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Category Archives: travel

Summer beach trip

June 9, 2011 – 1:34 pm

At the end of last month we drove to Port Aransas for a beach getaway with friends for the second year in a row.  8 adults and 7 children under the age of 4 shared a house there for 4 days, and we had a great time.  There were those two tire blowouts on the [...]

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first camping

January 2, 2011 – 6:33 pm

Last Thursday night Nathan, the kids and I went on our first overnight tent camping trip at McKinney Falls State Park. We saw deer, birds, a jackrabbit, grasshoppers, ladybugs, spiders, and lots of local plants and trees.  We walked in the woods, where we found owl pellets, deer scat and tracks, and snail shells that [...]

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Port Aransas

July 18, 2010 – 10:06 pm

This weekend we went to Port Aransas with friends from our preschool co-op community.  It was Ben and Maddie’s first time to visit the beach. So far Port Aransas hasn’t been affected by the oil spill in the Gulf.  But these oil platforms, which were clearly visible from shore, were a constant reminder of the [...]

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