Randomness

Okay, this is a really random post but this whole blog is random and I am trying to catch you up! Sorry for a bit of immodesty on Carly's part but this was her first towel wrap on her hair after a bath. She was very excited and proud of it. She said she was a nun! Her hair is getting so long that unless I do this to her hair her jammies end up soaked on the back.

Next, more yard work. These are Scott's new/old toys. This being our first house, we didn't have any lawn care equipment. But, this being our first house we didn't have a lot to spend on such things with all of the other expenses and just having moved. So, one Saturday morning Scott braved the flea market. He said there were so many to choose from and just when he thought he had his mind made up more vendors would come and set up shop and lo and behold they would also have a lawnmower. He finally decided on one and was able to haggle a little with the guy and got a mower, weedwhacker, and edger for $100! They aren't perfect but they work and get the job done. He doesn't say it but I think he really enjoys going out and working in the yard. It makes me glad our yard isn't any bigger though because it takes a long time to do just what we have. We all appreciate his hard work and enjoy the fruits of his labors whenever we go out.

As you can see we have been very busy in the front yard. Here the boys are helping to pull out
some bushes that were growing around the trees in the front yard. They really enjoyed jumping on the shovel and digging and pulling them out. After taking out the scraggly bushes around the trees our front yard really seems much more open (and less friendly to all manner of wildlife). The same for the bushes right in front of the house. For those of you who never saw a picture of what it was like before they were bushes like what is behind Taylor in this picture. They were huge and blocked so much light. We are liking the openness it gives to our front living room.

This was a lot of different things. Hopefully soon we will have more of a theme to our blogs!

Space and Sports

Well, here I am again. I will try to get you a little more caught up on our lives and what we have been doing since we got here. We went to the Johnson Space Center one day and had a great time. It was fun to see everything they had there. We were able to look at several of the space suits. It was interesting to see what they first started out with. The kids thought it was great to try on the old helmets. You can see how this one just drowns Carter!
We also got to walk around in a mock up of the space shuttle,
see a movie and see what it would be like if we were on the ground at a launch. Scott and the kids also got to feel a little bit what it it would be like with no gravity. There was so much to do! We didn't even do half of it. But we got passes to last for a year so we can keep going back! The kids ask me at least once a week when we are going again. Come on down and you can go with us!!!!


Something else that we have been doing is Tennis lessons for Taylor, and Gymnastics for Carter.
Carter and Carly were very supportive of Taylor at his lessons and would even let me watch for a good portion of the time before I had to take them to play on the toys. Taylor did great with
his lessons. He learned how to serve, shuffle, hit forehands, and backhand. They called him "killer" because he could really hit the ball hard.
He had fun and really learned a lot in just a few lessons. Taylor is the one on the left in the picture. Even though he was about the smallest in the class he really did well and held his own.


Carter had a great time in his gymnastics class. They worked on somersaults, cartwheels, balance beam, doing a somersault on the balance beam!, scissor kicks, splits, springboard jumps, and that arm thing when you are done with a trick. We didn't get any pictures though because one of the lessons got cancelled and so I was off on my weeks and didn't take the camera to the last class. Sorry! Carly was sad that she didn't get to participate in the the gymnastics class but she wasn't quite old eneough. Maybe next year....

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