Family Tradition

We love playing games! Whether it's a card game or outside with a stick and ball. Doesn't matter how many people are available....2,3, or more. Someone is always ready to play. You may say we might be a bit competitive, but I say it's just to have some fun together. My mom and I, especially, will try to get a game going just about anytime when we're together. Our newest game to play was croquet, which I hadn't played in quite some time, which my boys absolutely loved! Give a boy a mallet and very hard ball, and what more could he ask for?! My parent's house had the perfect backyard to set up our course and we all had fun, fun, fun!

Drew's First Trip to the Beach

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Ocean in that area, but all you need to know is that it is REALLY COLD! Add in cloudy weather with lower temperatures and that is Drew's first experience at the beach. Josh, Drew, and I were with my parents and my brother Daren's family at Ocean Shores. Daren also had 2 little ones, Jude and Lily, 13 month old twins, that had never been to the ocean. It was fun to see all their first reactions. Drew wasn't sure what we had done to him. Sand and him were not instant friends! But we gave him some time to get used to it, and then the fun began! Jude on the other hand, couldn't get enough sand! :) And I'll let the pictures speak for themselves once we tried to get Drew in the water!! Priceless!!

4th of July

This is our first 4th of July in Texas and we celebrated by attending a yummy breakfast put on by our church, watching a mini parade that came thru our neighborhood, and dressing up in red, white, and blue! There were no fireworks lit that night which was very different. All was quiet on this frontier! However, they did light fireworks the night before somewhere in town. We just didn't see them!