Birthday Boys!!

What a Birthday filled week!!! It has been awesome, Monday was Tami's birthday, Tuesday was Michael's birthday and Wednesday was my dad's birthday!!!

We had a boy birthday party and Mikayla helped me pick everything out...all of it the napkins, plates and cupcakes!

KA...CHOW..............

What a FUN FUN FUN celebration we had...who knew.....that there was more to come......

to be continued.....

A trip to the zoo!!!

We had so much fun!!! Let me start by saying...OH MY GOSH it's HOT outside.... thank goodness we got some rain and a "cool front" it was only in the mid 90s instead of the high 90s LOL and humidity in the 80s instead of 90s so it was good!

We really had a great time.

Here Mikayla is posing with the smallest starfish ever....see the dot on the left.... yup, that's a teeny tiny starfish :)

Mikayla knew exactly where this tunnel was.... she was heading towards it before I even knew it was there, what a memory she has..... she remembered from the last time!

You wouldn't believe it...the day we were there......well the monkeys got loose......it was even on the news..... I was able to capture some pictures before they were corralled back up again - what a racket they made!!!! It was pretty frightening!!!

Some family poses :)

We saw the 4D Dora and Diego adventure, let me tell you this was my favorite part of the day and it had nothing to do with the fact it was inside and air conditioned, it was great fun finding the robot butterfly!

Feeding the giraffes was Mikayla's favorite part (after seeing Janet, she said that was her most favorite part of the day) she did think their tongues were "totally gross" though.

Fun carousel ride.

At the prairie dog area.... Mikayla had so much fun popping up in the tubes..... who knew... I should get some of those at home ;)

Afterwards, we went to lunch and re-hydrated and cooled off. What a FABULOUS day, thanks so much Janet, Mark and Bryce!!!!

Day Before Father's Day Saturday Fun

We attempted to go for a boat ride but believe it or not it was just too windy....we did go out for a little bit but it was going to be a LOT of work to hold her steady so we came back in. This is the first time Mikayla actually got scared on the the boat, she was afraid we were going to tip over, while we wouldn't tip over...the rails were in the water so it was just one of those days where it was going to be just oo much. So we came back in and headed over to the marina pool. We swam awhile and watched the boats go by from the pool, then we cleaned up and headed down to Galveston, we went to the Strand for dinner and ice cream afterwards. It was such a nice day!!!! Hot but soooo nice!!!

Here we are outside the restaurant.

It was a great family date!!!! Mikayla really had a good time, she quickly fell asleep in the car on the way home, thankfully she already had her shower for the day so we could go home, put her jammies on and go straight to bed and that's exactly how it went. We really had a special day!!!

Father's Day Celebration

What a great weekend we had. I think Father's Day ended up very special for the two dad's in our lives!

Dad came over to our house around 2:30 or so, we had the chance to just relax and hang out for awhile. Then we went out to dinner and back to our house for a dessert that I made. It was soooo hot outside, we were going to grill but then we just decided to let someone else do the cooking and cleaning. It was great!!!

Here's Dad shortly after he came over (notice Mikayla as the bride...she loves to be a "wedding girl")


M&M :)

Dad was opening his gifts here, Mikayla is such a helper!!!!! She loves gifts, even if they're not hers.

Mikayla was "dressing" up Papa.... (notice the hat placement.....) she thought that was hysterical!!!

Here he's figured out that we're all going to a ball game together, Mikayla was just as excited about that as she was everything else....

M&M with his gift..... Michael loved the canvas picture we got him.

We were watching my parents wedding pictures (on cd) and little miss passed out...she was even snoring..... we were out late on Saturday and up early on Sunday so I'm not surprised she fell asleep, she is such a dearie!!!

So peaceful!

After her shower, she wanted to pose for me.... I've trained her well LOL

What a great and special Father's Day we had!!

Who knew....

Well I'm sure we knew but now we really know!! Little girls really do have a LOT of hair accessories.... well I wanted to find a way and a place to put it all....so I came up with a simple fix to help contain it.

This is what we started with. Some ribbon, buttons and thread.

Mikayla helped me sew the buttons on...and we made a holder for the hair goodies. It's working out pretty well so far :) and I got my drawer back!

Mikayla was very into our little project! She is quite the little crafter although I think she had more fun hanging the stuff on there then actually sewing the buttons on. She's pretty proud of it though.

Busy times!

It seems like the weekend just go so fast!!! We had another great one though, Some of the highlights were going to Katie's dance recital (adult tap class). Mikayla soaked up the music and watching the little kids up on stage, no doubt dreaming about when it's her turn to do it.

Here is her group dancing

and Mikayla and Katie afterwards

I have no idea what we were doing here other than goofing around.... I'm 100% certain she was chattering about something and I snapped the picture LOL! (see those 2 front bottom teeth....well...they seem to be ever so slightly loose.....I'm sure I'll cry when her baby teeth fall out, motherhood can be crazy sometimes, I cried when they came in and I'll cry when they fall out, another milestone- gosh the time goes fast). wow!

Here's my beauty queen, we were meeting cousin Robb and my dad for lunch.


Have a great week!

Memorial Day Weekend

What a great weekend we had!! It seemed like we were really busy the whole time but the time sure went fast. We went to the boat each day and it was soooooo windy (which is good for a sail boat, right) well it was really really windy we had an adventure! We were trying to get the jib (front sail) back in and the lines got all kinds of tangled up, seriously from where I was sitting, it was at least a foot of tangle.

Because of the force of the winds we had to do it differently so Michael could crank the sail in instead of just pulling it in... then I noticed one of the lines didn't have a knot on the bottom to prevent it from pulling out of the hardware (which would be bad). So really quick I hollered for Mikayla to tie a figure 8 knot in it to prevent it from getting away from us and adding to the current disaster, while she's whipping up a knot, I was turning the boat around in an attempt to get the lines untangled so Michael could finish pulling in the sail....he was on the deck trying to hold on and trying to shake free the tangle while not getting whipped overboard from either the lines or the waves.... well fortunately somehow.... the lines totally got untangled, he came back to the cockpit.... I held the lines to prevent them from retangling and Mikayla drove the boat....WOW!!!!! It was sure something! To hear her tell the story is hysterical, she is the hero that saved the day!!! We haven't had that kind of excitement in awhile. I was sort of busy in the moment this weekend and quite frankly unwilling to douse the camera in salt water (from the waves) so I didn't get too many pictures but here is what I have.

Here's the Captain below deck before we went out

After our crazy ride and experience, we went over to the marina pool for awhile to chill out and play. Here is the view from the pool. After swimming fun, we ate dinner on the deck right there and then I went ahead and showered Mikayla for the night and put her in her jammies for the ride home. I love when I can prepare like that so when we get home, it's straight to bed (which was very late let me add....)

On Memorial Day I also brought her bed time stuff to shower at Papa's house.... she conned him something fierce (not really - all she had to do was bat her blue eyes at him and ask)....... this is what she asked for

Complete with a spa drying treatment LOL

Here's the hero of the weekend! She is a pretty special kiddo!!!

And here she is barely able to hold her head up Tuesday morning for school. She was TIRED!!!! (um, yes, it's 80+ degrees out and she's wearing a sweater.....)

Have a great week!!!!