Day Out With Thomas

Grammie and Popo wanted to take Jaxson to the Day out with Thomas event in Burnet and we were lucky enough to come along as well. Jaxson LOVES Thomas and his excitement when we told him leading up to the moment he saw Thomas come up the tracks were priceless! We went at a perfect time of the day as the weather wasn't too hot. Despite not having seats next to each other on the train we took turns with the little man and everyone had a blast!










You can hear Jaxson in the background of this video getting so excited, at one point he says "Thomas I'm right here" as he waves to Thomas. It was seriously SOOO cute!!

A beach weekend

This past weekend we enjoyed a very fun weekend at the beach! We left early on Friday and drove out to Galveston for a mini weekend vacation. First we hit up The Strand for some lunch and of course candy at La Kings.




After we filled our tummies we met up with our friends who we were spending the weekend with at this great condo. You can't beat a condo with a short block and a half walk to the beach! Jaxson could not wait to finally get to the beach and the weather was perfect Friday for a quick visit.




Saturday morning we were up and back to the beach, with another perfect day of weather! The day was filled with football, wrestling on the beach, sand castle construction and destroying, wave jumping, beach toys, seagull chasing and a whole lot of fun memories being made!






We had hoped to hit up the beach one last time on Sunday morning but oddly enough it was raining! So we made one last visit to The Strand and headed back for home. We all had such a great time this weekend and it was so exciting for all of us to experience the first beach trip for all of our kids. I just love the excitement that you see in a child when they experience something new. I sure do look forward to more beach trips and great memories as a family in the years to come!

No Wheels

Tonight Scott started training Jaxson how to ride his bike without training wheels. He has a lot of work to do on balance and patience...but all in all he did an excellent job for the first night!

16 Weeks

I am 16 weeks pregnant as of this last Wednesday and this has to be the best week so far of this pregnancy! Finding out that we are having a girl has been both shocking and extremely exciting!

The bump is certainly growing and showing these days. I can not wait to feel her moving around and kicking in there. That has to be my favorite part of being pregnant!

This past four weeks I have moved away from the craving of popcorn and been craving fruits and salad. My appetite is completely back so most days I feel like I crave anything I can think of and want to just eat and eat...and then I realize I don't have room for as much food as I think I do. My energy is kind of back- I've made several homemade cookies, which makes me think it is back. But overall its pretty short lived, I can go go go and then I feel like I'm about to pass out and sleep for hours. So I try to pace myself.

This weekend has been filled with hours and hours of this....

sorting through Jaxson's old clothes. Nearly four years of clothes builds up quickly...like 12 bins full of clothes. It was quite overwhelming at first but I got a good routine together and that helped. I can successfully say at this hour 24 hours after starting this project I've sold everything from newborn to 12 months, and the remaining 3 years of clothes is up on Craigslist. The office has stacks and stacks of clothes that looks like chaos, but I know what each one means. Today after selling all of that clothes I made my first trip to Carters at the Outlet mall. Boy was it weird to walk to "that side" of the store! I got several "daddy's favorite" and "mommy's girl" sets that are so darn cute...and of course a set of hair bows. If you don't remember what Jaxson looked like when he was born...he had a ton of hair and I'm planning on Baby Girl to have the same. If she takes after me she'll have hair to her elbow by the time she's two :) I can't wait!
This little one has us so excited and while I don't want to rush this pregnancy as it is my last, I just can't wait to see her sweet little face! Every day we pray that she continues to grow healthy and always talk with Jaxson about his sister in mommy's tummy. We are beyond overjoyed and blessed to be this far and look forward to the next months ahead!