Super Silly Somerville Camping !

We love to camp!

This past weekend we camped at Rocky Creek Park on Lake Somerville, and once again, we had a blast! Our activities on this fun trip included: Catching fishies (and one leach) from the shoreline; swinging on the hammock; swimming in the lake; being pulled on the inner-tube behind the boat; exploring the lake on the jet-ski; eating mom's yummy camp-cooking; walking on the wooded trails; riding bikes; and just flat-out hanging-out!

I love to watch my kids have a fun-tastic time!

Below: Nathan swimming in the lake!

Below: Nathan eating his mayonnaise and cheese sandwich; yummy!

Below: Katie playing with lilly-pads!

Below: Katie playing on the hammock!

Below: Chris on the inner-tube!

Below: Me on the inner-tube!

Below: A beautiful full-arched rainbow!

Below: Scary looking and large Red Velvet Ant!

Words to live by... according to Nathan

Every Friday both Nathan and Katie come home from school with a "Friday Folder". This folder contains all of the schoolwork they have completed for the entire week. I am not really sure what Nathan's class was supposed to be doing, but it looks like they were to trace the numbers at the top of the page, cut out some pictures from magazines, and glue them to the papers... the funny part is the picture that Nathan glued on the top right of his paper!

"Teach your kids not to share."

So far, this has been Nathan's life "Motto"!

Hahahaha! Too funny!

BraArt !

There is a neat charity group in Houston called "Charity Chics"! Each year they put on this even called BraTober, which is where anyone can decorate a bra and donate it to be auctioned to a predetermined breast cancer charity cause. Last year proceeds went to "Save-the-Ta-Tas", and this year proceeds will be going to a charity called "Bright Pink"! Katie and myself entered the charity event where the top 50 decorated bras will be chosen to be displayed at the BraTober event on October 1st! We are not yet sure if we will be going to the main event since we already have previous plans made during the duration of the event... it's a fancy dress-up event and although I contacted them to see if a 9-year old was allowed to attend (which they said she can), neither of us have anything to wear; we'll see... we will not know if our bras were chosen as the top 50 for another week (on September 25th).

Below: This is the bra I decorated... I called it "Bra-tastic" because each bottlecap has some kind of inspiring word or picture...

Below: This is the bra Katie entered... she called hers "Sparkle-Gram" because it's sparkly!

WISH US GALS LUCK!

Even if we don't get picked, we did this for special reasons!

Corpus Christi, Texas

Yea, I know, I know... I haven't posted anything in two months.

Our family wanted to take a mini-vacation before school started back up for the kids, so we took a short weekend trip down to Corpus Christi, Texas mid-August to visit the Texas State Aquarium, the Museum of Science and History, and Katie and I got to ride horses on the beach on South Padre Island during sunset! It may have been a short vacation, but it was super-fun!

Below: Our hotel had a backdoor that allowed us access to the bay, and we could see the USS Lexington as well!

Below: This was taken in front of the Texas State Aquarium...

Below: This was taken at the Museum of Science and History; we toured replicas of Christopher Columbus' ships!

Below: This is Katie and me riding our horses on South Padre Island at sunset! It was beautiful!

Now, if you know me, and many of you do, I took WAY more pictures than this! So, if you would like to see all 200+ pictures, please visit my family Web site at:

http://thesupersillybrownfamily.shutterfly.com/