We moved to the island last year…on a wing and a prayer; hoping we could make it work, blind to the struggles we would face. Because of many financial hardships and our rather modest (to put it nicely) means, we’ve learned to become quite creative with how we entertain our toddler. Free family fun is the norm for us; a very simplistic way of island life. It has made us better people and parents…all-the-more.
Now, with the holidays behind us, we have welcomed our first new year as full-time Islanders. And because we love the ocean and the beach so…we felt compelled to go shelling at one of our favorite family-friendly spots along the coast. This particular stretch of Galveston Beach is a place we have come-to-call ‘Nixi’s Pirate Play Park’. In our opinion, and Baby’s, it is the best little park on the island! We highly recommend it to any visitor or local.
The first day of this new year might’ve been a bit dreary, but we didn’t mind! To us, it was a mystical and adventurous family outing of treasure hunting and shelling along the big seashore: so many discoveries we made that day! It was a time–a memory–of new beginnings and priceless moments that we pray 2014 will bring even more of…to our little tribe.
Blessings & .V.. to you and yours in this New Year…and always!
GVR
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- Ships A’Hoy!
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- Nixi’s Pirate Play Park
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- Me and My Shadow
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- You Make Me Smile!
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- Mommy Off Guard While Nixi ‘Digs’ It!
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- Little Treasure Hunter
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- Name in the Sand
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- Beach Combers
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- Runny Nose *sigh*
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- Beach Baby Jogger
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- Look What I Found!
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- Shell Seekers
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- Gathering a Pirate’s Booty
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- Invasion of Sea Foam
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- Sea Shell…Ice Cream Cone?
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- A Bit Salty…Not So Sweet!
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- La Princessa de la Playa
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- Checking to see….”Is Anybody Home?”
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- Unoccupied! This’n Is a Keeper!!!
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- Looky Looky What I Found!
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- Glad I Didn’t Step on This! Ouch!!!
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- Mystical Seashore
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- Reminds Me Of a Mug o’ Beer!
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- Sea Foam Invasion
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- Our Little Explorer
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- And Baby Makes Three!
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- See Ya, Mom & Dad!
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- Shelling on The Big Seashore
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- Kewl…!
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- Whaaaaah?!
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- Gypsy Vin Rose
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- Little Beach Comber
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- Toddler Activities: Shelling on Galveston Island
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- Free Family Fun Ideas
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- You’ll Never Catch Meeee!!
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- AttackODaSeaFoam
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- I Gave That Sea Foam The Boot! Haha
Forty Something Parents 
January 3, 2014 at 10:33 pm
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Free Family Fun for the New Year!
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