We went to a party today at the Zilker Clubhouse. What an amazing venue....so beautiful and gorgeous sites............Thank you Carols for the invite.

Tonight we went to Kaitlyn's first Texas Rollergirls Rock-n-Rollerderby. It was so fun.......she had a blast !

Dallas' cousin Mindy (AKA: Rita Menweep) is the captain of the Honky Tonk Heartbeakers team and she is awesome! She literally would knock a girl down and then give her pretty smile to the crowd ~ it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I can't wait until the next bout of matches. The game is the last Sunday of every month at the Playland Skate Center (girls are not paid and all money goes to charity).

I highly recommend going!

Mindy, I mean Rita Menweep is bottom row, far right.




Rita's Signs we held up.

Kailtyn was so into the action of it all...........

Rita looking over at us during the game....Just kidding she is blocking that girl behind her that has a star on her head....the star symbols the points in the game.

Rita wears the tall white socks...she is a blocker

And the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kaitlyn and her 2nd cousin Mindy (Rita Menweep).

San Antonio

This past weekend Kaitlyn & I went to meet my college roommate and her family in San Antonio for a day of fun at the Children's museum & the Riverwalk. Well, as we all know the weather was not the best! We still hit the museum & had lunch on the Riverwalk at the Rainforest Cafe' ~ after an hour 1/2 of waiting we decided to eat on the bottom level because it was going to be another 30-45 min. wait. Can you even believe that? Even though the weather was not the best, we still had the best time ever!!............and then it goes on...........

So, we go back to the hotel and Allison's mom was going to keep the kids while Jennifer, Allison & I went and spent some girl time together ---shopping! Somewhere during the running around stage Allison was looking on her handy dandy iphone and noticed that Sea World was closed Monday (the day that the travel agent booked tickets). Now, there is a few problems with this.... why did the travel agent not know that Sea World was closed & why did Sea World sell them tickets for that day? HUMMMM.......So, Allison called Sea World. This is how the conversation went:

"Hi, my name is Allison and my travel agent had booked us tickets for your park on Monday however, I just noticed while looking into your website that you will be closed that day." Agent: "Yes ma'am we are going to be closed." Allison: "Well sir, I hope you can do something about this because this is not going to turn into "family vacation" where I have 5 kids here that want to go to your park and when we arrive there is an moose outside that says, "Sorry folks, parks closed!" I know we are in Texas an all and I am sure that I can go to any convenient store to get me a b-b gun and you will be taking my family through Sea World if you don't fix this." Mr. Shawn the Sea World rep. honestly could not contain himself and promised that everything would be OK.

Kaitlyn & I decided to stay to enjoy another day with my friends at Sea World.......but honestly, I think deep down I was looking forward to watching Allison kidnap an employee hostage to take us around the park........

I swear Allison Ezzell is the funniest person I know.

Unfortunately, I did not have my camera to capture any of these wonderful moments but, here are just a few shots I got with my phone.

Kaitlyn's Style

Kaitlyn's Room

I come home from work one day and Kaitlyn says, "Mommy, mommy, I cleaned up my room...you are going to be so happy!" I hope you all get the key words "you are going to be so happy". I get to her room and she has every stuffed animal out, every baby doll, every barbie, and every toy you can imagine....BUT organized. As I look at her room, I decide right then and there I am such a fuddy duddy. She has taken it upon herself to show me that kids will be kids. She truely thought that dragging out everything and placing it all in a line will make me happy. Although she has pulled out all stops, she has shown me that I need to take more time to realize she is 5.................AND, she did it in an organized way, so I have to applaud that!

Kaitlyn's barbie house: everything you can imagine that work's with the house Kaitlyn has pulled over to play with. Not only has she pulled out every toy but, she has them organized.




Every baby, stuffed animal, doll, pillow & santa have been lined up along her bed so she can "see" them. Check out my stuffed animal "molly" and Kaitlyn's hello kittly hangin' in the stroller waiting for a ride.

This is Kaitlyns room........per Mommy standard.

Bye Bye Sadie

Today, our beautiful dachshund terrior went to a new loving home. Dallas and I have been looking for a home for Sadie for a while due to her behavior. Sadie is not good with little kids. She has bitten a friend of ours son 2 times and Kaitlyn probably 3-5 times. We wanted her in a loving home from a referral or a home we could possibly go visit from time to time instead of selling her or even giving her away through craigslist. Well, the day was today. A very nice family referred by our neighbor came and took our Sadie today. I think Dallas and Kaitlyn are just fine.....but for some reason even though I would get so mad at that little stinker, I can't stop crying. We'll miss our Sadie Girl!!!!

Happy Valentines Day!

Today, we went bike riding, lost the dogs for a second, cleaned the house, had fun with arts and crafts.....and took a family photo...btw, dallas was not that into it~ so I simply made him put a tie on with his sleep pants and undershirt..he was ok then. Hope you all had as great of a day as we did!

Austin Museum of Art

Today, Aunt Kari took Kaitlyn to the Austin Museum of Art. The museum has a family day the 2nd Saturday of every month. Kaitlyn had a blast! Thank you Aunt Kari ~ WE LOVE YOU!