Halloween 2009

Our "spooky" house

Carving pumpkins

Ick!

Randi having an identity crisis!

The neighborhood gang
(L to R)
Ryan, Sydney, Robert, Lane, Randi and Bryce

Randi aka Snow White

Snow White & Hanna Montana (Riley)

Ryan aka Tony Stewart

Michael aka The Grinch (better known as my 3rd child!)
and his trusty dog Max

Teva and Jake

When people would open their door for the kids,
Ryan would loudly say...
"Trick or Treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat,
and if you don't like it, I'll pull down your underwear!"

Hope you had a haunted Halloween!

Port Aransas

The kids have been asking to go to the beach so we decided to
go to Port A for the weekend and see how we liked it.
We weren't even out of New Braunfels when they started
asking if we were there yet, so we were really glad we
went to a beach that was only 2 1/2 hours away!

Being goofy our first night out on the town!

Oh no, it looks like a shark swallowed Randi!

The kids each got to pick out a special beach toy.
Randi chose her first boogie board, and although
she never rode on it in the water, she treasured it
and carried it to the beach with us every day.

And guess what Ryan picked out???

One of Randi's favorite games is to run the race course
that Michael would draw in the sand,
and boy is that girl fast!

The stud muffin!

Our fish tank sandcastle.

Building a sand fort

And filling it up with water

Texas State Aquarium

We took the kids to Port Aransas last weekend, and the first day we were there,

we went to the Texas State Aquarium.

The kids loved the big fish tank filled with SHARKS, fish and turtles!

The touch tanks were full of hermit crabs, starfish and sea urchins.

Way cool submarine bubble.

The sea otters were very entertaining.

Ryan was brave enough to try to touch a ray,
but Randi wanted nothing to do with them

The Bald Eagle was more her speed!

And, of course, they both loved the dolphin show!

Even the Whales on the way out were a big hit!

Cowabunga!!!!