Hannah's Easter Party

Today was Hannie's Easter party at school. I arrived a little early and the Easter Bunny was there. Of course my scaredy cat was hiding behind her teacher crying! She wouldn't go near him. Not even when I held her.

The class headed out the courtyard for their egg hunt. Not only was it such a change from last year but these kids could really get those eggs! They ran from egg to egg grabbing them out from under another kids hand! Hannah, my poor sweet daughter got very few eggs. As soon as she would see one, someone else would run and grab it. She didn't run. Maybe we should practice for this weekend? She may not get many on Saturday either but at least at our house she won't have to beat anyone else to them (this year!)

After our egg hunt we went inside for snacks. Its so funny how much these kids have grown in a year and we are thankful Hannah goes to such a wonderful school.

H playing on the tire swing before the egg hunt.

She found an egg!

Hannie, Lillian, and Emily June

Hannie's class checking out the eggs!

She loves juice boxes!

Hannah and her best friend Lillian!

Austin Dallas Trip

After a busy Spring Break (I worked everyday!) we headed to Austin to finally meet our niece Ava. We got to Austin in time for dinner and ate and visited. After another quick visit Sunday, we headed North on I35 to Dallas. We enjoyed dinner with my Grandmother, Aunt, and Uncle before grabbing a hotel room for the night. Monday morning we woke up and I shopped a little in Southlake while Stuart and Hannah hit up Bass Pro Shop. We met up at Cheesecake Factory for lunch before heading to see Stuart's Mema. We got lucky and got to see Uncle Ricky too. After a nice visit with them we headed back West!

I didn't take many pictures and am sad I didn't get any of the cousins or my Grandma with the kids.

Play

Bubbles

Spring Forward

Spring is here! At least for the weekend. Tomorrow is supposed to be 50 degrees and rainy. We can only hope more good weather is on its way. We had a really nice weekend even after losing a precious hour of sleep. Today we had brunch at the country club on the patio. It was beautiful out, Hannah was so well behaved, and we just had a really nice brunch.

After nap time we took a walk down to the park. Hannah and Hudson both a such a nice time playing outside. I can't wait for consistent warm weather for walking in the evenings and playing at the park!

Green Stuff

This week Hudson started "real" foods. I exclusively nursed him until about 2 weeks ago when we started cereal. He took the cereal great but I waited unti we can completed an entire can before I started other solids. We started with greenbeans and five days later tried peas. He seemed to really enjoy both of them! Hannah did not like green veggies at all so we moved onto orange and yellow ones and fruits pretty fast. Although we are just now introducing these foods I have been feeding him a crackers and puffs here and there. Today at brunch he ate an entire pancake! Stuart thinks I need to feed him more because he is skinnier than Hannah was when she was baby.

On a different note... Hudson and I took a trip to Dallas on Tuesday. We left very very early, and flew home late that evening. It was just the two of us and boy did it seem easy just traveling with one child! Not only did it seem so much easier but everyone was so helpful and made going through security with my purse, diaper bag, Hudson, a stroller, a car seat, a purse, and some extra shopping bags on the on way home very easy. The hardest part of the trip is getting on the rental car bus with all of those things but some very nice people helped me. Both legs of the trip the plane was fairly empty so I was able to carry Hudson in his car seat onto the plane and he got his own seat. Our trip was very quick. We made it to Dallas, rented a car, dropped off my good camera at the camera store to get fixed, visited Grandma, at lunch with her, headed to Denton, went to an appointment, drove back to the Galleria, made a mad dash to Ann Taylor Loft, blew a gift card in 45 minutes, headed for the airport, filled up the rental car, returned the car, went through security and flew home. Stuart was also out of town in Houston on business so Hannah was home with Angie. Thank goodness everything went smoothly and I made it home in time to put Hannie to bed.

Ruidoso

The kids had a great time playing together!
Brody and Owen on our walk

Hannah and Lillian are best friends!


Hannah loves Janai


Attempt #1 at getting the kids picture together


Looking at the lake at the Inn of the Mountain of Gods

Laura, Jennifer, Janai

Don't know what happened here.

Hannie

Attempt #2 at getting the kids picture together.

Attempt #3... How hard is it to get 6 kids to look at a camera and say cheese!

Attempt #4 - (we did bring Hudson!)

And #5... Our final attempt! Lillian is break dancing!

This weekend we took a trip to Ruidoso with some wonderful friends! There were 6 adults and 6 (and a 1/2) kids 2 and under! We had such a good time relaxing and spending time with good friends and our families!

We left around 1pm on Friday and arrived in mountain just in time for dinner. Knowing our kids wouldn't make it if we took them out, Janai cooked baked spaghetti for us and we hung out at the beautiful house that evening.

We woke up REALLY early on Saturday and some of us went to breakfast, some of us took a walk, and Todd went running! We all loaded up and went out to lunch and did them some shopping/walking/wine tasting downtown. When we got back to the house we relaxed with some Ruidoso red wine and snacks.

Sunday we woke up with breakfast burritos and made a stop at the Inn of the Mountain Gods before heading back. It was a quick weekend but we had a blast! We were having so much fun that I hardly took any pictures!!!