A day at the Beach!

We recently made our first trip to the Texas beach.  We had a Monday and Tuesday off and decided that it would be a great time to go try beach camping.  What fun we had!

 

Tolson and mom made a sand castle complete with flag and shell decorations. 

 Tolson was so proud of his castle and hoped that even after we left it would stay up.  After the first day he decided that he didn't really like the waves in the ocean so he played in the sand all day. 

 Since there are no trees around the only shade we could find was from our big vehicle.  the kids were dirty and tried but still smiling!

 Our beach campsite!  I love having an SUV for many reasons and this is one of them.  We camped right on the beach!  A little dirty for my liking but we all had a great time!

Packing up to head home.  It was a beautiful two days and we all had fun!  I am so glad my family is willing and excited to go on fun adventures with me!  Next time though I think being a little closer to a shower would help!    

Adalee's 2nd Birthday

Adalee turned 2 and what a big girl she is!  We sure do love this girl.  

 She woke up in the morning to a room full of balloons!  What a fun surprise for her!  She is such a happy girl and bring so much fun to our family.

 We had dinner and cupcakes at our friends house.  The whole way there she kept saying her little friends name ever and over.  I think she has a little crush!

 We had pink cupcakes with nerds on top for a colorful rainbow of fun!

 She knew just what to do! 

Happy Birthday Adalee!  We love you so much and are so happy you can to our family.  Keep laughing and loving as much as you do.  You are a great little sister and my favorite little girl.

 

At 2 Adalee has quite the vocabulary.  She loves to do things herself.  She also loves to do everything her big brother does.  She likes to eat strawberries, cheese, applesauce, hot dogs and grapes.  She love to swim and thinks she is like the big kids in the water.  She also loves to tell me big long sentences that don't mean anything but she loves being able to tell me something important. 

 

I love you Adalee!  Happy Birthday!

More summer fun!

So this summer as I said before we spent a LOT of time up in San Antonio with Idas family.  One of the weekends I headed up there to help her clan and organize and she helped me make my first quilt.  It was fun and hard and I love how it turned out.  

 You can't really see it very well but the stitching is a big star shape.  We called it a Kapow (like the old comics when they would punch someone) The main band on the side is a superhero cartoon print so we tried to go along with that. 

 You can see it a little better on the back.  Tolsons cousin Rory has a quilt made out of the same fabrics so now they have twin quilts.  It was fun to make and he loves it. 

 In other news we have been spending a lot of time building legos at our house.  The afternoons are so hot that we spend a lot of time inside.  ( now don't go thinking I am a good mom and don't let my kids watch TV when its so hot outside, I do) We just love to play with legos.  Tolson got a set that builds 6 different automobiles so we have been doing that a lot. 

 He also loves to get very creative with them and build new "inventions" he calls them. 

And really how an you resist this cute face!  

Brekenridge Park and the Sunken Gardens

This was our trip to the Japanese Sunken Gardens.  This was a quary that they turned into a beautiful garden.  There were lots of trails and ponds and plants and lots of huge koi fish to look at.

 Ahhhh look how cute we are!  We really enjoyed walking around in such a beautiful place. 

Adalee and her favorite Delaney.  Such beautiful girls!

 The boys love Dalaney too!  (whats not to love really!)  This was riding on the train around brekenridge park. 

We tried for several minutes to get a good family shot and this is the best we got.  Not too bad!  

Zoo Trip

So we spent a lot of time up in San Antonio this summer and one of the trips we went to the zoo there. It was hot but there is a lot of shade so we had fun anyway!

Tolson and Rory riding the Lions!

 
Making funny faces on the Hippos!
 
 Hot and tired and riding a very small Elephant!

Adalee playing the the otters!

We all had a great time!  It is a lot bigger then our Tucson zoo but was well worth the day!!!! 

Picture Time!

OK I know I have been telling you all about our fun outings this summer but I just uploaded all my pictures from the camera (all 89 of them) and thought I would catch you up with pictures too!  So to start I am going to share with you our Canyon Lake trip.  You heard all about it and now you will get to see the fun!

 Adalee had lots of fun with her cousin Brannick.  Driving the pontoon boat was pretty safe (especially with the engine off)  She thought she was big stuff!

 The little boys likes hanging their feet off the back while we were just hanging out in the water. 

 I am not a big fan of large bodies of water but once I got out on the tube I had a blast!  I even managed to stay on so I didn't have to get in the water!!! 

 Tolson didn't want to go but decided that if his dad was with him it would be ok.  We went really slow and he thought it was very fun! 

 Tolson and his two cousins Evan and Rory.  We sure do miss them!

Adalee driving again!  We all had such a great time and managed to not get too Sunburned.  I am so glad we got to be close to the Ewings for a few months. 

Our fun visitor

I hope you all arn't getting bored with these journaling type posts but this is how I keep track of what we are doing and the fun adventures we are having here in Laredo.  I will try to do better at my picture updates too!  I hope you had as much fun as we did this week....

Ok so we started off this week (well actually ended last week) with driving to San Antonio on Friday to pick up Rory. Ida and I made it to the Temple for a quick initiatory session and had a good time trying to help get things ready for her Garage sale on Sat. Sat morning Tolson Rory Adalee and I headed out. Rory said in the car "this is going to be the best car ride ever" (I am not sure that the car ride lived up to his expectations but we made it home) We got home in time to have dinner gets baths done and head for bed. Sunday the kids enjoyed church and we had a quiet relaxing afternoon playing with legos and watching our kids favorite Sunday movie The Happiest Millionaire. Monday it was cloudy and not too hot so we headed out to the big playground in our apartments. The kids had fun pretending it was their fort and sending the monster trucks down the 3story slides. tuesday we went to the pool for Playgroup and Rory thought that it was the best pool ever. They splashed a swam for several hours enjoying a break from the heat. The afternoon was spent relaxing and playing Wii. Wednesday we went to the mall to see the kids summer movie Dolphin Tale and play at the play place inside the mall. The kids loved the movie and Rory gave his mom and dad a play by play on the phone after so I think he liked it too. It was cute! After the kids played at the play place for a while we rode the double decker merry-go-round and then headed home. After lunch and a nap for Adalee we went to Chick-fil-a for dinner and play time. While we were there it started to blow and rain but the kids thought it was great. When we left it was still raining and the boys started running and dancing in the rain. We went the the store and when we got out it had stopped. They were sad it stopped but still got to jump in some puddles. Thursday we went to the pool again enjoying it as much as we could and then in the afternoon the boys went with uncle Jason to Lowes to buy a saw. They had to have their "Manly Time" and had fun doing it. Friday we went to our friends the Browns so I could work on a project for Primary while the kids played. Then friday night we had a little pizza party. They each made their own pizza and we watched a movie and had a living room picinic complete with popcorn and cookies. Saturday we went to the church for our District Pioneer day celebration. They had breakfast, a parade for the kids and then games outside. It was very hot but at the end some of us had a water fight so it cooled us down a bit. I think that was the boys favorite part. Then we played wii had dinner and did hair cuts. The boys like having pretty much the same hair cut but Rory wasn't so sure he wanted it as short as Tolsons. They have had a great time and I hope they remember it for a long time. I am so glad that we lived close for these past few months and that these two little boys could get to know each other better. I am also so glad for the time I have been able to spend with Ida! She is an amazing woman and such an example to me! I am going to miss her but I am so glad I have been able to spend so much time with her over the last 5 months.

This next week is going to seem kind of boring without Rory here! I don't think I can compete with having a cousin stay with us! I hope you guys are having a good week too! I would love to hear whats going on with you all! (hint hint)

I love you all! - Wendy (and family)