1 vs. 9

Poor Trey. We're thrilled to have my MIL, SIL and nieces in town. That makes 9 females in the house to Trey's 1 male.

Last night we went to Chuy's for dinner. Yummmmm.

fruit wands & mini cupcakes

Last night we spent a lot of time getting ready for Danielle's birthday party this morning. Cari spent the night so she got put to work as well. The girls put together the fruit wands (grapes, honey dew, pineapple, catalope and strawberries on a wooden skewer) and Trey did most of the mini cupcakes and made the orange flavor and colored icing. This turned out to be a lot of work and a late night . . . and I blame Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade cooking show. Last week Danielle and I watched it and it was a fairy princess party with fruit wands and mini cupcakes! So Danielle then had her heart set on that. Pictures to follow later.

Totally digging this song right now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94QMihIC9m8

new member of the family

Danielle has been attending a fun day camp with two of her friends this week. Wednesday the camp went to Build A Bear. Danielle made and adopted a pretty creme-colored bear named Fluffy. Fluffy has black eyes and three little bows. On of the bows broke so we'll have to fix that.

H20 park

Took Danielle and neighbor to the water park in Cedar Park today. My parents live close by so we dropped Samantha off so I could play as well.

You may recall that my parent's house flooded last summer; it is almost fully restored. The teak floor that held up a lot of work is absolutely beautiful. The brand new carpet is so soft and nice, too. With two dogs, four cats and a six year old it's been a long time since I've seen an unstained, clean carpet--haha!

Anybody do this Facebook thing? Gina got me on that so I'll have something else to also spend time on the computer.

Have a good weekend.

long "day" at "work"

This afternoon Danielle, Samantha and I finally made it to see my coworkers. We were gone all afternoon! It was fun catching up with everyone and introducing Samantha. Danielle enjoyed the mounds of candy she received while visiting all the offices. And BONUS! My former supervisor (now back in a new position) happened to have a frozen casserole for me in the freezer! We had it for dinner and it was great.

Samantha is also learning to smile. You hold her in front of you and grin big and greet her and she will give you a little smile back. She is also experimenting with all sorts of new squeals and sounds.

Danielle has been giving me a little bit of trouble lately. She really resist minding the first time I tell her to do something. She also seems to do it more with me than Trey. I know part of it is jealousy and part of it is boredom (especially as neighbor friend is gone until tomorrow.) Next week should be more fun for her as she will be attending a day camp with two friends.

Our 1st baby is 6!

Our 1st baby is 6! For her birthday we went to church, lunch, swimming, to get shakes and had brownies with frosting at home. Can hardly believe she is SIX!!!

intro

After my dr. appt yesterday we finally made it down to D's former school to introduce S to her class. D was very proud. We stayed about an hour and brought cookies for snack. (Co-workers: I promise to make down to see you soon; two outings was all we could handle yesterday.) The other day D set up for a picnic in her room:
Samantha in something other than pink or purple:
A long time ago I promised photos of D's PINK fairy room. Here are two:

crank

We watched a really bazaar & interesting movie, Crank, a few nights ago. Neither of us can figure out who requested on Netflix; I think it was recommended to me but cannot remember by whom. It was enjoyable, but bazaar.

pics from the weekend

BIG bed

The roommate of a friend of mine is moving from suburban Austin (~3000 sq ft house) to San Francisco (600 sq ft apt) so he is selling off all his stuff. We chose to purchase his king sized sleigh bed. We (correctly) knew it would fit in our bedroom but never imagined how BIG it is. It is REALLY tall. Now all of our other furniture looks WAYYY too small. It's very comfortable but we laugh almost every time we walk into the bedroom.