Chris and Debbie Baxter visit

John's Brother, Chris and his wife, Debbie came to visit for the weekend. John and Chris went for a ride on the Harley and we ended the weekend with a shrimp boil.

Our Alligator Experience in South Padre

While we were walking on the nature trail and sunset we got to watch a native alligator eat a turtle and then get angry at us when we scared away another turtle heading its way. We were only a matter of feet away but safe on the board walk above.

Crunching down on a turtle. We could hear the shell cracking.

Alligator sneaking up on another turtleAfter swallowing one turtle, the alligator was mad at us for scaring away his next turtle.

South Padre Island

We took a long weekend and drove to South Padre Island for a trip to the beach. This was our first time to South Padre and only Grant's second time to a beach. The 9 hours drive was worth the trip. Grant had such a great time. He loves the water and so this was a perfect trip for him.

Grant couldn't wait to put his swim trunks on

We had fun building Sand Castles on the beach.

Grant feeds a sea turtle lettuce at the Sea Turtle rescue center.

John took a guided bay fishing trip and had a lot of fun.

John and Grant at Sunset on the nature trail

Fireman for a day

Grant stayed with his "B" and "Nana" (Blaine and Mistie) overnight at Blaine's new place in Temple. Emily's husband is a Firemand there and so Grant got to play fireman for a day. He got dressed up in the full gear, honked the horn on the firetruck, helped turn on the water, rode and drove the truck!

Our own birthday celebration

We celebrated my birthday today in our own Baxter fashion. Here's a self timer picture of the three of us. Grant was so excited, he insisted on a birthday party and helped blow out the candles.