It's raining on our parade!

I had a brilliant idea last week! Everyone has been in a funk and we knew we just needed to get out of this house. I did some searching and found an AirBnB that had a little of everything we were looking for, and at a decent price. We booked it and told the kids to get ready for a weekend at the beach in Corpus Christi! Since our last trip  to Corpus was cancelled, #thanksCOVID, this was just what we needed. 

However, Mother Nature had other plans. It wasn't long after we booked our AirBnB that there was talk of a disturbance in the gulf. I tried to stay positive because it looked like it might hit more north, and then it shifted, became Tropical Storm Hurricane Hanna, and was headed straight for Corpus. This morning they closed the beaches until Monday and our previously non-refundable AirBnB was now eligible for a full refund. So once again I had to give my kids the bad news. I know it's not really my fault, but I feel totally responsible. Maybe if we didn't try to do fun things there would be no disappointment! I can't even blame this one on COVID, lol. We're all feeling a little bit like this guy:

Well, we'll see if we can reschedule our outing in Corpus. Maybe the third time's the charm, or maybe we just should stop trying- one of the two! I know it will be better than sitting in our AirBnB during a tropical storm, being feet away from the beach and not being able to go out on it. 

So I was waiting to blog until after our awesome weekend adventure pictures, but here are a few other things I can share :)

Fuzzy antlers on a deer at McAllister Park

Not sure why, but he likes to sit on my lap. Then he successfully used my face to get my phone to open and snapped a flurry of pictures. I kept this one :)

One day Alex and I went up to the city of Gruene (pronounced Green) and walked around the antique shops and got ice cream.

It was also really hot!

Dan participated in a ride to honor a solider who was murdered at Fort Hood. Just look at the turnout of jeeps, trucks and motorcycles! #iamvanessaguillen

I finally found a White Mountain puzzle at Hobby Lobby that wasn't overpriced! I've got another one I'm waiting to do. I'll probably start it this weekend since we won't be doing our little vacation.

More Alex cooking adventures! One morning he felt like having some bacon and egg breakfast tacos, so he made them all by himself. He really has this cooking thing down!

Each week he gets to cook one dinner and every other week he gets to do a dessert. He got lucky this week when the Deacons quorum asked him to teach a recipe to the class for their Zoom activity. He taught them to make a family favorite, seven layer cookie bars. Then on Saturday he combined his meal and bi-weekly dessert into a fanciful feast for us- Fondue! He did all the prep work, which is a lot if you've ever had fondue. The dinner portion was awesome and the chocolate marshmallow fondue to dip our treats in was divine!

Lastly, one of the things that re-opened and thankfully has remained re-opened is Power Park Ninja. Alex has made a lot of improvement over the last month or so, and even got to do a summer camp session with the coaches. They shared this picture on their FB page of them playing laser tag in the dark! So glad there's something to enjoy amidst all the other stuff going on.