A Day at the Beach

We fianlly went to Galveston Island (yes it is an island for those who dont't know) last weekend and had a great time. I couldn't believe that it was the 20th of October and we were playing in the ocean. It was a perfect day! The sky was blue and cloudless, the water was warm, and we were together as a family! The kids loved picking up all the seashells. They were everywhere. Scott and I even had to encourage them to check out the water because they were so into pickin up the shells. Carly and I saw about 20 hermit crabs of all sizes crawling around in the water. After that she thought every shell was a hermit crab. It was frustrating at the time because she wanted me to hold her until we got her sandals but now we laught about it.

After a couple of hours on the beach we had a picnic and then went for a little bike ride through the marsh area and saw some cranes and egrits. We also saw the kids and my first armadillo, except we think it was dead because it was just sitting there in the water.

We had a fabulous time and are excited to go again. There are so many things to do there it will take many trips.

We have also been busy with lots of yard work. Ugh! I didn't realize how much time it really does take. All the bushes that were in front of our house are GONE. They have been replaced with some huge Sago Palms and Hibiscus. It is still somewhat a work in progress but I am done until spring with it at least.

I am going to try to get some more posts up. Hopefully this will be a funner way to keep in touch with all of you than my boring emails. Bear with me as I figure this out. I can't get this program to rotate my picture and I lost the one of the hermit crab in my editing. Maybe I will do it again another time. At the moment though I am all "teched" out. For those of you who know me you know this is a big thing for me to not just make Scott do it for me. I have done this all on my own. Good for me!

Okay now I am missing two pictures! I better stop while I still have any!

Amme