Meme visit

Houston trip

It's hard to believe, but in the fall it will be 15 years since I left home and headed to SWT for college!  It's hard to believe that I have had my awesome Sterry Hall girls in my life for 15 years!  And did we know when we met all those years ago that we would get together and "try" to talk while our kiddos played?

Abbie, Becca, Merchie, me and Amanda with her son Luke

My old roommate with her 2 and me with my 2!

The kiddos, myself, Becca and her daughter,Sophia, all headed to H-town early Saturday morning for our visit.  We all met up at Merchie's house with her 3 kids, Noah, who is 4, and her twins Kylee and Jake who just turned 2.  We let the kiddos play outside in the water and sand and tried to all catch up!  We were also joined by Abbie and Amanda with her 2 kids, Mia who is 5 and Luke who just turned 1.  So we ended up having 8 kids all under the age of 5!!!  

Sophia

Sophia and Kylee

giving kisses

sand fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big kiddos with tug of war!

Becca and I headed with the kids to our hotel for the night and you would think since none of the kids napped we would get them to sleep early--not so much!  It was a long night.  I don't think I want to sleep in a queen with both my kiddos ever again!

All and all it was really great for us to all get together!

Train table

Cake Pops

Saturday morning we had some errands to run so we started out with donuts for the kids!

I don't remember if I posted about this or not, but our house in Pflugerville is still for sale.  We had put it on the market last July after moving to Round Rock and then in December we decided to lease it.  We hired a property mangement company and everything seemed to be going well with our renters until the end of April.  Our old neighbors called us and let us know that they thought our renters were moving out.  Sure enough, their May check bounced and they were gone.  So the house is back on the market.  So every week we have to check out the old house and Saturday morning we went there next!

Then we headed to Bed Bath and Beyond so I could buy a cake pop maker to make Hello Kitty cake pops for Kate's Hello Kitty birthday party in September.  I started working on the cake pops as soon as we got home!  Here is my practice run:

Saturday after nap time I had a baby shower to go to so Mike watched Spiderman with the kiddos.  For some reason, Alex has a thing for spiderman.  Mike says that Alex was talking and asking him questions thur the whole movie!

The strangest thing happened Saturday night/Sunday morning at about 3am.  Kate woke us up crying and Mike found her with her hands  and feet swollen and bites on both her wrists, on her hip and legs.  He took her to a clinic and they gave her a steroid and some benadral and she seemed ok.  So weird, all the swelling was gone by Sunday afternoon.  Sunday morning we did our weekly grocery shopping and then our friends came over to play & go out to dinner.  It was storming when we went out to dinner.  Kate hated being in the rain and Alex loved it!

Dallas trip

The kiddos and I headed to Dallas on Monday morning.  My cousin Jenn's husband was going to be out of town (actually in Austin) for work so we got together for some much needed girl time.  The kiddos got along pretty well and I think Jenn's little girl Vivian even liked having the kiddos around.  She really enjoyed having Kate and Alex to watch in the back sit of the car.  Vivian is almost one, but had no trouble keeping up with her cousins!  At one point she even kinda got Kate out of the way so she could play with the toy that Kate was playing with!  We went on a long morning walk with the kiddos, took all 3 kids to the grocery store and even a trip to the mall with all 3 of them.  All of us rode the carousel at the mall and that was alot of fun.  All eating times were a little crazy, but we somehow made it thur!  Once Jenn and I got all 3 kids down we would chat and watch a movie.  It was a great few days and the kids were sad to leave on Thursday morning.  Kate even told me that she wanted to go back to Aunt Jenn's house!

Jenn & Vivian thank you so much for having us!

July 4th 2012

Watching the Round Rock parade

Old Settlers park

Watching the fireworks with Reese and Jax

Watching the fireworks!

Lilly the cat

Gram and PawPaw have a cat named Lilly.  By the end of our stay she started to get used to us and would come out to see us during the day!  The kids would get so excited to see her!  Here they are getting to pet her!