Ross Perot Museum

When you are in Texas for the summer most of your pictures involve some sort of water activity.  We took a break from the water last week to visit the new Ross Perot Museum.  Every little detail is amazing.  We didn't really 'read' all the details, but there are lots of hands on things for the kids to do including a children's area on the bottom floor!

 

Sweet friends!

Lots of water park days in our summer future! 

Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Last Thursday my two BFF’s in the whole wide world (and Hayden, our little BFF in the making) came into town to visit with us.  We had so much fun hanging out, eating, shopping, playing and laughing!  I am so blessed to have good the best friends!  I’ve know Megan since birth and Shauna has been my friend since 4th grade.  That’s a long time folks! 

We headed over to have Hayden’s pictures made on Friday at this really cool Ag area in the Northeast and Stacy took a few pictures of Megan, Shauna and I too.  It was so fun!  Never mind that we had all three kids with us and they aren’t in one of these pictures.  Don’t worry they were throwing dirt at each other/eating it by the handful :-) Just kidding, sort of, the good thing is that it’s really off the road so they could play while we had our little photo shoot.

Background:  Megan and I were cheerleaders.  We had so much fun making fun of ourselves noticing my tight fists and straight arms while I jumped.  My necklace hit my teeth while we were jumping.  So fun and funny!  I’ll treasure these pictures forever.  Love these girls!

I love Megan and Shauna’s faces, and I love Shauna’s (not cheerleader) fun hands.

And Landree wanted to jump in for a picture.  Of course, she never wants her picture taken-unless it’s Hayden’s turn.  Stacey was so sweet to indulge us.  I love the way this one turned out.  She is such a doll!  I think that we may go back here for our pictures soon.  The green field was so beautiful!

They are all gone now and my mom will be coming on Friday.  So we are playing catch up for a few days.  Landree has her first soccer game on Saturday.  Based on our practices it should be interested.  We have an all girl team (which we really wanted) but I’m a little worried since there hasn’t been one practice were 4 out of 6 of them have actually wanted to practice.  Stay tuned for a funny video coming soon!

Fun with friends and catching up!

We’ve been having so much fun with friends and family since we’ve been in TX.  I’ve, more specifically, been working like a step child helping Megan get some decorating done and the kids have been eating up their time together playing.  Megan has had to play photographer for me since my camera is in the shop, and she caught some of the cutest pictures of Hudson.  He was hamming it up for her!  Landree and Mia helped us decorate too, but they had already gone home to cook dinner and Hudson and I stayed behind to work play just a little longer.
 


 

While Megan and I obsessed (who are we kidding I am the only one obsessing) worked on the picture wall the boys entertained themselves reading, snacking, and sharing snacks with the puppies (actually Hudson didn’t want to share check out his face, but Hayden is used to sharing with these guys.)

   

And the later it got the funnier everything was.  The boys were helping us so much!  Hayden was moving all the clean clothes to the dirty basket.  Hudson was pulling out all the water bottles.  They eventually lined them all up on the window seal.  They both tried to climb the ladder on several occasions, and I took it as a sign Hudson was tired when he started trying to put Hayden’s pajamas on himself. 

 

I wish I had pictures of everything in Megan’s house-it’s so beautiful!  She is going to do a full home tour when everything is finished, but here is a peak at her plate wall we put up.  And you can hop over to her blog to see the picture wall!  I love it!



And it’s definitely not all work and no play around here.  Megan, Shauna and I (my life long BFF's) had the funnest girl weekend where we shopped until we dropped, ate yummy food, slept in until 9:45, went to breakfast in our pj's, and did I mention shop?  It was such a special treat.  I am so blessed with so many wonderful friends, but these girls are the best!  I hope you all have a special friend like them.  I love them!

And speaking of shopping (do you see a theme?) the kids and I shopped until we dropped with Grandma and Aunt Maggie on Tuesday at Firewheel.  Landree got a cute new little do at Sweet and Sassy, which is ironic because sassy is the perfect word to describe Landree's attitude while getting her hair cut.  She has a shorter bob and it's so cute on her!  We had a little Christmas party at Megan’s on Wednesday-post about that coming up soon!