San Antonio and Summer Fun

Well summer is definitely here. Every year I think I forget how truely hot it gets until it is 99 degrees everyday...and it isn't even triple digits yet! :-( We have had a very busy summer so far and this past weekend was no exception. We mostly ran around like crazy running errands but we did take a little time to relax - Saturday we went to the pool in Hurst and it only cost $1 to get in! That's cheaper than the cost of gas to drive to see someone with a pool for sure. Yesterday we stopped by Ms. Vickie's housewarming party to say hello - Ms. Vickie watched Maya during the work day until last fall when there was that awful fire at her home (http://cbs11tv.com/local/Bedford.Daycare.Fundraiser.2.827243.html). Well her house has been rebuilt and it was just beautiful!

Below are some pictures from Memorial Day weekend - Chris and Maya at the Japanese Gardens in Ft Worth.

Maya playing in her pool in the backyard for the first time this year.

Maya playing dolls after church and a haircut (although not in that order).

Maya, Me and Grandma Maureen at the drive thru safari in San Antonio. Yes, parts of it were not in fact 'drive-thru' :-)

Feeding a zebra...
Maya posing for a picture. She says 'cheese' but it's hit or miss on whether she'll actually look at the camera while saying it!
And all our pictures from Sea World are on a water camera that still has pictures left so we don't have those just yet. Maya did really great at Sea World and it was alot of fun - she had no nap and zero melt downs. Yippee! We stayed with Grandma Maureen for the weekend which was really great.

The week after San Antonio Maya was pretty sick and stayed home from daycare for 3 days with a fever - in June! I've never heard of such a thing! I'm glad she recovered in time and we were able to go celebrate Lu Ann's birthday with her the following weekend. We took her out for dinner and Chris splurged and bought her a laptop for her birthday! She had one of our old computers and it had just about completely stopped working. Anyways, she is loving it!

On the hobby front, I am stalled with the my picture efforts after a good running start. I have another years worth of pictures printed out but now I need to get motivated once again to get the scrapbook out and finish it (I really don't enjoy scrapbooking). So instead of finishing that I have decided to finish the inside of Maya's dollhouse for her birthday instead. She could really care less, just like she didn't care too much last year that I painted it, however I just want the silly thing to be done and I do much better when there is a deadline for these things. Chris probably thinks I'm a bit crazy about my hobby efforts but I just told him to go with it, when I get motivated you just have to let me do my thing until the steam runs out :-)

Well, Maya's birthday is just around the corner. Invitations have been sent to all her friends for a party at Pump It Up (private jumphouse party). She is definitely ready for it! She says 'I want that for my birthday' everytime we go to the store and she sees something even remotely interesting. Grandpa Pearson is coming to visit us that weekend for 4th of July and Maya's birthday so our busy summer continues! Until next time...