May 2011

May was a busy month as is every month. It included a zoo trip, Stella's Mother's Tea at school, Main Street Days, Memorial Day in Fredericksburg. The girls finished their preschool year and summer is in full swing.

Zoo trip




Stella Mother's Tea at school



Main Street Days in Grapevine



Brooklyn and Aubrey showing off their painted faces



Brooklyn and Karyssa riding the helicopters





Memorial Day in Fredericksburg



Cousin Harrison



Water fun in backyard

Easter- A month late

It seems like Halloween and Easter are just as busy as the Christmas season. So many parties and festivities. We celebrated Easter weekend in Houston celebrating Harrison's 1st birthday and Finn's 2nd birthday.

Mom's League Easter Party





A little concerned about where the Easter Bunny is. Terrified!



Stella's first year to hunt eggs



Stella's school Easter party (that I helped with, so no pics of Brooklyn's)





Just a random pic after school



Easter morning with Fanning cousins and The Martins





Look at my little egg hunter getting under the tree



Finn, the Easter birthday boy this year



Some of the crew



Still scared of Easter bunny

Spring Day at Arboretum

We love going to the Arboretum. We go once in the Spring and once for the Pumpkins. We had a picnic, took some pics, and looked at the princess castles on display. Last year they had storybook houses. We went with our friends, Erin and Aubrey and baby Owen was there too! I am not sure Owen will have a chance with all of these bossy girls!




Beauty and Beast castle





Mufaro's Beautfiul Daughters







My monkey (she climbs on everything right now)



Cute one of Brooklyn but Stella is done

Cousins and Wedding Getaway

These are some pics of our March. The last weekend the Fanning boys came up to hang out and that was the weekend they needed to come and we had a wedding in Austin. The cousins had so much fun hanging out. It is getting to be really fun to hang out. It was really hard when they were little because we had a bunch of babies that wanted Mama. Miller and Brooklyn play so well together and the little ones still are not there but at least they are not babies so they are interacting.

So Saturday night we left the girls with Katie and Trevor and we headed to Austin for a wedding for the night. It was really fun to get to hang out with our old Houston crew. We were at the wedding and reception for 6 hours. We had some fun!



Brooklyn and "Batman" aka Miller



Proud of her doodlebug (we have come a long way)



Finn



All the cousins but there is always one who is moving



Girls at the Perez wedding



Some of the boys (Laird not in this one I took)





Girls being silly before school one day

Super Stella

We celebrated Stella's 2nd birthday at Little Gym on Saturday , March 5th. I decided on a theme back in October when I found this super girl outfit at Crazy 8. I thought I could do a Super Stella theme. We had everyone wear a superhero capes.

Well all was good for the birthday party until Friday morning Stella had a fever so I thought I better get her to doctor to see if ear infection or something since she had a cold for about a week. They prescribed some antibiotics for the beginning of ear infection or sinus. She had a little diarrhea before party but thought oh it is just the medicine but the poor birthday girl got sick after eating her cupcake. It continued throughout the night. On Sunday she kept things down but Monday morning she got sick again. Monday she layed on me all day, did not smile, did not play at all. Finally Monday afternoon she got new antibiotic and gave her some probiotic yogurt and she was a different kid.

She did have a good time at the party but Brooklyn really loved it. Stella is not sure about the people yet. She did like the cake this year as opposed to last year.



Pic from last year



Pic courtesy of Ashlee (such a better camera than mine, my camera is so blurry)