Sunday, April 11, 2010

Bluebonnets take 2

It's that time of year again! This was last year. Emmy couldn't even sit up and Caro was having NONE of it. We brought props and chairs and NO suncreen... and it took about three hours to take two good pictures.

Look how much they're grown!!!

We took a caravan up to Brenham this year. All the cousins and best friend came out to take the pics. We weren't aware that this time of year is NUTS on 290. People just basically stop their cars in the middle of the highway and jump out to take pictures everywhere. By the better fields they were sometimes parking a LONG way away and just letting their kids run down the highway. People.. THIS IS A MAJOR HIGHWAY.... it was really unbelieve that bluebonnets were completely stopping traffic in many places!








You know that there was no WAY on earth we were going to get all three of them to smile at the same time. Jackson was just really overall unimpressed with the bluebonnets and pretty much the entire experience.
Yes, Emmy had three outfit changes. It's necessary to match everyone, ok. These are memories people. They must be color-coordinated. We also all came home with streaky green butts... i wonder why.....
I think it's offical Spring (and almost summer) is here!

Sunday, April 04, 2010

Easter, in captions

The Easter bunnt came! He brought treats and more CD's... he must've known that Mommy and Daddy were SERIOUSLY tired of the other CD

We started off the day with church, Emmy danced to the "church jams" on Gigi's lap through the service
Blake's FAVORITE part of any holiday is the lengthy picture session that always follows church. But I think we got a few good ones!



After a carb-tastic brunch and a little movie watching, Emmy tackled Egg hunt #1!
At the Vacek's SuSu and Gandy had a BIG surprise... Easter Chicks!!! ( a bigger surprise is that no one got pooped on all day!)
This picture just had to go in here becasue, well, look at it.. they're the same....



After harrasing the chicks for a while, we let them roam the garden to find worms, and Easter Egg hunt #2 began!Emmy was really more interested in the candy inside. She dilligently found all the Reese's eggs she could and bit through the foil into every single one of them. She ignored the other candy.

Another fun holiday with food, family, fun... and chickens!!!

The end of free Mondays

It's back to work on Mondays, four days a week. I'll miss the time hanging out with my baby girl and the lazy Sundays, but at least there's always Friday!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Closing out the Birthday Month

We finished up the marathon month of birthdays this weekend with Keith's at Tokyo Steak and Sushi and the close-out of Blake's birthday week with the traditional Maggiano's Desert Gallergy night. Yes, we did both of these in the same day.... PIGLETS!!!!! We would like to start this blog off with a symbol of this month..eating-wise... yes, that's a big fat stinking pile of lard... about half which went into our lunch... This is how much Blake and I have gained in the month-of-birthdays. Here's the the Merry Month of P90X to follow....

We started off at Tokyo Steakhouse for a litte Bennihana-ish experience. We thought Emmy might like it. WRONG, she was terrified. For some reason, the shrimp throwing and onion volcano were not her thing. She did get lots of good cousin time in though! Happy 38th Keith!

In between pig outs we went to Katy Mills to see if the Easter Bunny would be like Santa. We didn't have very high expectations. Emmy did GREAT! We even managed to sneak her and Abby into one and got two smiles. It's a miracle!
After an hour or so of not eating =) we headed over to Maggiano's. Here's Blake blowing out the last candles of his twenties... goodbye young guy, hello old man! We were so full that we only shared a cupcake at Desert Gallery. Like we needed anything at all!
No more eating for a while.. blah! We made it through the Marathon month of March and we're headed for Easter! Here comes the bunn

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Springin Flingin!

Gorgeous weather in Houston, Texas means two things: 1. The month of birthdays is upon us and 2. Spring has suddenly arrived only to leave us with the dog days of summer even faster. In an attempt to celebrate the season, Collin, Betsy, Caroline, Kathy, Tim, Kristen, Emmy and I went to the Lakewood UMC Spring Fling. The girls were able to dance, pet farm animals, ride a train and have their first ever Easter egg hunt. We had been prepping Emmy for this moment for quite some time, but sometimes you just never know...

Emmy has been practicing for a moment in the petting zoo for months. What does a sheep say Emmy? BAAAAA!!! What does a horse say Emmy? NEEIIGGGGHHHH!!!

What does the doggie say? Emmy, that's not a doggie...at least she wasn't scared of anything this time...

Even more than the eggs, Emmy liked the gravel in the playground. As eggs disappeared in every direction around her (I wish that I would have gotten Kristen's eye tone on camera when a little boy zoomed in and stole an egg from her outstretched hand), Emmy was content digging in, collecting and placing the gravel into her basket.

A picture of our little family after the hunt. Notice Emmy is still not interested in anything besides the gravel. The Easter eggs were a nuisance to her gravel scramble.

Before the hunt began, we were sure Emmy would be on the hunt for eggs, as even the candy egg given to her during story time could not make it out of the wrapper before going directly into her mouth.

Emmy and her GiGi enjoyed a ride around the church in a tractor pulled train.

The excitement of riding the train spilled over into dance as Caroline showed each of us how little girls JAM!

Inspired by Caroline's moves, Emmy answered with a few of her own...

An amazing picture. These bunny ears last approximately 2.5 seconds on Emmy's head before they end up around her neck, in her eyes or on the ground.

There were at least two proud Daddy's with their daughters enjoying the day.

After the party, we went to a local restaurant for some grub. Trying to eat with two toddlers is at times, trying, but watching them run up and down the sidewalk in front of the restaurant is the main highlight. I just so happened to catch Caroline's excitement.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Sidewalk Chalk

Even though we couldn't make it to Kate's big birthday party in Lumberton this weekend, she was nice enough to send Emmy a goodybag! Sweet Kate =) Sidewalk chalk was in the bag and since Emmy's never played with it, I thought it might be fun today! We pulled it out and every little kid in the neighboorhood ended up on my driveway drawing. Ok, the mommies drew a little bit too =) Emmy taught Caitlin, our next door neighboor, how to do it.
Emmy had fun drawing but she had MORE fun rolling around in the chalk. A little Butt drawing I guess!

30... let's jump!

With the Sansom's you get a birthday week, so we HAD to celebrate Blake's birthday again on his real birthday Monday. Blake wanted to go to Monkey Bizness (yes, the bouncy place) for a party with Emmy. She's really get into the bouncies. She's alos VERY into balls... "ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball,ball,ball...." YES, you like Balls emmy =)

They made the trek up the BIIIIG slide and we actually let Emmy go down by herself this time. Probably the best decision? no... but she liked it!
Lannie and Boppa dropped by for dinner, and Emmy taught Boppa how to play with her Eggs. Poor Boppa.
We got another AWESOMELY decorated birthday cake from Rao's. They really outdid themselves this time =) Seriously, it's a good thing the thing tastes good =)