Pumpkin Patch

More beach pics

Laughing with Daddy
Smiling with Mommy

First trip to the beach

We all enjoyed our mini-vacation to the beach last week. We had a great view of the ocean from our room and Aubrey liked to look out the window and say, "biggest water ever seen". We had a little rain on our way down and more rain as we were packing to leave our hotel, but we had 2 nice days of clear skies to spend outside. Aubrey loved running along the beach, chasing seagulls, finding "she sells" and hermit crabs, jumping the waves and building sand castles with Daddy. We also spent a lot of time at our hotel's pool going down the slide and playing in the waterfall. Another highlight for Aubrey was riding in the "alligator" (elevator) and going to see the talking bird in the hotel lobby. It would either say, "hi, hello, or bye bye" every time we waked by and Aubrey thought it was hilarious. On our way back we stopped in Houston and got to have dinner with some good friends and then saw Aubrey's Gigi and Aunt Shannon the next day for lunch before we came back to Austin. We had a relaxing time and really enjoyed Robert's time off.

Kemah

We made a stop at the Kemah boardwalk on our way to the beach last week. We ate lunch and were able to ride a few rides in between the rain showers. Aubrey rode in a little air plane with Daddy and especially liked her first carousel ride.

Playtime

Playing with Noah and the animals in the "big boat"
Drawing with markers & chalk on the easel

Surprise visitor

We found this huge fuzzy spider as we were packing up the car to leave town last week! At first we thought it was a neighbor's Halloween decoration that blew into our garage, until it started moving. Growing up in the city, we had never seen a real spider this size before. I guess we'll add it to our list of scorpions, snakes and several other unidentifiable bugs that we have sighted in and around our new home.