Hello Dolly!

Well, the rain and wind have been crazy. But, now the sun is shining a little bit. So, Jarrod, Natalie, Poppie and the girls have all gone to walk on the beach. Looks like we're out of the woods so far. Just some rain and some wind.

Dolly's Comin'

Well, we haven't been up that long (or atleast I haven't). The wind howled all night, but when I got up it was just sprinkling and thundering, but by the time I got downsatirs it was pouring. Kaitlyn and Jarrod just left to go down to the boardwalk and see how high the water was today. Yesterday I got a pic of it hitting about 3 feet off the end of he boardwalk. Yesterday half the people at the condos checked out and left. There are about 10 cars in the parking lot. I'll post more later today.
The little white specs in the pic are Kaitlyn and Jarrod. They just got back-it started pouring and they are soaked.

more pics

It would only post two pics, so here are a couple more.

More Beach

Today we went down to the beach around 10:30 and stayed for about 2hrs. Since Dolly is on her way low tide today ended up being higher up on the beach than yesterday, so our stuff ended up almost underwater by the time we were leaving. So, we went to the pool for a little while and now we're relaxing. I'll attach some pics. The girls are having a great time and every time we go to the beach "the boy" sleeps through it. I'll post some pics of the storm tomorrow.

Life's a Beach!

Well, we are on our first ever family vacation. My Dad has brought us all down to Port Aransas for a week of beach living. My family (all 6 of us) are here with my Dad, Grandma and my sister and her daughter. They youngest 3 kids have never seen a beach before (other than on tv) and the oldest was too young to really remember. Emma asked Jarrod before we got here if she found a coconut on the beach would he cut it open so she could drink the milk out of it. We also caught a bunch of hermit crabs. We just stuck our hands down in the sand and they were there. I think we got 7 of them. I am going to try and post a family pic. Hope it works!

Summer is HERE!

Well, I am officially not good at this blogging thing. So, looks like I posted last in April. So, here goes nothing-
May: Kaitlyn turned 9!! Preschool ended (I will now be teaching 2's)...politics, politics but's that's a whole nother story. June: teaching swim lessons for some families, been doing a lot at the library with the kids, VBS was awesome and we had so much fun! The heat is killing us though- come to fnd out that the crazy heat has something to do with global warming and when I looked up info on that a NASA scientist told Congress just recently that we need to get rid of coal power plants and do more environmentally VERY QUICKLY b/c within the next 2 decades (20 Yrs!!!) or there will be mass extinctions and lots of other things. That's SCARY considering it is still in OUR lifetime. Oh and I make my own baby food now. Which I could kick myself for not doing it with the other 3 kids. It is so easy and so much cheaper than buying jars. Well, I'll update more later.

Funny Things Kids Do.....

Well, I've been thinking back on the funny things my kiddos do. I have one "rockstar" who listens to her iPod as loud as possible and sings as loud as possible (and off key) to it while reading "quietly" in her room. I have another one that I will never take to the bathroom in a public place (atleast not Babe's anyway) because as I was sitting there waiting for her to finish doing her thing she started grunting and groaning (in a full RR mind you) and when I asked what was wrong her exact words were, "I'm trying to poop!". No one in the RR would look me in the eye after that, but I couldn't help but crack up. Then the little one that just loves Jesus so much. As Daddy tells them all these stories (almost always Bible stories) while we drive she pays close attention. He had just finished telling the one about when Peter cuts off the guys ear and Jesus healed him. Well, she was so distraught because she thought Peter cut off Jesus' ear. For days she went around talking about Jesus' ear and after 2 days we finally got her to believe it was someone else's ear, so now she goes around touching her ear going, "it wasn't Jesus it was somebody else". She and her middle sister also go around fighting over whether or not Jesus is dead. This was an especially exciting argument during Easter. My kids crack me up, so I'll have to keep updating with the crazy things they do.