Homeschooling Rocks!

Spring is beautiful here so we hit the water in a canoe on Town Lake for a little environmental education "class". Lots of wildlife, including babies. We had such a great time. These are the days that I love the most-being outside, communing with "naytcha". The swan looks beautiful but when we got a little too close the kids hunkered down in the bottom of the canoe after he/she came towards us hissing. Brought our nets and caught a baby turtle. Released it after holding it for awhile - very cute! Saw a gar in the water and a humongous turtle that I, at first, thought was an alligator. I wanted to hang out a little and look for it again but Andi was sure it was an alligator and was also sure it was going to jump in the canoe and eat us. I wonder what the school children are doing right now? Wish you were here to enjoy this day with us. -auntie m

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Going to the Beach

A few weeks ago we went camping on the Texas coast. Even though it rained a good part of the time, we had a great time. We were mainly going to see the Texas Sandfest sand sculpting competition. We spent only a small portion of our time there due to rain. We went to the Aransas National Wildlife refuge where we saw alligators in the wild. We went to the Texas Coast Aquariam, the U.S.S. Lexington (a retired Navy aircraft carrier now used as a museum), and to the beach. It was not a very warm day by Texas standards and Andi fell into the surf with her clothes on (that's the picture where she's wet and mad). After that she got her swimsuit on and played a little longer. Sam also got his clothes wet and walked through Corpus Christi nudie buff. It was the first time we have been to the Texas coast as a family. Not nearly as beautiful as almost any other coast but we still had a great time.

love, m

Blogging again

Hi Everyone!

I was inspired to blog today because we had such a beautiful time at Commons Ford Park. We caught 5 huge crawfish and, of course, released them again. A friend had asked us to bring one home so they could see it. Their 11 year old daughter was interested in holding one and perhaps eating it. We decided, instead, to bring home a few dead ones we found. We didn't want to sacrifice such big, majestic crawfish that had obviously lived quite awhile. They looked like junior lobsters. It was a gorgeous, cloudless, warm-but not hot, day. The wildflowers are in full bloom and the creek was running strong. I thought of you guys so much while we were up there.

Wish you guys were around. Love, M