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We decide to check out the Kemah Boardwalk one day, which was cute and fun! Emma will love it even more when she gets a little bigger so she can ride all of the rides there! We can already tell she is going to be a roller coaster junkie!!

We walked around everything and checked out a few of the shops and let Emma play in the water to cool her off!

At one point I thought she was going to get ran over by all the big kids but she held her own;)

Afterwards we stopped at a local BBQ place and had lunch! Wow I agree Texans know how to BBQ...yummy yummy!

The Zoo!

The Houston Zoo is huge and was a lot of fun to go and see! Kaye, Kels, Ems, and I headed out and were pleasantly surprised to have lots of cover as we walked around so the heat was not too bad, we were extremely happy;) Emma of course loved seeing all the animals and was super good!

Emma loved being able to go and pet all of the goats. The goats were amazing and just let all of the million kids sit around and play with them!

Feeding the fish!

These Lions were huge but lazy! Not nearly as fun to watch as the white tiger at the Aquarium!

Check out the horns on these guys!!

A grizzly bear sleeping.

Emma loves Elephants, so this is her first time seeing real ones! She was a little warm..rosy cheeks, sweaty hair!

Now this little guy was adorable! He was only one day old!!! Still had his baby hair, and was a little wobbly on the legs! We couldn't get enough of how cute he was!!

They are building a whole new African area in the Zoo that is going to be massive so these guys are getting a new home built!

A super fun day for all of us girls!! Thanks Kels for going and enduring the heat..thank goodness it wasn't too bad;)

Ocean fun;)

We were able to go to the Beach twice while Kaye and Kels were here visiting us and we sure did have fun, doesn't this face just show it?!! Emma absolutely LOVES the water! She would stay in it all day if we let her!

Andrew finally lured Emma out of the water to come and check out his castle he built for her! She had fun playing in it, throwing sand, and finally demolishing it!

Kaye, Kels, and Ems jumping the waves, laughing, and having a great time!

This poor bird only had one leg!!!

I could definitely spend lots of time here, who couldn't with the joy it brings to this little lady!! I couldn't get the pics to work of the second day we went but the waves where way bigger and we took a float tube for Emma and she loved sitting in it to ride the waves, so fun!! We also saw a dolphin jumping right in front of us! Andrew yelled out "Look a dolphin" I look up and see nothing as say "Quit lying;)" and as I do I see it jump again, way awesome probably only 30 feet from us!! We love the Beach, if I can't have my mountains at least I have the beach!!!

Houston Astros!

One Sunday afternoon all of us (Kaye, Kelsey, Andrew, Emma, and I) decided to take a ride downtown Houston to see if there were any sights we could see. Turns out we didn't really know what to look for so we drove around on streets that were pretty much free of other drivers...so nice, and saw some commercial starting to get filmed!! We ended up driving to Minute Maid Park where the Houston Astros play and checking out the grounds! It is a beautiful park. And has small soft grass...what I would give for that;) (Andrew thinks I am obsessed, everywhere we go I look at the grass to see if it is like ours.;)) Emma loved all of the baseballs they have surrounding it, she spent lots of time running to each and jumping off of them!

We then went to a game with Scott and Haley! Lots of fun! I didn't have my camera but I figure we will be attending lots of games;)

Our attempt to get a picture..Emma really didn't want to;)

Some of the buildings downtown.

On the drive home Kaye asked me where Emma learned how to pull the cookies apart and only eat the cream??? I had no Idea..not from us, silly girl knows what the good stuff is!

First Houston Rain Experience!

This was our first experience of Houston rain! Nice and warm! Emma loved running out in it, well at least when it wasn't super heavy. At one point it was pouring down and flooding our gutters;) We actually didn't have it too bad, Andrew was in Galveston and he said it was flooding up to the doors of his car! One of the kids he works with was driving behind Andrew in his car and the force of the rain going over his hood somehow unlatched it and flew it up into his windshield causing it to break!!! Yikes, I would have been terrified...he was all right thank heavens! I guess what we get to look forward to!