Monday, August 30, 2010

Pineapple Delight

A little of this and a little of that…

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(eeek, isn’t that just a sweet little pony…abi didn’t like it much)

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And you’ve got the making for the ‘pineapple delight’ – but don’t ask us to make it again, because we didn’t take good notes.  It was derived from the desire to use up some pineapple and bananas before they went bad.  What it turned into…oh, so good.

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Sweet baby was a fan!!

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Summer Catch-up – Mimi & Grandpa’s Visit

My parents have an annual July trip each year – because each of their grandbabies are born within 5 days of each other!  This year my brother and sister(to the amazing city of San Francisco), plus donald and I (to the not so amazing city of Houston – but for an amazing wedding!) all headed out of town on the same weekend…leaving my parents have the kiddos all to themselves!  Scenario on Sunday evening: they were tired.  But loads of fun were had!

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Abi learned about a little movie called Toy Story…

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Seriously one of her most favorite people in the whole world!

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As if any trip to see us is complete without a trip to the zoo.  In all honesty, it was silly hot – BUT, they hadn’t seen our new savannah exhibit – and my momma loves her some giraffes!

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This is happy…

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Walking the lake…

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The memories are delightful – thank you mimi & grandpa zo for coming to spend time with us!!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Swing

There are many a good thing about having a swing in your front yard.

1) It brings you out front more – aka you get to play with your awesome neighbors on a pretty much nightly basis

2) It is an excellent landmark for people when they haven’t been to our house before “The brick house with brown shutters, oh and a red swing in the yard.”

3) Swings are just fun.  Especially when the limb that the swing used to hang from was trimmed resulting in a new version of the rope being about 5-6 feet higher.  We call it extreme swinging.

Please stop by for some joy.

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Monday, August 9, 2010

She makes us laugh

One of the sweetest blessings of abi getting older is just getting greater insight into her darling – and sometimes quirky – mind!  The things that she comes up with sometimes are just hilarious and precious.  I am excited as I know that these things will only grow in strength and number as she grows!

This was the pairing the other day…

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Play on, dear abi, play on!!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Summer Edition: The Spray Park

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Cuz we all know we’ve got to do something to try and stay cool when it’s 105 outside…every day!  We are ever thankful for this free little gem down the road.

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Sweet little Zach looking all sneaky…

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Hard to believe when we started getting together with some of these little ladies, Abi wasn’t even walking/some weren’t born!

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Monday, August 2, 2010

Summer Catch-up – The Josh Part

We love cousin time!!!  Aunt Jenny & Josh came to Dallas for a week to spend some time with our family!  We always have so much fun.  There really needs to be an invention that can make you travel at warp speed on I-45 to Houston and back!  We’ll look into it…

They met us on Nanny’s birthday at the Museum of Nature & Science after art class:

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We dug for dino bones…

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and learned about physics…

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They were ready for the nap upon returning home!  We love you, sweet Josh!