Beach Bums!

Well even with school going full speed we have still managed to sneak away to the beach a few times. We just love it there. It isn’t humid or hot with the constant breeze. It is wonderful. The kids have a great time splashing and swimming in the water and digging for critters in the sand and the latest thing making each other into mermaids and mermen… And I love just sitting there being lazy. One of the days Jason went on a Temple trip with the youth (it takes all day to go to the temple here, not just up the hill!) so I brought along Harry Potter to keep me company.

Another thing that entertained the kids for several days was the turtle Jason found in our back yard while mowing the lawn. Lucky for the turtle the blades were set high and went right over the top of it. Whew! That could have gotten ugly. The kids dug up worms for it and tried giving it every kind of vegetable we had in the house. After 3 or 4 days we were finally able to convince them that the turtle would be happier in the back yard rather than kept in a plastic storage box! So we freed Cecil (yes they named it!).

And speaking of reptiles, I had a very close encounter with a large snake. (Sorry Lori I know your skin is crawling right now…) ugh!!! We were house hunting and we went into the back yard of a new home that was nearly finished. It was starting to get a little dark but Jason wanted to see how far back the lot went so he was tromping around in the forest behind this house and the kids and I were wandering around the back yard where the grass was. I glanced down and just about stepped on a huge snake! I screamed, picked up Xander and ran!!! Jason has been teasing me that I “screamed like a giiirrrlll!!!” Yeah well I don’t care how I sounded that thing was huge! At least I don’t freak out every time a cockroach comes in the house. I am happy to kill the cockroaches if he will keep the snakes away! To Jason’s defense the cockroaches are pretty big. (but not as big as that snake!)

Ok enough of the reptiles… we will move onto crabs…We decided to get some fresh seafood, there are several stands between here and the beach selling it, we got shrimp (they took the heads off for us thank you very much!), clam meat (already packaged ready for chowder) and fresh crabs. We all enjoyed the crabs and we were glad we didn’t have anywhere to be because it took forever digging the meat out of them. Another adventure.

Well that sums it up for now, can’t think of what else to write about other than we miss ya’all like crazy and hope to hear from you soon.

Love, Jamie