Date Night

One of our best date nights ever happened this weekend.

We decided a few months back that we wanted to do a "progressive" date through The Woodlands for our 5 year anniversary.

You know something besides the Chick Fil A drive through followed by running around the park. We were in desperate need of GROWN UP time.

So we got a babysitter ALL DAY on Saturday.

I was fantasizing about what to do sans kids for such a long time....like maybe go sit at Starbucks and read a magazine, or

go cruise around the mall and go nowhere near stores like Gymboree or Stride Rite

lock myself in my bedroom and catch up on hours of TV on my DVR...

but instead we took full advantage and went to see a movie...like in a real movie theater.

This movie was Hilarious! If you don't get to go see it at least put it in your Netflix queue.

Then we started the rest of the date...

Happy Hour at Jaspers.

Amazing! Who knew that they had all of their specialty drinks and amazing appetizers for $5 every day before 7? Not I....

Ahh....

Just putting our feet up on the patio...9 more weeks of the cast guys...
Then we did a little shopping. It's really fun shopping when you're husband can't keep up with you....
Ok, now he knows I'm clearly mocking him....
After some shopping, we had dinner at Uni.

The hostess was a little full of herself telling us that they were TOTALLY booked for the entire night. The manager overheard her say this and then asked me to give him our number and he would call us if "something" opened up.

We didn't care, I mean we had NOWHERE to be. Great feeling....
So not 10 minutes later, we get a phone call that they might be able to "squeeze" us in.

Really?

I mean only if you're sure. Thanks for the favor because I can see that you guys are slammed with the ten empty tables around us.

Anyways, stuffy or not.....I LOVE that place.

And guess what? I can finally have sushi!! And wine.....no water for me!!! Can I tell you how nice this was after the last two years of watching Andy partake without me?

So after dinner we headed up to the lounge at the new hotel, Avia. Their bar is right by the pool and overlooks Market Street. It was a great place to chill even if they were quite proud of their drinks.

I put this one in there because at this time I started taking pictures upside down....I mean it was the third leg of the trip and I had been well hydrated.

Overlooking Market Street

And the final leg of the progressive dinner was Tommy Bahamas. I didn't include a picture of the ridiculously large brownie we had for dessert because we ate it too fast.
And I know it's ridiculous that I don't have one picture of us together on our date!! I should have asked our cab driver to snap a quick one on the way home, but I was too busy trying to shell out enough cash to pay the babysitter for 10 hours.....but worth EVERY penny!

Five Years Ago Today...

I married my best friend.....

Happy Anniversary to my partner, my baby daddy, and my love.

I love you Andy.

One of the best things about living where we do..

I love living where we do in The Woodlands....

It's a hike up 45 from Houston, and Andy may have an obnoxious commute...

but isn't it worth it when you get to experience this???

Alright, so the deer by our house aren't as tame as the ones at Old McDonald's farm where we went today..
I like this one....like they've said their goodbyes and are on their way...
But in all seriousness, one of the best reasons about living where we do are friends like the Cocke's....Addison asks for Beckett several times a day

Today we loaded up the kids all in one car and took a little road trip to Humble to Old McDonald's farm. Sheila's and my favorite part was probably the Starbucks and conversation in the car on the way there. Thirty uninterrupted minutes of conversation and coffee that's still hot by the time you get to drink it are both a big deal!

We had fun feeding the animals....
Addison liked checking out the ducks. When we left she said, "See ya Ducks!"

Graham just took everything in....such a sweet baby, can't say it enough.
Addison's favorite part besides the hay barn was probably feeding the sheep...
who were a little eager to eat.....
and actually grabbed the bag of food right out of her hand..

and then it was on to the hay barn, which reminded me of a smaller version of the barn at the Oil Ranch that was so awesome as a kid.

Beckett was very excited.

Addison loved running around in the hay and threw an all out tantrum when we had to leave


I put this picture in here only to show you the MANY school buses that were there. This would be why we only stayed 45 minutes because there were probably at least 700 other kids there who wanted to run and play in the hay too....
This picture is blurry but it makes me laugh because this was Sheila trying to grab both kids and make a run for it as the field trip kiddos started to take over.

Loving it

There is one baby stage that gets me every time. I LOVE when they find their feet. It's the cutest thing. This age...that 4-6 stage is awesome. Because he's finally sleeping through the night, right?

Well, no...

But he's just so sweet, cooing, laughing, entertaining himself with a single toy for 30 minutes, and NOT GOING anywhere. I'm loving it.

Little chubby feet and hands. Stop getting bigger. Stop it.

We had family come out this weekend and had so much fun enjoying the gorgeous Houston weather. Won't be saying that much longer....stop getting hotter...stop it.

Except that if by chance it does continue getting hotter, than perhaps we'll just have to break out the water slide a little more. Loving it.

Aunt Sarah and the sweetest baby ever.

Cousin Iris...so cute in her pink swimsuit.

Take a look at droopy drawers. The top is tiny, tiny, but the bottoms are just falling off of her. She obviously does not get these proportions from me.

Almost able to climb up herself.

And then crutch man dad took over the process of putting everything away. Gave directions while hobbling around the backyard. Stop it.

No seriously, stop it!! Are you kidding me...please don't hurt yourself again....ever.

Look at that intensity.

Speaking of intensity....Addison didn't know what was going on with dessert. We sent Uncle Mike to the store to get ice cream....you know, like regular good 'ole vanilla ice cream to go with....

these..

cupcakes from that new cupcake bakery, Frost. You know you want one. We got 8 so that I could eat 3 and everyone else could eat 1 there was plenty for everybody.

Someone was pretty happy about it.