60th Anniversary in Dallas

Kelly's Mom's parents celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary on September 3rd. We all drove up to Dallas to get together at Kelly's Mom's house. The girls had a good time seeing everyone and entertained the household as usual. We got to play a trivia game based on people and events from 60 years ago in addition to learning about how Kelly's Grandparent's met.




As you can see below, we were a little zonked when we got home and needed a nap.

New Landscaping

At the beginning of September, we bought some landscaping stones to better outline the flower beds in the front and back yards. We had 3 palettes delivered via a flatbed truck one morning, and the neighbors little boy came out to watch the fork lift drop them off. We had outlined the front two flower beds bordering the house at this stage. Addison wanted to dig in the dirt while this was going on so she could "help". Eventually, we will finish the entire front and back yards beds and take some final pictures.

Kelly's Exam and Addison the Photographer

Kelly's dad and Step-mom came down to help out since Kelly had an endoscopy done to make sure her pains and indigestion wasn't something more serious. She was in the hospital for about half a day for the procedure, and they didn't find anything wrong. Pictures of the patient are forbidden, and none will be shown on here.

Around this same time Addison had become and expert with our iPhones. She especially likes to take(and look at) pictures she takes with it. Below are some examples of her photography work:

Ice Cream

Addison has an unusual way of eating ice cream. First, she will take the spoon and dip the bottom of it in the ice cream. Then, she will lick the ice cream off the bottom of the spoon. I think she may do this to avoid "ice cream headache", however, she may just be acting goofy.



Here is a short movie of her eating:

Addison Eating Ice Cream

Return to Moody Gardens and Galveston Part 2

We were able to stay at Kelly's company's beach house, which was a big help with the kiddos. Addison had a great time playing with the toys they had there, and Kara liked sliding on the hardwood floors.





We also had a chance to go back to the beach. This was a big hit with Kara and no so much with Addison. Kara would zoom towards the waves without any fear at all. Addison, who usually loves going in the shallow waves, did not want to go in at all unless one of us(usually Kelly) was with her. Both of them did have fun making sand castles and watching the water come up towards us to wash them away. This worked out well since we kept Kara from darting at the waves by making a small moat with water she could play with.

Return to Moody Gardens and Galveston

Back toward the end of August, we made another trip down to Moody Gardens. We wanted to go to the rain forest part of the gardens since we had not been there before. We were pretty disappointed in it over all. There were some animals, however, it was mostly plants. Plants are not that thrilling to kids.

The butterfly exhibit was the largest let-down of all. It was basically a large net with some butterflies in it followed by a small series of puzzles or learning areas about butterflies. Most of the stuff was very uninteresting and it was short overall. We ended up going back to the aquarium out there as well since we knew that part is worth it.












Here is a short movie of Addison riding the end ride at the butterfly exhibit:

Exhibit Ride

Kara Playing Peek-a-boo, Addison playing with GG, and Kara Dropping Stuff

Below is a link to a movie of Kara playing peek-a-boo with Kelly. She likes to do this with the blankets and also the curtains.

Kara playing peek-a-boo


Here is movie of Addison showing off her game on my iPhone where a cat repeats what you say. You can also click on it and it makes sounds. She is showing it off to GG on the couch and calls it her kitty cat game.

Addison and iPhone


Below is a movie of Kara dropping things on the ground(which she does as a game) and Addison is repeatedly picking them up. They were both having such a good time that we had to get it on film!

Kara and Addison Playing