Deep in the Heart of Texas

A month or two ago Jason and I thought, "We should have a lower car payment..." so we put our car up for sale, not really sure if we wanted to sell it or not. We didn't hear anything for a couple of weeks, and that was okay because.....we loved our van. Then all of the sudden 3 or 4 people email us about the same time, and we ended up selling it. So we were down to 1 car, this was April 17 I think, with no 3rd row seating. Some how (and probably not entirely safely) we put all three car seats in the back row. Then we started our wild search for another van. Last weekend Leslie and Alex came to visit and ended up watching Colby and Eva ALL day because we went to Dallas to find a car. (San Antonio is a pretty big place, but for some reason we couldn't find any here.) NO LUCK!!! It was a 17 hour day and Lilia was a perfect little baby. Not fun, and Jason said, "I am NOT going to Houston." (we'd seen some vans online there too.) So I found 3 really promising vans in Houston and wanted to go look half day yesterday. Jason didn't want to-I couldn't blame him. Then he says, "There's an Astros game tonight, want to go to Houston when I'm done with my meeting at 2?"
I'd just like to thank the Astros, it's because of them we went to Houston and finally got a van. Plus the kids had a great time at the game and Jason got an awesome baseball hat.
Check out Eva's face in this one :)

I had to throw these in here. My sister-in-law Crystal did me the biggest favor ever because I was a little paranoid about going to the mall here, so she went to a sa-weeeet Gymboree sale for me. Have you ever seen more cute girls? Because I'm pretty sure I haven't!!

THANKS CRYSTAL!!

Colby says...

"I'm Nacho."(That is a little swimmer on his head.)

Random? Yes.

I was just blog hopping. I was on some blog of a friend of a friend and saw this.

It said that he only has one front tooth and the other tooth was capped to look like a front tooth!!! Hah, it was just so bizaro that I wanted to post it.

Early Birthday Present

I've been looking on craigslist for a kitchen table for months off and on. I finally found one I loved and had to pretty much beg Jason to agree with me to get it. Part of that included me saying, "It can be my birthday present!" So here's my early birthday present. Jason is always so sweet going and picking up things I buy on craigslist. (Thanks Jason, I love you!) He's such a good husband and daddy. It's nice to have a table that matches the awesomeness of our kitchen.

Party time! Party time! Excellent!!

Colby's BIG 0-4 was Tuesday. I had a microbiology test that night and I knew we wouldn't be able to celebrate before I had class, so we had a lunch time family birthday party at Mr. Gatti's, a pizza buffet place. He got to open his presents inside, then once we got back out to the car, SURPRISE!!! A new bike in the trunk. He's so cute riding it. I really can't believe he's 4. He seems more grown up already.
A couple of Hot Wheels to open with breakfast.
Jason took the kids for a bike ride while I was at class.

I Love Spring-ish Time!

Last weekend we wanted to plant this flower bed in our front yard. It was overgrown and ugly, with the most awful rabbit statue in there. (Jason really wanted to keep it, so I knew I'd have to do the planting when he wasn't at home.) But the weather just didn't work for us. It was a huge disappointment. Sunday night (last post) we did a little trimming and raking the leaves out of there, and all we needed was flowers.
The kids and I had to take Jason to work today, so we stopped at Walmart on the way home to get donuts for breakfast and pick up some flowers. I was really impressed with Walmart's selection and prices. They had these packs of petunias called "Shock Wave"-it came in this pink package of 6 sections with a little plastic handle on it, the are the most beautiful petunias I've ever seen, and they kind of cover the ground, not just grow up. Anyway, $6 for that. That is the first time I've been to Walmart in probably two months. This story's going nowhere fast, so here are the pictures.
Before:
After:This is Eva....Colby's response to Eva....he was cracking up every time Eva managed to push down the nozzle on the hose. Sweet Lilia, she seems so grown up lately.

Another fun weekend with Fam

Patty came to visit this last weekend. The kids love her so much. No one spoils them like Grandma Boise. The weekend went way too fast, and so sadly, it was rainy the whole time she was here until late Saturday afternoon and Sunday. We had great plans to go to Sea World and maybe the zoo, and whatever else, but of course the weather didn't cooperate. But we still had a great time. And of course, I forgot to take pictures until right before she left. But we still got some good ones. We all loved having her here. It's a dream of mine we'll live close to them again someday. Hopefully sooner rather than later. :)
(Colby and Eva had just woken up in these pictures...)
After we took Patty to the airport we hung out in the front yard and the kids ran around like crazies. Here's a cute little picture of our house. It starting to look like summer around here. Grandma Boise got the girls these matching dresses during a little shopping trip on Saturday. I love them!"I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream."