7 looks good on us!

Happy Birthday WES!!!!

Happy Birthday to the man that holds our family together!!!  We love you with all our heart and soul. 

SEVEN

It is just about impossible to believe that Austin and Avery turn 7 today!  They are just getting started in life's journey and we are so blessed to be an influential part of it.  We can't wait to see what is store for them this year as they begin 1st grade and take on a new year of activities.  We love you Austin & Avery!!!  

Wild night!

This crew was out on the prowl Thursday night to knock down anything that was moving.  No creature was too big or two small!  Our kiddos always have a great time with the Rau boys.

Kemper Family @ the Beach

Da BEACH

We are beach lovers.... give us sun, sand and waves and we are happy people.  Add a beautiful ocean front beach house, awesome family and a few days without an agenda and we are REALLY happy people.  We spent the last 5 days with Toppe & Grandpa, Steven, Candice and Jack at Crystal Beach.  It was almost perfect... the guys would say it wasn't perfect because the fish weren't biting. 

We "survived" in this house.  We had to remind everyone that the Eyes of Texas were upon us.

We found hundreds of hemit crabs.

Beautiful beach ... and very little seaweed!

Toppe treated the kids to the ice cream truck. 

Sand castle time.

The big guys play a lot of washers.  This year the little guys got in on the action.  Wes was offically declared "King of the Beach" for his washer throwing skills.

Fishing.

Napping.... this house had the BEST porch for a power nap after a full day at the beach.

 

Grill master.

 

Bean bags.

Hanging out with Aunt Candice.

Wes saw a cloud of bait fish coming through and this is the all he caught with one cast of the net.

Weekend in the ATX

The ATX... a city so dear to our hearts.  Usually by this time, we'd have made a few summer trips to see Uncle Jason and enjoy the capital city.  When the end of July was creeping up on us and we realized we hadn't taken one dip in Jason's pool all summer, we knew we had to make a trip.  So, to Austin we went and it did not disappoint.  We ate, drank, played and got in a little r&r.

 

 

Silly string fights!

Pool Time

This would illustrate the R&R part of the trip.

Sat night we headed out to show the kids the millions of bats that take off as sunsets in downtown Austin.