Easter

I am finally getting Easter pictures up here. We played it pretty low key here this year. We went to church and then came home and grilled steaks and had Kate do an indoor Easter egg hunt because it was raining outside. It was very relaxing and enjoyable to just hang out as a family. Here are a few pictures from the day and some of Kate dying Easter eggs.

Easter 2009

Children's Museum

We took Kate to the Dallas Children's Museum last weekend. I loved that place and so did Kate! I can't wait to take Kate again. They had a fun little area that was a farm and you got to plant seeds (which was really small balls you dropped in holes) and ride tractors and pick fruits and veggies. They also had an ocean room that kate loved to play in. The cool part about that room is they provided water resistant aprons so your kids didn't get super wet. It was was such a fun place that Kate and I could of spent all day at. I just wish it was closer. Here are some pictures of our time there.

Dallas Children's Museum

Alligators Everywhere!

While my family was here we went to an Alligator Farm. It was one of the creepiest and yet coolest things I have ever done. They had a whole petting zoo as well that we were able to walk around and feed the animals. Kate fed a deer and was laughing every time it liked her hand. At the very end they brought out a baby alligator and let people hold it and pet it. Kate actually went up to the alligator and tried to hold, my dad had to help her because it was pretty strong, but she wasn't scared of it at all! I wouldn't get close to the thing! So here are some pictures of our fun day.

Alligator Farm

Hi Ho Hi Ho It's off to work I go!

So a couple of weeks ago I started working full time! It makes life a little crazy but the cool thing is I get to bring Kate to work with me and still see her all day. She loves getting to go to work with me and Ronnie, oh yeah I work for Pacific columns. Kate has been doing so good at work too, I set her up in the morning with stuff to play with and she plays until lunch time then she goes down for a four hour nap after lunch which is really cool because that is my super busy time at work. She didn't even take those kind of naps at home! When she wakes up she gets a special snack and usually follows me around the last hour or so. So blogging will be kind of taking a back seat while I am working and trying to take care of Kate and the house chores still. I have a bunch of pictures to update on here and as soon as I get a second to do it I will post them.

My family is visiting us right now which is super fun and we have been doing so much stuff. We visited an alligator farm, which was super freaky, but it also had a bunch of exotic animals that you could feed and pet. Kate loved it! We also went to Dallas and visited the JFK Museum and downtown Fort Worth and saw the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. I didn't know that existed but it was pretty cool. This weekend I think we will be going up to Oklahoma to see a national park there. We will see though the weather might not be the greatest! So we have been pretty busy here but having a lot of fun and learning new schedules. I promise to update with pictures soon!

Happy Birthday!

Today is Ronnie's 30th Birthday! We are celebrating kind of low key here today. My parents are coming to town on Friday and we are going to head down to Dallas for a day to celebrate and have fun exploring more stuff. I did make a special cake for him today.



When he saw it he thought it was pretty cool. It was actually pretty easy to make too. My hands are a deep shade of purple and I don't know how long it will take for them to go back to normal from the black food coloring but it was worth it. I love how it turned out! So Ronnie is playing video games, making salsa and we are going to have shredded beef burritos and cake for dinner. Perfect way to celebrate :)

Gardening

I have started making my garden and will hopefully have it planted this next weekend before all of the rain starts coming in, I just have to put some more soil in it. I really hope I can grow my own yummy tomatoes and green beans and watermelon, yumm!

School Time

I started kind of doing "preschool" with Kate. Everyday we learn about a letter, number, color and shape and then have a subject that we learn about too. Last week was all about birds and we made birds nests and played games with Easter eggs and had so much fun. Every night she brings Ronnie into the office to show him everything that she made. The first letter we learned about was B since we were learning about birds and the color blue. I printed out a big B and asked Kate if she knew what letter it was, she told me "that is a B mom" with so much attitude! I was shocked that she knew letter and shocked that she already has the attitude of a teenager. I am in so much trouble the older she gets!