Summer--Week 7: Family Comes to Visit!

The middle of July, my mom and Aunt Cindi came to Houston to work at the Impact church with their church group from Oklahoma. They were supposed to come to our house on Thursday after working at Impact all week and spend the weekend with us, and my dad and Uncle David would drive down to meet them and spend the weekend here, too. We actually ended up getting to spend the whole week together because Aunt Cindi got sick while at Impact and my mom brought her to our house earlier in the week. She ended up having an emergency appendectomy--her appendix had burst. Bless her heart, she had to have the surgery and be in the hospital in Houston for 5 days, all away from home. She was blessed though because they were able to get it out and kill all the infection through IV antibiotics.  She may never want to come to Houston again!

Meanwhile, Dad and David did come as well and it was really nice to spend some time with them and Mom, too! We spent Friday going to NASA and then to the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston. The rest of the weekend, we stayed around here and visited Cindi in the hospital. We also celebrated Dad's birthday and Ty and I's anniversary while they were here. It's always GREAT to spend time with my family :)

Mom and Grace at Dave and Buster's

Dad and I at the space shuttle at NASA

Uncle David at NASA

Ty and I at NASA

Dad riding the ferry to Bolivar Peninsula 

Our get well message to Cindi in the sand!

Gigi and Poppy with J and G at the beach

Dad and Jake love the water more than anyone I know--except maybe, Ty :)

Sunset at Galveston--beautiful

Summer--week six: Lots of sun and fun!

We had a great week and continued to cross items of our summer bucket list. One of the ones we had been looking forward to was riding the trolley in The Woodlands. We parked at the library and the kids picked up their goody bags for summer reading and then we caught the trolley to Market Street. It was so much fun! It's totally free and I don't know why we hadn't ridden it before. At Market Street, we had a picnic, got some ice cream, and played in the fountains. Such a fun day!

Grace holding her geode--a cool item in their summer reading goody bags from the library.

      About to ride the trolley with JoJo

                      On the trolley

           A little treat from Cold Stone

                  

Each evening this week, the kids went to a t-ball camp at Faith Bible Church with their friend, Kate. This was Grace's first athletic endeavor and a HUGE deal for her to participate in something that didn't let her wear a dress :) Surprisingly, she loved it! (Of course, Jake did, too). The last night, they played a game and she was hilarious. She never quit laughing and the coaches said her joy was contagious. We love our Gracie Girl. She never ceases to surprise us.

The rest of the week we swam, went to a water day at church, and swam some more! Jake's goal of the summer was to touch the bottom of the deep end which he's mastered now. As of this week, Grace is a full-fledged swimmer, too, and it's hard to get our little fish out of the pool.

                     Water Day fun

             A pool day with friends

 Grace and her new friend, Ella, after       swimming

Saturday night we had dinner on the waterway and went for a nice walk by the fountains.