8/12/2007 Sunburned, full of sand and having fun! The joys of being non anal

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Well, we just finished our first "normal" week since Michelle was born. All of our company went home on Monday. (Mom and dad Rowberry came out for Michelle's blessing). On the way home from the airport, I stopped by costco and loaded up on milk. We also stopped at a couple other stores on the way and got a few things with no real problems! What a miracle! No one ran away or left the store screaming, it was a real success! We also made it to the pool 3 times this week which was really fun. Everyone did just fine. I still can't get in the pool, but luckily between the baby pool and the self sufficient boys, we were all able to enjoy ourselves without me getting wet.

Justin had an awful week this week. He had call on Tuesday and then on Thursday he had to go up to Fort Hood for the day, night and day. He got home on Friday at 8:00 p.m. and I made him watch the kids for me while I went shopping for our beach trip the next day. Poor guy, I don't think he really wanted to go to the beach, he just wanted to sleep and lounge the next day, but I knew that if we wanted to make it to the beach this year, yesterday was probably the only time to do that. We were invited by the Padillas to go and a few other families (the Lillywhites, and the Carltons) went as well. We left at 8:00, got to Corpus at around 11:00, enjoyed the beach and headed home around 5:00. It was a really nice day. My only regret is that Michelle got sunburned on her face a little. I tried really hard to keep her in the shade, I even bought a tarp, but I guess I didn't do a good enough job. Poor girl, it looks kind of painful. Other than that though, the kids had a blast. We brought the rafts that we took to lake Travis last year and the boys had the best time floating out into the ocean and building sand castles and catching fish. They actually were able to catch a fish with just their bare hands and a bucket!! It was cool and I think Justin had a good time playing with them. I waded a little bit, but I still can't swim for a few more weeks so I spent a lot of my time in the shade with Michelle eating lots of junk food. Not exactly the best way to lose all that baby fat, but that's life. It was fun to have a few other families there to talk to. They all have little kids (4 and under)but everyone still had fun. It's always interesting to be in a group of young parents, it reminds me how non anal I am. I'm not sure if it's a good way to be or not. Sure makes life easier not to be anal, but it means there is a lot more sand in your food at the beach.