Anna's Gonna be a Big Sister!

Hi all!  You may have noticed the new top picture... and yes, it's true!  Anna is going to be a big sister!  We are due the day after her birthday (May 11) but could very well have an April baby if this one's early like Anna!  She likes to kiss the baby, but I imagine she doesn't totally grasp the concept, yet, despite how excited she looks in the pics :D

A Day at the Texas State Fair!

We had a great day today!  We started out with Ang & Amanda running the Vineyard 5K!  They did great and Ang's time was like 3 mins faster than her personal best so far!

Then we went straight to the State Fair!!  First we went to the Kidway area with the kids' rides.  Many of the rides just required you to be 30", so Anna even got to ride!  Here's me, Clara & Anna on the hot air balloon.

Ang, Amanda, Clara & Anna then rode the big crazy teddy bear.

Here's me, Anna & Clara on the whale.

Ang rode these planes with Clara and Anna... you even had to be 32" for this one and Anna barely made the cut.  Ang said it was quite a bit higher and faster than she thought!

This was the bottom of the big slide that Clara did by herself.  Thought it was a great action shot.

Here's Clara on the canoe by herself.  Anna was too short for this one, but that was good because it didn't even have a strap and Anna would totally have been standing up and jumping overboard!

Then we went to the Little Hands Farm thing where the kids put on their aprons and went through and gathered up items and fed corn to the cows and such... it was a free and really cute exhibit.  At the end they even got paid a '$1' for their work and were able to trade that in for a treat.

Along the way, Anna got so used to picking up things and putting them in her basket, that she picked the decorative flower.  Oops!!  We put it right back!

This was at the end where they delivered a little bag of feed to the cow or pig.

Next we went to the petting farm, which was also free.  There were a lot of cool animals, including a baby giraffe and a baby zebra.  Here the girls are feeding a llama.
I guess she is proud of herself for being such a good girl at the fair!

This might have been my personal favorite part of the fair :D

A Morning in Farmers Branch

This weekend our friends Clara and Amanda are here for a visit. YEA!  This morning we decided to go check out this place called Farmers Branch Historical Park.  It was fun, but none of the houses were open to go into and there seemed to be no one working there.  The girls had fun running around wild, though.

Thank you, PaPa!!

My nephew got to go visit JuJu & PaPa and try out the new swingset!  I think he likes it!  And I believe his outfit says 'Totally Cuter than my Dad'.  haha!  I love it, Daniel!

Sandy in the Sandbox

This afternoon it felt great outside so we spent almost an hour in the sandbox.

Isn't that the cutest dirty sand face you've ever seen?

A Day in Waco

This past weekend, we decided to try to accompany Mark to his football game weekend... not the game, but we thought we'd try the tailgate.  We went out early Saturday and since the game wasn't til 6pm, we went to the Children's Museum first.

Anna hasn't been saying a whole lot,  but has been adding a few words in the last week or so.  We were both astonished to hear her yell 'Choo choooooo' alot when she saw this train, cause neither one of us remember ever saying this to her... ha!

  Here's Anna and Mark in the tea party room.

Here's Anna and me in the room with costumes and instruments of the world.

I tried on a hat, but Anna wouldn't wear one.

Here we are drumming in the Native American room.

After the museum we went to a place Mark used to frequent, Vitek's, and got lunch.

After Anna's nap, we went back to hang out with Mark at his tailgate.  It was a bit difficult to keep Anna contained. :)

Bouncin' at the Bounce House

Yesterday playgroup went to a Bounce House that was much fun... our group was the only one there!  Here's Anna and Rachel driving cars in the arcade.

All the kids seemed to enjoy the dance floor that had music, lights and bubbles!

Here's a good one of Anna's hairdo :) 

And since no one else was there, I didn't directly make her get down from playing on the skee ball thingie!

We never put money in, but I think all the kids were in this helicopter at some point.

Here's Anna inside the toddler bounce house.  She had fun, but definitely had problems staying on her feet... but then so did I when I was in there!

And of course with all these fun things to play with, she decides to play on this cart.  ??

Here's a video inside the toddler bounce house.  She was still jammin' to the dance floor music.

And here are her moves on the dance floor...