Dad's 68th Birthday

We went up to the ranch to celebrate my Dad's 68th birthday.  In Texas fashion, my dad got a gun "The Judge" with lots of different ammo and we checked out their cows.

JC and my dad

Cousins

Kaley, the gun model

Mia checking it out

With his left hand

Now his right hand

Belties

Dad and his bull, Zeus

Beau driving

New baby

Bull Titan mooing

The friendliest cows

Cheering

Beautiful Texas afternoon

The Girls with Zorro

Day in The Woodlands

While Chris went to his old school for a visit, I took the kids to the mall.  We visited the Disney store, Journeys Kidz, had Chick-Fil-A for lunch, got a battery for Chris's watch, went to Anthropologie and Pottery Barn and then ended with a ride on the carousel.  After spending some time playing at Chris's parents house, Chris's dad and I took the kids to the park before Chris and his mom got home from school.

Beau smiled for this picture but he wanted to sit in the "sleigh" 

Now he's happy 

Yes, this is the last post from our trip home for Christmas.  And Post #300 of this blog!

Company Picnic (Part 1)

My company picnic was on the Kemah Boardwalk this year.  The camera died pretty soon after arriving so this is missing some of the train pictures, the 1st carousal ride, Ferris wheel, Emilia and I on the swings and Chris and Emilia on the Drop Zone.  She and Chris rode on the wooden roller coaster but Emilia didn't like it so I didn't get to go.

The Red Baron (like Dumbo)

Waving to Daddy from the smallest ferris wheel!

Drop Zone 

Beau riding the horse

Emilia made herself some new friends so she could do the teacup on the carousel.

Swings!

Phone pictures dump

I haven't forgotten about the blog.  I just don't have any pictures downloaded from the camera!  It's been busy around our house.  Emilia had her last soccer games of the spring and also started swim practice.  She had her time trials last Saturday and placed 6th in Freestyle and 8th in Backstroke out of 18 girls in the 6 & under group. 

This was taken at a Pump It Up birthday when a group of kids piled into the tornado machine.  The number on the back wall is the wind speed mph.

Emilia was showing off her pink glitter Toms.

 We hardly have any pictures of Freckles since he ends up as a blur trying to be next to me.

 Group picture with Beau and Freckles

Emilia and Bailey at Briton's Fishing Birthday party at Northshore Park.

 Beau longing for another kid's bike.

Beau riding his toy tractor.

Sneak peek- Our house is getting painted if the rain will stop long enough for them to finish!  This is after it had been pressure washed and caulked with the color test samples up.

Bluebonnets

We took pictures after church at Rob Fleming park in Creekside.  This was the best patch of bluebonnets we found around The Woodlands since a lot of the weeds were taller than the flowers.