Stewart Beach / Galveston Island, Kemah Boardwalk and the Aquarium

Saturday was spent at the beach. The weather was perfect! It was a great day.

I know it's an overload of pictures. I just couldn't narrow them down so most of them made the blog! There are a lot of Blake. I figure it's justified because it's his first trip to the beach, I missed his 13 month update.....and he's just so dang handsome!

After the beach we went back to the hotel to clean up and then we spent the evening at Kemah Boardwalk and ate at the Aquarium.

Houston Children's Museum

Three reasons we took the kids out of school Friday.
1) Spend more time with Mony & Papa
2) Avoid horrific after school/work traffic
3) Enjoy the Children's Museum one more time without a huge crowd

All were a success (except for the Houston traffic but I knew we would hit that). The museum was much bigger than we thought. We didn't even get to see about a third of it, or more,  last time. The kids had a lot of fun.

And.........the many faces of Avery

Mony & Papa Visit AND Daddy's Home!!! ~ October 2012

It's been a while since I've posted on here! Our lives had been pretty routine. Nothing too exciting to really blog about. All of a sudden we've been super busy and doing a lot of fun things again. Mony & Papa are visiting right now. They got here last Wednesday. Derek graduated from SOS (Squadron Officer School) on Friday, October 5th. He took off right after graduation and headed this way and we met up with him in the Houston/Galveston, TX area for a little weekend getaway. We're having a lot of fun. Get ready for some picture overload over the course of the next couple of days!!!!

Here are a few pictures until I can post later.........

We go to Barnes & Noble Story Time just about every Tuesday. Today was no different. We usually play around the store before/after the story.

Movie Night was a new thing I started up since Derek has been gone. I let the girls stay up late on Friday and/or Saturday and we'll watch a movie. Since I was taking the girls out of school on Friday to go to Houston they begged Mony & Papa to have Movie Night with them Thursday night. It was a good movie. :0)

Half Day

Today the girls had a half day of school. Avery was done at 9:45 am and Allie was done at 11:45 am. Once Allie got home we got our things together and headed over to Lackland.......

it was sunny out so we had to grab sunglasses before we left

Once we got there both girls new we were where Daddy worked. Allie thought I must be surprising them and that Daddy was going to be there. That would have been a good surprise. I let them down easily and said we'll have to have lunch with him the next time we were there (we were stopping at the BX food court for lunch). After lunch we headed over to the Bob Hope Performing Arts Center to see a Sesame Street performance. We saw a similar performance four years ago (when Allie was 2) at Scott AFB. It's put on by the USO. Allie thought she was too old for the show yet she wanted to get up there to shake their hands. The other two sat and watched and played with their new Elmo toys (the same ones we got four years ago).

3rd row seats!

After the show was over we went to the park on base. It's a huge park with lots of shade. The girls had a blast and Blake took about a 20 minute nap. When he woke up he was excited and ready to play too!

even though it was pretty shaded the smaller area for Blake's age wasn't as shaded as the rest at this time of day. And it was still really hot.

He wasn't quite as happy because he had shoes on. He's not use to them yet.

It was a fun, busy day. Hopefully they are exhausted enough that they will sleep in a little in the morning!!!!

Now this next picture is just from earlier in the week. We went outside to play with chalk. Blake was in heaven. It was pretty much the first time I've ever put him down on the ground outside.....besides the one time in Idaho when we realized the grass was razor blade sharp there. Allie practiced writing her spelling words for the week.

I also should mention the sweet moment between Blake and Avery while we were at the Sesame Street show. Blake was extremely tired. He only had about a 20 minute nap all day prior to the show. He wasn't to the point where he was whiny yet, but he was being very lovey. He and Avery have been getting to be good friends lately. He reached for her and put his arms around her and gave her a nice big, gentle hug.....and patted her back. Then he would look at her and babble something like he was telling her something really serious and then hug her again, pat her back and lay his head on hers. He did this 3 or 4 times before Avery had had enough. I think these two are going to be a lot alike in their personalities.