T-ball!

On Monday, Kade had his first tball practice! He was SO excited!! His team is The Braves and he had so much fun at his practice but all the little boys were hyper and so silly! Their coach was very patient, haha! We are excited to watch him play this season!! 

 

Ready to go! 

Little sister had to be in a few pictures too.

5 on Friday

1. SPRING!!! Yesterday was the first day of spring and we have a few days of spring like weather! I'm not a hot weather person, so I have never wished for warmer weather in my life. But this winter has been rough! 

2. This goes along with number 1 but we have been loving playing outside again. I enjoyed some magazines while the kids napped yesterday. And then we had some fun playing with sidewalk chalk. Ella was not happy so we will have to try again and hope she isn't a sad butterfly next time. Haha! 

3. Frozen! We are totally part of the Frozen frenzy! We love that movie! Ella has been singing 'let it go' and 'do you want to build a snowman' for months now! Bryan learned Let it Go on the guitar and piano so it is requested nightly around here. When the DVD was released Tuesday we had to go pick it up! We watched in the car while we waited to get get Kade from school and then again once we got home. 

4. St. Paddy's Day. We were snowed in this St. Patricks Day. I have to say that is a first. In the past few years I have memories of picnics at the park with friends on this day. We tried to make the best of it but we are all so over snow this season that there was whining from everyone. We did sport our green, and  gathered up snow to make some green snow! 

5. Snow plows. Watching the garbage trucks has always been a highlight around here, after this season we can throw in watching the snow plows. Since it seems we have had a weekly snowstorm, we have had plenty of time to watch them clear the streets! 

All about Ella

It's no secret that Ella is our family comedian. She is talking nonstop these days. Most of the time it is just bossing us all around. She thinks she is something else! She is very strong willed but at the same very hard to discipline because she is so funny. She knows exactly what she is doing when she cuts her little eyes at us as we are disciplining her. It gets us everytime and it takes everything in us to not smile. 

Her imagination is HUGE. Everything is a castle or a pretty princess. But don't let that girly side fool you, she knows every Super Hero and can tell you all about Captain America, Dusty from planes, or the Ninja Turtles. That's what happens when you have an older brother!

She always requests the purple (fill in the blank) on everything. Purple is hands down her favorite color. When I fix her hair she tells me how she wants it done that day. And each hair style revolves around a princess, as do the colors of bow I put in her hair. This morning I put pig tails and she said said it was a Repunzel hairstyle, although it wasn't Repunzel like at all I don't dare correct her because the last thing we want is to start over. :) 

Yesterday, I told her we were meeting some friends for breakfast and she frantically ran to the bathroom. I heard every drawer and door open and close and when I asked what she was doing she replied, "I CAN'T FIND MY MAKEUP!" Which to clear the air she doesn't have so I have no clue where she came up with that! Thankfully she settled on just bringing "wipstick" aka Chapstick with us. 

And to finish I have to write down my favorite Ella story to date. I was cooking dinner and she brought me her Tinkerbell wings to put on. After they were on I heard a lot of grunting, jumping, and tiptoeing going on. After a while Ella came back in the kitchen and let out a huge sigh, hung her hear and shoulder and said "I can't fly, I just can't fly..." I doubled over I was laughing so hard. 

Don't ever lose your spirit Ella Claire. You are going to do big things in your life, I just know it! 

Bipolar weather

We are very used to crazy weather. Texas weather is pretty bipolar. Up until this point we have talked about how consistent the seasons were here. 

Enter Spring. And now, it's all over the place....from 70s to snowstorms. The only way we are handling the snow at this point is knowing that a warm up should be quick to follow. We had almost a week of gorgeous spring like weather! We spent it outside every chance we could get. Play dates at the park, bike rides, baseball in the backyard, hikes, tourist days in DC... it has been glorious! And it all came to an abrupt end as it is currently snowing and we are expected to get around 6 inches. 

You have to take the good with the bad and we are trying to make the best of it. I have some projects tomorrow that involved making green snow for St. Patricks Day. So we will see how that goes! 

Two weekends ago we hiked nearly 5 miles over the course of the weekend and these two did awesome! 

On Saturday we met Matt at Arlington cemetery. He is heading home in a few weeks and we wanted him to give us a tour of the cemetery before he left! He does color guard in the Army for funerals there so he had a lot of insight! 

These are from a week or so ago... During our last snowstorm. I think we can only handle so many more games and puzzles before we lose our minds :) 

I was cleaning up the house and K called me over to show me he did his States map puzzle all by himself! He was so proud!! 

Nanny visits!

Last week Nanny was here and we had the best week! Naturally, we had a pretty big snow storm and freezing weather. I don't know why but every time she comes out we have the worst weather! We are having spring like weather this week, I wish this is the weather we would have had when she was here! Either way, we were all excited to see her and we just had so much fun hanging around the house and redoing our master bedroom! Her visit kind of kicks off all of our upcoming guests! We will have guests coming every few weeks from now until July!!! We are so excited!!! 

Reading to see if her flight had landed or not! 

We sat and had coffee in the dining room during the storm! 

Cute tea cups we found when we were out shopping! 

 

A little bit of our master makeover! 

We had the best time and are already looking forward to Nanny's return! 

All about hair!

Ella's hair is growing like a weed! I'm envious of her hair because it is thick and straight with a slight bit of curl. I feel like the longer hair had taken all the baby out of her! 

I've been working on French braids.. I need aloooooot of work :)

 I also need to invest in a comb. 

Ella is so funny and so particular about how I fix her hair each day. She requests braves (braids) a lot and asks me to make a good park (part). She makes me laugh so hard! 

I love my little pony tail girl... Even when she is in time out :)