Abuelita comes to visit

Andre's mom is making her annual tour of the States and has come to visit for a while. The girls are thrilled to have her here. Who can resist the love of a grandmother? They've been coloring and playing and just having the best time.

Liliana turns 4

The girls went to their first birthday party at Chucky Cheese last weekend to celebrate Liliana's 4th birthday. Its funny how children will suddenly act more mature around older children. The girls sat at the table with all the "big" kids and ate pizza and cake just like all the other girls.

This Chucky Cheese had a special play area for toddlers with little slides and games.



Lili is an absolute doll. She wore the cutest pink tutu-inspired skirt and her hair makes perfect little ringlets. She's very sweet too and kept calling the girls "my twins."

This is Lili with her mom, Jamie.

Birthdays for everyone

My nephew Forrest celebrated his 14th birthday this past week. Absolutely amazing. Its hard to believe he's that old. He plays the guitar and had a garage band party with lots of friends. They were actually quite good. You'd never guess they were so young. People came from a couple of streets up just to watch the band play.

I still remember when he was born. Mom and I drove up to see Scott and Laura. They were so in love with their new baby that not only did they refuse to set him down, but they refused to let anyone else hold him either. As I remember, mom and I did laundry instead. I think I got to briefly hold him for a picture and that was it. ha!


Little Austin also celebrated a birthday on the same day as Forrest. We missed celebrating with him because we live so far away, but we'll catch up soon.

And the really big news: we have three new additions to the family. Andre's cousin Lisa and her husband, Ross, had triplets! Two identical twin girls and a little boy, born October 12th. Their names are Issac, Violet, and Abigail. We are so excited the triplets are here.

When we first had the girls people would always stop us out in public and want to talk about the twins. People are fascinated with twins. I can only imagine what it would be like with triplets. People are going to go crazy over them. They're going to be famous babies everywhere they go. Triple congratulations!

Pumpkin time

Friday was a beautiful cool-ish day so we took the girls to pick out a pumpkin at sweet berry farm. They had so many pumpkins, gourds, squash, pumpkins and more pumpkins and then a few more pumpkins. It was a beautiful farm too. Apparently, they also have a blueberry and strawberry season.









They had lots of activities for kids, including a giant 4 acre maze in the shape of Texas. They have a few animals too--pony rides, several goats, and lots of lazy cats.

Sea World

Last weekend Andre and I took a mini-vacation to Sea World. I'd been putting in a lot of hours at work due to this case I was on and we all needed a break. I booked a little resort by the park and we spent one day at Sea World and one day at the resort. It was awesome.

The girls loved Sea World. Rowan was amazed by Shamu. She kept pointing and clapping at the Orcas; even clapping when other onlookers had stopped. In one part of the show they lower this big ball and Shamu jumps out of the water and hits the ball with his big mouth. Rowan was entranced. Evelyn was entertained for about five minutes and then grew tired of the killer whale and his antics. She spent most of the time studying the wheel of the stroller.

The girls were too little to ride any of the rides. Fortunately, my sister, nephew and his friend met up with us. Laura (sister) traded off watching the girls so we could enjoy the roller coasters. I don't know what it is about roller coasters, but they seem to become scarier as one gets older.

My mother and grandmother joined us all back at the resort. It was such a nice trip for all of us. I feel as if I can work and work and lose sleep, and stress out, if only I can have these nice getaways from time to time. Sure, it required me waking up at 5:30am Monday morning to drive to court, but it was worth it.

The girls seemed to have a good time too. They jumped on the big bed, and pushed luggage carts around, they swam in the pool, and ate lunch on the balcony. It was as much a vacation for them as it was for us.