ICE Exhibit In Dallas

Last weekend we took a quick trip to Dallas to go see the ICE Exhibit. This years theme was The Grinch That Stole Christmas.

We ended up buying tickets for the 8:30 pm Saturday thinking that the crowds would have died down...silly us. Apparently everyone had the same idea. The lines were like something I have never seen before, not even at Disney in the summer!!!

At least they were not tearing the place apart.

Izaac being goofy, while he still had a sense of humor. The 5 degree temperatures took a toll on his sense of adventure pretty quickly, and by the time we were near the end he was almost in tears because of the cold.

Lynn and Heather were very gracious to host us for the weekend and then join us in this outing.

Don't think were were supposed to touch the ice...

The ICE was amazing and I am glad we went. But by the time we were done, we were all happy to be out! Makes you appreciate the mild Texas weather.

Thanksgiving in South Carolina

For Thanksgiving this year we headed across county to Myrtle Beach to celebrate with the Gallagher family. I really went to get my baby fix, but it was good to see Katie and Mark as well;-) In the end we traveled 2500 miles and we had a wonderful time!
Here Mark is concentrating very hard on the turkey. It was a massive bird! I think it weighed in at 22-24 lbs. for four adults. I am sure Katie and Mark had tons of left overs after we left.

We stayed at Marks hotel and the kids shared a pull out bed. This is how we found them one morning. Amazing they can sleep like that.

Ivy Marie LaBauve 11-08-06

What an absolutely wonderful day 11-08-06 was! Ivy joined our family and made it very much complete. It is hard to imagine that three years have passed by so quickly! I still think of her as our "baby" and I am sure I always will. I have been truly blessed with a wonderful family and I look back at these pictures and have such great memories.

Happy Birthday Baby!!!

Cake

Well this year we did the Halloween theme for Ivy's birthday party again. Everything was very cute, but turns out we actually do not have too many photos. I think the Halloween part over shadowed the birthday party part and we got a little forgetful when it came to pictures.

Air Show

I have always enjoyed the fact that every year we can watch a small portion of the air show fly over our house...Especially when it is the Blue Angels. I am always amazed at how close to the ground they get. We got two days of enjoyment out of it this year.

One year we were outside having a garage sale during the air show, and I saw what looked like a bat float by between two houses. I saw this "bat" two more times before I mentioned it to Tobie and Mom. I told them that I might be going crazy but I thought I was seeing the Stealth Bomber...But sure enough it came by again and they both saw it and verified that I had not gone crazy. It was amazing because it made no noise at all. So I don't know if it was back out this year, but if it was we missed it.

The Blue Angels are always wonderful to watch. I love living in this area:-)

Monster House

So Halloween is upon us once again and Tobie has outdone himself this year! Tobie is now in possession of one of those light show computer thingies that make the lights "dance". He has worked very hard to program a light show for everyone's entertainment. Every night starting at 7:30pm the lights start going, but he has also programed them to "dance" to music. Maybe we can get a video of that...

More Summer Pictures

This summer while we were Galveston the kids and I took one day off from going to the beach and we headed to Moody Gardens. We saw the 3D Shark movie and then went to the moving dinosaur exhibit. We were pretty disappointed in the animated dinosaurs and the kids spent most of the time digging in the pretend excavation site.


The kids took turns being buried in the sand.

One of the first days we were there a small lagoon formed and Ivy had a blast.