Lunch and a little silliness

So we have been spending a lot of time this summer swimming. This past weekend we went swimming with Erik, Aly and Kendall and after all the fun at the pool everyone is HUNGRY so we go to one of our favorite hamburger places and we all dig in.  I got this cute video of all 4 of the girls jumping around after lunch.  They have so much fun together.  We are so lucky to be so close to each other so the girls can play together..

Movie time with Alex

So Saturday night Dan and I had rented a movie.  We thought oh that would be fun to get in bed and watch a movie together.  Well Alex has been a total silly kid since moving upstairs in her toddler bed. She can not seem to go to sleep on her own and prefers to come downstairs and hang with us then go to bed. She eventually just passes out from pure exhaustion. 

So we had just turned the movie on and in comes Alex so she got up on the bed and scooted down to the end of the bed and watched the movie with us for over an hour before passing out on me. 

Erin and Dan's 6th wedding anniversary

So in May Dan and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary.  We ended up taking a little weekend away to Austin in June when we had some time off and were ready for some R and R.  It was so nice to connect and just relax and lay low.  We enjoyed every minute of it but missed our girls terribly and though about them a lot.

While in Austin we stayed at Barton Creek resort (long story we had already paid for a vacation there in the Fall but then I had my emergency gallbladder surgery at the same time so we never made it but they let us use it another time but we only had until the end of June good timing on our part to use it up).  We drove down on a Thursday and just took our time and enjoyed the drive.

We played golf together on Friday. What a blast!!  I enjoyed every minute of it. Forgot how fun golf can be.  Dan was a little nervous playing with me as I can only imagine I hadn't played in 15 years.  But i did not totally embarrass myself.  We decided early on no point in keeping my score so we did smiley faces and frowny faces.  There were about 7 smiley faces which is pretty good out of 18..The course was stunning.

Then on Saturday Dan played golf again and I chose to sleep in and do some shopping. Found a cute outdoor mall that happened to be having a festival so I poked aroudn there and had a lot of fun trying on some new styles of clothes that I have been wondering what they would look like on me. I even bought a pair of skinny jeans.  Yeah me!!

We even had time to hit a wine bar and a movie.  We also went to our favorite BBQ place county line twice on the trip. I will say we did go to two different locations both al ot of fun.

Overall great trip and great time with my amazing Hubby.  I still can not beleive it has been 6 years. It has flown by!!!

Here we are at the tee off on Friday playing golf.  Of course gets embarrased I asked the starter guy to take our picture but it was a beautiful view so wanted to capture it and now Dan is glad we have this picture...I am right occasionally.

Our dear friend Laura B had some great suggestions of places to go and one of them was this cute wine bar The Grove. WE stopped here on our way to the movie and had a snack and great wine.

Here we are our last night at the County Line BBQ. We sat outdoors while the sun was setting amazing view, wonderful food and the best company ever. 

Sam's 4th birthday party

Sam turned 4 in May.  This year we decided to share a party with her bestie Sophie.  Best Idea ever.  Thanks Kathryn for finding the coolest place to have it and sharing it with us.  Our two families have become close so it has been fun.

The theme was gymnastics as the girls love their Saturday morning gymnastics classes together.  They giggle while doing backbends...What could be more fun.  This place we found Infinite Bounds also had another side to it fun bounce houses and huge trampolines so fun for all ages.

Here is Sophie and Sam preparty.  Just hanging as the adults get everything set up.

Here is everyone lined up for a quick pic. Sam is hanging out on the left.  She really does not like all the attention. 

Here is Sam and Sophie on the balance beam. Such cuties.

Alex does not want to be left out so she took a turn too.

HErei s our only family picture from the party.  HEre we are at CUPCAKE time..

 Post Party Sam and Sophie hanging onto the baloons...SO MUCH FUN!!

I still can not believe my baby is 4 years old.  Man time sure does fly when you are having fun.

We are back!!!

Well it has been a rough 8 months but I am finally back to the blogging world. 

Back in September I took a new job at what I thought was a family friendly smaller firm.  Well I worked more and was more stressed out then I was before.  It was a rough time for us and we finally realized it was no longer working for our family although it was a great learning opportunity.

I found an amazing part time job in May that I absolutely love. It is a great place for me to learn something new accounting wise and a whole new industry. I have amazing coworkers and only a 5 minute commute.  Everyone seems to be enjoying this change in the family especially me.

The girls are sleeping in later I am able to keep up with the house and get back to doing some fun things that I enjoy doing like blogging and keeping everyone updated on our two beautiful girls, Sam and Alex.

They have grown a lot in the past 8 months so I won't be able to get everything on the blog so thought I would write up some new things and then go back now and then to that time I didn't get to document so well.

I am happy to be back and keeping you posted on our family!!!

Alex's First pair of shoes

Well our little one is growing up. She will be one year old this month. I can not believe I almost have a one year old.... She is moving up at school as well and on to the next class and she has to wear shoes. Since she is only cruising so far and no walking on her own we really hadn't put any shoes on her. So off we went 2 or 3 weekends ago to get her shoes at the same store Clarks that we always buy Sams shoes. Well she has a little plump feet so she could not fit into any of the shoes. So we asked around (aka I askd my friends) if anyone else had this problem and sure enough a few other mom's did and had the solution. There is a Stride Right down in Dallas that has everything you can imagine for little kids with chunkier feet. So we made a trip down there this past weekend and man they had a ton of cute stuff.. They are independently owned so they carry everything kid related. I walked in their overwhelmed but excited. We were able to find a cute sneaker for Alex in a few minutes that we thought would be very supportive of her first getting used to shoes and for walking in.

Here she is leaving the store in her new shoes...

We then proceeded to walk next door and eat Snuffers..Nothing like a good old fahsioned burger and of course what they are known for CHEESE FRIES!!!

Thumbs up

So on Saturday this weekend we went to the Flight Museum out by Love Field Airport. We went with another family that have been friends with Dan since the college days. They are such fun and have two adorable boys. We met up with them right at ten o'clock when the museum opened and had a great time. Apparently it was cockpit day so they had people at every simulator and plane to assist kids getting into and out of the cockpits. Well we were only able to talk Sam into getting into one of the cockpits.

We also had a lot of fun getting ready to get out the door. Earlier that morning at 7AM Dan went to drop his car off to get some work done and well the girls and I were just getting up and around and so Dan ran home for the car place..heheheh He actually loved it since he wanted to get some exercise in.

Here are the girls ready to go and I was running around trying to pack up a diaper bag so asked them to sit still for a minute (as Alex's new trick is going straight for the stairs)...

Alex immediately wanting Sam's hat and surprisingly Sam didn't get upset about this...I think she was very excited to go to the museum.


Sam sporting her cute hat we got her at the Rangers game we went to earlier in the summer.

Sam getting into the simulator cockpit. She is looking a little hesitant at first but Daddy was right there with her.

Now she is getting into her groove (I think all those buttons helped)...and giving us the thumbs up sign..