Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day....oh, how sweet the day was! Since it was Seth's first Valentine's we had to get some photos! Suprisingly they were both cooperating with me and no one cried or through a fit. :) just the way mommy likes it! Abby is such a loving big sister. She never misses a chance to kiss or hug him. Let's see how long that last...ha!

Abby had her Valentine's party at school too and she had a lot of fun. We made goodie bags & addressed valentine's the night before. Seems like she wanted to eat more of the goodies than stuff them! She wore her cute outfit and made some adorable crafts too! Although it seems like Valentine's day is more for the kids than the adults, Dan suprised me with a GC to get a mani/pedi! Wahoo...last time I did that was back in October of 2010!! Dan is sweet like that...he's not a "flowers or candy type of guy" but he knows what I love. :) Love you honey!

We finished out the evening with a gourmet meal and a delish dessert! Fish was on the menu along with fresh asparagus and rosemary infused boiled potatoes. A friend of mine suggested the dessert...Tuxedo Cake! Oh wow, it's a fave now! Thanks Candace!

All in all it was a nice evening. Dan and I caught up on our DVR shows and fell asleep in front of the TV. Very romantic, don't you think?! :)

Showing her brother some LOVE...

Abby's goodie bags for school!

Love this!

And this too...:)

Cards from Abby and Daddy...we also got some from Mimi/Papa, Auntie M/Uncle Will, and Grams/Bob Bob!

Abby signed her name along with Seth's!! She's improving!

Had to have XOXO!!

Striking a pose for mommy...she's got it down! :)
She wore the same outfit for her school party!

A little photo shoot with little brother, Seth. :) She is so sweet to him.

Can't give little brother too many kisses!

Our little handsome Valentine!

One last squeeze before I put the camera away!

Our "didn't get any snow" day!

Well it didn't snow the other day like the weatherman anticipated...:( Boo, and Abby was so looking forward to it. In fact, we all were...more snow to play in. Being a South Texas girl I haven't seen this much snow in all my life! So this is rare for even me!



After much hype from our weatherman we figured we were gonna get about 2-4 inches of snow. Well that didn't work out. No snow whatsoever. We did get freezing rain and sleet though. So we stayed in all day and made the best of it. Dan was able to come home early from work and spend the rest of the day with us. Here's how the afternoon went...

Abby making a mess as usual...well, she calls it "playing". Ha!

It was time for her "friends" to take a nap...unfortunately I asked her to do the same but she said no way.

And then it was snack time! She does take care of her friends pretty well! :)

And of course my sweet handsome boy...he's such a trooper. He definitely rules the kingdom over here!

Abby's 4th Birthday

I realize that it's now almost two months since Abby's birthday party and I'm just now getting to post the pictures. I can't believe I didn't post them sooner since I took a gazillion photos and had to narrow it down to these 20 or so! Anyways, we celebrated Abby's birthday at Sci-Port Science Center and it proved to be one fun party! Our party host was fantastic and kept all the kids entertained. What a wonderful day!

She's ready for the party! :)

We had Abby's birthday party at Sci-Port Science Center this year. It was so much fun and we would definitely do this again. Everything was perfect and a lot of fun as you will see...

It's the birthday girl and our wonderful party host! Abby is going to make Sci-Port's famous liquid nitrogen ice cream!

She poured in several ingredients but now she's pouring in the cream...she is a master at this!

Stir, stir, stir...

She's getting the hang of it! She was having a really good time!

Now it's time to put in the liquid nitrogen! I was a big scared at first since our party host started putting on all her safety gear and warned us about the hazards of spilling it. But, the kids were amazed as were we when she started pouring...

ooooooohhhhhhhh........

After mixing the ice cream ingredients with the liquid nitrogen our party host let the kids
inhale a bit of the freezing mixture. They all thought it was pretty cool!

Now it's time to taste the famous "liquid nitrogen" ice cream! I have to say that it was quite good. Reminded me of a good ol' Dairy Queen ice cream cone. Very tasty I must say! Everyone enjoyed it!

On to the cake! The wonderful Cake Fairee made Abby's princess cake again. She does such a wonderful job and Abby fell in love with it!

All she wanted to do was stare at it for a while. She is such a princess girl!

Abby was a bit shy when everyone starting singing Happy Birthday to her but she did manage a cute smile too!

Blowing out the candles...

Looks like everyone is enjoying their ice cream, cake and cupcakes! Yum!!

Here's Abby discussing "princess stuff" with Wyatt...not sure he's too interested! Ha!

Time to open presents! Wasn't sure how this was going to work considering in the past we've opened presents after the party but here it goes....

Abby was overwhelmed with everyone hovering over her so they took over...

Ha, I had to laugh when I took this pic of Abby and Tripp. They are too sweet with each other!

Here are the kids playing with one of the exhibits...which tennis ball will go faster? The one on the straight ledge or the one with the curves? Did you guess right...??

Here's Abby with her buddy, Tripp! I love this pic of them two. They have alot of fun together!

It's off to do some construction work at Sci-Port!

We made it back home and it was time to open more presents from the family. She received so many nice gifts! Thanks everyone!

And then she finally got her own digital camera! Yep, it's a real one and now she can use it instead of borrowing mine!

What a fun birthday Abby had this year! Thanks to all our friends and family for making it extra special for her! Still can't believe she's 4 years old already...(sniff, sniff)

Snow in Louisiana (Jan 2011)

Back in January, we had our first snowfall of the year. It wasn't a huge amount but enough to close down school and have Abby enjoy some fun. After finally getting all her snow/winter gear on off she went with Daddy to enjoy some playtime outside.

Abby and Daddy started out by throwing snowballs at each other. They had a fun time doing this and even managed to make a small snowman in the background. (hopefully you can make him out)

Okay, it's "smile for the camera time!" Notice that Abby is too busy wanting to "taste" the snowflakes....it's really starting to come down now.

Okay, let's stick out our tongues and taste the snowflakes! Ha, they loved it!

Here's Dan trying to get Abby to perfect her "aim"...she did good. She managed to stick a couple of snowballs to the fence. The girl has got some power to her throw!

Abby was wanting to make a snow angel but we didn't quite have enough snowfall on the ground to make one so Dan suggested the next best thing....

How 'bout laying down on her sandbox!

Now that's more like it! She turned over and AGAIN, had to taste the snowflakes! I love this picture of her. :)

She was having so much fun that it now on to "hide and seek"...this girl has tons of energy and was going non-stop!

Back to snowball fights with daddy. In this photo she gets hit with a snowball near her shoulder. You can see the snow in her hair. Well, she looked happy and laughed when it happened but then...

The tears start flowing and daddy comes to the rescue...but then...

she's done...:(

It was a fun morning playing in the snow! In future posts I will post some pics of our snowfall last week and guess what, more snow is coming tomorrow! So more pics to follow!