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...

A week flying solo

Well Chris was in Atlanta on business this week and got back today - YEA!! It was a pretty long week and definitely quiet around the house. I was feeling sick and then Maya got sick so I stayed home from work for two days, and poor peanut still has a nasty cough and congestion.

I did get lots done on my latest project around the house with my free evenings - hanging pictures on the walls and organizing/printing/scrapbooking the last 5 years of our lives in pictures (yes seriously that far back). I am wrapping up 2005 and 2006 and will soon be moving on to 2007 and 2008! How sad is it that I am just now getting Maya's baby books done? Anyways today my boss told me about this really cool website to create picture books without having to print any pictures, she says this is all they use and they love it. I might try it out to save myself the pain of printing two more years worth of pictures. www.blurb.com if you want to check it out.

Mom I curse you for the procrastination gene!! Once I start working on something I am fine, but I have to continue working on it every day until it's done. If I give myself a few days off I am done for. Hence the dollhouse incident...I finally painted the outside of the dollhouse last year, 15 years after I built it. So I took a break before starting work on the inside of the house and it still isn't done a year later. It is painted white at least and there is furniture but there isn't anything 'cute' about the inside. I have conceded to the fact that it probably never will be unless Maya decorates it someday.

And so we are looking forward to this 3 day weekend full of family fun (although it's supposed to rain!) and our trip to San Antonio next weekend to visit mom and go to Sea World. I'm sure it'll be a fun time and we'll finally get some pictures to post! Here's one from a few weeks ago on the carousel at the zoo...

Mother's Day Weekend

What a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! I feel very relaxed and ready to take on another busy week. Saturday I spent the day working on a photo collage for Chris' mom and then we all took a long nap in the afternoon! Now I want a collage of my own - that is at the top of my list of projects to do in my 'free' time - work on getting some pictures on the wall. Anyways Saturday night we went to dinner with LuAnn, Tammy and Michael for Mother's Day at Carabba's (YUM) and it was very nice.

Sunday I got to sleep in (on Saturday too for that matter) and both mornings I awoke to breakfast already made and a cute little girl 'quietly' waking me up. I got beautiful flowers and a spa giftcard for Mothers Day which I can't wait to use!! We went out for another nice dinner at a Hibachi restaurant for lunch which was very good. We went to the park and played outside later in the day, had leftovers for dinner (after we stuffed ourselves the past two days), and then topped off the evening with ice cream sundaes. Man was it hot yesterday afternoon - we put Maya in her swimsuit to run around in the sprinkler. Summer here we come!!

In potty training news, Maya is doing better but she refuses to tell us when she has to go so you have to remember to take her all the time. And she doesn't like to wear panties...oh the drama!!

My First Post and Some Big News!

Well we'll see how long I last at this blog thing :-) I'm going to at least give it a shot because I love all my friends that have blogs and I'm really over the whole Facebook thing for now. Ever since Maya was born Chris and I have searched for a website that we could use to store pictures and videos. While this isn't a storage place it is a great way to get the word out to our family and real friends about our life!

So first things first, we have news for everyone. We are married! We ran off and eloped on April 17th, our 5th wedding anniversary. We went to Napa Valley and stayed at a wonderful Inn and drank lots of good wine for a long weekend while Grandma Maureen came to our house and stayed with Maya. So to everyone that hasn't heard yet - surprise!!

Maya is growing like a weed and she is crazy about her mommy and daddy. She's also a huge girly girl. She currently will not wear anything but dresses/skirts and only will wear headbands in her hair because she thinks that they are 'crowns'. She is a hoot! Our next big venture is to really get on the whole potty training situation...I am tired of pull ups!

We are excited for summer - Maya will be in swim lessons again this year and we are hoping to go on a family vacation while our daycare is closed down for a week in July. And of course we're looking forward to Maya's 3rd birthday as well! She loves going to birthday parties so I'm sure this year will be really fun.

Hope I did ok for my first posting, sorry for not having a gazillion pictures but we will try to be better about taking them!