House Update and MS150!

A little update on the outside of the house...we had two giant sego palms and we hated them from the day we moved in...luckily thanks to a wonderful husband and father-in-law, I now have a lovely front yard! And just in time for Brett!

Here is a picture of the house when we moved in...bars and all!
Newly landscaped yard! Much better and people can see our front door!!!

Amy also planted some strawberries...hopefully they will be as good as Uncle Brandon's were last year!

Showing off our planter!

Apparently posing :)

And a sweet little kiss for her brother :)

Last weekend, Daddy, Uncle Mark and Jacob rode the MS150! It is a bike ride that goes from Houston to Austin to raise money for the MS Society! These boys raised over $1400 and rode super fast! Way to go guys!!! Matt took a camera with him, but the only picture we ended up with was the one I took before they left...boys...

On to Brett's room, it is finally finished, with a little time to spare! Here are some pictures of it! We think it turned out cute and are excited for the little guy to get here and use it!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Yesterday was Daddy's birthday and what a great day! It was my day off and he got off at noon...Amy bought him two happy birthday balloons, not sure why two, but that was what she picked! Once he got home we took him to lunch and then to buy edging for the front flower bed. He spent the afternoon working out there, pictures to follow, it is almost done! Then we took him to the zoo for Zoobilee! It was tons of fun...

First off, random, but our sweet friends from Sunday School had a diaper dinner for Brett! They were all so sweet and we got tons of diapers! One of friends even made this precious diaper cake! Complete with puppy dogs! It is so cute, we may never take it apart!
On to the zoo trip, or as Amy calls it "the happy birthday zoo party"...we parked downtown and rode the light rail in. Amy has been begging to ride a city bus, so we thought this might be better...she loved it!

All of the kids got a passport that they had to get stamped at different places, once she got all her stamps, she got a cool coloring book! She was pretty pumped to carry her book around...

The lion stamp...

Checking the map for more stamp locations!

They also had dancers dressed up like animals, Amy loved the giraffes...of course she couldn't look at me to get her picture made :)

A sweet one of she and the birthday boy!

They also had airbrush tattoo artists! Amy got a hello kitty one...and it appears to be long lasting...still pretty bright today!

An up close of the tat...

She did not want her picture made with me...she was still trying to find her tattoo!

All and all a fun birthday for Daddy! And Amy is already getting ready for "Bett's Happy Birthday"...she is already planning on some birthday balloons for the little guy! We are all pretty excited that she is really starting to talk about him more and get ready...of course I am sure that will change when he gets here!!!

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter! We went to church and then to the park with Matt's family! Amy had a fabulous time!!! She ran the whole time we were there! And LOVES playing with all her cousins!

Amy and Daddy ready for church!
Eating lunch at the park with Grandpa!

Riding on the teeter-totter with Everett!

They spent a lot of the day on this one...it was a favorite!

And a few more cousins!!!

Ready for the egg hunt...we were pretty impressed that we got all 8 of them sitting down and in one picture...we will work on them all looking when they are older :)

Hunting eggs! I had to carry her basket...apparently it was slowing her down too much!

Mason posing with his eggs!

Amy with hers!

Everyone going through their eggs! Maddie found the "golden egg" and $5!!! Way to go Maddie!

Playing bubbles with Spence and Everett!

All and all a fun day! Poor girl was worn out tonight!

Easter Eggs and another hunt!

Amy had two Easter egg hunts at school this week! She had fun! Mimi went to watch and took some super cute pictures!

Bunny Amy ready to go! Apparently sizing up the competition!
Young 2's ready to go!!!

Amy only got two eggs and wasn't too interested...luckily she liked playing on the slide :)

Amy also dyed Easter Eggs for the first time! She loved it!

Love her face...she apparently thinks we are not too smart! And yes, it does take two Aggies to dye one egg!

All done!

Busy Weekend!

Last weekend we were busy around here...on Friday night, Amy baked some delicious sugar cookies! Saturday, we iced them and put sprinkles all over :)
Saturday morning we headed out to our neighborhood mom's group's egg hunt! Amy took a little while to warm up, but then got into the spirit...
First things first, donut holes! Love the determination on her face!

On to the egg hunt...Amy did really well finding lots of eggs...

And putting them in her giant basket! We couldn't find her real basket, so she used my sewing basket...luckily there was tons of room for lots of eggs!

A little group picture

And her and Mimi with all the eggs!

A picture with the Easter Bunny!!!

On Sunday, we went to our church picnic with Grams and Mimi and had a great time! Amy got to hunt some more eggs and loved it! She got to hunt with her sweet friends Caronline and Garrett!

Ready to go!

Looking for eggs with Garrett and Caroline! Amy and Caroline were very sweet and shared eggs back and forth! Very sweet girls!

Loving the eggs!

Looking through their loot! And Amy loves Starburst!!!

Bubble Bath!!!

Now that Amy is a big girl and potty trained...she got to get some big girl princess bubbles!!! She loves to take a bubble bath now! And luckily Daddy finished her bathroom just in time!