FREE CHICKEN!!!!

My sweet little cows!
~Reese looks mad here but he's just kidding:) They really were into it but the picture turned out kinda opposite! Go figure, right?

Abby all decked out--she loved it!

Did you say free???? I'm there:)
Today was cow appreciation day at Chick-fil-A and if you dress-up like a cow you get free food!
I had the kids make their own costumes and told them to be creative and figure out what kinda cow they wanted to be. Abby (our artist) was SO into the making of her costume and quickly put something together. Now Reese he's a funny fellow. He knew what he wanted to do but was very frustrated that he couldn't cut out the perfect cow spots. Finally I was able to help him put something together that he felt was" satisfactory" and he was fine--he cracks me up! (I have no idea where he inherited that--so particular:)
Well the kids insisted that I dress-up too. They both wanted me to be their color of cow so I decided to be a white cow with brown spots....very cleaver huh? (I'm on top of it I tell ya:)
Greg was not into the whole dress-up thing and told me he was fine paying for his own meal---can you believe he got a free meal anyways? Yeah, when you walk in they had cow hats for anyone that didn't have a costume and if you put it on they would give you a free entree.
Now we know that for next year:)

Cousins Sleepover

The kids being silly eating their ice cream

This is the tent they built. Abby tried to get them to play school in it but the boys didn't last very long at all! They were more concerned with running around the house like crazy boys:) ~Abby's not into crazy boy stuff she says--HA!

The other night Abby and Reese had their cousins, Charlie and Landry, over to spend the night. They were all so excited and couldn't wait to get the party started:)
They all got along great and were very polite to each other ~ they sometimes treat each other more like siblings than cousins if you know what I mean)
Anyways they stayed up late laughing and playing...I'm guessing the ice cream right before bed wasn't the best idea--oops!
I think they all would say watching Wall-E was their favorite part. They all love movies and popcorn so they were in heaven!
I would love to say they slept in the next morning but that just wouldn't be the truth:) They were up bright and early ready to play! Let's just say I wasn't ready to play...I needed some coffee;)
Gotta love sleepovers!! I didn't realize how much work my mom did when I had friends over--thanks mom you're a trooper because I had sleepovers ALL the time! :)
~no worries though...the kids were so tired the next day we all got a 2 hour nap in the afternoon!! ....maybe sleepovers aren't that bad after all??? hummm....:)

4th of July

Making ice cream with Maw Maw

Playing in the pool with the hose--Reese's favorite.

Watching fireworks with the family--Charlie (my nephew is in front of me) he was very comfortable as you can see:)

Reese and Charlie being silly with their glow sticks


We had a great 4th of July and I hope all of you did too!
We really just took it easy--went over to Greg's parents house swam, cooked out, made some homemade ice cream then headed up to our church for fireworks! It was a pretty pleasant night out and the kids were able to run around and play so they were happy about that.
I must say the 4th is always a bit of a disappointment to me since we were able to experience the 4th while living in DC. Nothing compares to watching fireworks on the National Mall with a nice backdrop of the Washington Monument! Now that we have been in Texas for 2 years I am finally coming to the realization that nothing will compare and I just need to get over it! Ok, ok I'm over it but I don't have to like it:)
Happy Birthday America!

Rangers-Up close and Personal!!

We splurged for our anniversary (which is July 7th-8 years) and got 1st row seats to the Rangers game Friday night! It was hard to spend so much money when we normally go to the game for under $20 bucks for all 4 of us but it was TOTALLY worth it this time! We were about 5 seats down from Nolan Ryan (Hall of Fame pitcher for the Rangers) and were feet away from all the players! Now I know to some of you reading this you could care less about baseball but for us they are celebrities:) and we loved every minute of it! Greg told me while we were sitting in our seats, "I have the best wife ever! Who's wife would go to the Rangers game for their anniversary?" ME!! He has converted me-I am honestly a true hardcore fan:) We are already saving for the playoff's! Happy Anniversary honey! Best gift ever--I wouldn't have wanted it any other way! *not even some clothes would beat it--now that's serious business let me tell ya!:)

*I am not naked just wearing a strapless shirt--it was 100 degree out there:)

Fourth of July celebration before the game

There's Nolan eating some peanuts:) He's so great!

Greg got a great picture of Micheal Young and Ian Kinsler getting ready to bat. He did this for Reese because he "thinks" in his little mind that he is Micheal Young and Daddy is Kinsler--so cute!

Scary!!!

Sleepover...
This is what happens when you leave two 6 year olds "unattended" with make-up!!! (don't worry Shane and Misty I was nearby:) ....yikes!
Sorry Misty--she did come clean--- I promise!

Fu Manchu! YIKES!

Ok so Greg thinks he's a comedian so yesterday morning he shaved his "vacation beard" into a Fu Manchu. Anyways I was asleep when he did it and when I did finally see him later on in the morning he was beaming with excitement! I, on the other hand, was appalled!;) I am NOT a fan of facial hair, now I don't mind a little stubble from time to time but anything more is NO BUENO!!! Well he liked his creation so much he left it there all night and even went in public--does he have no dignity??:) Ok, ok so I'm "kinda" kidding but I will be very happy to see it gone as soon as he gets around to shaving again --and working from home doesn't help in that department:) ~he's got NO dress code if you get my drift!! hehe!
*note to reader*
Greg remembers when we were friends in college (not dating) I declared (to all) I would marry someone that was "hairless" or at least someone that shaves his whole body! Ha! Man, I DID NOT end up with a fella like that:) Now that's LOVE! ~now at least he could keep his face shaved don't you think????;) Come on Greg--at least get it shaved off before our anniversary ok???? Please?:)

Dallas Summer Musicals

This year Greg and I decided to get season tickets for all of us to the Dallas Summer Musicals. So far we have all gone to The Wizard of Oz and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and we have many more to come through the summer and into the fall! Greg and I enjoy musicals and the arts and really want to introduce the kids to that world so we thought exposing them to all these different shows would be perfect! Well so far it has been so much fun and it is exciting watching the kids experience stage performances for the first time! Last night they thought it was so cool to see a flying car on stage and they were very concerned about the mean guy that was kidnapping kids and putting them in the tower! (if you have ever seen the movie or musical you know what I am talking about:) Thankfully the show ended on a high note and we all went to bed happy, but VERY late!! Now I have tried to get some pictures of us during the shows but I got my camera taken away last time SO this time I was a good girl and kept my camera in my purse! (by the way I had no idea you couldn't take pictures and when the usher came to take it away I almost fought her for it until she told me she would give it back at the end of the show:) ~thankfully for HER, she did it:)

Winter Sports Day!

Well we are back home now after about a 14 hour car ride and got home last night really late! I wanted to blog about a few more things we did in Colorado because I was lazy and didn't get a chance to do it before we left.
On Friday we heard that Keystone had enough snow to have tubing so we jumped at the chance to do that! We had such a great time and got about a half hour of tubing in before it started pouring down rain. Honestly, it was quite miserable and we were seriously wet and cold by the time we got to the Gondola (ski lift that Abby and Reese loved) but getting to tube in the snow made up for all the misery:)
I got a great video of me going down the hill-I hope you don't get too dizzy watching it!

We then went ice skating because Abby wanted to go really bad. She and I had a blast skating around but poor Reese wasn't so into it. The only way we could get him to go around the rink was to have him try to push Greg down the whole time which he thought was really funny!

On Wednesday we went for a half day white water rafting trip but we took pictures with a water proof camera so as soon as I get those developed I will post them on here--I hope they turn out!

Here are some pictures of our "winter" adventures---I am glad we had the opportunity to be in nice cool weather because it is so stinking hot and humid here in Texas it is ridiculous! Gotta love the Texas heat:) When we got home late last night I was singing "home again home again" and Reese chimes in singing "hot again hot again" Too funny! We are gonna miss the beautiful Colorado weather for sure!!!!


About to go down the hill together

Yes that's real snow.....crazy! (notice Greg in shorts-that's a Texas boy for ya:)




We got a little wet running to the lift! Ok, REALLY wet/cold---it was pouring!!!! In fact, we were so wet we bought some new clothes at a store at the bottom of the lift!


Walking in the skates was alot easier than skating on the ice!:) ~Reese is still happy in this picture


Abby was having a blast


Reese pushing Greg---while doing this he did great but as soon as he thought about what he was "really" doing he fell! ~this did not make him happy one little bit!


Abby and me



Video of me tubing at Keystone

Breckenridge Fun Park!

It was a long, fun day today! We decided to get a day pass at the Peak 8 Fun Park and there was SO much to do it was crazy! With the day pass you get to go on any of the activities as much as you want from 9am-5pm and wow did we do ALOT! They had the alpine slides, bungee trampoline, panning for jewels and fossils, a Human Maze and rock climbing wall. The kids mostly did the trampoline and the alpine slide but they did enjoy all the other things too! Abby LOVED mining for jewels and fossils. She has been looking at them all night and is separating them out to give some of them to each of her cousins! She and Reese have worked out that Reese will give some of his to Tobey and Landry and she will give some to Charlie, Trevin and Eden (not sure Eden will be able to appreciate the value of a fossil but it's the thought that counts right?--she's only about 6 months old:)
Anyways-- I can't believe we made it all day and man, are we tired but it was well worth it! Tomorrow we head out on the trails and go ice skating (not at the same time). We are planning to drive up pretty far into the mountains and go for a hike and see what we can find....hopefully we'll "find" our way home right? We'll see....:)




Greg and Abby climbing together

We took the lift to the very top and hiked around in the snow--it was cold and wet but the kids loved it! ~I tried to love it even though I was covered in snow:) Thanks guys!

Panning for fossils and jewels

Crazy spinning contraption--Abby decided she was NOT into it--Greg gave it a go but I sat out due to the fact that I would yak all over the place:) No thank you!

Me flipping---it was so tiring but SO worth it!

Reese was a natural--he climbed to the very top every time and rang the bell!

Reese liked to do back-flips! It was awesome! ~ they kept calling him a 4 year old boy wonder:)

Abby was into getting as high as possible--she was over 20 feet in the air! Amazing!

Abby and I on the Alpine slide---we were into the speed! Racing Daddy and Reese was our favorite:)

Reese and Daddy were speed racers...they were hard to beat:)

Cool picture

This is a cool picture of the kids on a tire swing...