Earlier this week, Lana, Lauren and I each wrote letters to Hope. Without knowing it, we wrote letters that fit nicely together into one birthday note to Hope. Here it is:
Hope, you are loved by your family and you always will be! Happy 1st birthday!
Several photos at 11 days old were taken by Beth from sugarrushphotography.com. Thanks Beth!
Because we stayed right on the beach at my aunt’s and uncle’s beach house, we had lots of opportunities to walk down to the beach and look for shells, play around in the water, fly kites, etc.
We had a LOT of fun.
Here are a few pictures taken just a hop, skip and jump from the beach house.
Do you know what this is? Lauren found this heart shaped thing. At first we thought it was a shell but it was light-weight. Not until we saw one for sale at the local corner market did we figure out what Lauren found. It’s a seaweed bean.
A kiss from Dave. Cute, huh?!
Well, that about sums it up! I’m done posting about our trip to Texas. Now, back to everyday life!
While in Galveston, we decided to go to Moody Gardens’ Festival of Lights. Years ago, Dave and I went to a FREEZING cold light show with his family in Manitoba, Canada. It was so cold that we ran through the lights as fast as we could to get to the hot chocolate area. Moody Gardens in Galveston was a much more pleasant weather experience. We were perfectly comfortable walking around in our sweatshirts.
I know I am repeating myself, but I thoroughly enjoyed the winter weather in Texas. I dream about weather in the 60s and 70s. I hope there isn’t some strange psychological disorder about loving nice weather so much!
Lauren asked me to take a picture of the castle and the fox.
We were out past bed time. We had one sleepy little girl and one very wide awake little girl.
My mom brought Parcheesi to the beach house. Lauren LOVED playing. In fact, she drew a picture of a Parcheesi board in her school journal to show her teacher and classmates.
I got royally beaten by Lauren and my mom. Clearly, Lauren has inherited her dad’s strategy skills and not my lack-of-all-things strategic non-skills!
While Lauren was busy playing games, Hope was busy too.
Busy munching on Puffs. And tossing them all around.
And busy finding shoes to chew on. Hope got her first top tooth while in Texas.
