swimming, Playing, Stockyards, Lunch, and Date Night

We started our day by going to Nate's work to have him give the kids eye exams.  It was a busy day and we had to wait a little while, but it was worth it.  Dr. Steenblik did a great job with each of the kids.  He gave them all a clean bill of health and said that none of them need glasses.  Which he also said that was pretty rare for us to have all kids with good eyesight given that Tony and I are both near sighted.  So, yah for us!

After seeing Dr. Steenblik, we stopped at Costco nearby for gas, lunch, and a little shopping.  
After lunch we went back to Nate and Amy's house to meet up with the rest of the family.  We decided to take the kids and Tony to the neighbor's pool, which Amy and I went and got a pedicure.  

The pedicure place was just around the corner from the pool.  It was a nice place, and we had a good time getting our toes done.   Once we were done, we went back to the pool and picked up Tony and the kids to go back to their house.  

We then picked up some chicken for dinner and ate as a family.  After dinner, the kids enjoyed hanging out with each other while we watched some soccer. 

The next morning, we all went to the Stock Yards.  We walked through all the stores and let the kids pick out souvenirs.  Josh is the only one that didn't find anything that he wanted.  But we got Tyler a knife, Megan a mirror keychain, and Allie a stuffed doggie.  I found myself a Fort Worth t-shirt.  I was pretty happy about that.  

After shopping we found a spot to watch the long-horned cattle, horses, and cowboys go down the road.  It was pretty hot, so they didn't have many cattle and they all went by quickly.

We then walked back to the cars and went to a Mexican Restaurant for lunch.  They had open seating on their patio, so we sat there.  It was still really hot, but they had fans and kept our waters full.  The food was super good, and we all had a great time eating lunch together.  We definitely want to go back their next time.

After lunch we went back to the house to hang out at the house before getting ready for a double date with Nate and Amy.  Tony went and picked up pizza for the kids and then us adults went out to dinner.  We went to a yummy country restaurant; it was very Texan and super yummy.  We then decided to go walk around some stores after dinner before getting some ice cream.  It was good and we saw sister missionaries there.  After that we decided to go back to the house.  It was a great day and we all had tons of fun.