Texas

Jibbit #1, #2, & #3 and I (Queen Jibbit) headed to Texas to visit a longtime friend. She lives just outside of Dallas. It was a 14 hour trip that we did over 2 days so, not so bad. We celebrated her youngest son's birthday at Chuck E. Cheese (his birthday was in Jan but he waited for us to get there to have his party--isn't that sweet!). There was a trip to Shenanigan's, which had a bowling alley, laser tag, race cars, video games all under one roof--a little pricy but much, much fun. We played laser tag first and I wore the vest for Jibbit #3 and she did sooo good--she won. That was not handled well by the older 2 Jibbits. We also visited a children's museum that we had visited before and Jibbit #2 had put on the "to do list." At night, after we got all the kids to bed, my friend and I would TRY to sit up and scrapbook. Man, I can definitely say "I am getting older!" It is getting so HARD to stay up even for scrapbooking! I didn't get much of anything done. We always have a great time with our friends and this time we got to meet their newest family member, Smudge (their dog). He is so cute and such a good dog. We also got to visit their church, which is HUGE. I totally enjoyed the music service with the band and contemporary music (I do like the old gospel hymns too) and the preacher delivered a good message. The kids had a great time in their classes, too. Did I mention how HUGE this church was? My first trip to Texas was with my best-friend to look for a house. Her and her husband were moving and he couldn't go with her so, she asked me to go. Well, behind the hotel where we were staying was this HUGE building that we could not figure out .....was it a mall--no because there was never any cars, what was it? Well, it turned out to be a church. Since that first visit, I think it has probably tripled in size!! Very nice! It is always good to be with friends!! Thanks for being such a great hostess.

Florida Roadtrip...

A quick trip to Pensacola, Florida for a baseball tournament for our son. We left out Thursday evening and arrived at 3:00am Friday. We have Friday free before games begin on Sat am. So..... off to the beach.... (we stayed about 20 min away with the rest of the ballteam) we go !! This is the best public beach access I have ever seen. We had a great time playing in the ocean, digging in the sand and walking on the pier to see what was being caught. While we were on the pier, we were able to look down and see clearly into the water ( I love the gulf --the water is so clear!) and see many jellyfish and a baracuda.

Sat am we played baseball at 10am, had a storm delay, and ended up getting beat by a team from Louisiana. Our next game we won by forfeit, the other team did not show. So, we went to swim and eat CRAB LEGS!! It would just NOT be a trip to the beach without crab legs.

Sun am we played at 10am and won! What a good game! Our team has not been getting very "into" the games lately, but the moms and sisters got behind the dugout and got them to really cheering for their teammates and getting excited. They came back from being behind and WON!! (It pays to care if your are gonna play!). Then we had to play the same team again right after that for the championship. There was another storm delay--little longer this time. We came back from this break READY TO PLAY (I was so proud of their attitudes!) They won the championship and were so excited. It has been a long time since they have won a game let alone a tournament! This was good for them!!!!

We had packed bags to head to the beach when the games were over so, off we went. We we arrived so did the lightning (and we found out later a tornado). We thought it would pass while we ate supper (CRAB LEGS--ALL YOU CAN EAT!!). It was still a mess when we came out so we went on back to the hotel to swim, since it was the opposite direction of the storm.

What a great trip.... baseball, beach, pool, and CRAB LEGS all with my family! Can't beat that!!!!