{Life Updates}

The last couple weeks have all kinda blended together so here's just an overall update of our life.

I was lucky enough to go visit the new section of the Arboretum - The Children's Adventure Garden - twice in the last couple weeks! One with my friend who got special tickets and then once again a couple weeks later when I was invited to go! It is truly magical! I was obedient and didn't take any pictures of the garden [it's not quite ready yet...] so all you have is this one of Sean's half way closed eyes and Evette grinning at the old ladies behind her as we are driving on the bus to the garden. It was really amazing. Cannot wait for it to open at the end of this month.

We also took a trip to Ikea! It had been a while since we last went and I forgot how magical that place is, too! Evette had a lot of fun playing around in the little "houses". We were looking at things for the new babies room. We ended up spending 4 hours there and ate dinner there as well. Crazy!

We transformed our bagged spring garden to our fall garden. We moved the bags, transplanted the grass to a different location, added the compost and the dirt from the bags and tilled it all up. It turned out more beautiful that I had expected! It was 2 long mornings of work, but it'll be worth it, I hope! We learned a lot from our practice run in the bags so we'll see how this fall goes. So far we have spinach, a variety of lettuce, carrots, beans, summer squash, and zucchini. This week I need to get my peas, radishes, and onions in the ground as well.

We set up the little kiddy pool and let Evette run around in the backyard while we worked - she was a real trooper!

Evette is getting ready to be a big sister by reading out loud to her babies. Melts my heart. Also, she likes to come up and pat my belly and say, "Hi, new baby!" These sisters are going to be the best of friends!

My parent's and sister came up for the weekend so we could go to my cousin's wedding open house in Wylie. Turns out this is the only picture from that whole weekend. Rachel took of herself on my phone - isn't it lovely?!? It was great to spend the weekend with them, even though it was brief.

This girl has decided to wear this hat everywhere. It's adorable.

We are still frequent visitors to Gecko Hardware - mostly to visit their chickens and the Rooster George. Evette pretty much owns that store and we are on a first name basis with nearly all of the workers there including the managers.  Kinda ridiculous - kinda awesome.

Evette loves when she gets rainbows in her room in the morning. She gets so excited and likes to see them on her hands and feet.

This is Evette's best friend Clara. We went to the park with them last week and it was nasty hot, but they had a good time. Now that they are both such big kids and moving around it's pretty much impossible to get a decent picture of the both of them. This is as good as we got.

Also - it's just been nasty hot in general so there's been a lot of playing out in the water. Notice the husband in the picture? Yeah, work has been kinda slow for him so he's been working on an internal project for the last 6 weeks which basically means he's been working [and I use the term working very loosely here...] at home! It's been great! He does travel a lot, but then we get breaks like this and it's awesome.

My perfect little sleeper has had difficulty the last couple nights wanting to go to bed. This is a completely foreign concept to me because she has NEVER had problems going to bed until now. Now she always wants water, always needs to go potty [NOT], always wants her back scratched, is scared of the "bees". It's crazy - sometimes keeping herself up 1.5 hrs past bedtime! I hope this ends soon....

Also when it's too hot to play outside we go to the Galleria mall and play in the play place there. It's pretty magical and has air conditioning. 

On Saturday we had a garage sale! [more stuff not pictured...] we made quite a haul [more than either of us had expected!] and got rid of all the big things so we didn't have to haul those away! I would call it a great success! [except next time end 1 hour earlier because it gets too hot and the $2 made in the last hour were not worth it. Everyone comes between 7:30-9:30 before it's nasty hot]. Overall it was great!

So that's been our life for the last couple weeks!