I love how Alex will still respond every time to my "I love you" with "I love you more."
Friday, August 19, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Cousin Camp #2 - the beach!
Alright - beach pictures now. As I said, I didn't pull the camera out as much as I'd like, but here's at least a few pics.
Alex is silly.
Lonely Jim on the beach. Of course not really lonely, but I do like pictures of people walking on the beach.
Alex and Cole playing their game where they draw an impenetrable circle around Jim, trapping him.
Grace and Joey doing their own beach decorating.
My girl is getting so big!
Sweet picture of Emma and Eva.
Self-explanatory.
Alex of course had to do the same thing as Grace. Only he got very specific - I was not allowed to take the picture until he had finished writing and actually stood in the circle. Then he stepped out and said "NOW you can take the picture."
Love these kids!
Alex is silly.
Lonely Jim on the beach. Of course not really lonely, but I do like pictures of people walking on the beach.
Alex and Cole playing their game where they draw an impenetrable circle around Jim, trapping him.
Grace and Joey doing their own beach decorating.
My girl is getting so big!
Sweet picture of Emma and Eva.
Self-explanatory.
Alex of course had to do the same thing as Grace. Only he got very specific - I was not allowed to take the picture until he had finished writing and actually stood in the circle. Then he stepped out and said "NOW you can take the picture."
Love these kids!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Cousin Camp #1
As always, Cousin Camp was a wonderful time. I had so much fun that I didn't bother to take too many photos, but did get a decent representation of a fun week had by eight adults and nine kids.
Alex discovered that he loves chocolate pizza. And we discovered that an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet is a pretty good idea for feeding 17 people.
Probably the best Cousin Camp craft ever thanks to Grandad. Incredibly cool birdhouses with Texas license plate roofs. Even better was that since it involved building and power tools, the dads all shooed the moms out of the way and handled it themselves.
For my family, the week isn't complete without a visit to the Texas State Aquarium. Many of our group opt out of the trip (unfortunately sickness caused Cole to miss, much to his dismay), but those of us that go have a wonderful time. This year Grandad posed up on the whale statue (we couldn't get Emma to get up there with the kids).
We see the same fish every year, but it still is a good time.
Our shopping trip always involves a photo op in the shark mouth. As you can see, Eva (on Emma's lap) wasn't so keen on getting her picture taken. And you can barely see Joey in the shadows of the mouth in the back on the right side.
About to go spend Gramma's money. Yippee!
We had a very nice visit from Grace's friend Audrey and her mother and brother. They were best friends in kindergarten, and the summer before we moved to New Jersey Audrey's family moved to Houston. Since they couldn't make it up to Dallas to meet up with us when we normally visit with old friends, they made a special trip to Port A so the girls could get together.
And as usual, there were cutthroat domino games going late into the night.
Next posting will have some actual beach photos.
Alex discovered that he loves chocolate pizza. And we discovered that an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet is a pretty good idea for feeding 17 people.
Probably the best Cousin Camp craft ever thanks to Grandad. Incredibly cool birdhouses with Texas license plate roofs. Even better was that since it involved building and power tools, the dads all shooed the moms out of the way and handled it themselves.
For my family, the week isn't complete without a visit to the Texas State Aquarium. Many of our group opt out of the trip (unfortunately sickness caused Cole to miss, much to his dismay), but those of us that go have a wonderful time. This year Grandad posed up on the whale statue (we couldn't get Emma to get up there with the kids).
We see the same fish every year, but it still is a good time.
Our shopping trip always involves a photo op in the shark mouth. As you can see, Eva (on Emma's lap) wasn't so keen on getting her picture taken. And you can barely see Joey in the shadows of the mouth in the back on the right side.
About to go spend Gramma's money. Yippee!
We had a very nice visit from Grace's friend Audrey and her mother and brother. They were best friends in kindergarten, and the summer before we moved to New Jersey Audrey's family moved to Houston. Since they couldn't make it up to Dallas to meet up with us when we normally visit with old friends, they made a special trip to Port A so the girls could get together.
And as usual, there were cutthroat domino games going late into the night.
Next posting will have some actual beach photos.
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