oh my - how time flies

what more can i say - time just passess you by if you don't slow down to enjoy it as it happens. that is why i have not posted about our family happenings lately - too busy learning and loving as the future bounds toward us to be the present, then whizzes on to become the past!

so - a few things we have missed on the old blog - this will take more than one post for me to catch up - so bear w/ me please.

richard, nathan, and i went to port aransas, tx and stayed for a few days. richard's mom went along with us. this was nice to spend time all together, and also gave her some long-awaited babysitting chances so richard and i could steal away for some much-needed "date" time.

one day, while we where there, was particularly yucky. rainy and overcast, so we drove a sort distance to corpus christi and toured the uss lexington (aircraft carrier) there. is was a self-guided tour and we had the BEST guide in the whole place! it was SO MUCH fun to have richard show us around and tell us, especially, about where on the ship he used to work, and what he did, and how the one we were touring was similar and different from the one he was on. i really was beaming w/ love and pride for him. you really would, have thought by looking at me, that i was walking right along with the president of the united states, or some nobel prize winner - but no - i was with someone much more important than that - i was with the most amazing husband to walk the face of the earth!

there were also, many beautiful days while we were there. the first time we went to spend the day at the gulf (of Mexico), nathan's silly mama forgot his sunhat. so we had to come up with something. couldn't just let him sit out there and get sunburned on the top of his head so . . . since the water was too cold for him to get in anyway . . . i did the only logical thing . . . yes, that is a swimmer diaper on his head. no - i don't want to hear anything about it. yes, he kept it there the whole time we were out - so there. :p

here are some other pictures from the trip:

after we got back home from port aransas, richard's dad met us there. we also had aunt carol over, and we had a dinner to celebrate nathan's first birthday.

and finally - nothing like a good bath from your gran to make a baby boy smile "happy birthday dear nathan, happy birthday to you"

we had a great time with richard's parents and aunt. and it was THE BEST steak dinner EVER in the whole history of TEXAS!! (thanks for all of your hard work on it dad!