Blast from the past

Mom and I spent last week cleaning out her closets and organizing for a garage sale. A lot of reminisicing as we went made the work more fun. Below are some of the "treasures" we discovered as we went. This was a little gown that I wore growing up.

Kaylee's modeling one of my old "bad"- remember bad meant good back then- shirts. I was cool and probably wore this with cut offs - the real kind- and those sandals with the white leather straps between the toes.

We found a whole collection of shirt tales. Remember these little cartoon animals that solved mysteries every Saturday morning.

Our favorite find of the week was another Sea Wee. We knew of some that we had. The kids still play with them in the tub when we go to Nana's houe. But Mom was digging through a bag of Barbie clothes and discovered the blue and white haired Sea Wee. We were both so excited....It's the small things, really it is.....

Granny made matching robes for my cousin Amy and I. It washed well and Kaylee enjoyed modeling it. OK, Trent enjoyed modeling it too but we won't publish that picture....

I also found a barrette with ribbons on it that hung down about 12" It was made with black and white ribbon and had tri-beads on each end. I wore it in my hair most of the evening. The kids thought I looked "cool" It brought back memories of the skating rink, pickles, and slumber parties. All I needed was my trapper keeper to write down my feelings with a purple pen.

The Beach

Schlitterbahn

We just got back home from a few relaxing days in Galveston. We rented a little cottage a block from the beach. On Tuesday we had a fun day at Schlitterbahn Galveston. This was our first time there and we really enjoyed it. It was a LOT smaller than the water park in New Branufels but it was just as much fun. In fact, I think we rode almost all of the slides and I really felt like we got our money's worth. I don't like feeling like I missed half the attractions when I leave.

A really nice thing about the park was that there were only a few rides that the little kids couldn't do. Most of them said 42" OR accompanied by a parent. So we put a life jacket on Mia and away we went. Mia was a opposed to getting her face wet which is hard to stay away from at a WATER park. But she came along on all the rides with us.....screaming or not. A favorite attraction by 5/6 of us was the lazy river. After about 10 min. David said "there is nothing LAZY about this river" He was right! There were rapids and waves and lots of twists and turns. After the first turn we got separated from David and Mia and it took about 20 min for them to finally float back around to us. We learned quickly to all hold on to each other's tubes.

New Look, Same Old Blog

Some of you knew it was coming. I had to do something to re-vamp the blog, especially when certain other someones go and have their blog professionally done (cough, Davis Family, cough)

As usual, I always try to do it myself and save a little money. So, I spent most of the afternoon trying to get a funky little title on the top of my page. And it still needs some tweaking but I'm pretty proud of it. Let me know what you think, leave me a comment at the bottom of this post, I'm open to suggestions!

Speaking of doing it yourself, one thing I can't do myself is fill a cavity. I went to the dentist today because I had a suspicious looking spot on a molar. Come to find out it's not a cavity but upon X-ray a cavity was spotted elsewhere. Because of some insurance issues I don't have dental insurance any more so filling the one cavity is over $300. Added to today's total of $200. That is one expensive tooth. So, if anyone out there is a dentist and wants to trade some sewing, monogramming or cooking, for the services(heck I'll even throw in babysitting) , Let's Deal!!!!!

Red White Blue and You

We spent a soggy 4th of July by attending the local parade and then having a great BBQ lunch. Lunch was exceptional, Ribs cooked to perfection, brisket seasoned and smoked just right, add some potato salad, cole slaw and sweet tea and you've got the best lunch ever. Thanks Pappa's BBQ, we'll be back again soon.

The kids loved the parade. Trent and Kaylee would compare how many pocketfuls of candy each had collected. At one point Trent turned to Kaylee and said "This is better than........ANYTHING"

Zane rode on the Boy Scout float. The premise of the float was to help cool down the crowd. They asked people if they wanted to be soaked and then sprayed away. The baby pools were there to refill the supersoakers. However, this year most people were already soaked by the constant "drizzly drip" from the sky.

Blueberry Pickin'

We finally got a nice rain-free day to go Blueberry pickin' The kids had a great time competing for the "biggest" blueberry. We picked about 5 pounds. Well, they weighed out about 5 lbs that doesn't count the ones that didn't make it into the bucket. Mia didn't do much picking. It's hard to pick blueberries attached to someone's hip.