Our Weekend - In Town

We had talked about going out of town this weekend, but it didn't work out that way.  

We ended up having a good time around the house trying to stay out of the heat.

 Lane doesn't normally nap with anybody, but when I peeked in on him this time he was snuggled up next to Elmo.

 Chad practices guitar almost every night and is really making impressive progress.

I think he would love teaching Lane to play one day.

Saturday night we went to Founders Plaza at DFW Airport.  I've heard about it and have been wanting to go.  Officer Lane enjoyed seeing the planes land and take-off.  For some reason I thought we would be a little closer to the action.  Something everyone should see :)!

Brooke at Founders Plaza.  Today she made some new ba-ba noises for a bit!

Lane did this awesome 'series' of drawings. All of his markers, except for the purple one, are at Grandma Bobbie and Harvey's house.  So they're all purple and he did just a ton of them.  We went to Kinko's this morning and coil bound them into a book.  They include some of his first drawings with faces.  They are delightful.  The first one I saw that he did is taped to his wall.  Four figures.  Sean, Marlym, Liam and Jackson I'm told.  They are AWESOME!

We had breakfast for dinner tonight and Daddy got creative!

Lane spent his 'nap time' in his room today playing in the floor.  When I came in after his 'nap' he showed me "the party celebrating the animals' fourth birthday".  He later told me they are "turning four, like Cameron and Liam".  He also told me, as he was describing what everyone was doing, that "the pigs were eating the carpet.  Bahh!

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Cherub, fence and night-night

Cherub

Last night's storm blew one wall of our fence over.  Tons of Bradford Pears and other fences in the neighborhood came down.  I vote for cyclone fences for everyone, or none at all :), so it would be more like a neighborhood block party all the time!  Regardless,Chad impresses me with his ability to fix stuff.  After work and before dark he dug up four broken fence posts and the cement that was holding them in and then set four new posts in cement.  Lane was a big help to him!

Lane's bedtime.  After stories, he wanted his sister to stay with him in his bed for the whole night.  He's so sweet to her!  Makes me happy!

Father's Day 2011

Uncle Zachy

Aunt Marilyn

At the Duck Pond in Fort Worth

I love Zaddy Addy's camera!!

Lotso babies :)!

So cute!

Everybody wanted their picture taken with Brooke...

who wouldn't :)?

Zach, Marilyn, Jackson, Liam, Sean, Kerry, Chad, me Lane, Brooke and Dad all met for dinner in Fort Worth on Saturday night to celebrate Father's Day.  We went to the duck pond after dinner.

Sunday morning, Chad made Father's Day breakfast with a yellow tomato from the garden, yummy biscuits and gravy, bacon and eggs with chives from the garden.

Lane and Chad spent the day getting lumber at Lowe's for their 'toy box' project and starting to build it.  Apparently they had to build tools to build the toy box.  Chad said the toybox will be heirloom quality cause they're using such nice hardwoods... I would expect nothing less from him and the way he does stuff.  He even said he was going to inlay an 'H' in the top out of some other type of wood.  What a Daddy!  Teaching Lane so many skills.

Happy Father's Day!

Etch-a-Sketch and Siblings

Lane got a new Etch-a-Sketch and who could have predicted how much fun he would have with it!  He loves it.

Dad-Dad comes for a visit

Brooke loves her Aunt Wendi!

 Bailey and Bode - they did experiments with Lane this afternoon.

 Lovin on Dad-Dad.

 Brooke is getting stronger each day.

It's good to be so loved!

Bouncy Brooke

Yesterday was Brooke's five month birthday and her first time in the bouncy hangy chair!  I was working at Starbuck's so didn't get to be there with her, but Chad said she did great, except she was hungry.  

Weekend to Austin/Kerrville Folk Festival for Uncle Eddy's Memorial

Road trip to Austin with cousins and grandpa for Uncle Eddy's Memorial Service.  How fitting.

We left Friday morning.  Lane, Brooke and I met Marilyn, Jackson, Liam and Grandpa in Hillsboro then rode all together to Austin. We visited the State Capitol, rode the Zilker Zephyr, had dinner at Shady Grove with our cousin Rob and his family (an awesome surprise), then drove over the Congress Avenue Bridge just as the bats were emerging!

Saturday morning we woke up EARLY, and left the hotel in Austin for Kerville.

 Our awesome shuttle ride from festival parking to Chapel Hill.

 Memorial starts.

 My beautiful cousin, Wendy.  She asked me to be her voice and read what she wanted to say about her father at the memorial.

Group picture of family that attended.

We love and miss you very much, Uncle Eddy.  I appreciate so many things about you and am thankful you were my uncle.  Thank you for being you and for the impact you had on my life, whether you knew it or not :).

Jackson Pollock at the DMA

 I am in love with the DMA's preschool classes!  They do such a good job of exposing young kids to works in the museum in a way that, from my perspective, really speaks to them and teaches them something relevant.  I think I like it so much cause I also enjoy learning like they teach - hands-on, experiential learning.  Go figure :)!  This month was about Jackson Pollock.  At the end there's always time in the studio and this month Lane got to paint on the floor like Jackson Pollock did.  Instead of splattering paint, though, he got to roll balls, cars and yarn through paint and then on his canvas.  He made two pictures.

Sometimes after going to the DMA, we stop by Daddy's office to visit cause it's right on the way home.  Today while we visited Lane made a hat out of the wires he received at the DMA to make a sculpture.