Date Night

Nick and I have been pretty good at planning regular date nights. I think being a nanny helped me see how important it is for young parents to make the time for each other. It can get a little expensive since we don't have family here but it is well worth hiring a sitter to have a night out. Austin was in OKC so Vivian had the sitter all to herself. We saw Knight and Day....I LOVED it, highly recommend going to see it, went to dinner, had dessert at the Melting Pot (bananas foster is our fav) and then listened to a pretty good band on the River walk. It was a fun nite out!

Can you guess which pics were taken with my crappy camera on my phone?


Vivian with her sitter from church


I painted Vivian's toes for the first time today. I just put her in her high chair with a snack and tried my best. Her little toes are so tiny. I know its definitely not salon perfection but those are some pretty cute toes!

GNO Game night

We had GNO (Girls Nite Out) at church on Friday night. All ladies in the church were invited...women of all ages were invited. There ended up being girls from the young families class and about 5 ladies who were 50 and older. If you had asked me ten years ago if I thought I'd be playing games on a Friday night with women who could be my grandma I would have said, "heck no". As a matter of fact, I had so much fun. We all brought different games...I brought Twister but couldn't get anyone to play :) and we ended up playing one game of Cranium and then we were all tuckered out because it was definitely a game of thinking. I found out I stink at unscrambling letters to make a word but I am pretty good at figuring out songs when they are hummed to me. We used to hum songs in the car on road trips with my mom so I guess I've had some practice. Here are some pics I took of us thinking, drawing with our eyes closed, playing puppets, etc and eating lots of junk food!

Story time in the park

Today our play group met for story time in the park. Austin has never really taken to story time at the library. I guess he just can't sit still that long? Vivian seemed to enjoy it some but for the most part they just wanted to drink and eat the snacks I brought.

I have always got made fun of when I drink from a bottle...I think he gets this from me.





The park had a pretty neat play ground and water area for the kids to play. I didn't bring Vivi's swim suit because she's not walking yet and I thought it was going to be an actual splash park. They had the cutest area with about 2 inch deep water for the babies to crawl around. Needless to say, we will be going back because we had a blast! I just wish it was closer to our house. We got stuck in a huge traffic jam on the way home and Austin about had an accident in the car. I just might take my friend Kim's advice and start carrying a potty chair in the back of the car!!!

Pool Play date

My turn to host play date....neighborhood pool and ordered pizza. Easy and fun! So much easier to go to the pool when you have an extra pair of eyes to help watch the kiddos.

Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day at home this weekend. As much as we would like to drive to be with our dads, traveling with 2 kiddos is a lot of work so we can't make it for every celebration.

We took Nick to dinner on Saturday night at El Chico (Nick's employeer during college) and then cooked him breakfast Father's Day morning. We didn't serve him in bed since he is such an early riser these days.

Nick thought it would be funny to get a picture of me at the stove on a Sunday morning....this rarely happens because we are doing good to feed the kids cereal and get out of the door on time.

Definitely not laughing at him here


Definitely don't feed Vivian in her church clothes!

Love that smile

Guess who picked this card out

I foresee some good cookin out in our future :)

Farewell Party

We had a farewell party last night for some dear friends from church. We celebrated Mexican style and The Lawrence's hosted for us. Cara and Jared....you will be missed. We love you guys and best of luck with your new journey!

The boys are playing with the doll house below!!

The Corn Popper

Every Thursday we have a play date with friends from church. I put the calendar together this year and we finally got to visit The Corn Popper yesterday. The kids were able to see the staff make popcorn and then try several flavors. This is the owner that gave us our tour.

They had over 30 flavors of popcorn to purchase. I forget about this place when buying gifts for people but they have the cutest tins to put the popcorn in. We got jalapeno cheddar and regular cheddar for papa for Father's Day. The kids got confetti popcorn and cotton candy!! Definitely spoiled their lunch.

THE KIDS

THE MOMS