Weekend Wrap Up - Photo OVERLOAD!

We were so busy this weekend!  I have lots of pictures, so bear with me.  :)

Friday night we watched the Texas Rangers make it to the World Series for the first time in franchise history.  Woo hoo!  

Saturday morning Ava had soccer pictures and a game.  

Her game got called for lightning with a few minutes left and not 5 minutes after we'd gotten home the tornado sirens started going off.  So I got the kids and the dog in the closet while Austin watched the storm.  It's so crazy that we're having all of this severe weather in the fall when we went through spring unscathed.  The girls napped in the afternoon and then Haley, Ava and I headed to North Park for dinner and shopping with my sister.  Ava loves NP for the ducks, turtles, and sliding:

Sunday morning we got up and went to Another Broken Egg Cafe.  OMG, this place is so yummy!  Sis and I already have big plans to go back and have the Brie & Lobster Omelette soon. The things the girls are playing with are Wikki Stix.  These things are awesome and are totally going on the Christmas list!

After breakfast we headed over the the Arboretum where husbie met us for a couple of pictures.  Of course, Socke Monkie came, too.  He hasn't been out in awhile!  Oh, I forgot to mention that on the way out to the car from breakfast, Ava ran her sweet little face smack into the side view mirror of a car in the parking lot.  Of course, said car couldn't have had a nice, rounded sideview mirror, it had a pointed one.  Poor baby!  She recovered quickly, but still has a little bruise.  :(

We headed home to change and get ready to go to the Big Orange Pumpkin Farm with our friends, Kristin & Russell and their two boys, Jackson & Ryder.  Originally we had planned on going Saturday, but the crazy-a weather spoiled that.  Luckily, the weather on Sunday was gorgeous and it wasn't too muddy.

 Russell & Austin joining in on the animal feeding.  I think they were hoping
to fatten this one up to turn into a steak...

 Trying to get these four to all look in one picture = impossible!

 Hayride!

 I loved this little chapel!

 Taking a picture of me taking a picture.  He was over mamarazzi at this point!

It's probably needless to say, I was so wiped out last night!  As soon as the girls went to bed, I did too.  All-in-all, it was a great weekend and I was sooo not ready for Monday to be here. 

Hope everyone had a fun weekend!

Spring has Sprung!

...and with it comes beautiful & sunny days (nice), flowers blooming (nice), yardwork (yuck), storm season (yuck x3) and daylight savings time (nice & yuck at the same time!).

We spent the weekend working outside in our flowerbeds. When I say 'we' I do mean me and the husbie. He is the best at helping me with stuff like that! I planted quite a few Magnolia bushes and I can't wait for them to start blooming. Our daffodils have come up and they are so pretty.

Daylight savings time has been such a struggle for me. It's so nice to get home and have 2-3 hours of sun that the girls and puppy can go out and play, but the morning is such a beating! The last two days I've done all I can to roll out of bed at 7. Hopefully my body will figure out what time it really is, in the meantime coffee and diet coke are my friends.

Something new I've discovered that has been keeping Ava (otherwise known as 'LB' for 'Lady Bug') outside has been this great new water activity table that I got her last week. I'm not sure why I didn't think of it sooner! She loves to play in the bath and the pool, so why not keep it contained in a table? It was a great distraction for her while we were working on our flowerbeds and even Winston is enjoying it. I picked it up at Walmart, but there is also a great selection available through Amazon.com, Toys'R'Us and Target. This one suited LB best because it has gears that turn when the water is poured in a cup (she loves this), plus there is no sand involved. I know what would happen if we had sand + water = a muddy mess!

Yesterday after we got home, LB and Winston played out side while I made dinner. Haley & Austin were gone, so they just entertained themselves! Winston's favorite toy these days is a wiffle ball. He loves to play fetch with it and usually throws it for himself a time or two on the way back.

I hope that everyone is having a great spring and is better adjusting to the time change than I am!