Seattle trip photos-finally

Mommy and daughter--Peek a boo--I see you--that's what Addison is playing.Nannie brought the grandgirls Easter baskets . . . . . . that contained confetti eggs!Trey and the cutie girl, who definitely knows when a camera is on her!
Friday we went to eat lunch at school with Emory and Amberlin.Emory's recent school artwork"Why are you taking my photo?? I'm busy peeling shrimp here!" Amberlin and Papaw.Waiting to open presents--Grandma Janice, Emory, Danielle, Addison & TreyAny clothes Addison opened she immediately "tried on" by placing on her head.This is a little lamb Amberlin bought for Addison and she immediately kissed it.The cake was pink.
and three layers, which made it difficult to cut without toppling over.
YumGetting ready to go to the Baptism.

The whole gang.
The Baptism. :-)Precious girl
On the MOUNTAIN geocaching: Janice, Emory, Amberlin and friend, Monica

Playing at the park before we caught the airplane to come home.
Cousin fun :-)

TGIF!

I'm so glad it is Friday. Coming back from vacation is hard to catch up with everything. We have lots of laundry to do.

I won 2 Round Rock Express tickets to Saturday's game in a raffle at work. They are seats in the section behind 3rd base so apparently they are good seats. We bought an additional ticket for Danielle so we'll see how she likes baseball.

Finally got my hair trimmed during my lunch hour yesterday. Close to same style--a few more layers. It has much more body now.

My office has a Monthly Chow where the person choosing must pick someplace they have not been to. This month is mine and I chose Homeslice Pizza in SoCo; I'll let you know how it is.

Have a great Friday...

best choice

8 years ago today I made one of my best choices and married a fantastic man. Happy anniversary, love.

home

Danielle and I made it home last night--late--our plane arrived at 10:35pm. Trey came home the night before.

I've got a gazillon photos to upload and stuff to write but will have to do it after work tonight.
Have a great day!

Addison had a great birthday party & has been Baptised!

Yesterday was Addison"s 1 year old birthday party. Nannie made a 3 layer pink cake with white icing and candy polka dots. For dinner the men made some yummy shrimp tacos.

This morning was a very special day as it was Addison"s Baptism. Congratulations, precious girl.

The West Coast route to Seattle

So we finally arrived in Seattle yesterday via multiple West Coast stop flights through California. Got to see San Diego and the Golden Gate bridge from the plane. Thursday evening we ate dinner and played "Who Knew?" This morning Danielle and I went with Gretchen to her church to get the Sunday school supplies ready, then to lunch at school with Emory and Amberlin before grocery shopping. Got home, played with Addison and cleaned up before the kids came home and now we're finishing homework. Yes, Seattle has been rainy since we've arrived but FUN!!!!

VACA!

I'M ON VACATIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN through Monday!!!! YEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Our back yard gardens

Last night Danielle and I planted all her flowers in her garden and Trey planted all of his tomatoes in his garden. Danielle added the beautiful rocks from Grammer and Pop to hers.

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul." --Alfred Austin

In the jungle . . .

Countdown to The Lion KING--2 days!

Our St Pat's Day

Our St Pat's Day was spent outside enjoying the Spring weather. Neighbor Alison came over to play. The girls:

• played in the sand box


• painted a flower pot for an airplane plant


• helped Trey in the garden


• found a garden snake and her eggs


• found a bunch of snails and roly-polys


• ate a bunch of red raspberry jello cups


• practiced lots of cheerleading moves
  

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend.

I Know There's Something Going On

Time to jam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5DkTF2RW8

This is in response to Mark's (http://saxonsayings.blogspot.com/) recent post about Abba.

I LOVE this song. I even had the solo album . . . I wonder where it is . . . As a teenager I was quite the photography nut (I was head photographer one year for the yearbook) and, of course after watching this and similar 80s videos, fully expected to have a lots of money and a cool apartment filled with lots of white furniture and funky windows during my hip, young, single years! :-) lol. Wow is life different . . . one day you wake up and you are almost 37 and wondering what happened to your life . . .

This week was very stressful at work. There are several changes and I'm not sure how I feel. Not trying to be cryptic but there are a lot of things going on and you can never be sure what you post may be misintrepeted and make its way back to you . I'm still trying to figure out what to do/feel/think so I'm refraining. Continued prayers are welcome . . . have a great weekend!

a gentle push?

With some of the things that have been happening lately I think that God may be giving me a gentle push?? I'm just not sure which way that push is . . . I have several days of careful consideration and prayer ahead.

Curious Danielle

Danielle just amazes me lately with all her curiousity. From catching roly-polies to wanting to know what and how concrete is made. That's just a few of the things we've studied over the last few nights . . .

Saturday

Saturday morning we got Danielle's hair cut then we babysat the Watts kids that evening. Danielle and Ruth have been friends since they were 6 months old. Weston was such a good boy! So well behaved--if he had a ball, he was just fine! I didn't realize we had so many balls in our house anymore!

Yee haw!

Today was the start of the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo in Austin. To kick off the event there was a free cowboy breakfast on Auditorium Shores this morning (with 2000 more SCONES than KOLACHES--lol--only in Austin would the cowboys want more scones than kolaches). Trey got there way before we did and left as we were on the road there. So Danielle and I walked through the events and got some free OJ, chocolate milk and cheese biscuits. Danielle also petting the sweet baby calf and got hugged by the rodeo mascot.

In other good news, LUCAS is back at work for a month before he returns to Russia.

Happy weekend!

night out

Last night I went out with my friend, Mandi, to a Mary Kay training dinner then to Starbucks to get some chai tea lattes. It was fun catching up! She's so funny!

And, sadly, I CANNOT CHECK ANY BLOGGER SITES on a break at work b/c our IT dept blocked them all. And why do IT guys think women know nothing about computers? Is that universal or only n my little corner of the world???

whoo hoo hoo

Tonight we were reading "I love you, little one" and came to the page about the baby owl asking the mama owl "Do you love me, mama?" and Danielle became very interested in owls. So we went online and found this good little website for kids about owls:
http://www.tooter4kids.com/owls/introduction.htm
and this owl webcam in Benicia, California (location listed for you, Sarah :-) :
http://www.theowlcam.com/
if you are interested.

chiggers? little bugs?

This week has been BEAUTIFUL in Austin so I refuse to go inside when we get home. Monday night I pulled up a bunch of old sticks that the (grr) tree trimmer guy left and realized when I went to bed that night that I kept scratching, scratching my legs--I think chiggers got me!! I haven't had chiggers since, hmmmm, high school! lol.

Last night was my Susannah Circle at church; we learned about Deaconesses in the United Methodist Church and it was very interesting. Came home and talked to my SIL for about an hour.

Tonight Trey is out with the boys so Danielle and I came home, took a walk with the neighbor kid, Allyson, then came home and I talked to my neice, Amberlin, for about 1/2 hour. I'm in the process of making hamburgers and fries (guilty pleasures) while Danielle is learning to dance like a (Barbie 12 Dancing) Princess. What a great week so far . . .

Afternoon at the Austin/Zilker Kite Festival

funny photo my mom dared me to post on the internet:

Dare completed. :-)

Go, Yankees!

Cousin Drake is on a t ball team. Aunt Joy is team sponser. Go Yankees! They won their 1st game yesterday 20-12.

Drake hitting the ball:Safely making it to 1st:
Off to 2nd:
The whole team:
Danielle insisted on going as a cheerleader, but we only have the Longhorn cheerleader outfit.

photo from Grammer's birthday party last weekend

visions of sugar plums

Danielle snuck into our bed last night--after she was back to a very deep sleep she said "Give me some candy!" and that was all . . .
lol!

flower's heart

This evening we were eating dinner and we made Danielle try an artichoke. Trey was explaining to her that she had just eaten a flower, how it was cut up, etc. I said "the part we ate people call an artichoke heart." Her face fell and she got very upset so I asked her what was wrong...she said "I don't want to eat the flower's heart." Thankfully, Trey saved the day by explaining that the flowers don't have real hearts--the heart just means the center.