luckiest-est!

Our good fortune continues!

Monday was AWESOME!

Here's Rydger with the 'star' NASA.

Whoa, girlies! 

Don't fall into outer-space!

NASA has a super fun sports exhibit right now.

The kids had a BALL.  (hee hee)

Picture below of the beautiful Em and 

Kyle with his most HAPPY face on!

We spent the night in Kemah and then got up early and

 ate the FREE breakfast at the Marriott. 

(it's free stays like this that make it worth Spencer traveling:)

The best part was going BACK to bed after filling up our tum-tums.

Then we packed up and headed for Galveston.

Here are Kait and Kyle diligently searching for sand crabs.

They did this for more than an hour.

S-Man chill-axin' on the beach.

The kids spent most of the day digging this enormous hole.

(not completed in the photo)

Yes, they hopped on a boogey board here and there, 

but most of the effort of the day was spent here.

It was about 5 foot by 4 foot and more than 3 feet deep.

Teamwork!!

Kait made a special hole for Maddie.

She's all scrunched up and completely enjoying herself.

She couldn't feel her feet when she got out...

but hey- par for the course.

After hours upon hours - the hole was completed.

What did they want to do?

Be buried in it.

Awesome.

Such a fabulous day!!!!!

We are the most luckiest!

Our sweet nieces came to visit us in

this humid nastiness we call Houston.

We are so lucky!

We spent yesterday at the Aquarium.

I was so proud of Tyler.

He overcame his intense fear of merry-go-rounds.

Despite his crying for the conductor to "please slow down!"

He walked away a better man.

These are 'the fugitives'.

They run around the neighborhood trying to avoid

me - in my car- and make it to base safely.

I've wondered how the neighbors feel about

a bunch of teenagers diving under cars and into bushes

at 10 o'clock at night.

This is an accurate portrayal of how I feel

in the humid summer heat.

It even has my freckles.

 Our undersea adventurers.

There are beautiful white tigers at the Houston Aquarium.

Why? I'm not certain - but they are awesome.

(sorry - no real photo)

Beautiful girls on the ferris wheel with

the Houston skyline behind them.

This was my favorite ride. 

There was actually a breeze way up there.

Breeze + sweat = semi-coolness.

The toothless wonder and his beautiful cousin.

Girlies taking the DIVE.

Happy days! Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!

summer happenings

Fourth of July

Swim/BBQ at the Black's.

(SO FUN!)

These gorgeous girls with their 

Martha Washington hair-do's.

 The little dudes hangin'.

 Summer school lesson.

First-aide.

Kyle's awesome rope-burn.

 The other morning I woke up to Maddie yelling

in a not-so-happy tone,

"The boys TP'd my room!!"

Gotta love brothers.

Summer happiness.

100% Spirituality

These are the "Sons of Thunder"

Jace, Jaren, Joe, &  my little Ty.

They totally rock.

They brought down the house at EFY variety show last week.

I've been trying with no success

 to attach the video.

They are also on youtube - just wasn't as good of a recording.

 

It's totally worth 3 minutes and 9 seconds

of your time!!

 

I'm going to request to the church that they

create a RETURN MONTHLY EFY program

next summer.  I'll pay any price.

This boy learned so much. He felt the spirit. 

 He made new friends.

He came home SO happy!!  

What an amazing program!

happy letter :)

I got some happy mail today! :)

What a great feeling to open that mail and see

"CONGRATULATIONS!"

I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to go back to school!!

Happiness!!!

Occupational Therapy...here I come!

Thanks for all your well wishes and faith in me!

Love ya'll!

Science Experiment

Halliday Summer School continues.

We performed a monumental experiment last night.

What happens when five boys stay up until

5:00 a.m. playing PS3?

Hypothesis: GRUMPINESS

RESULT: This is my family room at 11 a.m.

Still waiting to see if my hypothesis

comes to pass. I'm thinking yeah.