I sat by the pool watching a family. They had one little girl, probably about 18 months old and two older boys in their teens. The mother doted on the adorable baby as she splashed about and she must have asked her to say “cheese” a thousand times in one minute as she put her…
Blessings
Sometimes when I look at my life I wonder how things fell into place so easily. I say, “easily”…. Because even though life is not perfect around here or well, anywhere that I know of, mine has been full of people who love and care for me since day one. It is hard to believe…
Blissdom ’13 – The Recap
From the moment Nicole told me that she would pick me up at the airport, I knew Blissdom was going to be pretty awesome. And despite the fact that my sweet roommate Kim got sick, it was quite wonderful. We kicked it off with a wonderful photo walk on Thursday afternoon where I finally got…
GWL
Now that I (and my van) have mostly recovered from our four-day road trip I can share with you all about it. Traveling with kids can be exhausting, but especially so when you take them to a place where you are “going” pretty much the entire time you are there! We whisked the kids off…
Park It!
The last people we saw on our travels for the Thanksgiving holidays were my brother, Larry and his family. They were in Houston visiting my SIL’s family so we met up at Discovery Green and the kids ran around like wild banshees. It’s a really neat park right in the middle of downtown Houston. There were…
So many animals (and kids!), yet so little time…
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, one of the highlights of our Thanksgiving travels was meeting up with my cousin and her family. We decided to meet at the San Antonio zoo on Friday and it turned out to be a perfect day for it. It was a tad crowded but manageable. She has 6…
Fair Fun
So, after we witnessed the demise of Big Tex we went on our merry way through the Texas state fair.Our day included a jumping dog show, a few rides including Katie’s first ride on the Texas Star (huge ferris wheel), the petting farm, chicken fried bacon (oh. my.), corny dogs, cotton candy and lots of walking…
The Burning of Big Tex and My MOST ReTweeted Pic Ever!
Since the kids were on Fall break from school last week I decided a trip to Texas was in order. And because we had not gone to the State Fair of Texas since the year before our move to Louisiana (2008), Tim and I agreed it would be fun to go while there. Ben would…
Reunited and it feels so good…
My father used to travel from time to time for work when I was a little girl. I remember nights of being offered his empty space in my parents’ bed while he was gone and I gladly claimed it. I think both my Mom and I felt a bit more secure having each other to…
A New York State of Mind
Just a few favorite images from my trip to BlogHer last week. p.s. Thank you SO MUCH to the sweet and beautiful Heather D. for going on a way-too-short but very informative photo walk with me on Saturday!