Dallas Blooms

I took my boys to the Dallas Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum and let me just say, it was amazing! If I was a millionaire I would make sure my backyard looked just like this place all the time! I thought of my mom the whole time I was there and how much she would love it because she loves gardening and flowers. So I took a million pictures for her which was easy to do because pretty much every direction you turned was a gorgeous view! So be prepared to see a bazillion pictures on here but thats no surprise because I always do that!

Brayden loved running around the gardens while Tyler preferred eating the dirt every chance he got. Seriously if I looked away for one minute he would stuff some in really quick. And I knew he had some in there because he would give me this look like "what?" Hilarious! Oh well, a little dirt never hurt anyone, right!!

What are these things??

This is him sulking after I took away dirt!

The best part was Guy joined us on his lunch break at work. (FYI: You can get a buy one get one free coupon at any capital one bank). We had a picnic with him on the grass and went to see Ferdinand the bull. I need to check that book out of the library so I can read it to Brayden because its a good one. The boys got their picture taken with a bunny for easter

And we forced them to take some pictures with us even though we weren't as coolYep, Smells good :)

On Mondays and Tuesdays it is mommy and me days so they have a bunch of kid activites there. They had free face painting but the line was too long so I told Brayden no. But as we were getting ready to go, we walked past and the line was really short so I gave in and let him.

And so he became Brayden, the tiger! It actually turned out really cool and I could not stop laughing at how much it changed his personality. He would only speak in a "scary" voice and would growl and roar at the end of every sentence. I could tell he thought he was so cool! He was so paranoid that he was going to mess it up though and would ask me every 5 seconds if it was still on there which eventually drove me insane. Guy left to go back to work before we did this so Brayden was very excited to show him when he got home.

But the best part was at home when I would catch him in the bathroom just staring at himself and making faces in the mirror. He is a crack up. When it came time to wash it off, I was only allowed to wash off half so he could be a half tiger and half brayden. Playing tigers (well thats what brayden is doing, Ty's just crawling like he always does!!)

And below is how you know you had a successful and fun day!

My Questions of the Day

-Why is it that just about every sentence that comes out of my 3 year olds mouth is a question?? And when I do my best to answer him with a somewhat logical answer all that I get from him is another question. My brain is fried! I feel like I need a manual for answers to all the random questions kids ask!!!

-How do you really fold a fitted sheet? I have never been able to do it and always end up just stuffing it in the closet.

-Why does my one year old throw his sippy cup on the ground and then scream for it as loud as he can? SO I go pick it up and give it back to him only to have him throw it down again immeadiately. And then we start all over. This game is just not fun!

-Why is it that when I'm in a hurry, I hit every red light? But when I need to finish a text and want to hit a red light, every light I hit is green. It seriously happens to me every time!

-Why is eating healthier so much more expensive?

-Why is Brayden obsessed with spitting lately, especially off our balcony? Is this a boy thing??

-Why do my laundry piles never seem to really get smaller?

-Why are we moving in 4 months and we still have no idea where we are going? It's Crazy!

-Why did I find Tyler with smiley faces on each of his hands and cheeks this morning? And of course when I asked Brayden about it he told me that he saw Tyler do it. Wow, what a talented one year old :)

-Why am I still on the computer when I should have left for Brayden's swimming lessons 5 minutes ago??

Lets Go Fly A Kite

It was the perfect day today to fly a kite! Brayden picked out this frog one with the longest tail
I love little Ty watching from below

I took this pic for my brothers...saw it on the fence at the school

Don't blow away Buddy

LOVE that hair!

And this is how the fun ended! :)

Kelly Comes to Play

My sister Kelly came to visit from Ohio and we had so much fun...of course! Kelly and I always have fun together and we managed to despite practically everything going wrong on the trip. Seriously why is this always happening everytime we have fun things planned lately? This trip included Kelly getting sick and me thinking it was from us, to her feeling better and us wondering if she had gotten food poisoning, to freezing ( like SNOW freezing) weather here over the weekend, to crazy delayed flights that made her have to leave earlier and end up flying way out of her way to get home in time. It was just crazy. Anyways, here are all the pictures I took while she was here. I love when Kelly comes because we act like 5 year olds and I totally forget that I am supposed to be a responsible adult/mom now!! Its great! We picked her up on St. Patricks day from the airport so Brayden and I made her a giant rainbow cupcake as a surprise

But the real surprise was in the middle! I wasn't sure it was going to turn out but we thought it turned out pretty cool.

We had some fun at the park and enjoyed the nice weather before the weekend of cold came along. Apparently everyone was doing this because the place was beyond crowded! Took a trip to Rainforest Cafe, a restaurant that is all decked out like a rainforest inside.

In my opinion, the food was so expensive and not the greatest. Maybe its just what we ordered but we all thought it was a ripoff. We had been saving a gift card we had been given for a "special" time and thought since Kelly was here we should go. Seriously I am glad we didn't have to pay for that food from our own pocket! Plus the place was SO packed since it was spring break so it was just crazy!

Brayden with his elephant balloon

And all Tyler got was a straw but he loved it!

Guy and I pretending to not have kids...even though the bottle up front gives that away

So the next morning Kelly woke up really sick and its a mystery to us if it was our yucky sickness that we picked up at the gross airport or if it was food poisoning from yucky rainforest cafe? Either way, she was really sick and felt awful. We had been planning on going to San Antonio for the weekend but canceled it and were just planning on hanging out. But the next day she woke up feeling much better (which is why we thought food poisoning maybe??) So we spontaneously decided to just go to San Antonio right then and there. And so we did and I was glad because apparently Dallas ended up getting snow! WHAT? Um, I'm glad we missed that. Seriously I just want it to get warm and stay warm here now (and I know I will regret that statement when its summer and we are roasting!) It was pretty chilly down in San Antonio too but we still went to Sea World and had some fun!

IHOP...Brayden tried bacon for the first time and loved it!

Gotta love Sea World!! I seriously do love it and even though it was kinda cold we had a lot of fun! Plus, an adult ticket is the same price as a pass for the rest of the season so we have passes now and will be going back for sure all summer while we are still living here! I am excited to have a reason to get away and it will be fun to go back when the water park opens up!!

Kelly with the boys...I was so happy she was feeling better
BB loved the shamu roller coaster for kids. I rode it once with him and Kelly did too!

We got to meet Shamu and we decided this was probably the one day where the person inside was actually glad to be wearing that costume. I always feel bad for them in the summer when its so hot but I seriously could have used a shamu costume to wear that day. It looked toasty!

Ty bundled in the stroller...again I was jealous of him too!

We loved seeing the sea lions

And feeding them fish

I have to say the shamu show is pretty lame now. The trainers do not swim in the water with them after that trainer was killed in orlando a little bit ago. Which I'm glad they are being safer but the whales just didn't really do much on their own. They just swam around in circles pretty much and occasionally splashed some water. Also, all the girl trainers have to wear their hair in buns now so the whales can't pull them into the water by their hair. I think the trainer in orlando had her hair in a braid and the whale pulled her in by it and wouldn't let her get back out of the water. So awful huh! I guess the best part was that they had a baby whale born in january so it was swimming by its mom during the show which was really cute! But other then that, not as exciting as before!

They had a really cute sesame street sing a long show which Brayden loved.

He went up in the mosh pit of kids and danced which was pretty funny

And my fav part of sea world is always the dolphins! There was a trainer training them in their tank so we got to see them do a few tricks

And feed them fish of course!

Ty was such a trooper all day and it warmed up in the afternoon which was nice. By the end of the day we were all so exhausted but it was fun and I'm glad we were able to drive down and miss the crazy Dallas weather!!

But the car ride back was awful. We were stuck in traffic most of the way and Ty decided it would be fun to cry most of the drive. Well except for the 5 minutes we gave him a granola bar which resulted in this awesome mess of chocolate. I didn't even see it happening because it was so dark or I would have put a stop to it sooner! Lesson learned...do not give babies chocolate chip granola bars because they will make it a full body experience! And the other thing I learned on this trip is that we need a bigger car! It is time to upgrade to more room because being scrunched in the back with 2 car seats was horrible! I'll just add that to my wish list :)

BB watchin his movies on the way home. He looks so comfortable, don't you think?? :)

So Kelly, I miss you and you need to come back and visit again so we can make up for this time around!! Next time no sickness and warm weather...I promise! It was seriously still so much fun to just see you though and hang out for a little while! Hopefully we'll see you the end of April...fingers crossed! LOVE YA and thanks for coming to see us!!!!! We all miss you! :(