Fun in the Sun!

A couple weeks ago, we took a quick trip to the Texas coast. South Padre island is about 30 minutes max from the Mexico border. The sand there is different than anywhere else on the Texas Gulf coast-it is actually clean, white and free of debris! It was a much needed trip for us as a family-the boys needed a change of scenery and I too needed a big distraction from the day before we left when I had to put my cat to sleep. Anyways, I loved just watching the boys play and actually get along-amazing what happens when video game systems are taken out of the picture! ha! Eric has the strong Hispanic gene in him-so he browned to the point of looking burgundy! :) Blake and Trey lived in the sand simply digging...not building anything interesting...just digging holes. Should I be worried! ;) We threw diets out the window when we left and stuffed our faces with anything we could get our hands on that would ensure instant diabetes or heart attack. My only gripe is that 18 total hours of Spongebob playing on the DVD player on the back of my headrest was enough to make me want to swim across the border and take my chances with Homeland Security!

Could I be that old???

OK, so I am so behind already just after posting one and only blog! Is this just a glimpse at the trend to come. I seem to not have any time away to "play" on the computer. If the kids are not demanding of something...Manny is! He has started hating the laptop...I try to tell him that he is just jealous of the fact that I might have friends and he is just a lonely old man! ;) Anyways, last month my "baby" turned 14! For the first time ever, Manny missed a bday with one of the kids. He has always been in town for them, but this year his work in KS fell on Eric's day! :( We just celebrated the night before, but it was still not the same. Anyways, we had to "settle" on doing his bday with people like my sister, Kristi. She begged to come and for me to pay for her meal! Gah Kris, have you no shame! Anyhoo...we had a lovely dinner with my parents, the boys, Moocher, I mean Kristi and sweet Olivia. It kills me that Eric is going into high school! How do I have a child that old already??? Must have been that pregnancy at 13...;)

One of Eric's favorite gifts...a new drum throne. He is a drummer and loves it! Little does he know that the seat was custom molded to my butt so I could double it as my bike cushion...hey, a girl's got to be frugal!

This is how I have to give my "baby" sugars now...on my tip toes and I am 5'9"!!!

Aunt Kristi and Papa giving the bday spankin'! Eric was thrilled...

She's a classy one, that Kristi...I kept trying to tell her she had something in her teeth, but she couldn't find it.More sugars for the birthday boy...

the lil' bros entertained themselves with fangs, I mean chopsticks...