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Weekend in Photos

Despite Brad having to work a lot this weekend, we still managed to get outside and enjoy some of the beautiful spring weather in Austin. Saturday we spent the afternoon at the Austin Zoo, Sunday morning I took the boys to a newly discovered park just down the street and Sunday afternoon we flew [...]


Snow in Austin

First off, tomorrow morning I’m taking Forest in for this Occupational Therapy evaluation tomorrow. We are looking forward to hearing what they have to say.
And in case you didn’t hear, it snowed in Austin today. We woke at 6 AM hearing the sleet falling and found that it was accumulating into [...]


Birthday

Today is the boys’ 3rd birthday and I am celebrating with a day all to myself. Brad is out of town until tonight and the boys left yesterday with Dusty to spend their birthday weekend with their grandparents.
As I sit down to write this, I think back to their birth and how [...]


Trimming Trees and Birthdays

The boys turn three years old this coming Saturday, December 12th. They certainly look and act like three year olds to me. It’s a magical, brilliant age and I can’t believe the time has flown by like it has. All of us parents say that, don’t we?
This year, Dusty is taking [...]


Snow

We live in Austin, Texas so snow is a BIG deal. I grew up in more northern states and in Europe so I really miss it. Even my 10 years in Dallas got more snow then Austin does. So when they started predicting snow the other day I got excited. I [...]


Pirates!

Pirates have invaded our peaceful waters recently.
The Dread Pirate Logan:

From December 09

Searching for safe shores:

From December 09

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Halloween

We started the Halloween festivities on Tuesday night when the boys participated in their first pumpkin carving with Dusty aka Green Daddy.
Cleaning out the pumpkin:

From Halloween 09

Then they had to decide what kind of face to make:

From Halloween 09

Drawing the face to cut out:

From Halloween 09

Helping Daddy carve:

From Halloween 09

Very serious business:

From Halloween 09

Finished product:

From [...]


Padawan Learners

As soon as the boys found out that I had a green light-saber, all they want to do at my house now is play with it.  It’s best to start them in light-saber training early, right?

And some videos:


Mushrooms!

The past month or so we’ve been getting a lot of rain, so I’ve constantly had mushrooms sprouting around the back yard. One morning after breakfast the boys wanted to go outside and it was relatively dry so we went out in the back yard, and there were mushrooms everywhere! The boys were [...]


Pictures of the Big Boy Beds

Finally, here they are. We bought everything at Ikea. The beds can be crib size, are currently set at toddler size, and grow out to be twins in the years ahead. I’m going to swing by Ikea in a couple of weeks and make them some matching curtains. We are discussing [...]