Our Summer Week 1

We kept up the family tradition and made our cross country trip to visit our families. I have so many pictures from the trip, so I tried to consolidate and condense our trip down to something manageable, but instead I decided to give a week by week summary.



1. Astros versus the Pittsburgh Pirates, my sister Caroline has made my children Astros fans, which really confuses people here in Ohio. 2. Minute Made Park children's area, made me realize I have not taught my kids how to swing a bat. 3. Port Aransas (near Corpus Christi) Piggy Perch Fishing Contest, we found out there was a fishing contest while we were staying at the beach (look at 6 to see all the kids entered in the contest, I some how got then all out of order), we saw dolphin swimming by while we were helping the kids fish. 4. Julian my brother-in law was wonderful and rented a beautiful beach house for us. 5. The humongous shrimp (prawns) that Charles (another brother-in-law) cooked up for us. The shrimp were $5 a pound right off the boat. 6. My out of order picture, all the kids in the Piggy Perch fishing contest. 7. Surfing, Karin and Kirsten took surfing lesson with their cousins. They got up multiple times, they even beached it a couple of times. I was really surprised, I had no idea that they would be able to catch on so quickly. 8. The surfing cousins and their surf instructors. 9. My family, minus Kris and my brother Paul.

We had a fabulous time at the beach, it was so to enjoy the beach for a morning run and a walk in the evening collecting shells. I even got to do a little boogie boarding (I am not as adventurous as my kids, I don't surf).