June 2025: Lyla's Baptism

 Lyla made the super awesome choice to be baptized! She is so loved and supported. We had so many wonderful come out to shower her love and support. 

Her Grandma and Nana gave the talks. She practiced and play I Like to Look for Rainbows with me. I love that I was able to play that with all three of my people on their baptism day. Such a special tradition. 

For moving away from home, we sure filled the room on her baptism day! We are so blessed to call some really great people our friends and family!

With all the visitors we truly partied hard! There was lots of fishing, games and food. Two baby turtles were again acquired. I only offered them lodging until the visitors left. There was a pool of turtles and fish. One of the fish even had babies! It was crazy!

Now that summer is practically halfway over, we are ready to rest and fund our summer routine!

Until next time...

June 2025: Family Pictures

 While in Port Aransas, I took the opportunity to force my family to take family pictures. We were going to do sunrise pictures, but on a hunch we decided to do them as soon as we arrived. It was a smart move. Each day we were more and more tired. Each day the beach got more and more crowded. We would not have been successful any other day we were there! 

June 2025: Family Vacation: Port Aransas

We left San Antonio and made out way to Corpus Christi. We crossed the bridge and ate lunch with a view! Straight after lunch we drove the beach on the way to our Airbnb. We hade some pretty great views of the ocean from our back door. We enjoyed sitting out and eating while we watched the waves. Our first night we took our family pictures. It was our best decision of the week. We beat the crowds and no one was sunburned yet! 

Every morning and every afternoon was spent at the beach. We were able to drive on the beach and have the car steps away from my beach chair. It was magical. The kids took to the ocean quickly. They loved the boogie board and Nolan started to figure out the skim board. They all became master hermit crab catchers and seashell finders. 5/5 stars. 

Nolan was brave enough to try the skim board. My foot was sacrificed in this endeavor, but he was fairly successful in learning something new

At the last minute we decided to give the Texas State Aquarium a try. We LOVED the dolphin show and sea turtles. Other than that I've been to better aquariums. However, it's location was amazing! From the Dolphin enclosure, you could see the bay. We were able to watch a few HUGE shipping barges come through. The aquarium had an observation deck where you could see the bay and USS Lexington. Next time we go we will tour the Lexington. It seems 2 days is Lyla's max partying limit. A few of our hours at the aquarium were a STRUGGLE. She perked up and we continued to have a great day!

Their shark enclosure was actually pretty cool was well. We got some cool shots of the sharks approaching the kids. 

Too soon it was time to go home. We made a pit stop at the site of our new temple. It will be done next year and we are excited! This is the first time we have been able to see it in person. It is going to be about and hour away from us.

We got home just in time to clean for our next adventure, Lyla's baptism!

Until next time...