beach trip

A week of fun…
Trinity caught her first fish. Micah experienced the incredible feeling of sand between her toes…and fingers…and, well, diaper area…. Emory slept as the sound of the waves whooshed back and forth and back again.


We had an amazing time at the beach. We met Matt’s parents and brothers and three aunts and some cousins for a weekend of fun in the sun. Port Aransas will never be the same. We swam a lot, ate tons of Sarah’s cookie dough, dug up shrimp and eels, yes eels, and enjoyed spending lots of time with cousins. We took up a major portion of the beach with 4 Enviro-shades and then 5 and then even 6 at one point. People around us began to ask if they needed to move over. Ha! The kids had a blast, and their parents did too. All 13 of MiMi’s grandkids made it (number 14 will be here in January.) No, not from us…Jack and Maja are expecting Paden, their 5th boy. Next summer will be even more fun. Trinity might be ready to venture out and attempt skim boarding like her boy cousins did this year. And maybe Emory will not be attempting to eat the sand like she wanted so badly to this year. We were so thankful to have this time together again this summer!

grandparents

grand: magnificent or splendid; noble or revered

Whoever put the Grand in grandparents must have known my mom and dad. They were grand at parenting me and my brothers and are grand-er still at being Mimi and Poppy to my children, their grandchildren. If you try to find them at home on a weekend, you wont. Be it in Tyler visiting Alley's 3, or at the Summit Pool at Canyon Lake with Jack's crew, at the Children's Museum with Beau's boys, or at the coast "crabbing" with as many as can fit in the suburban, they will be somewhere with grandkids-any one or several of the 13.

For a week in July, they were with us in Mexico. No road is too long, (or too filled with potholes) to stop the "Grands" from seeing theirs. They arrived with another grandchild, Spencer, to see Burgos, catch up on the mission, and see the girls. Emory is still needing time to adjust to any face but her mother's, but Micah and Trinity are in full Mimi-mode from days before the actual arrival.

The visit included Mom, Dad and Spencer accompanying us on daily projects and work, a trip to the beach, and a return trip to McAllen for movies and a museum. But the highlight was just being with them. A trip for ice cream, playing cards, or singing...Mimi can make the little things so big. Without her permission, I have included a video of one night of fun at our house in Burgos. Don't tell Mimi that she's on our blog singing, but it makes me smile so big...and it takes me back to my child hood and the Grand mother and father I had, and have.