Fort Worth Zoo

We enjoyed a hot day at the zoo a couple of weeks ago with our friends. Thank goodness for the awesome splash pad part to end the day at! Kids were all troopers!

Water, Water and More Water

We've had SO many water days this summer! Whether at our community pad, Gramma and Poppa's pool, the various local splash pads or just our back yard, we are trying to beat this Texas heat by being in or near water!

Or, eating popsicles with friends....

The Piano

The kiddos have SO enjoyed the piano ever since we brought it home a couple months ago. Drew can already play the Star Wars theme song and can be found 4-5 times a day plunking away at his notes. I think his analytical brain has picked it up incredibly fast and I LOVE that.

Poles and Hoops and Hammocks Oh My!

Our mommy group had a super fun the other night trying out a new exercise! We danced around poles, tried aerial hoops and aerial hammocks. It was SUPER intense and hard and I was bruised for a couple of days. I seriously have a new appreciation for people who do this!!

Drew's First Sleepover

Drew had his good friend Weston over for his first sleepover and it went SO well. Weston is a wonderful kid and very well behaved so I knew these 2 wouldn't get into any trouble at all. They played board games, video games, watched a movie and enjoyed donuts in the morning! Now guess who is begging for her own sleepover? HAHAHA.

William // 15 Month Update

While I don't officially do 15 month updates for my kiddos, I had to document a few little tidbits about our little ham. Walking for a couple of weeks now he thinks he can conquer the world. He is into EVERYTHING and never stops. He does NOT want to hold your hand when he's walking nor have anyone help him at all. It's hard to get anything done around the house considering his favorite activities include unrolling alllll the toilet paper, opening every cabinet, pulling everything out of them and rearranging all kitchen chairs and decor. He's quite the jokster who loves to make his brother and sister laugh. He's an AMAZING sleeper going down around 8 and sleeping until between 7 and 8 and still takes 2 naps about 50% of the time and one nap the other 50%. All naps are generally a couple of hours.

This kiddo also loves his carbs and we've even found a dairy free mac n cheese that he loves. He would live off fruit, however, if we let him. He knows how to say about 12 words right now including our names, shoe, dog, ball and others. And he understands SO much of what we're saying. If we ask him to hand us something he does. Or if we say Get Down off of something he does. (But then looks at us as he gets right back on it). He looooooves his doggie something fierce but drives her up a wall that she generally moves away from his vicinity. This 2T wearing kid still loves being outside so very much. He always has since he was a little tiny thing but man if his brother and sister are out there and he doesn't get to go out he throws a FIT.

Love you so much my little chicken!!! :)

First Rangers Game!

Some friends invited us to the Rangers game with them last week and it was SO fun! A million degrees but still so much fun with this group. I needed to have eaten more because that beer hit me hard but whew! So many laughs. And, it's always nice to know we have the best babysitters now. Gramma and Poppa are always our kiddos favorite to sit of course! 

14

Couldn't do life with anyone else besides this man. He is my person, my tribe, my partner and the one that I literally can't exist without. We are so lucky to have each other and I could not love him more than I do and think it's crazy that it's been 14 years married already!!

Also, he surprised me by adding more diamonds around my engagement diamond!! LOVE LOVE LOVE my new halo!!

Ady's Dance Recital

Another year in the books of dance for my girl! She took the ballet/tap combo class again but this time was with 5-7 year olds. Because we didn't want to do the Saturday 2-5 year old class with sports, they let her slide into the slightly older class because she had danced there before. I was shocked at how well she kept up at recital and LOVED watching her 2 dances! :)

Plus how cool to have BOTH sets of grandparents there to watch!

More Summer Fun

Drew's piano lessons began and he is doing SO well. He seems to be catching on super fast.

We saw a movie with some friends just the bigs and I and they loved it!

We put Will in Gymboree and he's loving his special time without the bigs around.

Lots of pool time at friends houses and the community pool with this crew...