This was early. We spent all day on the beach Satuday. We took breaks for the potty and sandwiches for lunch. It was a long, but great day. Everyone slept good that night.
With a little help from Deanna, the kids created their very own sand castle complete with a moat.
Gosh Andrew, it would be nice if I could get you to smile!!:)
Jenna burried in the sand. She and Andrew took turns. Kylie wanted nothing to do with laying down in a hole and being covered with sand.
Here are some shots of our attempts to keep Landrie from eating sand. Pack-n-play with an umbrella for shade. 
We stole this idea from the people next to us on the first day. Enough water to splash, but with limited sand. Ha ha...we are still smarter!
Eventually she figured out that she could crawl over the sides and get to that tasty sand. We figured it would happen. 
Landrie loved watching Andrew and the girls play in the sand. She was very comfortable sitting in the sand and splashing in the water.
Oh....eating the sand too. At first we watched her constantly. Washing every bit of sand out of her hands. That got exhausting. Then we thought we'd let her take in a handful....surely she wouldn't do it more than once. Yeah we were wrong, she ate lots of sand and a few seashells too!
Here is a shot of our set-up. That is our beach house, the tall one in the background was ours for the weekend. Great deal. We loved it and will look to rent the same one again.
Daddy and the big girls playing in the waves. 
This past weekend was our second annual trip to Crystal Beach. Crystal beach is just a 20 min. ferry ride away from Galveston. Here are a few shots from the ride. Jenna, Kylie and Andrew loved watching the seagulls.
Landrie and Daddy. This was Landrie's first time on a boat of any kind.
I had to get this picture because of the ferry in the background. I guess there are no schools on Crystal beach. If you live there you have a very interesting bus ride to school.
With permission from Aunt Jamie, Grandy came with gifts. You can see the girls wearing them in this picture. They are the Koala backpacks from when Jamie and I were little. They wore them on a bike ride and pretty much everywhere else we went.
What beautiful weather for a couple nice walks.
We ended her visit with a birthday celebration for Jenna. Thanks again mom for a great visit. 
Landrie showing off her two teeth.
I love this picture of Jenna and Kylie. Just ignore the mess you see in the background. 
Kylie took her gift card from Auntie Lisa and Uncle Rick and got herself this bouncing ball at Target. At this point it is the coolest thing she owns. She bounces everywhere. Bounces through the house to go brush her teeth. In this picture she is bouncing outside in her jammies after he bath while daddy finished up so yard work. No she didn't bounce into the pool.
It was a big night last Friday at the Eisel's...watching Miss USA 2008. The girls and I were rooting for our two favorites, Texas and Minnesota. You have to have allegiance to your homestate and your homestate. Sidenote--Katie fell asleep about 25 minutes into the show...
Here are a couple pictures of the birthday gift from Grandy. I think she called it a doll house..??......maybe for giant dolls. We think it is more like a condo.
You can see that it will probably be more of an outdoor toy. Should be nice this summer. Thanks Grandy! Can't wait to see you next week.
This picture is from Jennas open hose last week. In her GT class they have been studying about Japan and Cuba. For their project they had to choose an animal from one of those places. Jenna chose the Japanese Macaque. a.k.a. snow monkey. She was given the option of doing a poster or a shadowbox about her animal, but she told her teacher that she didn't want to do either, she wanted to dress up like her animal and talk about it. So, here she is reporting to us about what her animal eats and where it lives. And yes, that is a garbage bag with yarn taped to it.
Silly Sisters.
Michelin Man! I love it!
