Zoo Trip

James and I decided to take the kids to the Zoo on Saturday. We had never taken Jaxon and Kelbie was asking to go see the animals so we thought we would go first thing before it got to hot. Both kids really enjoyed seeing all the animals. We were going to ride the train after but we spent a long time inside the Zoo and both kids really needed a nap. Once the weather cools off again we will be taking them back again.

Splash Park

We enjoyed a couple play dates to the River Park splash pad with Kelbie's BFF. The kids had a blast. Even Jaxon wanted to get in on the fun. Defenitly a place we will visiting more often. There is also a very nice park beside it to play on.

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Surfside Beach

So after almost 4 years of having kids we decided it was about time we introduced them to the beach. Now if we lived near any other beach besides Galveston we would be frequent beach goers. I hate the beach. I never get in the water and would much rather get a tan. Thankfully James's boss owns a beach house in surfside and let us borrow it for a long weekend. The kids absolutly loved it. Kelbie is just like me and hates the water. She did okay when we first took them down there, but there we made her get in the water just to try it out and she screamed the whole time. Jaxon was fine with whatever except when it was time to leave the sand. He wanted to play all day. 

Friday the weather was nasty so we headed into Galveston to go to Moody Gardens. It was already in our plans but we were going to do Palm Beach instead of the pyrimds. The kids loved seeing all the different animals and shopping in the gift shop. After a fun filled day there we heading to Bubba Gumps for a late lunch early dinner and then to the Strand for some shopping.

Saturday we spend the entire day either on the deck of the beach house or playing in the sand.  We found some water balloons that we blew up and the kids enjoyed throwing those around the deck after a day full of beach fun. Kelbie got to play with glowsticks later that night after Jaxon went to bed and we even had glow stick races.

Sand baby

First taste of the beach

Seaweed in Galveston was discusting. It was  just piled up everywhere

Checking out the Octopus

Watching the seals swim

Special Drink

Pirate Kelbie and Pirate Jaxon

Sand play

Diva

Stud

He was perfectly happy with 2 bowls of water

Glow sticks

Water Balloons

Jaxon's 1st Birthday

We celebrated Jaxon's birthday with just family and a few close friends. We had a mustache bash which was a lot of fun decorating for. We had a bounce house for the older kids and a blow up pool. Jaxon enjoyed seeing everyone and opening his gifts. We went to lunch at Skeeters afterwards. The party was so much fun for Kelbie that she couldn't even stay awake to eat lunch. 

Happy 1st Birthday Jaxon.

He wanted nothing to do with Cake

Bounce House Fun

"What!!! These are all mine?"

Partied Out

Happy Birthday Jaxon

Since Jaxon's actually birthday fell during the week, we bought him a cupcake and celebrated just the 4 of us. He loved us singing to him and he loved eating the cupcake. 

July 4th

 We spend July 4th at the Boyer's house again this year. The kids enjoyed playing outside in the pool, chasing each other and having some watermelon. We grilled out for dinner and hung out before fireworks. Unfortunately we didn't' see fireworks this year because of the bad storms that came through. Kelbie was a little sad about it but I told her we would get to see them next year. Over all the kids had a blast and slept extremely well that night.

 

Sliding down the big slide into the pool

Jaxon and Trystan enjoyed the splash mat and water shooter

This kid LOVES watermelon

Brayden made red, white and blue Popsicle that the kids enjoyed

 

Cousin Picture Take One

Cousin Picture Take Two