Pankey Family Reunion

This weekend was the Pankey Family reunion. Pankey is my Grama Juanita's family. We had a great time in San Antonio and there was a great turn out. Family from all over came. I made a video with this Brad Paisley song recently for Stacy and Jonathan and their upcoming wedding....a lot can happen because two people fell in love.

Same thing goes for a family reunion. You can tell by the group photo we had a big bunch of people...well that is all because two people, Ollie Pankey and Nettie Leonard fell in love.


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Busy Sunday

We had a busy Sunday around the Wenck house. We had lots of visitors wanting to see Mr. Archer. The list included Memaw, Dodaddy, Abby, Emmy, Uncle Jack, Gran, Pa, Sassy, Jonathon, Lucy, Lily, Lynn, Uncle Bubbie and Aunt Pat.

Memaw and Dodaddy had hoped to be here when Archer was born, but after my surgery being bumped twice, they had to head home without meeting him. They had a nice visit with Christian last weekend instead.


Uncle JJ served as caterer and had BBQ'd lots of chicken, ribs and sausage and Sara dropped them off on Friday...that made the whole day a little easier since the food was already here. Daddy served as the best host and food prep. I wasn't much help except for feeding Archer. I am the only one that can do that these days.

We missed having Aunt Debbie in town. We wish she could have come along too. Hopefully we will see everyone again this fall...maybe for a UT game or maybe Uncle Jack will ride in the Lance Armstrong Livestrong Challenge.

Archer was showered with love, attention and cute clothes...OH! don't feel sorry for big brother just yet, he was also showered with love, attention, clothes and toys.

It was a busy but FUN day for us. It was nice to see so many of our family.

All the Wenck Grandkids were together for the very firt time and I so wanted to get a picture of all of them...but the 3 older ones were very busy playing and the youngest was busy sleeping.

Now it is time to rest. Mom is blogging, Daddy is resting, Christian is napping and can you guess was Archer is doing?!? yes, he is sleeping.

MS150

This weekend was the big MS150. It was Aunt Debbie's first time to ride in the race. Uncle Jack, Kathie, her friend Susan and Paul were all also in this year's ride. The wind made it a pretty tough ride but they all made it from Houston to Austin safe and sound. A little tired, a little sunburned, a little wind blown...but safe none the less.

The rest of the family crew had fun off bikes. We all had time to visit over yummy mexican food at the Wenck family's favorite restaurant....TEXICAN. The kids did really well playing together. Emmy girl wasn't feeling her best so she rested most of the time. But she was super excited when we said it was time to go see Mommy and Daddy. She talked the whole ride about how Mommy and Daddy were riding their bikes.

I wish I had pictures of Debbie and the rest of Team Choate (as I like to call them) making it across the finish line. Emmy was running a really high fever so we thought it best to let her rest at our house while Abby and the rest of the crew (Rand, Grandma Ann, MeMaw, DoDaddy, Russell, Melissa, Mona and friends) waited for Team Choate to ride across the finish line. We were able to join up with everyone later for dinner and bring Christian and Emmy with us. Emmy was her happy normal self but the time we made it up to meet every one for dinner.

We heard from very exciting news over the weekend too. Russell and Melissa are ENGAGED. CONGRATS to the happy couple. We also heard about Russell's very sweet proposal and saw the very pretty ring.

Here are the pictures I was able to take over the weekend.

Good news to share

Today we had a Dr. appt and we found out what we will be having this time. Here is a clue...........

snips and snails and puppy dog tails

Daddies and cane poles

and sharing a fishing hole.

Lizards and frogs

and balancing on logs.

Adventure and delight

and campfire at night

Laughter and charm and trips to the farm

Bikes after school and playing it cool.

Fire trucks and hoses and freckels on noses.

Helmets and hats and footballs and bats.

Running and sliding and tackles colliding.

Feathers and vests and saving the west.

Dragons and dinosaurs

and guards for castle doors.

Friendship and fun and enjoying the sun.

Wiggles and hairuts and giggles and funny looks.

Hugs and kisses and middle-of-the-night wishes.

That's what little BOYS are made of.

So now we are just waiting and wondering. Will this little man have his big brothers red hair, pretty blue eyes and cute nose? Will he have his Pop's smile or his Dodaddy's hands? Will he have is Daddy's disposition or maybe his Mom's. Maybe he will have the best of both or heaven help us, the worst. Whatever he may be, he comes into a family full of love, anxiously awaiting his arrival.

Let our sons in their youth grow like plants ~ Psalm 144:12

I'm so much cooler online...

Well I guess we will see. I just LOVE that new Brad Paisley song.

Not sure everything I'm going to do with this blog. Mainly it will be used to chat about the family (okay mainly the kiddo) and what we are doing these days.

So this summer we had one big vacation. It was to my beloved Pagosa Springs Colorado. I just love it up there. So nice and cool in summer. I have so many great memories of Pagosa in the summer with my grandparents. I just hope Christian has as many great memories of that place as I do.

This year we had a great time hot air ballooning, playing in the mountains streams and lakes, picnicing and seeing the train in Durango. It was nice and hard to come back to hot Texas.

But we have next year to look forward too (we hope) and I have lots of pictures to help me remember.