Outside Play

We find ourselves at home today. Saturday, Jase was really feeling pretty bad and was coughing with every breath. I ended up taking him to urgent care and we discovered he had a double ear infection to go along with his bad cough. So, we started him on an antibiotic and we made it through the evening but Cassandra and I were really worried about him. I had called someone to teach my Sunday school class on Sunday, and Cassandra and I prayed really hard for Jase to get well soon. We didn't expect and instant recovery, but if you look at these pictures below you can tell that God heard our prayers! He is so much better today. He is coughing a little bit but nothing like he was on Saturday. To God be the glory in making this such a wonderful beautiful Sunday that kids and I can relax and be together as a family. We just needed a time out and a day for some serious R&R!

Possum grin like his Daddy!

Push me PLEASE!

Who said I was sick?

Two means trouble???

YEA..........brother feels better today and we can play all day!

Camping on our 11th Anniversary

What a great weekend, just the 4 of us! We went to New Braunfels and borrowed Aunt Missy's camper. Cory and Cassandra were a little sick, but we didn't let that slow us down.
I love the 10 second timer on my camera....I can get a picture of the four of us, without any help! Whoop! It's the little things that are important, you know!

Redo....Jase's knee is covering his face!

The kids love snuggling with their Daddy.

Doesn't take much to make Jase happy......as long as he has his pink milk in the morning, he is ready to go!

Hummmm.........Jase took this picture.....maybe one day he will become a photographer! Just a little crooked!

And this one of Mommy still in her PJ's.

And this one of his Sis!
More snuggling time with Daddy!

Then, this is where we ventured out into the COLD, COLD, COLD Comal River. At our camp site, there were stairs at the front part of the camp site and stairs towards the end of the camp site area......so, just a little ways down, but it was perfect for our big tubbing outing. I didn't even go in the first day because the water was just too cold for me!

Poor Jase, just didn't have enough body fat, he was freezing cold!

Momma.....I am so cold!!!

Me too!!!

Our favorite part.......cooking marshmallows over our $10 BBQ pit and eating them!

I think he would eat the whole bag if I would let him!

They would make a smore, but wouldn't eat them because they didn't like the chocolate. Oh well....more for me ;-)

I also took a lot of pictures at Schlitterbahn with a water camera. We were really proud of Cassandra and Jase for not being scared on the tube rides. We did the Raging River tube ride, and the White Water tube float, and a few others. But all in all, they were enjoying the thrill of it all and were not scared! And of course, when it was time to leave, they were not ready to go. They were enjoying all the slides and wanted to keep going, and going. True little fish!

Cassandra and Jase's 1st Day

Yea, I think we made our first days in our new school/new classes without too much tear loss. Sebastian even did good too!

This is Maci, Cassandra's little friend, she is in a different class, but will ride the Powersports bus together.
Here is Cassandra's teacher, Mrs. Hausenfluck. We worked hard all weekend in pronouncing her name with the "l" in it.
I went to visit her from 2-2:30 and she was doing great but you could tell she was getting very, very tired because she was getting whiney.
Here is my little Sunshine Boy. He is in the sunshine class now.
He was excited that Kindergarten had Pink milk. Life is GOOD!
My little angel. I'm so proud of her! She was a real trooper on her first day at Kindergarten!
Brother giving her a little loving!
Yep...ole Monkey Face strikes again.
Silly boy.
Ooops.....I needed to work with her about opening her milk and her silverware packet. She struggled a little bit in getting them open, but I told her who to go to when she needed help.
One last hug Sis....we gotta go!
Yea.....she survived her first day at Kindergarten. Way to go Cassandra, we are so proud of you!

Last outing with Dad before he leaves.....

I have to admit.....Cory is ONE AWESOME DAD!!!! He let the kids play HOOKIE from school and took them out to the Lake for one final outing with Dad. Despite the 100 degree temps in Texas!





Everyone had fun. Thanks DAD for being the BEST DAD in the whole wide world!!!!
Oh so....the story on this picture is....Holley got grounded, but Sebastian was quick to take over being Cassandra's playmate while his Sister was away. All four of these kids play so well together. We also have the best neighbors in the Whole Wide World!!!

Dive with us

I have been trying for over a week now to put some of our dive movie clips on my blogspot, and I have either run out of time or out of patience. Always something goes wrong while it is uploading. I'm going to try one more time, or give up. So, let's see if this works out!

Here is a short clip that will make you sea sick because the water was really choppy and I recorded this while snorkeling. So, I apologize in advance, or take this warning and skip this one and go the next one! Cassandra did pretty good snorkeling but this time Jase really disappointed us. He didn't like the salt water, of course, Cory lost his patience with him and I kept trying and trying, but finally gave up as well. Maybe next time!


I believe this is the clip of the stingray.


Our first nurse shark sighting.


Cory and I were second guessing ourselves, once the nurse shark turned around and headed right back toward us "IS IT REALLY A NURSE SHARK OR A GREAT WHITE HEADING RIGHT AT US?



This is Mark waving hello and pointing to Lucas to record the sea turtle sighting. Shame on whomever the diver is, it's a big no-no to touch anything while your in the water. (Lucas and I learned the hard way when we were diving in Cancun because our dive master got onto us)


And this is me, about 105 feet deep, sucking up my air pretty quickly and trying to tell Cory, "hey, I only have 1,500 psi left". So, this clip gives me fond memories of running out of air on the way up on this dive and having to buddy share air with Cory at the safety stop. Yea, I lived to tell about it, oh what fun!

Florida Keys Vacation

Oh where do I begin and end about telling you about how wonderful our vacation to the Florida Keys was?

These pictures were taken at a restaurant that had a glass bottom. They gave the kids a container of oatmeal to feed the fish with. Jase was so excited, he layed on top of the glass and I guess he was trying to figure out how he could become a fish. Don't know...

Don't ask me why.......I just love cute signs. We also saw another sign at the boat gas station that said, free beer tomorrow. We kept going back everyday filling up with gas, but there was never any free beer. When will tomorrow ever come????

This picture is funny to me because of the bathing suit that Cassandra has on....I remember her coming out of her bedroom, all out of breath saying, "Momma, momma, you gotta do some laundry, this is my last bathing suit." Priorities, priorities!!!!!!!!

Whew........this was a hot day. We drove 100 miles to mile 0 where the road ends but paradise begins in Key West. The guys went diving at 5:30 a.m. while Sharon and I drove up at noon to meet up with them. Needless to say, we got there way too early. We should have gotten there in the afternoon when it was cooler and when the street entertainment began at 5:30 p.m. The kids were wore out!

Feeding baby chicks at Mallory Square. This was really an awesome place, they had all sorts of street entertainment. A gymnist who was 52 years old, doing push-ups upside down and jumping through a small hula hoop. A man spray painted in silver who worked on his bicycle making a squeeking noise, a man who had trained his dog to collect dollar bills while he played the banjo, jugglers, balloon artist and not worth mentioning was a guy in a red bra strumming on a guitar. Whatever????

Enjoying the mall that had AIR CONDITIONER!

This guy put sunglasses on his dog. Too funny....

The silver tin man, painted Cassandra's nose silver. She froze solid when she went up to him. She looked scared to death, then poor Jase SCREAMED bloody murder. He was very scared of him.

Gotta love the beach shorts.

Just before sunset pictures.

Time to pose.

Lucas too!

I liked his sunglasses!

Jase loves to wear a swim shirt now with his swim shorts. Of course I couldn't just buy him one without buying the princess one too.

One happy pappa!

Daddy's Girl!

Momma's Boy!

We miss you Uncle Mark and Aunt Sharon and Cousin Lucas. This was our last night when the Nardin's left for the airport. We hit the road the next morning.

Posing

Still in love after 12 years (10+2)

We were so proud of Jase he ate 8 baby back ribs and here he is showing us his MUSCLES!

Pretty good place to eat but both of us had stomach issues the next morning. Was it something that we ate??

This was at a Mexican Food restaurant on our way home. Cory told me that I was driving so needless to say, the buy one get one free margarita's went to waste. Well, one of them did.

Wow.......look at me....no makeup, no hair do's for 10 days. I look rough but HAPPY!