Vacation to Matagorda Bay Beach

This was our first vacation since the babies were born. It was a lot of fun. We left Tuesday night so the babies would sleep and then stopped in Houston at about 3 am to sleep. Then got up and left at about 10 to drive the rest of the way to Matagorda, about a 2 hour drive. The beach was wonderful. Very clean and not a lot of people except for on Saturday. What I thought was so cool was we could drive right out on the beach park and open the truck right there where we were swimming.


Life at the campsite
We went with my family so we stayed with them in their large travel trailer. The kids slept together in a full size loft and we were below on a fold out couch. The RV park was very nice; right on the Colorado river. The kids loved to watch the big shrimp boats come in and out of the bay.

Here they are watching for boats one evening as the sun sets.

Aunt Anna found a hermit crab and is showing Clayton and Dylan. There were hermit crabs and ghost crabs all over. The kids were hillarious to watch chasing the ghost crabs across the sand.

Paw Paw bought the kids their own lawn chairs to sit in like the big people.

One evening they got their first taste of Smores. They loved it and ate it all up.

On The Beach

The first day we went to the beach the kids weren't sure about the water. They went out a little bit but thats about it. The second day they loved it. All three ran in and out of the water, dug in the sand, gathered sea shells. They had a blast.

Here is Hayla gathering shells.

Clayton and Dylan running in and out of the water.

Hayla running in the water with her Aunt Anna.

Daddy and his kids after they built their sandcastle. This was a task because all the kids wanted to do was tear it down.

Here the kids are feeding the seagulls. This is a new word they have added to their vocabulary.

Fishing

The guys went fishing most days we were there. One day they watched a man pull in this stingray. It took him 2 hours to get it all the way in. Then he gave it to us to eat. Not bad; they fried it and grilled it. I liked the fried better than the grilled.

Shane caught this hammerhead shark one day while surf fishing. They caught several sharks while we were there, both black tip and hammerhead.

Our Trip to the Dallas Children's Museum

This summer we have taken several trips to the Dallas Children's Museum. It was so much fun.
Everything is hands on learning for the kids and they just loved it.

Here they are looking at a snake in the backyard area.


There is a large water table that flows like a river. It has ducks and water wheels that the kids can play with.



There is a large area designated to farming. Here the kids are gathering eggs. They can also "pick" vegetables and milk a cow, ( that was so cool it actually felt like you were milking a cow.

Here they are pretending to be firefighters. There are little hats a firemen coats just their size to wear and then they can climb into the firetruck.

After the children's museum we went to the Museum of Natrual History to see the dinosaurs and other animals. The first time we went Shane wasn't with us so the next time we took him and the kids ran from scene to scene showing him the different animals.

Here they are sitting on Jumbo the Mammoths trunk.

Here they are showind Daddy a triceretops skull in the Dino dig area.

And I remember this from when I was a kid. Its a distant relative to the armadillo.