Texas Heat & our "pool"

What a great day! We drove an hour to Galveston Island on the Gulf of Mexico today for a beach outing and had an absolute blast. Aanika LOVED the waves! The water was a balmy 79 degrees, wavy enough to make it fun and there was a great breeze to keep it refreshing. Unfortunately we didn't get her first salt water experience on film but we figure that it won't be her last time there! We're already looking forward to the next time we get to go and are planning on taking our bikes.

We've made Aanika a temporary pool out of a floatable tanning lounger....the community pools aren't open yet during the week. We had temps up around 92 the other day and we had to come up with something fun to do.

Sugar Land House

Well, it's been quite a year so far and I haven't done much updating to the page like I intended!

As many of you know, we've gotten moved in to our new home in Sugar Land, Texas and are absolutely thrilled. We couldn't have been more fortunate with how everything worked out for us. We listed our home and it was sold within the first week, travelled here to find a home and had our offer accepted before we had to travel back home and even had one of my sister's come home from Oregon for a visit before we left. My sister, Maria, drove down with us (what a blessing she was) to help with Aanika and to be my relief driver. Poor Kevin, he and the cat had quite a ride in that truck! It was 3 very long days of fighting the wind, not moving very fast and being just plain cramped, between Aanika and the cat I think that neither of them is looking forward to any kind of trip in the near future! Maria really kept things moving once we got here - you'd think that we've lived here for years! It's really quite amazing....the house looks like it was built for us and for our furnishings. The curtains that were left behind match our couches perfectly, the main paint color is EXACTLY the same as in our condo with a lighter shade in the other areas and it's scale is wonderful for our oversized furniture. We're really looking forward to living here ~ who knows what might be in store for us!