Ferry time!!!

Shockingly...I did indeed say Ferry and not Fairy.... hee hee!  The Tooth Fairy will visit us again soon and for the last time for a few years (boo) but this time I am talking about the Ferry!

We are relocating our boat to a different marina (about 5 hour sail ride from where we currently are but only about 15-20 min drive further) so while we are getting our ducks in a row (pun intended) for the "big move" we have been tootling around the new area.  We have had the boat in it's current area for 11-12ish years.... we're ready to explore some new areas. 

We will be very near this ferry and decided to take a ride :)   We only had to wait about 5 minutes until we could board.  We walked right on!

As we were leaving another ferry was arriving.

AMAZING day out there, it was cool temperature wise and OHHHH so windy!!  It was too windy to take the sail boat out (meaning with a 7 year old along we didn't want to scare the you know what out of her from being on a crazy ride).

I kept repeating...birdy birdy in the sky....please don't poopy in my eye....the pelicans and sea gulls were out in force.

The Coast Guard station is right near our new area too, praying we won't ever need their services.

There was a stow-away on board.

This is what we looked like if that had been us.... LOL 

They can load up to 60 cars at a time on these bad boys!

I want one of these (pic below)

I love the way those houses in the distance look.  It looks like vacation there!

Best part of the day, right here!!  We had a great, fun, busy, unscheduled, unplanned day!!  It was awesome!! 

Facing my fear....

Well, is it silly........ probably.

Is it a challenge.......FOR sure!!

Did it intimate the heck out of me....YES!!!

But......

I did it.....

My very first EVER wall gallery.

I wanted to hang some pictures in the hallway to the master bedroom.

The challenge.... 

first and foremost a gallery *shudder* 

second - use what I have - I didn't want to have to make any additional purchases because I have a ton of frames/pictures and want to use them

third - I wanted it to look good

On Pinterest, I found the sample below and used it as my inspiration.  I have pictures and shelves...yay! I can do it, yes I can!

Then I laid it out on the floor to get a feel for how it would look if this was to be the final product and to get it in the right order.

And now, with a few changes ...it's up on the wall, it's almost 6 feet long and I'm SO SO SO SO SO SO happy and elated about it.  I have been stalling this project for a LONG time!!  Now I can change the framed pics as I want to....or not!

Phew!  SO there we have it , I faced my fear of the gallery wall!

I have a few more I want to do through the house.... I wonder what I'll come up with for them... *shudder* but shudders in a good way, sort of....still intimidating, not going to lie LOL!

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.