Houston

I realized as I was thinking of the posts I needed for the trip home, Houston never popped into my mind. Houston becomes the "home" base and we take trips from there but we do do stuff and spend time in Houston when we are back. So here it goes.

When we finished our fast time in Oklahoma and headed back to Houston for Micah's final days in the USA.  We were finally able to meet up with our dear friends Susie and Darrell and Brad and Meredith. Every time we get back to the USA we typically only get one night to hang out.  It isn't nearly enough time but at least it's something.  The 6 of us got together at a local restaurant, T-Bone Toms and had a fun evening talking about life.  It's great to have friends like that!

Susie and Darrell with Jacob

At my parents house we do a lot of hanging out, sitting on the back porch, shopping, and eating. 

I realized I have no pictures of Jacob with his Nana.  This next trip home we will have to fix that. 

As a baby gift, one of our friends here in Saudi gave us a cute cow outfit from Harrods in London.  I always thought it would be cute to put him in it and take him to Chick-fil-a.  When I showed my Mom the outfit she insisted that we make it happen.  So here are the pictures from our Chick-fil-a trip.  Micah claims we embarrassed his son but I think he was adorable. 

Oklahoma part 1

After our first weekend in Houston and attempting to get over jet-lag we headed off to Wagoner, Oklahoma to visit Micah's family.  We were excited to meet our newest nephew Evan and for Grandpa to meet Jake for the first time. Jacob also met his Uncle Andy, Aunt Jackie and cousins Kate and Evan for the first time.  We had a blast jet-skiing, eating, taking pictures, and just hanging out.

 We put Jake on his first jet-ski.  As you can see by his face he wasn't too thrilled!

Micah holding Evan, Andy holding Jake

Me and Evan

Kate and Jake

"Grandpa, you are so wise"

Grandparents!

Boys in their bouncers.  We bought the pink one from a friend...

Checkin out the new Bumbo

Cool Dude

As most of you know, OSU football is very important to this Sperling family so we left Wagoner on Friday to head for Stillwater to watch OSU vs. Texas on Saturday.  My brother and niece Bailey had also come to Stillwater for the weekend so they were able to meet Jake for the first time. Jacob also met his Great Grandma Gilbert and Great Papa Gilbert.  Great Grandma even babysat Jacob while we went to the football game.

Great Grandma Gilbert

Great Papa Gilbert

Uncle Chad

Center of attention

Bailey

Watching TV with Mom

In Stillwater we ate at Eskimo Joes, took pictures on campus, played on the farm, and tailgated. While tailgating we were able to spend some brief time hanging out with some friends from college.

Christina, Me, Kendra, Holly

We always enjoy our trips to Oklahoma and they always go by way too quickly!