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Finally I think Sara is through naming the puppy. As weird as it may sound to you, we are all kind of used to it now....Chloe for short and the whole shebang when she's in trouble! {and it actually isn't all that strange after looking at some of the names in her pedigree!}
Resting with Sara after school...
Marcus was going through the mail and putting the trash on the floor, Chloe grabbed the plastic and took off! Pretty smart girl I say!
She was 10 weeks old when we got her and weighs 2.4 pounds.
Next stop, Corpus Christi! We decided to go ahead and stop at the Texas State Aquarium before checking into our hotel on the island. It was fun and we saw some pretty cool stuff, however, all in all we weren't that impressed. I am not sure what we had in mind but this wasn't it.
The kids standing under the entry arch that had a water fall over it:
Pretty cool seeing a shark swimming amongst the fish and not eating them!
A view of Corpus Christi Bay from outside the Aquarium:
This turtle seemed to be making sure we saw the warning sign!
The USS Lexington. We meant to go tour it but ran out of time:
We thought our hotel was on Mustang Island but kept seeing Padre Island signs....turns out we were staying on Padre Island! Thankfully we were on the North end and there wasn't a whole lot of partying going on!
This is one of my favorite photos from the whole trip:
Sara thought Tanner was so cool when he wrote his name in the sand! She wanted to try it, too!
Our hotel on the beach:
Another one of my favorites:
The weather pretty much sucked when we were on the coast. We did have a few hours of fun before a thunderstorm came in and then a cold front came right behind it. We decided to start home that afternoon and the temperature never rose above 45 degrees all the way to Abilene. They were getting snow in the DFW area that day. The entire state was unseasonably cold when we chose to go to the beach.....bad luck for us, but we still have many fun memories!
***The song playing is the on the Zac Brown Band cd that we gave Marcus for Valentine's Day. When we were driving from Corpus to our hotel on the beach we played this song, loud! Sara never said a word....two or three days after we were home, Sara and I were driving to school and she said "Mom, play that beach song...you know 'I got my toes in the water, grass in the sand'!" I have never laughed so hard in my life! Needless to say that is how we will be singing it from now on!
First stop, San Antonio! We had a great trip down & all Sara could talk about was the beach. She has been talking about the beach since she has been talking! We knew that Sea World would be far more fun for her but could not have convinced her of that!
Tanner was such a good sport with things like this for Sara:
The first show we saw was called Azul...it is a new show with dolphins & had a Cirque du Soleil feel to it:
This guy was pretty funny...he came out before the show and played around with the crowd, getting the first few rows of people pretty darn wet! He turned out to be one of the trainers and spent the rest of the show in the water with the dolphins....we wanted to see this show again but ended up missing it.
Kelsey & her family happened to be going the same day we did so we hung out with them a lot of the day! Sara was thrilled about that....remember she thinks this is her friend Kelsey, not Tanner's!
The next show we saw was 'Believe', Shamu's show.....it was pretty plain and simple. Scaled way back from what I remember having seen before, I suspect in light of the events @ the Orlando Sea World just days before. The trainers did not get in the water with the killer whales but instead commanded them from the safety of the sidelines so to speak.
A baby Shamu, swimming along side his mother....I think they said he was born in January:
Big Bird just happened to be having a beach party at Sea World this week:
This show was called 'The Cannery Row Caper'.....the guy, the girl and the sea lion were trying to figure out who was stealing all of the fish....
This little otter turned out to be the caper:
and this huge Walrus ate them all! {See the fish bones hanging inside the shed? Ha!} She asked him how he was going to lose the weight he gained from eating all of those fish & the dang walrus started doing sit-ups! It was so funny!
Sara with Kelsey's sister, Sarah! The line for this little roller coaster was about an hour long so she only got to ride it once. {The ride lasted about 60 seconds.}
Sara & Sarah:
Watching the dolphins in the feeding pool:
The Penguin Exhibit:
We were thinking of little Ryan while in here!
I still cannot believe I let my little Sara go on this raft ride....my family knows exactly why I say that! {Six Flags near death experience.} Notice I was no where near the ride! Tanner was just too tired to wait in line, this was the end of our day the line was a little over an hour long.
Our Family, Sea World San Antonio, March 2010:
Woo hoo! We won our first playoff game last night, earning ourselves a Bi-District Champs 2010 title!
I knew I would forget to take a picture of the scoreboard after the game so I snapped one with 46.1 seconds left, before all of the excitement began!
We are so PROUD of our Panthers!
Our Seniors with the trophy:
Sara & I went to play with and pick out our new little Chloe last Thursday...
She is pictured above with her little sister. {Chloe is the one on the left.}
She is so sweet and we can't wait to bring her home!
Her parents, refusing to take their eyes off of Sara and look at me!
This is the mom, she weighs 6 pounds and is very active!
and this is the dad, he weighs 5 pounds and is more laid back!
A couple of photos from our family gift exchange:
Sara finally got the Pinocchio dvd:
Tanner finally got some '3 star' ping pong balls:
Mommy-O got a new book to read, the sequel to "Eat, Pray, Love":
And then there is Daddy-O. Poor Daddy-O got the same thing that he got last year, literally. You see last year for Valentines Day we got him the Zac Brown Band cd. And he returned it. This year he said, "If you need an idea for me for Valentines Day, I think I would like to have that Zac Brown Band cd!" So we got him it and the Lady Antebellum cd! {He better not return them!}
Daddy-O got his girls each a rose!
Mommy-O trying to show Sara the face she was making when she smelled the flowers!
As parents of Seniors, we are supposed to be gathering a handful of pictures of our child from over the years. I couldn't help but share them here as well......where does the time go?
OCTOBER 1994 - age 2
{Preschool Picture}
MAY 1997 - age 5
{Kindergarten Graduation}
JUNE 2000 - age 8
{ring bearer in Callie & Jason's Wedding}
AUGUST 2001 - age 9
{4th Grade School Photo}
MAY 2003 - age 11
{last day of 5th grade}
AUGUST 2005 - age 13
{8th Grade School Photo}
JULY 2006 - age 14
{performing at the 4th of July}
NOVEMBER 2009 - age 17
{one of his Senior Pictures}
This is the first time Tanner and Reece have gotten to play each other since the 9th grade! I got some really cool shots last night and wanted to share!
This is the sign that our shop bought to help support our teams & decorate our new gym:
This shot cracks me up! Tanner and Reece were talking while waiting for the rebound....forgot to ask Tanner what they were saying to each other!
Go Reece!
Go Tanner!
Yep, two goofballs.
