Louisiana and July fun

We went to Louisiana to visit our cousins. It was really fun. We hung out, played spoons, and went to New Orleans Zoo. They have a really neat splash pad. 

Giddy with excitement. 

Cousins having fun. 

Here is a lizard of some kind. Excited at seeing the different kinds of people: big, small, short, tall, hairy, and bald. 

This was one cool gorilla. 

This peacock walked right in front of us. 

Playground antics after lunch. 

Merry go round!

Notice Courtney facebooking the fun. 

We went to French Market. Bridget got the girls masks. 

Monday we went swinging in the park. 

Birthday fun

For my birthday, we went deep sea fishing. We left on a charter out of the yacht club of Galveston. It was really fun. 

I caught a sand bar shark they are protected so I let it go. It was fun to fight it and reel it in. 

Here is Eli catching a hard nose. He caught about 5 of these. We tossed them back. We coulda used them as bait. 

Dee caught a shark that we kept. 

Eli wants to make a necklace out of the teeth. 

My shark before unhooking it. 

This was really fun. We only went a few miles out. 

Easter Eggers

Our Easter egger is finally laying. Bridget could not be happier. 

Summer Nights, Firefly Lights

So, now that summer is in full swinger are just having a blast. We are out there every day swimming. Emmy is really good with a life jacket. Eli and Dora are fish. The could play out there for hours. Eli's favorite game is diving for stuff on bottom of pool. Dora lives to ride daddy the dolphin. I should probably cap that. She loves Daddy the Dolphin!

Here is Amethyst. I call her the Tesseract. I think that was the source of power from the Avengers movie. But it may have been Thor. Those were good movies. 

So, Bridget bought Eli this jawbreaker at Galveston candy store on the strand. He has been licking it to the core. I told him you can tell how old it is by counting the rings. I'm pretty funny. 

So Bridget went to New York for 3 days on break. She met with her agent and saw Golden. I got Eli a large fishing tackle box for all his rainbow loom stuff. We've been making videos too. 

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/pARZpnM1SVo

To kill time, and do something special, we went to chuck e cheese. I refuse to capitalize that. It's a lot of work to watch 4 kids at a pizza place where the number of flashing lights and beeping sounds is enough to induce a seizure. 

Best friends 

I surprised Eli and Dora at 845 and took them outside to hunt fireflies. Dora actually caught one in a cup! Eli wanted to suck it into his bug vac and ended up smashing it. They had a lot of fun staying up late. Cute kids. 

I braided Emmys hair. So cute! I'm awesome. 

Fun fun fun. In the sun. 

Father's Day

We went to Blessington Farms and picked blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries. Kids were kinda tired but had fun. 

Strawberries. 

I had a massive haul! I got a memory picture book, Dora colored for me, Eli made me a DAD rainbow loom charm. Bridget got me shorts and a shirt. 

We made crepes for breakfast. But Dora got up really early and made me breakfast. 

She picked cereal, cut bag open, poured it for me and was waiting for me to come down. 

It was fruit snacks and mini wheats!

Galveston was a Blast

So I'm taking a job in Galveston to work and teach. Here is a picture of UTMB, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. It is one of the older medical schools this side of the Mississippi. Anyway, here is a picture of the school.  

After my computer training, I came home and we spent the day at the beach looking for shells, building castles, burying Emmy in the sand, searching for sea crabs, and flying airplanes and kits on the beach. It was really fun. Bridget took kids mini golfing why I was gone. 

At dinner, Dora made a hilarious joke. 

"Look, this chip is sunburned!"

Such a funny little princess!

This kid really wanted Taco Bell!

Princess Her Highness!

My buddy!

After dinner Eli and I went looking for crabs at night. Didn't find any living crabs, but we did find lots of seashells. 

Someone made this. Eli destroyed a couple of other castles.