Easter 2011

For Easter this year, we woke up and Kendall played with a car toy she got in her Easter Basket, a beetle Volkswagen with flowers on it. It has great distance when you pull it back and let it go! She then went to church and Grandma and Grandpa Griffis came with us. For lunch we headed over to our local park for some fun, sun and eats. We played on the playground, ate lunch and tried to do a little Easter egg hunting which didn't go super smoothly. Kendall doesn't quite get that after she finds one egg she needs to keep looking for others. She just wanted to either eat or dump out the eggs contents and then try to eat the plastic egg. We will have to work on this next year! It was a great way to spend such a meaningful day!

Valentine's Day Love

I LOVE VALENTINES DAY! I'm not exactly sure why. I guess it's all the flowers, chocolates and love floating around. This year for Valentine's Day Kendall received a bubble blower so she could continue her love for bubbles! My wonderful husband sent me 36 Red Roses. They are beautiful and I had a great time arranging them just how I wanted. I made Smores and chocolate covered strawberries (yummy) for Troy in our backyard on our chiminea while we sipped our favorite Champaign. We ended up having to use the grill to roast the smores since we couldn't keep the chiminea fire burning....I forgot about the kinling. It was a wonderful Valentine's Day for all! Hope yours was just as lovely.

Pumpkins at the Dallas Arboretum

Troy, Sarah, Kendall, Rolando, Aaron, Sarah & Shandra enjoying some pumpkins!



Hey Daddy Look At That

My Cuties!




























For most major holidays, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden goes all out making their grounds look reflect the holiday spirit. Today we went there with our friends, the Tellez Family, to ring in Fall and get in the Halloween Mood. The Arboretum grounds always look so amazing with all the beautiful flowers, trees and greenery, but as you can see from the pictures they really outdid themselves this year. We had such a good time and the kids loved it. Afterwards we all went our friends, the Miller's home, for pizza and a little playtime before bed. What a great day! Thanks Rolando, Shandra, Aaron, & Sarah for so much fun. Lets do it again real soon.

Oh one more thing to mention....Kendall took her first steps at the Miller's home, 2 to be exact. Good job Kendall~ keep it up! Tomorrow Kendall and I are going to Stride Right to look for a pair of shoes for her.

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great Memorial Day Weekend! A time to reflect on the privileges we have in this country because of the many men and women who have obtained and maintained them for us. Troy and I were listening to NPR and they reported this ridiculous percentage (I have lost too many brain cells as I can't remember the exact %) Americans have no idea for the reason of Memorial Day. We realized that we need to be diligent about teaching Kendall about our country's history and the reasons we celebrate holidays.

It was also nice to have Troy around for 3 whole days. We had a fun weekend packed with activities. We went to Lake Lewisville to hang out with the Griffis Fam. My brother-in-law, Jack, is selling his boat and boat slip as he and my sister-in-law, Melanie, are expecting their 3rd little girl this summer. With three kiddos, they don't anticipate having much time for boating anymore. We went to the new house and had a carpet consultation...the current carpet is oh-so-gross in my opinion. We also got some ideas regarding hardwoods from a store in Fort Worth. Just shopping it out and checking out options. We had lunch with a friend from D.C. and one of my old co-workers. We watched some movies too as it was HOT this weekend. I made Troy watch Dear John, a sappy love story. Suprise suprise, I cried; I'm such a sap! I also went to the theater with some of my girlfriends for a movie as well. Good good weekend. I'm ready for another one :-)

Why can't we have a three day holiday every week!