Grandmother's Birthday

Today was FUN FILLED! We started off at the gym. Then around mid-morning we went to our neighbor's house (Gerri) and met up with Suzi and Reese there. Reese is a little 3 year old who lives behind us. Benjamin and Reese had a blast playing together. Then around lunch time we were off to Sherman to spend the afternoon with my mom for her birthday. We had a late lunch at the Olive Garden to celebrate and then ran some errands around town together. It was a very good day! Love those kinds of days!

Happy Birthday Melanie!

Busy busy weekend - aren't they always these days? Saturday David got up at 4am to do some fishing and then later that day we went to the gym and hung out at the pool while Benjamin played in the nursery. We were out in the sun for over an hour and believe or not our blinding white skin didn't even get burned - THANKS TO THE 15 SPF SUNBLOCK! That evening my dad came over and we ate dinner at Besa's. It was such a good day! Sunday morning we went to visit Tom & Melanie's church, McKinney Fellowship Bible Church. Then they came over after church and the kids got to play. I took 70 pictures of them playing today....ok, so maybe I go a little overboard with the pictures. Can't help it. I didn't post them all - just the highlights. We also celebrated Ms. Melanie's birthday. It's been a while since the 4 of us got together - it was great to see them and reconnect with them.

Duck Outing with Grandpa

Today we went to the park to feed the ducks with Grandpa. We had a great time. Benjamin kept saying his favorite word when he saw them - "DUCK, DUCK"! Here's some pics....

Don't Cry Over Spilled.....CEREAL!

Suddenly things got very quiet in the house today. I walked into the kitchen and this is what I found. Benjamin found his ziplock bag of cereal, opened it, and emptied the entire contents onto the floor. That was 10 hours ago - I'm still finding cereal throughout the house.....

Duck Duck Goose!

Here's a picture of Benjamin in his favorite duck towel from Grandmother. At around 7pm tonight he kept saying "Duck, duck, duck". He was ready for his bath and was telling us! Too sweet.

Simon Says Sushi

David and I ate at Simon's Sushi last night for our anniversary. It's one of our favorite places. We had a really good time. Grandma Nancy and Granddaddy stayed with Benjamin while we had dinner. We sure did appreciate it! On our 1st anniversary we started a tradition to buy a Cross with each anniversary. We label the back of each one so we can remember what year and where it was purchased. This year we're waiting to buy the Cross until we're in Greece. So far our Crosses have come from the Hill Country, Playa del Carmen, and Fellowship Church in Plano. We're getting quite a collection!

Happy Anniversary!

Today is our 4 year anniversary! We'll actually be celebrating it tomorrow night while Grandma Nancy and Granddaddy stay with Benjamin.

Today was very busy. We had music class this morning then this afternoon we met with our Gymboree group at Wiggly Playhouse. Benjamin had a blast. He didn't have a nap because of it all. That made for a stressful late afternoon....he was G-R-U-M-P-Y!

Frederick is feeling better. Thank Goodness! He's back on muscle relaxers and steroids, poor guy.

The pictures are of Benjamin just hanging out today and also some pictures of the flowers blooming all around our yard!

Poor Frederick...Part 2

Frederick has hurt his back again. Poor thing. He's been so mopey and won't walk up his steps to our bed. He was walking across the living room earlier and stumbled. He was just walking! And we was walking really slow. It just breaks my heart. That triggered us to take him to the vet. The vet thinks it has something to do with all the running he did at Grandmother's house while we were in Seattle. He has some friends on the other side of Grandmother's fence. They run along the fence chasing and barking at each other - just playing of course. Anyway, so we're back on medication and bedrest for 10 days.

Separation Anxiety

Benjamin is going through separation anxiety - BIG TIME! We went to the gym yesterday and when I tried to drop him off he wouldn't stopping SCREAMING uncontrollably. We had to just leave so no treadmill for Mom yesterday. I never even had a chance to leave the nursery to actually try to work out. It was so bad. The ladies in the nursery were so suprised at him because he's been so good lately.

We tried the gym again today (he was actually good today - but that was because I had to sneak out when he wasn't looking - otherwise he was SCREAMING his head off AGAIN). Then we went to Sherman to pick up Frederick from Mom's house. She was keeping him while we were in Seattle. The trip to Sherman went very well - I scheduled it to be right at his nap time because I knew he would sleep in the car. We also picked up his one year pictures while we were in town. I LOVE THEM! It's been a really good day!