Just a friendly reminder

Getting into the spirit of the weekend! Hook 'em horns!

Craziness, continued...

I am currently buried somewhere between living in a listed house (don't recommend it), trudging into the third trimester (yippee! and OMG really?!), getting through an option period (see responses for 3rd trimester), completely ignoring an impending move (whaaa?), and dealing with some really annoying students this semester (whine-gauge going off nonstop). Oh, and tackling gestational diabetes. I miss you desperately, carbs. And chocolate milkshakes. Sniff, sniff.
I just can't seem to keep up with the regular stuff right now, email and blogs and bills (just kidding on the last one). Mainly because of this pesky complete-and-total-lack-of-time thing that seems to be going on right now.
Oh, and guess what else is rocking my world at the moment? Utter and morbid fear of damn H1N1. WHERE OH WHERE are the *$^&*%^*& vaccinations??!!! The news about how the swine flu is affecting small children with respiratory issues and pregnant women is horrifying. And let's see...check and check, we've got both of those in this household.
I should actually be back on the blog with some fun pics next week. We've got a special trip planned! Details to follow!
In other crazy news, we took Reese to see an IMAX. She had no problem with the 3D aspect but a lot of issues with the underwater violence of large fish viciously attacking smaller fish and so on.

In an effort to spread crazy to other folks around town, a group of friends from last year's preschool class met up at Red Robin tonight for dinner. Oh yeah, the kids came too. :)
Reese "styles" Alaina's (already beautifully braided) hair, while Hailey doesn't veil her feelings toward the paparazzi.

Audrey, just being super cutie.

Leiton and Sadie waiting for dinner.

Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh, it's Red Robin himself! The girls "flocking" to the restaurant rock star.

Leiton takes the ladies for a spin....

I'm not sure the restaurant patrons will ever be the same, but it was tons of fun for the kids as well as the moms. Reese was pleased as punch to play with her buddies from Noah's Ark.

And now if someone could pass the sanitizer along with a little sanity, that would be much appreciated....xoxo

One wild & crazy week

Well, it's official. I don't learn from my mistakes. Because it was so much fun to move when I was 7+ months preggers with Reese, we've decided to do it again.
We weren't exactly actively looking for a house, but we do call on our good friend Cord from time to time to show us houses that interest us. As most of you know, we also own a lot on our neighborhood, and we were really starting to think about building a home. In a completely dragging our feet kind of way. Anyway, Cord emailed us on Monday with this house (went on the market that day):

It's around the corner from where we are now, but on a considerably less busy road. We've always admired the house from the outside so we decided to give it a look-see, and we fell in love immediately....and long story short, we're in the option period, inspection looked pretty good so it looks like we are moving forward, and if you know anyone interested in buying a house and/or lot in our neck of the woods, please feel free to send me a message. It's been an eventful week, to say the least.

We're fleeing the ACL insanity (we decided not to take part this year for various reasons) & heading to the beach. For those fest-goers, have a great festival! Say hello to BC for us! And see you on the flip side.

Twist and shout

We went out to the Brenham area this weekend to drop off the Trans Am (YAY) for some work and had a great lunch with Gigi and Poppy at the fun Brenham airport. The diner there is adorable and all the waitresses wear poodle skirts. Gigi bought an entire ensemble for our girl, and they put her pics up on their page! Here's the link.
If that doesn't work, go to www.southernflyer.com, then click on "Diner," and scroll down to Pink Cadillac Future Poodle Girl Page. She's in a pink skirt with one of the servers squatting next to her. Possible HW costume????

Blog backlog

Let's attribute it to blogger's block. Or maybe a general apathy and lack of energy lately. Or just forgetfulness? Whatever it is, it's been pretty clear the blog has been out of sight, out of mind. It certainly hasn't been for want of fun stuff going on. As tempting as it sometimes sounds, I have not been lounging and eating bon bons. Although you wouldn't know that from the sight of me--big and bigger! To be clear, I am not complaining, just stating simple fact. I am all for getting big and growing a healthy baby...it just sometimes boggles my mind that I have another 2-3ish months to go.
Anyway, let's review a few of the many highlights of the past month or so...

We went on a family trip to Santa Fe. We crammed a lot of fun activities into the Labor day weekend, all things considered. Including...a trip to Shidoni, where Reese and Kathy played amongst the sculptures...


Reese loved on a giraffe.


And found the longhorn, which she called "the hook-em-horn-y!"


Go Horns!


We visited sculptor Roxanne Swentzel's studio. This is a piece she is working on for the SF Chamber of Commerce--amazing!


David stood in front of a lot of dumb stuff. Caliente!


Giddyup!


Well, the mystery staircase at the Loretto Chapel isn't dumb. Just a silly pose, I guess.


And we wished Ma Pam a very happy birthday!


We also squeezed in a quick family trip to Fredericksburg.


We helped celebrate Gigi's birthday and her amazing surprise: a fabulous car!


Reese, she isn't going to let you borrow it. I'm sorry to break the news to you.


It's convertible and also comes with a hard top--gorgeous!


We visited the farm and R got to fish with her cousins, aunt Teeno and uncle Blake.


We attended Cole's construction theme party--very well done! R was a little lost in boy-land, but she'll get used to it. (Also, the only belly pic of the bunch. That's me, mid-waddle, in the green dress behind R.)


We also went to Simone's 1st b-day party, where I managed to catch some more pics!
Wow, that's a LOT of kids!


R got love from the b-day girl, Simone, and Nico.


Posing with Nico.


Playing with Quinn in the ball pit...


..and the hammock.


Whew! Now, I'm tired, reading all of that. Pass me the bon-bons, will you?

What we've been up to...

...is more of the same stuff. More or less, anyway. We had a lovely picnic at Zilker, on the new and vastly improved grass. We lucked out and had a cool breeze and no crowd, despite being a Saturday night.

We did, however, attract some new friends.

And the very strange owner basically demanded our camera to take a picture. He suggested we tell everyone that this wolf is our new dog. Um, okay? And can you tell how comfortable and relaxed we are in this picture??

Reese also ran around barefoot like a total maniac. All around the park, even down the big hill. All that was missing was the Star Wars theme song....

David has formed a meet-up group for stand up paddlers here in Austin. The group has over 30 members and is steadily growing. Their first meet-up was over the weekend and 16 paddlers showed up!

It was a big success and the feedback was outstanding. People from the hike and bike trail stopped to watch, and a few even kicked off their shoes and hopped on a board to try it out! Can't wait to try this sport out next spring!

We went to David's grad school orientation. It was really informative, and I left so impressed with what SEU has to offer their students. And no, we can't take a normal picture together. There were several taken and they were all varying levels of fugly.

And finally, Reese is back for her second full week of school! There has been a little bit more resistance in the morning--basically she has woken up twice saying she didn't want to go, but by the time we are heading out the door, she's fine. Mainly, she's still pretty excited.

As you can tell!

And we love dropping her off and picking her up. She's napping there almost daily and buying her lunch in the cafeteria some days. What a big girl!

And amazingly, we've been able to convince her to wear pants every day! It's no small feat to convince the pink dress queen to change her ways, but I guess playing on three different playgrounds throughout the day is good incentive. You've got to be able to slide!

Dare I say?

I certainly don't want to jinx anything, but....
I think the new school situation is a HUGE SUCCESS!!!!!
Pick-up yesterday went great. MOF, R didn't want to leave because they were about to have popcorn for a snack. So, we had to micro some kernels at home, just so she didn't feel like she was completely missing out. The teacher said they had a fantastic day, and R even napped for a little while.
This morning, she eagerly got ready. Once we were on our way, she starts yelling "Hip-hip-hooray" out of the blue! Then, as I was getting all her things situated (my, there is a lot of stuff that preschoolers need), she went off to play with the other kids and would barely even take a moment to say 'bye to me--she was so engrossed. I'd say she loves her new school! Yippee!!!