Happy Father's Day!

How I love my sweet husband. He is one of the most hands-on, positive, loving, caring, willing to help out men I know. And I blessed to be his wife.

For Father's Day, I surprised Matt with tickets to U2 in St. Louis with his best buddy Daryl in a few weeks. Unfortunately, the surprise was ruined last week when Matt opened the Fed Ex with the tickets in it. Bummer! But we still wrapped up the tickets and plane reservation info along with a new bathing suit he picked out himself today at Academy.

We had a wonderful dinner at Mimi's with steaks that were so tender you could cut them with a fork. Yummy. Thanks, Mimi.

Here's to you, Dads!

Best Buds - Avery (4 1/2) and Alivia (5 1/2)

Self-Portrait by Alivia

Another Photo by Alivia

And another photo by Miss A - she loves taking pics with my camera these days

My sweet hubby - looking very slim and trim I might add

John ADORES Mimi and Grandpa's house because we let him run wild and there is always lots of commotion and activity

Everyone gathered on Grandpa's lap to watch each other play Angry Birds on the iPad

Cookie Monster

John's first taste of an Oreo cookie. The pieces that made it to his mouth were really yummy.

Happy Birthday Jill!

Grandpa Day

Grandpa and Will have a special bond. They are both middle children, flanked by an older sister and younger brother. So every now and then Grandpa comes to whisk Will away for a special day with just them. A few weeks ago they went to the Ranch and Lake together to check on the properties. Today, it was running some errands. Grandpa left a list of all that they did.

1) Home Depot - charcoal grill part

2) Harbor Freight - gloves and jack for boat trailer

3) Truck store (Pickup Heaven) - repair on cover

4) University Bicycle - Will told me they "looked at lots of bikes with training wheels"

5) McBrides - guns (oh boy!)

6) Burger King - chicken nuggets

7) watch pick-up

8) DQ - ice cream cone

What a fun day! Thank you Grandpa for making our middle child feel special. He absolutely loved it and could not wait to tell us all about it when we got home.

Memorial Day Weekend

We spent most of Memorial Day weekend at the Lake. It was a blast. We bought this awesome slide for the kids to play on in the yard. They had hours of entertainment on it. It was really windy while we were there which make wakeboarding and wakesurfing a little difficult, but that just means we will have to go out there another weekend to get more practice in!

Money well spent - this thing is awesome!

LOVE those legs!

LOVE that toosh!

Exploring with Daddy on Slippery Rock

Veritas, Here We Come!

This is what Alivia's uniform will look like for next year! I picked up some hand me downs from another family whose little girl just graduated from Kindergarten there. Alivia was thrilled and could not wait to try on the uniform, complete with the saddle shoes. So cute. . .

It's Official!

Alivia has made the Balcones Woods Blue Wave Pre-Team! She was thrilled when Matt put the sign in our front yard. Being on the pre-team means she has group swim lessons three days a week from 4:15-4:45 but does not swim in the swim meets (nor do we have to get up early on Saturdays to attend the swim meets). YAY!