Shoes

Who can guess whose shoes these are?

Bucee Up!!!

This is the usual stopping place after church.
Last night we all just pulled in one right after the other.
The green van is us, then the white car is our son Jaime, next comes the Villarreal's and finally Olivia in her nice little Cruiser (HOOOOOONK).
The Cabrera's were on the other side of us but they left before we thought about the picture.

Jaime

This is our eldest (Jaime) with our youngest (Isaiah).













Someone must help dad carry the life support box.







Jaime and his mother. (me)







Jaime and his brother Nicholas.

Thursday's Thought

You cannot teach people anything.

You can only help them discover it within themselves.

PKD Update

We went to Galveston today in order to receive the results of last weeks liver ultrasound. Not really anything that we did not already know. "Innumerable cysts are seen within the liver. Several BENIGN liver cysts without evidence of rupture."
BP 144/88 quite good for me (this is with medication). Thanks for all your prayers.
FINALLY we go to Houston tomorrow to pick up the much awaited blood pressure machine for Nicholas and he will wear it for the allotted 24 hours and we will return to Houston again on Thursday to return the machine for the next person on the waiting list. He is also scheduled for a MRA on July 15th at Texas Children's Hospital.

Yellow-Crowned Night Heron

We found this lovely creature in the yard around 6:30 this morning. We promptly lured it into the dog kennel and called the Wildlife Rescue Center. The lady on the phone informed us that it is likely a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron. She said that often they leave the nest to early and once they are on the ground their parents are helpless to help them fly.

Nicholas

This is Nicholas. He is our second son. He will be 15 next month. Most of the pictures on my blog are 'Nic's Pic's'. Nicholas has really taken to the camera and is constantly taking pictures. I will post some of his creation shots later.



Nicholas and his mom (me).
Right after coming out of the lake.

Victoria

She actually fell asleep in the hammock.





This is Victoria with her mommy (me).





Here Victoria is having a talk with her daddy before going back to the fun.
I have no idea what they were discussing. None of our children can really swim therefore they must always wear their life jackets while in deep water.




The great outdoors!

The 'butterfly'

Christian

Christian is our outdoor child.
He would rather be exploring than just about anything else.

This was the first fish of the day. No, it is not a butterfly (Catie) it is really a 'tiny' Large Mouth Bass. The fish did get bigger as the day progressed.

Isaiah

Isaiah loved to be in the hammock.
He spent quite a bit of time at the 'sink'.
He did not like the water very much.
He left!?!

More pictures

Getting the fire started

Jaime was tired after the drive.

My husabd and his nephew (Christian) roasting hodogs.

Getting the table ready.

Pictures

Our cabin. Notice the a.c.!!
This was the path from our cabin, it led directly to the lake.
A really nice tree.
A little friend we met on the way.

Matagorda County Birding Nature Center

This was at the Nature Center in Bay City. They have several miles of trails. You can rent a golf car but we chose to walk. It was hot but some places are not accessible in the golf car. We will be returning here in the fall.
My family
They have different little sayings throughout the center and I liked this one.

Back from Vacation ):

We are officially no longer on vacation. We had an excellent time everywhere we went it just did not seem long enough. We left home on Friday afternoon and headed to Bay City to spend a few days with my husband's family. On Saturday went went to a Birding/Nature park in Bay City. This is a really nice place and I would encourage anyone who could to go. It is $5 a vehicle to get in but well worth it. We headed to the park about 4a.m. Monday morning. Our eldest son drove the entire trip and we arrived roughly seven hours later. East Texas is very nice and much different than where we live. After getting settled in Monday afternoon we called my husband's niece and her husband and they came to the campsite and we had a hot dog roast. Tuesday morning we all went swimming while the lake was empty, then we spent the rest of the day in town. we went to the niece's home and she cooked a very nice meal for us and we enjoyed spending time with them and getting to know her husband a bit better. After eating we drove to find the exact location of the church we would attend Wed. night. Wednesday we did more swimming and hiking and basically just enjoying the park. Wednesday night services were fun. We attended Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. We were received with great love and the people were very warm. Thursday we swam, went fishing and hiking throughout the day and then we took niece and nephew to Western Sizzlin to eat. Friday we did not leave the park and spent the day just spending time together riding bikes and more fishing we also went down a creepy trail in the dark which was alot of fun. Saturday was a lazy day and we did not do much. We went into town to say our goodbyes and ended up all going to Pizza Inn together. Sunday morning we finished loading everything and headed back to the church we had visited on Wed. Church was really nice. The Pastor (Bro. Frank Stringham) ans his wife took our family to an amazing Italian restaurant called Luigi's. We had a wonderful time of fellowship and then got on the road about 3p.m. Sunday afternoon. My husband drove home and we arrived at around 10p.m. We came home to find one of our daughter's dogs had died (Coon-Rod). The dogs were being taken care of while we were gone and the caretaker had already informed us that something was wrong, but we just thought he was lonely. So, our homecoming was very sad and we were plunged back in to swing of things immediately. My husband had taken Monday off and we were able to get everything unpacked and put away while I worked on ALL the piled up laundry. Everything is back to 'normal' now. I will be posting pictures soon. I have just not had much time yet. I had my scheduled Ultrasound on Wednesday. So far all we know is that my liver is now covered in cysts and they found several 'spots' of concern on the liver as well. We repeated blood work yesterday too. I see the doctor next Tuesday for all the final results. I would ask that you pray with us as we wait.