{Friday Five}

1. Labor Day festivities! Movies with the Babs [EPIC!] and delicious food! [Yes, we took our not-quite-2-year-old to the movie theater - judge away!]

2. Watching my daughter learn her letters! She is fascinated by the ABC song and she's starting to recognize a lot of letters. She enjoys this new game where I write out a bunch of letters and she circles whichever one I tell her to - she's best at the letter E. She can also pick out her name among a bunch of other words.

 3. I have been super enjoying this cooler weather! Ever since I rained on Monday the weather was been so much nicer - especially in the mornings! For a while I was just tired and sick and very first-trimester-esque that I hardly ever left the house. Then by the the time I started to feel better the weather was just nasty hot and I would have melted if I stepped outside. But this week - it stays below 85 in the mornings [a miracle] so I've been able to get out! Evette and I have gone running every morning this week [feels so good to stretch and use my legs - I've been so lethargic lately] and then we head to a park where she can play and I can dry off [obvs still sweating weather] and do some yoga/stretching. It's be quite lovely.

4. She likes to do dishes AKA she likes to play with the bubbles

5. She has recently discovered her love of cooking or "cookies" as she calls it. Her specialty is salt and pepper sometimes mixed with butter left in the pan from our scrambled eggs. This can keep her entertained for a long long time. Love this child.

{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!

{Houston Visit}

We went to Houston from the 15th to the 19th.

Evette was a crack up all the drive down. Hours of peek a boo....

Loved all the fun toys at Gigi's house!

Sean, Evette, and I were able to spend one morning at Old Town Spring. It's a little place just East of the grandparent's house with lots of cute old shops with everything from German cuckoo clocks to homemade jewelry and delicious food. Our favorite shop was, of course, a toy shop. Evette could have lived in there. She entertained herself with this kitchen set for nearly 1/2 hr until we tore her away to see other things.

I couldn't tell if Sean or Evette enjoyed themselves more :) Here he is playing with a light saber 

Lunch at Gigi's house - look at that cheesy face!

Pedis with the ladies :)

And of course the Tetris tournament.

Evette loved playing in the Houston rainstorm! It's so warm it's like a shower - she was a fan.

One of our main reasons for going down to Houston was so that I could go to Natalie's baby shower down in Galveston! Saturday morning Sean and Evette went down early to spend the morning with Aunt Natalie and Uncle Brenden. They had an awesome time exploring Galveston!

After a quiet morning by myself, I went down with the other ladies [Kristen, Megan, and Rachel] for the baby shower. It was absolutely lovely!

Sean picked us up from the shower a little bit early so that we could make it back to Spring for wedding reception for some of my good friends! 

Sean and Evette had their first Daddy-Daughter dance - made me tear up a little bit - so sweet!

Evette was a fan of the food - especially the chocolate covered marshmallows on a stick :)

There was a ton of people from high school band there - it was like a mini reunion! It was so fun to be able to catch up with people that I haven't seen in, sometimes, over 5 years!

Sunday afternoon....

We spent a lot of time Sunday morning going through baby shower gifts and baby clothes - organizing, sorting, counting, figuring out what they need to keep and what they don't. I feel like we made a lot of good progress and got me excited for my little one! Although, I'm glad all my clothes I already have and are presorted and organized - yay for having another girl!

Combined family dinners are always a joy!

Good times with the family!

{Going Private}

Hey Friends!

We've decided to switch our blog from public to private. I've just heard too many horror stories and I've decided it's time.

We love our blog and being able to share our life and adventures with all of you - so PLEASE give me your email address so you can be added to the list of authorized readers. We're only making it private so crazy random people can't read our blog - not our friends and acquaintances. Old high school friends, work buddies, people from back home, people from all the places we've lived - we would love to keep in touch with you via our blog - PLEASE don't feel bashful about giving us your email address.

In the next few days we'll be making the switch so please leave your email address in a comment on the blog, on facebook, or email it to Sean or I. [Don't worry Grandparents - you've got you taken care of :) ]

We love all of our faithful readers and the comments and likes that we get on the blog - we don't want to loose you! Please send us your email address!

Thanks for understanding!

XOXO
Heidi