Night Gowns and Stories

I know its a little silly, but I have pictured a million times how cute she would be in a night gown one day. I still picture her, a little older, loving them as much as I did when I was a little girly girl and only wanting to sleep in "pretty gowns!".
Well, I had bought a few for her to wear this summer on great sale last month and we had such a warm night last night that I thought... why don't we just try it!? And so, last night London were here very first night gown!

And she looked as cute as I ever dreamt that she would!

I was a little worried that it would ride up on her and be around her waist and thought maybe she would get chilly. She is very hot natured though, so the chances were that she would be fine. I checked on her at least 10 times before I went to bed to make sure the gown was going to be okay through the night. And it was. It didn't ride up or anything. She didn't get at all cold. She just looked so cute that I couldn't stand it! :)

And big brother looked pretty darn cute in his camo pjs too!

This morning, while we were getting ready to take Dylan to school, I looked up and saw Dylan "reading" his comics to his baby sister.

Its just makes my heart so full of pride and happiness to see how much they love each other and how very kind Dylan is to London.

When we picked Dylan up from school, we headed over for an impromptu visit to the park. It may or may not have been partly due to the fact that the park was really close to Sonic and we were only 30 min out from Happy Hour... hahahah!

I'm cooking Daniel's favorite tonight, bacon wraped stuffed pork loin! Yummy! London and Dylan both skipped afternoon nap, so I'm planning on an early night for them and movie night with my Hubby!

Coffee Dates & Lunch Dates!

This morning, we had a coffee date with my bestie, "GiGi" (thats what the kids call her). She is very sadly going to be living in Houston for the next few months. The kids and I are really gonna miss her! She will be coming down pretty regularly though, so that makes it a little better. Anyways, we had coffee with her this morning at Starbucks. She and I use to have coffee together ever Tuesday while Dylan was at school. I would bring London with me, but that was before life got too busy for both of us and London was only about 7 months (and not yet mobile!) Today though, I brought both kids with me to what I told Dylan was "a very quite grown up restaurant". I was a bit nervous that they would be too loud, causing some ugly looks to fly my way, but they were complete angels. I only had to ask them to lower there noise level a couple of times! Yay for that! Now I know I can bring them (and a handful of quite toys) with me.


After all of that fun, we had even more fun lined up with our friend, Raegan. We met her at chick-fil-a for lunch. London was a bit cranky, due to her not having her morning nap, but over all they did great. After we ate our lunches, we went to sit in the play place so both kids could play. London is just getting all sorts of brave and climbing all over every play place we go to (this is very new). So, she was climbing up a little ways in the big play place, when this little girl screams "Ohhh! She made a stinky! There is poop!", then she ran out of the play place. Raegan and I chuckled because we thought the litttle girl was just freaking out over a dirty diaper smell. So I stood up to coach London out of the play place in order to go change her diaper. Well, this being her first time IN the big play place, she didn't know how to get OUT. I decided to climb up and get her (It was only three steps into the thing, she wasn't going far at all) and much to my shock and horror, there is POOP laying on the ground! I checked London's pants and her diaper had come undone and the poop was right at the top of it and just falling out. I wanted to just go hide. lol! Raegan went to get napkins for me, but by the time she had gotten back, a worker was coming in to clean it. I guess the little girl's mom had told them (which is exactly what I would have done too!). I showed her where it was and picked the actual... "uh-ohs" up myself, apologized a million times to all the parents and the worker. Everyone was really nice about it and told me "it just happens sometimes." The little girl's mom came and got her other kids though and was a little snooty with a "We're going to park." comment. Oh well. You can't please them all. *On a side note: I would have been grossed out enough to have left also, but think I would have done it a little more politely. It's not like my 5 year old had gone up the and pooped. It was an accident that got picked up quickly and before any one got messy (thank the Lord!)


As for the rest of the day, we have just been hanging out. I did just tiny bit of laundry, but other than that, I have not been very productive. Its okay though because its Monday, right? Plus, I've been busy playing with this cutey and her sweet brother!

Weekend Recap!

Saturday:

We spent the morning being a bit lazy (SOOO nice), then got moving and went to McKinney to have lunch with my Mom. We hadn't gotten to see her for over a week, so we were VERY excited to get the chance! We ate at a new family favorite ,The Pantry. Then, we walked across the street to the cutest little old timey candy store, Mom and Pops, and got just one lots of yummy treats. They have the most amazing homemade fudge. Daniel got penut butter and chocolate, I had capacino, and my mom got strawberry chocolate. She forgot to get her fudge out of our bag, so we accidently took it home with us Darn It!. And every single one of those flavors were ah.may.zing.

On the way out, I had to snap a few pics of my preciouses.

When we were done with that, we ran a few errands with my mom (she needed help with groceries since she still can't lift much from her spinal surgery). We came back to her house for just a bit, but we had to jet pretty quickly due to my extremely pesky job having to work a little three hour shift at Gymboree.

Sunday:

Has been extra extra fabulous. We tried out a new church this morning and really liked it. We really enjoy our current church, but its so big that its hard to make a personal connection to it. We have done a small class and I have volunteered in the nursery, in part to plug in, and it helped a little, but we just don't feel like we are for sure at home. Does that make since? We do love the church, and we LOVE the pastor, I just which we could shrink it down.Just to give you an idea of what I mean, we've been there for over two years and have almost never seen the same faces twice, and almost our whole street of neighbors attend this church, and we have only seen two of them... each once! Its just huge. Anyways, we really like the church we tried today.

We are going to try it again next Sunday. Its JUST the right size for us, and everyone was so nice and friendly!

After church, we had lunch at Subway, then walked down the sidewalk to a new little shop called Yogurt Story. It was so yum. I won't even start to tell you how great it is, because I'll just ramble for days, but we will be regulars there I bet!

Then we had some grocery shopping to get done. I always like when Daniel goes with me, so it was nice that he could. We headed home thinking that London would take a nap after all of that, but she disagreed. She fell asleep for about 10 minutes on the way home and refused to go back to sleep when we tried to move her to her bed. But her mood was fine, so that was okay.

Since nap time was a flop, we decided to hit the park. Today was just BEAUTIFUL and such nice weather. The kids so enjoyed themselves. AND to make it even better, the ice cream truck came by and I was prepared!! I redeemed myself from his last visit!! hahaha!

Happy 5 years!

This time five years ago, this handsome man decided to make me his wife.

We've been in bliss (almost) every day since then! I love him a hundred time more today than I did even back then. I would chose to remarry him in a heartbeat. He is everything to me. :)

Not only is he a fantastic hubby, he's an AMAZING daddy.

I could really just gush about him all night. But, for now... I must go have a date night with that handsome hubby of mine. Happy 5th anniversary, my love! Its been the best 5 years of my life. I can't wait to see where the next 5 take us, and then the next 50! XOXO * * *

Yesterday and Today.

Here are some photos of yesterday that I forgot was too lazy to post then.

Dylan loves the crowns that they give away at BK. He was so sweet, he grabbed one for himself and then one for London and said "She is a princess and I'm a king!" It really melted my heart!

I decided that I would be extra fun and let London have some of Dylan's chocolate milk. He sweetly agreed. So, I got a plastic cup and poor 90% of the milk into that for Dylan and gave the rest to London with a straw in it. I grabbed my camera because I knew her face was going to be priceless. In less time than it took me to do that, she had pored the whole thing down her shirt. Her white shirt. And we still had two more places to run to. Sheesh.

I mentioned yesterday that London went up and down this play thing all by herself for the first time. She has just recently started playing when we go to play places. Until now, she was happy sit with me and maybe tot around the play area. Not anymore though... she thinks she is BIG GIRL!

Of course, she does have an awesome big brother to show her the ropes.

And just for fun, I decided to throw on some red lipstick yesterday. I was just feeling like my outfit NEEDED it. lol. I never wear colored lipstick or lipgloss, but I thought it was kind of fun. I got several compliments at work over it. :) Maybe I'll do it again sometime... next time I'm feeling a little sassy. ;)

Today, London ate with her high chair pulled up to the table for the very first time. She also ate with a baby fork and a real cup too. I couldn't believe how grown up she looked sitting there.

A Day at the Park

Down here in the South, we are NOT use to extremely low temperatures. So, last week when it was in the teens and twenties, our whole town pretty much shut down. Well, not literally, but schools were closed and everyone I know was staying home. I know Northerners probably get a good chuckle at us, but its just the way it is! :)

So, after a week of being prisoners in our own home staying in doors, the kids were about to EXPLODE if we didn't get outdoors.. FAST! Monday it was still a little chilly, but we did get out a bit. But Tuesday was BEAUTIFUL, the kids didn't even need their jackets, so we went to the park for the first time in at least a month!

To watch Dylan and London enter the Park, you would have thought it was Disney World. lol!

London LOVES to play outside with her big brother. Mainly, she just toddles behind him everywhere that he goes. And while he's climbing up int he play area, she just toddles around the area watching him. Its quite cute!

We have several parks in our area, but this is Dylan's favorite. He calls it the "wooden park" because, well... its made of wood. lol. He's creative that way. (Another park that we sometimes go to, Dylan calls "The Lost Puppy Park" because the first time we took him there, we saw what seemed to be a lost puppy! That kid is just funny!) Anyways, its built like a big ole castle and is just perfect for Dylan because he is all into Knights and Dragons and such.

They both stay so busy while we are at the park, but every now and then they stop for a breather and I can snap a couple of cute pictures! haha!

This is my Knight in action!

We usually save the swings for last, because its a good time to calm down and relax. Well, usually... when Dylan isn't too busy pretending to be spider man instead of swinging on his bottom. :)

For some reason, London was not loving the swing yesterday. I don't know why, she usually LOVES it, but she seemed a little freaked out by it. It may have been because her diaper was about to EXPLODE due to being away from the house for to long and me forgetting her diapers at home (did I really just admit that? Please don't throw stones ;p )

*Sigh*

It was perfectly beautiful day at the park yesterday. Even if I did have to break Dylan's heart because I didn't have single cent of cash on me, only a card, and couldn't get him ice cream from the ice cream truck. No worries though, I stopped to get cash today, and will more than ready for Mr. Ice Cream Truck Man tomorrow. Yes sir!

Today we ran a few errands and have just a couple more to run. I STILL need to get to groceries store, but I have to work tonight, so we might be doing fast food and then I'll go tomorrow. I took the kids for a special treat to Burger King for lunch. Dylan LOVES to go, but we next to never do because I can't stand the food. I managed to deal with a burger today though (the things we do for our kids, huh?). London climbed up the toddler play cube and went down the slide all by herself for the first time! I was pretty proud of her.

Off to do some laundry while kids nap now!

Happy Twenty Ten!

So this is my first post of the New Year!! And also my first post in weeks. Sorry about that. I going to do better. That's a promise. I know, I've said that twice now, I think, maybe more. But its true(ish) this time. :)

Not a lot of new to report as for our family this New Year. We do have some exciting thing on the horizon, but I'm not quite ready to spill the beans on those yet. Its NOT baby number three, I will say that!


Trying to recap a big chunk of time (like since the last time I blogged) is just stressful to me, so lets just start afresh, okay?

This past weekend I had to work both days and long, gross shifts. I think its about time for me to think of leaving my little part time job. It really use to be a source of fun and little extra cash for shopping, but its becoming more of a stress and I would quite frankly rather not shop (GASP!). I plan to make up my mind in the next few weeks.

Saturday morning, I was able to spend some much needed time with he family before heading of to work. We often hang out in London's bedroom for one reason or another, and thats what we did on Saturday morning. We just hung out, played with kids, laughed and talked. It was perfect. I love my little family so much! I (of course) had my camera near by. I started snapping some photos, but then in a strange twist of events, I ended up in front of the camera and Daniel behind! haha! I'm not so good in front of it, but that's okay! I may have actually ASKED him to snap a few shots! haha! I would say he's pretty good, no? Ugh. He's good at EVERYTHING he picks up. He's just one of those people. Once, he picked up a harmonica, which he had never played one of before, and with in 10 min was playing a little song (I can't remember which one.. but it maybe Twinkle Twinkle?), and that's a true story. I could list several examples like that. He's just gifted at a lot of things, I guess. I hope our children picked that up from his gene pool! haha! Its one of the millions of reasons I love him. :)

Here's his handy work:

Okay, well this one is mine, but I just love these two boys so much:


Monday was pretty much just a throw away day. I had planned to catch up on house work, but I didn't. I really didn't do much other than play with children and hang out. I had an AWFUL headache, to my defence. And also to my defence, I've been doing house work all morning.

Along with catching up on housework, I plan to take Dylan and London to the park this afternoon and we have to get groceries. Sounds like an intriguing day, huh? :)