Camping Trip

Every year my best friends from school get together for our annual Camping Trip. We started camping out in tents and bringing along the whole family. Sometimes there were up to 26 people. We usually camp in or around the Texas Hill Country (Lake Travis, Canyon Lake, etc.) and occasionally as far away as Lake O The Pines, close to the Texas Oklahoma border. As the years went by we decided that the camping was getting a little less fun than it used to be when we were younger and we started finding houses to rent or lodges to stay in. We still call it the Camping Trip but there is very little camping involved! This is our first year without any of the kids coming along, except for Mitzi's youngest daughters, Emily and Kellie. We stayed at Turkey Cove Lodge on Canyon Lake.


It's so much fun to see everyone and get caught up on what's happening with our families and our lives. We rented a pontoon boat for a few hours and took a boat ride around Canyon Lake. It's really beautiful.

Jackie, Janet, Michelle, Deana, Mitzi

Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What a blast! We're already thinking about next year's Camping Trip. We're already making plans for next year. Check out some more pictures at: http://imageevent.com/deanaj/campingtrip2008?n=0

Our Grandchild!

Jessica and David are expecting a baby at the end of January. In a couple of weeks we'll find out if it's a boy or a girl. Here's our first look!!



It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. ~Author Unknown

Weekend Fun

We had a great weekend. The weather was hot, but still beautiful. We had lots of fun on and in the water between the swimming pool, the dinghy and the sail boat. Our friends Mitzi and Kelly came to visit along with Mitzi's daughter Emily. We went sailing on Sunday and had a wonderful sail. It was so much fun to spend some time with Mitzi. I've known her since we were in elementary school but it seems like we don't get to spend much time together anymore.

Kelly and Mitzi

My Sister Mitzi

Emily

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps

Pictures

We've been having a great time learning to use our new camera. We bought a Canon Rebel Xsi which is a wonderful digital camera with some awesome zoom and macro lenses. I've been taking so many pictures that I've earned a title: Deana Jones, N.N.G.P. (Non-National Geographic Photographer)! Maybe if I practice enough I'll get to lose the first N. This is a great camera so it takes most of the guesswork out of getting nice pictures. Luckily there are plenty of Herons in the marina that don't mind posing.

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. ~Author Unknown

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen

Summer Vacation

We were on vacation last week and we spent the first part of the week with Kayla. Mostly just hanging around the marina at the swimming pool. Very relaxing and lots of fun spending time with our granddaughter.

Kayla Joe

Cute!

Anne, Kayla and Keegan (Sumertime Fun)

Anne and Kayla

We sent Kayla home and celebrated our 11th anniversary for the second part of the week. We sailed over to Double Bayou and had a great time. Eleven years and still fireworks!!!!

An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow. ~Author Unknown

Long Time - No Post!

It's been a while since my last post. It seems like we have been so busy both at work and on the home front. We're enjoying life on the boat and I'm happy to report that we closed the sale of Different Drummer yesterday. It's a little bittersweet because we love that boat. Still, we are mostly excited. She was purchased by a man who came all the way from Spain to buy her. We hope he enjoyes her as much as we have!

Goodbye Different Drummer - we'll miss you!

Tori turned 21 today. I can't believe my baby is a grown woman. It seems like just yesterday that I sent her off to kindergarten!

Happy Birthday Tori - We love you!

May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift

Moody Gardens

We had a great time at Moody Gardens over Memorial Day Weekend. Lots of fun with TMCA and other friends. Lots of great weather and time to play on the water. Boats everywhere! It has fun but nerve wracking navigating through all the barge traffic on the way home.

We got a new camera and we're learing how to use it properly. I need to get some software that will allow me to sort and re-size my pictures so that I can post them more easily. I will try to post pictures from the Moody Gardens trip this weekend if I can get the software and get it figured out. Here is one picture that I just can't wait to post. I took this picture in the Houston Ship Channel. This dolphin was having a blast in the bow wake of a container ship.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~Ruth Ann Schabacker