Sunday, July 25, 2010

Videos of Oliver

Finally figured out how to upload videos, since we had to compress them, convert them....not really sure how we did it but we now have videos of myself so wanted to share a couple cute ones from the past few months.



Here's one where I'm listening to classical music and practicing my conducting skills!!
For some reason this video is banned in Germany....



And now for a couple to show off my emerging musical talents!!



If you were listening closely in that last one you could hear my Dad on the trumpet.

And here is my first lesson on trumpet.



My Dad was super proud of me!!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Fishing Trip

My parents were gone all day on Saturday and I had a blast hanging with Grandma!! Here's my mom telling what happened:

Last Saturday Nathan and I arose at 5:30am and headed off to Galveston. At 7am we boarded the Capt. John Fishing Boat and set off for deep waters.



Here's a couple pictures from the top deck of the boat as we were leaving the pier.





Four hours later we reached deep waters about 120 miles out. After some help from the deck hands I figured out the casting and reeling in pretty quickly and promptly caught a red snapper that was a keeper!!



A little later I hooked an even larger one and Nathan had to pull it up for me.



After a few hours of catching fish and occasionally moving to a new location, we headed back inside for the 4 hour trip back to the harbor. The fish were proudly hung up for display.



We ended up with 4 red snapper fish...



...and after they were cleaned, gutted, and filleted we filled our cooler up with about 9 lbs of fish meat. They are now taking up about half of the freezer so we are set for awhile!!

Monday, July 12, 2010

4th of July Pictures

We traveled to Aggie Land for the 4th and enjoyed touring the George Bush Presidential library and then watched fireworks while an orchestra played!!

Here is our family photo showing off our patriotic spirit with red!! I think Amy must have told us a joke since it looks like we're all laughing.



And here's a couple cute pictures of all the cousins in their red, white, and blue!!





The cousins also enjoyed a fun play area inside the library.





Oliver got a kick out of opening the dog houses that were scattered throughout the library.





Back outside he laughed, and danced on the manhole covers while waiting for the firework show to begin.