Spring Break Visitors

The day after we got back from Utah, my cousin Melanie and her family came to stay with us and see San Antonio for a few days during their spring break.  It was fun showing them around, and Kennedy had a great time having 2 little girls to play with all the time!  She was sad when they left and walked around the house for a couple of days after saying “Kaylee, Brooke, Kaylee.”

San Antonio ZooKennedy loves any kind of birdI think the girls enjoyed playing in the sand and with this blow up fish more than seeing any of the animals :)Brooke and Kennedy are 2.5 months apart, so it was fun seeing them interact and play together.

The Alamo   The Alamo grounds are really pretty. The girls had fun wandering around and throwing leaves in this fountain.   Snack time in the strollers at The Alamo

ParkI thought this picture was cute. Kennedy and Brooke liked to do whatever Kaylee was doing. Thanks for coming to visit Williams!

Girl’s Week in Utah

Kennedy and I were able to go to Utah for a few days the middle of March for a Girl’s weekend with Zak’s family in St. George. We were also able to go up to Salt Lake for my future sister-in-law Lanée’s bridal shower.  It was so fun being able to see so much family for both events!

We had Girl’s Week at my brother and sister-in-law’s beautiful home.  We packed a lot in and had tons of fun!  We had a baby shower for a cousin, a bridal shower for another cousin, lots of shopping, hot tubing, crafting, movie watching, playing an intense game of spoons, lots of chatting and just had fun being together with the girls!

The only picture I have of the girls

The cute diaper cake Tracy made for the baby showerTheir amazing backyard!Hot tubing with the girls at night was relaxing!Such a fun game of spoons, lots of good laughs! The little girl cousins had their own girl time in Bree’s cute room! It was fun to see them all together.    Sadly I didn’t get one single picture of Lanée’s shower, but we had a good time with all the family! (I stole some engagement pics from their blog though) I’m sure excited to be getting such a great sister-in-law!  They are such a cute couple and perfect for each other, we are excited for their wedding in May!

 

I did get a few of Kennedy with Gma and her uncles, it’s fun to see them interact with her. Gma Rose and Kennedy laughing Swinging with Uncle Spencer- So cute! I love this picture, he’s such a good uncle.   Playing with their cell phones- she loves pictures and videos!

Thanks everyone for the fun trip, Kennedy and I had a great time!

San Antonio Rodeo

In February we went to the San Antonio Rodeo. Well, we didn’t actually go to a Rodeo event, we just enjoyed the carnival rides, petting zoo and other things going on. This should come as no surprise, but the rodeo is quite the big deal here in Texas. We sure stuck out since we weren’t wearing cowboy boots, a cowboy hat or plaid! We all had fun together exploring things one evening. Kennedy was mesmerized by all the carnival lights and loved looking around at all the people and things! 

I was so excited to take Kennedy on the Carousel and we thought she would love it and scream when she had to get off like most other kids do. Well as you can see from the pictures, she didn’t like it so much, but I’m a mean mom and made her ride it anyway…twice! I’m pretty sure she liked it eventually. Kind of scared “Dad, do I have to do this?” “I’m not sure about this guys…here’s a half smile”    She really wanted to go on this animal train ride, but she was too small,  she enjoyed watching it with dad though. Haha, love this picture! She’s doing her elephant sound.

I even joined in on the fun and went down the slide. 

Petting Zoo 

There were all kinds of animals in the this petting zoo, but there were tons of goats and Kennedy really liked them.

Grandma Time

Grandma Rose came down for  a visit  last weekend and we had a great time with her!  Kennedy loved all the extra attention and reading books with “maama”.

Park Pics

It’s been raining quite a bit here lately, but when the weather has been good we try to get outside and enjoy the sun.  This is one of the days we went to the park with Kennedy’s friend Chandler and his mom, isn’t he cute?!  The kids had a great time sliding and playing at the park and us moms had a nice time chatting.

Birthday Boy!

Happy Birthday to the greatest husband and daddy around!

We Love You!

Counter space

Greetings blog stalkers, Zak here. I’ve been keeping a low pr0file lately, but I’ve wandered out of my cave for a moment to share a handyman’s update.

To begin, I’d like to say that we really like our house. It’s got everything we need and most of what we want. But one of the things we wished it had was more counter space.We’ve made due with the space we have, but often find it filling up all too quick. We knew this would be an issue when we bought the house but saw an opportunity in that vast open space you see between counters. With some elbow grease, a few new power tools and a little luck, we were able to find everything we needed to put in this lovely addition.  Now we’ve got what feels like twice the counter space, with the added bonus of more drawers and cupboards. It’s been very nice to have. It was more work to put this in than I expected, but it turned out good. I have to give props to my dad for teaching me everything I needed to know to put this all together and make it look like it has always been there.

Kennedy found the construction phase very entertaining. She did a lot more ‘helping’ than the pictures show, but you get the idea.