Bluebonnets- Take 2!

If at first you don't succeed.. you probably should have just taken a HINT! We went back even though it was still windy!! They didn't want to cooperate but I love some of the candid ones I got of them running around.

Bluebonnets Part I - FAIL!

Last weekend my photography class had our field trip out at this neat place that had a lot of pretty blue bonnets. For you non-Texans, this is our state flower. It is a beautiful wild flower and grows sporadically in fields for a very short period of time in the Spring. Baby pictures in the blue bonnets are a MUST if you live in Texas!! They have eluded me every year so this year I was determined. Brian met me out there with the kids and we went for it. Let me just say, they both looked beautiful, but we had the cards stacked against us from the get go. It was extremely windy (I mean-waiting for a house to crash down on a wicked witch- windy), and they were very distracted with everyone in my class trying to take pictures of them too! On top of that, I was stressed and it just wasn't a good combo. I only had a bout 15 minutes, and had about a hundred other things I was supposed to be taking pictures of!  So we are headed back out next weekend for a redo. But for now, here are some of the cute ones from Saturday.. Not great, but still cute and kinda funny!

Such a good little mommy!

Lilly loves to change Dolly's diapers now.. I think she's kind of observant.. What do you think?

She is wasting quite a lot of diapers and wipes, but it sure is cute!

Riding!

All Aboard! Fun with Thomas the Train

A couple of weekends ago we went up to Grapevine to meet some friends and catch a ride on Thomas the Train!  It was a total bummer because the weather had been so nice, but that morning a cold front came through and it was all gray and rainy.  We tried to make the best of it and enjoy a few activities while we were there!

Before we got in line for our train ride, we went into this cool little petting zoo where all the little animals were within arms reach.  It was super crowded, but they did get to chase after a few bunny rabbits!  The kids were so interested in all the animals, and made us laugh with all their animal noises! 

 They had a cool set up in a tented room with this whole town on a table.  They has several different trains going around the tracks.  It looked so real!

This was the cool vintage train we got to ride on..

 Here is Thomas- he was hooked to the front of the train!

 They got some cute little certificates for riding the train. 

 All in all, our first train ride was a hit!!  Nate and Lilly were talking about it for days! 

 "CHOO CHOO!"

Pretty Flowers and Little Posers!

After my mom called to tell me she spotted some pretty azalea bushes in her neighborhood, Nate and Lilly were happy to be my muses and stand in front of them for a few minutes while I took some pictures.  I didn't get many GREAT ones, but the colors of the flowers were so pretty and I think they are so cute holding hands.. so here they are!!

Not a good shot, but TOTALLY funny..

 I think this one is my favorite because you can see their sweet little chubby feet..

 Big smiles in the beautiful bright flowers!



Excuses

Ok, so I know I have been discussing our bed time drama a lot lately, but it's kind of the main thing that has been on my mind lately.  Every night we put them both in bed, say night time prayers, give a kiss good night and walk out.  And every night we get called back in 5-10 times to take care of some pending tragedy that just has to be taken care of before they can sleep.  Here is a list of the latest tragedies:

"I want my pink socks on!" (instead of the white ones she had on)
"AIRPLANE, MOMMY!! (this can either be a real airplane flying over our house, or the A/C kicking on)
"I wanna go potty!"
"I want Dear God again!" (want to say prayers again)
"Mommy (or Daddy) kissy night night!!"
"I want my book!" (there are so many things in the bed with them, there is hardly room for their own bodies.)
"I want candy!!" (this one usually goes with "I wanna go potty" because we are awarding with candy when they go on the potty)