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Joshua on February 23rd, 2010

We woke up today to the unusual, if not totally rare, occurrence of snow in Austin. It started with the typical hard icy rain/snow mix and at first we thought that was that. But then after a bit it really did snow. Real snow. Big flakes that actually stuck to the ground, and get this, […]

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Since we were so near Corpus Christi (for Texas anyway) and since the kids, especially Wesley, love aquariums, we decided to stop at the Texas State Aquarium on our way back to Austin from Port Aransas. From the website, we got the impression that the aquarium was a bit larger and dare I say nicer […]

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Joshua on February 6th, 2010

On our list of things that we want to do before we leave Texas, visiting the Gulf Coast was at the top. While we probably won’t get to many (or any) of the other things, we had a great weekend visit to a friend’s beach house in Port Aransas, TX. Port A, as the locals […]

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Amber on December 11th, 2009

The past 2 years we have gone to see Santa and then we walk around the park to look at the luminaries and the Christmas lights, 2007 & 2008, but this year… we decided to just do Santa on Friday and then the rest on Saturday. We got there right at 6, but Santa was […]

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