Beach bums.

 We went over down to Galveston to get a change of scenery, it was too cool to go sailing but too nice to just stay home.  We were down by the cruise ship terminal...I have forgotten how HUGE these ships are!!!  I've been on two cruises in my lifetime (so far) and LOVE it!

Saw the shrimp boats, Mikayla wanted to know how many of these ships in the world...her guess is one million fifteen hundred. 

I will take one of these, with the helicopter included, thank.you.very.much

These bad boys were stealing a fisherman's catch at the cleaning station in a marina we were trespassing visiting.

Can't wait to go in one of these soon! 

And of course the goofy girl that didn't want to give me a nice smile.

Then we went to the beach for awhile (while Michael did his Sunday work in the car - the girls got out to play).

Mikayla had a blast (the kite I brought was a bum deal, it was missing a part...oh well we entertained ourselves)

Mikayla was very busy.... VERY.....

She was making a sand house for little people.

People that are the size of her measurement below.

It really was fun!  The water was too cold for me though!!

I love shadow pictures on the beach (windy hair and everything).  She's getting so tall!!  I think she'll be taller than both Michael and I!

Time for some treasure

ahhhh sweet love!!

Here's a beach sand trick for you...always bring baby powder with you, sprinkle some on the sandy areas and dust it off, ALL of the sand comes off.  Mikayla was barefoot in the sand and with this little trick, she was able to dust off, and put her socks and shoes right back on as if she just hadn't been in the sand at all... YAY!

Satisfaction Galore....

We started off our weekend by partying with about 30,000 other people at the rodeo/cook off.  It was really a lot of fun!!!  We had tickets to three different booths started at one, went to another, forget the third and went back to the first.  It was fun!! 

GREAT music!!  You can have any kind of fun with great tunes!!!

Then our nephew was in his basketball tournament!  IT really was fun to go watch him play!!

Michael was able to drive the neighbors vet...... I'm really not sure how that all happened but the two men had a blast!

We worked on the front porch and got the swing hung and we spent some time out there swinging, rocking and shooting the breeze!!  I LOVE this house!!!  I LOVE the porch..it's a new favorite spot (well one of the hundred we're discovering)!  

Next.... The cabinet below has been DRIVING ME CRAZY. 

It's really big.....

It's really high.....

It was really not the best for function. 

At our old house I had the pots/pans in the cupboards below...I was tired of that and darn it I wanted to make this cabinet usable but when you have to take all the pans out to find the one you want....is it really worth it???

(see, super high for the vertically challenged individuals of the world) 

Enter Exhibit A (not my mother in law but rather the round circular platform she's holding)

We have two of those bad boys!

I was able to find a 28 inch - two tier Lazy Susan!  They are HUGE!!  I then became concerned that they wouldn't even fit in the cabinet I thought was so big!!!!

Well.....

They did!!!!!!!

Mikayla helped me empty the old cabinet, and get the new one all set up (I even used a level to make sure the pole was straight LOL).

I did have to change out the center pole because we were missing one part of the original order so Michael suggested using a tension rod - thereby eliminating the need for this seemingly simple project, to become a major one.  EXCELLENT idea!

So seriously....this is one of my new favorite things too!!!  it's AMAZING!!!  made that unusable - unloved cabinet....totally functional and organized and well just pretty to look at!!  HA!  Success!!!

AND the vertically challenged can reach everything...like EVERYTHING in there...from front to back, we only need to spin and reach!!  AMAZING!!!

and the last bit of productivity (thanks to my mother in law) was this blue ladder..... no before pictures but it was basic wood with a TON of splattered paint on it (it was my dads paint ladder for many many years), and we just can't have that, can we?

Hello blue girl!!  I love you too!!!

It's hard to see but the new pretty blue - matches my preexisting beautiful blue mixer....ahhhhhh it's the little things in life!

So there we have it.  A weekend full of fun, play, function, little projects that make a HUGE difference and are so satisfying.... So it was a very satisfying weekend!!  I love seeing our space come together in exactly the way I want it to.

The Fairy Flies Again.......

I can't believe it - Tooth number 7, it's outta there!!! 

Our typical "smile....I am smiling" pictures....

Trying again...

and again....

Mikayla wrote a note to the tooth fairy, she was giving her a small gift..... 

Here is the set up, complete with a recliner chair to sit in, bed to rest on and a table set up with "tea"

WOW where is she in all that hair, it completely covered her face!!!!  She was sound asleep - I definitely think the "bun" situation for sleeping in, will continue (not pony tails)

OH......I see evidence of some missing tea..... (cup on the left is empty)

OHHHHHHH SHE CAME SHE CAME SHE CAME.  Mikayla woke up and went and woke her Nana up by poking her arms... then she came downstairs to get us.  I didn't hear a single solitary thing (I may or may not have just fallen asleep at 2:00 am because of a book)...but I did wake up when Michael was saying something.  So then I came to see what all the excitement was about.

who doesn't love some La La Loopsy, right?

Here is a very happy, very tired little girl, I said we're going back to bed, she said, no, it's time to play, I said...NO it's time to rest!

So we did - we curled up together right in her bed and dozed for another couple of hours.

Ahhhhh, it's good stuff!!!!  She is SOOOO cute!!!  I love snaggle tooth!!!