Fourth of July

Before we went to the beach, we went to see my brother and sister-in-law. It is only a little over an hour to South Padre from where Jared and Heather live. It was so nice to see them and Matthew goes right to Uncle Jared every time. ;) We spent the 4th with Jared and Heather and her family. They cooked hamburgers and we enjoyed our time spent there. Although it was short, anytime to see my brother is fun. We have such a fun and goofy relationship and we don't get to see much of him, so this was fun even for a short amount of time. We watched fireworks from Heather's parent's house. They were so pretty! Matthew enjoyed wathcing them. Jared even had his own little version of a firework display. Let's just say that I don't think the city of Mission is going to hire him for next year's fireworks.

Here are some pictures of our time there.

Jared, Matthew, and me

Micheal, Matthew, and Jared

Brandon and Micah

Us (our son is SO serious)

We had to "lock" him out of this room. It had lots of pretty

breakables that he had his eyes on.

South Padre Island

I am a couple of weeks late on this post, but I wanted to share a few pictures of Matthew's first trip to the beach. We all had such a wonderful time and thanks to Brandon and Micah for inviting us to come! They didn't even mind driving 8 hours south with Matthew, fussy at times, but did well for the most part.

Matthew loved the beach! He loved playing in the sand and even ate some too! He also loved being in the water. He couldn't decide if he wanted to play in the sand or run to the water. He had so much fun. He also helped his daddy and Brandon build sandcastles, when I say build, I mean help take them down. :)

Here are a few pictures from our stay there.

Beach babe

Precious!