Visit With Granddaddy

My dad came to visit us from Mon-Fri one week in July! It was a fun time to visit and he was also gracious in doing some of the tedious work that we've been needing to do in our house (read: lots of drywall). Kate was super content to sit and watch everything he did!

One afternoon we went to an Astros game!! It was such a fun day (but was officially completed when K vomited [alloverme] at the Whataburger)!! ...she was fine after exactly 24 hours :o)

We love you, Granddaddy (and we missed you, Gramma)!!!! Thanks for flying to HOU to spend the week with us!!!

Postponing "Goodbyes"

As mentioned a few posts ago, some wonderful friends moved to Colorado in July. We miss them! The week that they moved we enjoyed their company as much as we could with a sending off party, cleaning, and a few late nights... we postponed our "goodbyes" for as long as we could :o)

At the party...

Not all, but most of the kids!

And some last times at their house!

Blastoff!!!!

Living in the NASA community, the last Shuttle launch was a big deal! Nat had an awesome opportunity to watch the launch with a friend at JSC and we turned on the local news!

The slight "failure" with 31 seconds before liftoff gave me just enough time to grab the camera!

Very focused...

Success! Congratulations to all of our friends here who have worked so hard on this!!

Beach Day!

***I wrote this on June 23rd -- it is now August 10th!! I figured I would post it anyway***

This is a bit out of order, but last Saturday we had a fun beach day in Galveston with some of our dearest friends. We planned to do some work around the house, but upon being asked to join them at the beach for the day, we got ready for that instead! These friends are moving to Colorado at the beginning of July - we are going to miss them so much!!

Graham with his bucket of water - this is a big thing! The first hour he would not go anywhere near the water. We finally convinced him to come to the "wet sand" but at the first little ripple of a wave he hightailed it back to the towels. After a bit of watching everyone else in the water, though, he came back and loved the water!

Kate had no problems going near/in the water!

The girls

2 of the 3 boys!

Rain!!

We have been praising God for rain the past couple of days!!! I think the last time we received measurable rain was January or February (?? ...a long time ago). We are so thankful!

While I was watching the rain and the radar on the computer... this is what I found Kate doing! I had given her a banana for a snack and she decided that bringing salt, pepper, and butter to the table would be a good addition to it - yikes!

Just for Fun

Graham's been wanting to fix his own food recently (he loves to stay in the kitchen) - this week he learned how to make a PBJ and pudding -- yum!!

Beignet Kick

I (usually) love it when Nat gets on some kind of making food kick. I have definitely loved it this time!! All week we have made beignets, we had our small group make beignets, and we've made them again. My way of making them is to get the Cafe du Monde mix from the grocery store, but when we ran out of that, Nat was not going to let that stop him! So now we have a real recipe too :o)

Delicious!