Tiff Crochets

The beach has been wonderful.  We have a day and a half left here.  The girls have been enjoying the week spent without any pressing issues outside of when to walk across the dunes to the beach.  The only downside is that the seaweed has arrived.  There are waves and waves of seaweed washing onto shore.  By the morning, we will have to walk across a mound of seaweed to reach the water.  I can handle it because we have had four days of beautiful beach weather.  Everyone is tanned and enjoying the time together relaxing.

We will be home Sunday night and I will miss waking up to the sun rising over the Gulf.  We have seen plenty of dolphins (most likely officially porpoises, must research that when I get home), even a family swimming by out in the deeper water.  Many photos to come.  The girls attempted wind surfing today and Maddie now wants to wind surf every day for the rest of the summer.  Her grandpa Pepe is now talking about getting the girls a junior wind surfing set to use on the lakes around our house.  I may be doomed!

Enjoy the rest of your week.  We are in the midst of grilling steaks and baking sweet potatoes before taking an evening walk on the beach as the sun sets.

The girls and I are currently in Houston.  In two days, we will be driving down to Galveston Island for a week stay on the beach.  I think we’re commendeering my stepdad’s laptop and wireless internet access so I hope to blog a time or two while we’re there.  I finally finished my beach cover up, but now I can barely move my hand from so much crocheting.  At least I will be able to wear it during my time in the sun!  Here’s a photo from one of our last trips to the beach, which sadly, was the summer after we moved back to Texas in 2005.  Living 30 miles from the beach for two years should have made summer trips mandatory.

We’ll be there with my mom and the most amazing dog ever, Hoover.  I saved him from a shelter while in college and he now is spoiled beyond reason by the parents.  Here’s mom with the girls:

I am so going to get in trouble for showing off this picture of her too, (Love you, Mom!) but it’s the only one I can find of Hoover in my Photobucket stash.

Have a wonderful week!!!!!

For those of you celebrating America’s independence today, Happy 4th of July!!

We’re off to a barbeque at a friend’s house, then will enjoy trying to catch as many fireworks shows in our area as possible, and there are quite a few!  The benefits of living in the “mid-cities” area between Dallas and Ft. Worth!

Here’s my favorite photos from a 4th of July many years ago (okay, about four years to be exact).

Laura survived three days at Girl Scout camp, arriving home only slightly miffed at her camping buddy and best friend.  I made them talk it out the 30 minute drive back from camp and now things are better.  Here’s Laura in her cabin, right before I left her on Saturday.

I really should have taken an after picture. She looked exhausted!  She did have a great time and learned a lot of new things.

Look at my wonderful stash of goodies newly arrived from England!  We did a swap in the Who Knits? group on Ravelry for Doctor Who items and Jelly Babies.  I have now discovered that I will never eat jelly beans again.  I will also weigh 500 pounds before the summer is out because I also discovered on the same day of my package arriving that Cost Plus World Market sells Jelly Babies.  I am doomed.  Doomed!

We celebrated Maddie’s 6th birthday over the weekend with a Star Wars party.  I was so glad to see the homemade light sabers go home.  We still have around five, but they haven’t been touched since the party.  Here’s Maddie playing Pin the Something (control panel?) on Darth Vader:

Last, but not least, I finished more tawashi!  I need to make more.  Tawashi will probably be my beach (11 more days!) projects because they’re lightweight and portable.  I made these for a swap on Ravelry.  They are now happily residing in Pennsylvania!