{Trip down to Houston}

During the last week/end of February we went down to Houston to visit with family and bid farewell to Caitlan. Our weekend consisted of:

Learning to play the guitar

Going to Rachel's New Beginnings

Playing with Georgie

Playing with Duplos

Having candy canes

Visiting with Grandparents that we haven't seen in nearly a year

Trying out nursery for the first time and rocking it

doing creative braiding parties

Honking Great Grandpa's nose

Kisses

Great Family Dinners

Playing with Caitlan's old make-up

Helping Caitlan pack

and giving Caitlan lots of love to hold her over for the nest 1.5 years!

{Visit from Caitlan}

Before Sean's little sister left on her mission, Caitlan came and spent a weekend with us. It was awesome!

While she was here we went to the new Perot Museum and it was lovely! It reminded us of when we went to the Field Museum in Chicago with her 2 years ago. 

Evette was a huge fan of the museum - especially the dinosaur part!

 

Their children section was amazing! We spent about 1.5 hr in the museum and then were able to do about another hour in the children's section.

  

And of course we ate delicious food. Hopdoddy's - our new favorite burger joint. So delicious. 

Evette is a fan of their fries and Grilled Cheese. We brought some orange slices so we could be healthy lol

 

We played games....

And just hung out.

It was a chill weekend but so much fun to spend time with Caitlan! Love that girl!

{Friday Five}

We rearranged the house a little bit - love it.

We got some sidewalk chalk and Evette loved it. We were playing with it forever!

Lunch date with Babbs. She loved this chicken taco at Torchy's Taco and scarfed the whole thing down.

 Miniature book club with dear friends and sweet babies.

 My new pair of kicks. LOVE THEM.

 

{Valentine's Day}

 It was a beautiful day so we headed outside to snap some photos

and took some selfies to share with Daddy.

We made chocolate covered strawberries as a surprise for Daddy. Evette helped with the white chocolate drizzles - she had a lot of fun doing it!

Once upon a time we went to Europe. It was amazing. Our last stop on our European tour was a tiny coastal village near Barcellona, Spain, called Tossa de Mar. One beautiful thing we discovered there was Chocolate con Churros. It's a beautiful marriage between a thick dark chocolate drink and deliciously fried churros. We would sit for hours and eat churros dipped in the chocolate drink - ordering more and more churros. So good.

 For Valentine's Day Sean found this special chocolate drink and so we made it with churros! so happy. What a fun, happy, nostalgic treat! Loved it. muchos.

YUM!

xoxo

{Friday Five}

Sorry this is a day late, but we are traveling, so...oops.

 For my Friday Fives I don't include the weekends because that's when the husband is home and if I did include the weekends then I probably wouldn't post very much about the week. My Friday Five include Monday - Friday afternoon - times when Daddy is not home.

Luckily for us this week, he was actually home! So he made it into a couple of these this week.

1. I love watching my Baby explore the world with her Daddy

2. We traveled to Houston this week so Evette got to learn how to play the guitar with her very talented Auntie Rachel

3. I got to hear Rachel and her friends perform at her New Beginnings program

4. Evette loves Grandma's dog, Georgie. I love watching them play together. He's such a patient dog.

 5. I love it when the husband enjoys toys more than Evette

{Half Marathon}

After I ran my first half marathon back in October, the husband decided that he wanted to do one with me!

We trained off and on together and separately. Sean's lucky as in that he travels and has access to a gym inside everywhere he goes and doesn't have to push a stroller in the frozen winter months. But, he does have an intense work schedule that does/did interfere with his training. So pros and cons for both of us in our training - either way, we did not prepare as well as we should have.

Our race was down in Huntsville State park and was a fundraiser for an orphanage - great cause.

On Friday Feb 8 we left Evette in the capable hands of our dear friends the Hasslers and the husband and I drove the 3 hrs down to Huntsville and spent the night at a nearby hotel and got ready for the race the next morning.

It was much different from my last race - it was much smaller, maybe 200-300 people as opposed to 900ish. Also, it was a trail run, so we raced through the trails in Huntsville state park - it was beautiful!!

We had so much fun running together. We started off pushing a little too hard, but we quickly found our rhythm and enjoyed our race. It was seriously one of the funnest "dates" we've had in a long long time - loved it.

None of these photos are mine - I copied them from this website

  

  

  

We finished the race holding hands - so cute lol

  

After the race they had a grill with hamburgers so we scarfed those down, drank tons of water, jumped in the car, and drove the 3 hrs back to Dallas

So much fun. So proud of my husband.