4th and Vacation!

We are on our way back from our awesome vacation! We left last Saturday morning at 5:30a and made it to Port Aransas in a mere 10 hours!!! Lol! We had a blowout in San Antonio and had to stop to get that all taken care of so it took us a little longer than anticipated.
But the kids did great on the trip down thanks to the handy DVD player!
Once we got to Port A, we had a ball! It was such a nice relaxing trip where we just took it easy and swam our hearts out! We had a little bit of rain while we were still sleeping and some cover our last few days. But we still got plenty of sun!
We even came home with a new family member. Matt caught a crab for the kids! We bought him a little cage and bottled up some sea water. We named him Captain Crabby! We'll see how long he lasts. :)
All in all it was a great vacation! It was nice chilling out with my sister, bro in law and niece and nephews. Zade' and Gracie had so much fun being with them all too! Every night all the kids put themselves to bed. Now that's some tired kids!
So here are some pictures of our trip and some from 4th of July at my folks!

Summer Fun

Well, summer has been off to a pretty good start. The kids went to church camp for a week while Matt had his 3rd and hopefully final knee surgery. His recovery is going great and we hope this one will stick!
God has been so good to us in helping us manage all of these medical bills with our limited funds. We're so blessed!
Since the kids have been home and Matt's on sick leave we've gotten to enjoy a lot of family time! Next we go on vacation to the beach! We can't wait!
Here's some pics of our fun times so far!

School's Out For Summer!!!!

I know it's been a long time since I've posted - sorry! Life has been rather annoyingly busy.  Here's what's been going on in a nutshell.  Last month Matt experienced a major set back in his recovery from his ACL reconstruction.  So- after a surgery to remove the remaining screw and ligament, a brief hospital stay, 6 weeks of picc line treatments - we are finally getting close to a surgery date to start this process all over again.  Hopefully, that will be next week sometime. 
In the meantime, today is the last day of school! Gracie is excited which is weird because she loves school.  But I guess she's like the rest of us and is ready for a break. She had a great year this year.  Her teacher Mrs. Dickson was amazing and we're glad we'll have her again next year!  Here are some pictures of the going ons of the end of the year. 

 BES Life Skills class!

 Silly Pose!

End of the Year ice cream party!



 Bubbles!

Gracie's buddy Gerardo! So sad for him to be leaving next year! Gracie will miss him!

 Mrs. Davis is Gracie's speech teacher!

 Mrs. Morton - our extended family and long time friend!

Last day of school! Woo hoo!!!!!