Story time!

The Amon Carter Museum here in FW has a wonderful FREE kids story and craft time every Wednesday morning and we LOVE it!  We had the pleasure of taking Aiden with us this week (not exactly what he was wanting to do today) and I’m pretty sure he enjoyed it too, well at least the craft part.  After we were all finished in the Museum we headed outside for a little running around time and I took just a few pictures ;)  Aiden wasn’t really fond of me taking pics, so I didn’t get too many of him, but the girls were pretty into it.  Unfortunately you won’t see Addison in any of the pictures, although I’m sure she was having way more fun with her Nini, we missed her tremendously!

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We’re goin’ to the zoo!

We took Aiden to the wonderful FW Zoo yesterday and had a blast!  We didn’t get to nearly all the animals, so we’ll just have to schedule another visit with Aiden in the not to distant future.  But we sure did enjoy the animals we did see, especially the Reptiles…well at least Aiden did :) 

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Cousin time!

Yesterday afternoon we were graced with the presence of our nephew, Aiden! Greg’s parents brought him over and they even stayed for dinner! It was wonderful to get to spend some time with them and the girls are absolutely eating up their time with Aiden. He gets to spend three nights with us! We had been planning on having him over for a few days this summer, and time was quickly escaping, but now with his mom in the hospital it forced me to get off my rear end and get the time scheduled. He is such a sweetheart! Having a boy in the house is a little different and a bit of an adjustment for all of us, but luckily he is a very calm boy so we’re not too overwhelmed :)

Last night we got out the kiddie pools and ate pizza while watching Star Wars, Episode 1. Luckily Aiden brought two light sabers with him, so the kids have been able to have duals!

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I can’t wait for all the memories waiting to be made this week!

Prayer request:

My sister-in-law is due with her second baby on September 3rd and it’s a GIRL…my first niece!!!! They currently have a wonderful son who just turned 6. Anyway, a couple of months ago she was put on bed rest because of incredibly high blood pressure, then a couple of weeks ago she found out she has gestational diabetes, not a fun combination! She has now been hospitalized for the remainder of the pregnancy due to additional complications. Oh, she also has two tumors, the size of the baby (Ashlyn) sharing the uterus with Ashlyn. They have been lovingly been named “baby Tumey”. She had one of these tumors when she was pregnant with her son, so they weren’t totally surprised to discover it again this go around. We are praying Ashlyn is able to stay put as long as possible to finish cooking before the world is graced with her presence!

Celebrating Mimi’s birthday

Last night we went back to our old stomping grounds to celebrate Greg’s Mom’s birthday with her.  I think that drive gets longer every time, and it’s only an hour.  We got over there in time to enjoy snow cones from our favorite snow cone stand by our old house, then headed to the park we used to walk to from our old house, it was just like being back home!  We drove past our old house on the way to one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants for a yummy tex-mex dinner.  It was kinda strange to be back.  I had a lot of great memories there and I miss our friends, but I am more and more grateful every day for the move we made last summer!  The best part of last night was not only getting to spend it with Mimi and David, but also with two of our nephews, Clark and Oliver!  That was a surprise treat, apparently Mimi double-booked herself with grandkids :)  Thank goodness for Facebook so Greg’s sister knew we were with their mom and how to reach her!  Crazy!

So, you know me, I just took a few pictures for us to enjoy…hope you enjoy them too.

This is our precious nephew Clark:

And his adorable little brother, Oliver

(or as Addison says, “Ahver”):

Mimi and all her precious grandbabies that are stateside:

Trinity, Emory, Oliver, Addison, Clark

 

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It’s okay for you to go ahead and admit that I have the most adorable nephews on the planet! 

Also very exciting news on the nephew front, we are having the pleasure of another nephews company for three nights, starting tonight!  Be prepared for a number of posts in regards to Aiden’s visit with us!

I love our nephews!

Hope you had a great time celebrating your birthday, we had a great time with you!  We love you Mimi!!!!!

Log Cabin Village

This week the girls and I had the pleasure of visiting Log Cabin Village with my mom and had a blast!  We learned a lot about how people lived in the 1800’s and even got seeds to plant in the spring.

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