Sea World!

When Isaac was 2, we took him to Sea World and ever since he has been asking when we can go back to that place with all the big whales. He is also quite the little shark aficianado (we are enjoying Shark Week on the Discovery Channel). Here we are at the beginning ofour Sea World trip- already pretty sweaty!

Isaac and Daphne playing in the tunnels...

Isaac feeding the Seals and Sea Lions- they loved this! We also fed the dolphins.

Here we are on the little Shamu roller coaster. Isaac really enjoyed this and then he went on to ride the steel eel 3 times! I was pretty surprised that he was tall enough to ride all but one of the roller coasters.

Daphne and I in the tea cup ride, which was fairly anti climactic for both of us... but it kept Daphne from screaming while the boys were off riding the Steel Eel.

TEXAS!!

Yea!! Our Family was able to come down to Texas this July! We were feeling adventurous, so we drove in our Van with our two young children for 24 hours straight! We really know how to have a good time. Actually, God blessed us so much and our children were very happy throughout both the trip down and the trip home. We spent 3 days in San Antonio and then drove to Dallas to be with my family and we had a delightful time!
Here is our family just outside my Mom's Church.

Here is Matt helping Daphne on our less than enjoyable jaunt down the Riverwalk. We got started on the wrong end and it took us quite a while to get to the restaurant where we had lunch!

Isaac and Daphne smiling happily after filling their bellies with delicious Tex Mex!

07/07/07

Many of you may not be aware of Matt's family reunion holiday thingy, which we refer to as PIGWAB. That stands for "Party in Gear Without Any Beer", since we don't drink! I can't believe I am telling all of you this... but here goes. Every thirteen months, we have a little reunion with Matt's Dad's side of the family and we call it PIGWAB, as aforementioned. We started this tradition on January 1, 2001 and continued with February 2, 2002 and so forth. So, of course, this year we celebrated on July 7th, 2007, 07/07/07... Each year we have a different theme, typically falling in line with the corresponding holiday of the month. SO, this year's theme was a Patriotic, All American PIGWAB... and if you have followed this far, here are some pictures to reward you for your time!


Daphne and her cousin, Luke Skywalker, (yes... that really is his name!) enjoying the Bluebell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream that Matt's parents so generously buy in 3 gallon drums from Outback Steakhouse!

Matt lighting fireworks in the PIG-BOMB contest (each guy designed a pig and rigged it to blow up with fireworks- not real pigs, though... that would be gross.)

Isaac bobbing for apples, in the PIG-BOB contest...

Mommy and Daphne...

The sack race... I apologize for my arm right in front of Isaac racing, but we didn't get a whole lot of pictures of that boy- he won't hold still long enough! We all had a lot of fun on this one!




Isaac and Daphne participating in the children's pie eating contest... Matt and I were in the Adult pie eating contest, but we'll haver to wait until we get pics from someone else, as my face was in the pie!



Here we all are participating in the PIG-LOB water balloon toss...

Fashion Sense

The morning of July 7th, Daphne came out of her room dressed in her University of Texas t shirt (bestowed upon her by Grandpa Sisco) and her red white and blue shorts. She posed there on the stairs and said, "I look awesome in these clothes!"