Extra in The Ordinary

I am horrible at scrap booking, but apparently I'm an ok blogger. I'm just going to go with it! Maybe one day someone will print my blog out, and the world will have a hard copy. Here's a few family memories that we can hang on to from January 2020 Punkin's birthday was the big event. She turned 12! She is finally allowed to wear powder and lip gloss. Homemade cake is pretty much all we do these days. It's fun to make and costs about $5 rather than the $30 store bought options. Home schoolers have to save $! We also have more time for fun projects like making a cake.  For her birthday Adi got a mall shopping spree with her friend from Dry Creek camp. We also got her a few small gifts. She got a bag to use as a Bible bag, gummy bears, and a smurf board game with Pez. Mall time with friends was her favorite part! That's a big gummy bear! Bella also had strep, which was terrible and she was in a lot of pain. That was all befor...

Punkin' prayed for snow. Her homeschool lesson mentioned snow in Africa, on Mount Kenya (which was unheard of), so that gave her hope.  She watched White Christmas (twice) and decided to stay positive. When the weather mentioned a 10% chance, she just KNEW it would happen. And it did!! Friday December 8th...snow in Houston! She stayed up until 11pm watching it fall then woke up at 3am to look at the blanket of white. She was in it making snow balls and playing with IPK (big sister) by 5am. I helped them make a snow man AFTER I had a full cup of coffee in me. Geez- these kids wake up early when they are excited!! This is the 6am shot...just to show that there really was a slight blanket of white! :)

It's already mid summer, and it's hot, and the kids are bored. We decided today to go to the beach and it was beautiful! The kids dug in the sand, I wrote an article on the beach, and then we all played in the water. I even got a few funny boomerang pics of boogie boarding. After we went to the sea wall, I wanted to take the kids to do something new or different in Galveston, but with a little bit of a lower budget lately (I stayed home this summer!), we were sort of limited in our options. Last time we were in Galveston they wanted to do the ferry but the lines were too long, so I thought I'd take them and see how long the wait was. I'm so glad we did! The line was not long at all (maybe 5-10 min), and while we were waiting Punkin tells me "this will be my first time on a boat!". Well, people, she is 9 years old, and to be honest, maybe she has been on a boat before and I'm just not thinking of it, but it's very possible this was her first boat ri...