Beating the heat

Did I mention that it's super hot in Texas right now? And did I mention that I still have 90 days to go in this pregnancy? The summer fun is just beginning!

Well thank goodness for fantastic friends who let us come hang in their pool for 8 hours!! Our friends Holly and Jay have 2 adorable kids, Dylan and Jayda, and they happen to have the most awesome pool and back yard. Holly has a bit of green thumb, so you feel like you are in a tropical oasis. We love it there.

And I'm so happy to say that Holton jumped off the diving board for the first time ever! It took a lot of persuading, but he finally did it!






So the next step is to get Holton into swimming lessons so he can be a pro...and we won't have to bribe him to jump into the water.

Waffles and Ice Cream!

Last week we met Patrick and Amanda to celebrate Adam's birthday (and mine too - love the shirt Amanda). We all had a great dinner at a very trendy Dallas tapas restaurant. Adam really wanted to have chicken and waffles, and this fancy joint has some dang good ones!

Dinner was very yummy! Amanda and I enjoyed our prego cocktails of muddled strawberry lemonade. We then went to a local ice cream spot because we are in the 100s in Texas! Oh yea, the heat is officially here.

Holton liked the giant hot dog outside of the ice cream place. Don't my guys look cute?



Finally, I often panic order at a new restaurant. So I called out the first thing I saw that included caramel.

Well, can you guess which ice cream was mine? Adam even taught Holton to chant "boom, boom, boom".

I love New York!

Have you ever noticed that there a bunch of June birthdays? My b-day was last week and Adam's birthday is today! So to celebrate, we went to NYC for the weekend. We met Adam's friend Brian, who turned 40 on Monday! Brian's girlfriend Rachel lives in NYC and had the whole weekend planned for all of us.

The first day we took the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty and then Ellis Island. It was a little cloudy and these are from my phone - sorry for the poor quality!








On Saturday AM Rachel took me to H&M. This is a very cool, cheap store that we don't have in Texas. Of course NYC has several H&M stores and guess what they had - a maternity section! It was fun buying cute, cheap clothes.

We then hit up a Yankee's game. The Yankees beat the Houston Astros, but we sat right behind a whole row of folks from TX. When Derek Jeter scored a home run, the crowd chanted "Derek Jeet-uh" Boy, they say we have accents.




Rachel's apartment has a great roof top patio with amazing views of NYC. The weather was perfect and we spent a lot of time up there enjoying all the sights including the Empire State Building.


Adam and his twin, Brian. Isn't it cute that they dressed alike?







On Sunday morning we walked to a local street fair. It's their version of the state fair here in Texas. They had tons of great food and bargains galore. Who wants some Egyptian Cotton Sheets for $20!


Finally, we had to take a picture of this. Who would have thought they were so concerned about those taxis honking their horns.

Some learning and a movie!

Adam and I recently had a Friday off so we loaded up Holton and went to cow town, aka Ft. Worth! They have a great science museum there. Hey, why not take him some place where he can learn a little something.

Holton loved the dinosaur exhibit. He thought it was all very cool. Check him out in the footprint.


Of course they had several hands on exhibits. Holton made sure to take full advantage!






They also had an IMAX theatre so we took Holton to his first ever movie!

We weren't sure how Holton would react to the movie since the screen was massive. You felt like the sharks were coming out of the screen. I may have had to look away a few times...maybe it's the pregnancy thing.

To prevent any freak outs we loaded Holton up with snacks. He refused to share his Twizzlers with us! Notice how proud he is over this fact.



We finished our day by heading to the Ft. Worth Stockyards (such a neat area). It was a fantastic little family Friday. And, Holton got some more smarts ;)

The spiky look

Adam just sent me this picture of Holton and his new do. Check it out!

Gone Fishing!

Holton recently got to spend some time with his Papa and Nana. They have a town home right on a local lake. Needless to say, he's in little toddler boy heaven there because he gets to go fishing!

He loves, loves, loves fishing. He'll walk around the house with his fishing pole. And poor fella will even sleep with a rubber worm.

Here are some pics of their latest adventure. I'm sure the big old fish they caught was just camera shy.


On another note, kinda looks like I need to get Holton some longer shorts. Ha, ha, he's getting pretty tall.

Shower for Little Spice

Patrick and Amanda's baby will make it's debut in July. We are so excited to meet him or her!! Amanda's friends recently threw a baby shower for "Little Spice". It was a lot of fun!


Our niece Kiersten was able to come up for the shower and she had her eye on the candy from the moment we arrived.


Amanda's friend, Megan, had a beautiful home! It was the perfect setting for the shower.




Amanda got some great things for Little Spice. I'm sure Patrick was very happy with the new OSU gear!

New mommy Mandy (who promises she'll update her blog), Amanda and giant preggo me.

My mom and I enjoying the great weather.

The majority of Amanda's friends think she's having a boy. But I really think it's a girl. What do you think?