Fathers Day 2012

4 years ago, when Tommy and I first became parents, I thought he was the best dad the moment Brady was born. From walking Brady around in the hospital, to changing every diaper at the hospital, to sacrificing lots of much needed sleep as all three of us shared a room for one year,  to taking Brady on a walk almost every morning to go get me a cup of coffee so i could sleep an extra 30 minutes, and EVERYTHING in between.
Now, 4 years later, with miss Kinley in our family, he is still the best dad, but times 1000!! He literally drops everything when he gets home just to play hide and seek with Brady, every. night. He will now get up with both kids AND make pancakes or waffles, just so I can rest. He plays hard with the kids, listens so intently, teaches so passionately, and loves so unconditionally. He is still the BEST dad to our kids.

Fun outings

As we are coming to a close on our days here in Texas, we have been trying to get out as much as possible. Even in the midst of packing and cleaning. This past weekend, we went to the Domain, which is a wonderful huge outdoor shopping/restaurant area. There was an event called The Taste of the Domain. All of the restaurants at the Domain had booths out, with their tastiest foods, and if you wanted to try all the different food, you just had to purchase a wristband and then you were set to eat all the yumminess. :) So, we met some friends down there and had a great afternoon trying all of the food, and the kids enjoyed getting animal shaped balloons.
We've also had fun trying new pools/water parks, riding the carousel at the mall, playing in our backyard, and bike rides.
Bring on the next two weeks of chaos.

Dr. Brady

Taste of the Domain. The kids and their balloons.

Taste of the Domain. with Kelly

Silly girl.

Someone has become quite the little fish these days.

Fun new water park/pool

He didn't want to leave!

Snack time after nap.

Walking in daddy's shoes. Loves his dirt.

Fun bike rides.

Gotta love cheap entertainment. 

They love this thing

Sweet boy.

She loves to help. 

Not gonna miss...

There are definitely a lot more things I will miss about Austin, then there are things I won't miss. BUT the main thing I won't miss FOR SURE is the crazy big bugs. Not only how big the bugs are, but how MANY there are, also.
It's actually ironic. Before we moved out here, I was "warned" by a few people about the bugs here. And I really didn't believe them. I mean, how bad could it be? Yikes, i was so wrong. I'm not just talking about a little ant pile here and there, or the occasional mosquito. I'm talking if there is one mosquito, there are hundreds. If there is one ant, there are literally millions. And not little itty bitty ants and mosquitos, either. The mosquitos are so big you can see them flying around like flies. And you can for sure see them when they land on you, or say your kid. And my kids love to play in the dirt. Especially Brady. So, we've had multiple scream fest's of him trying to get these huge red fire ants off of him. Not fun. Oh, and don't even think about going outside at night without covering your entire body in bug spray.
Well, those are the bugs that are annoying but can totally handle. Centipedes, cockroaches, scorpions, huge gross flies that invaded our house, etc...those are the ones that I can't handle. Thankfully, we haven't had any super close encounters with scorpions or centipedes, but my really good friends here who live in really nice homes, have. And we live in a nice neighborhood, so you would think all those bugs would be just "out in the country", right??? So did I.
Needless to say, I will NOT miss those crawling little creatures and our fair share of unwanted encounters with them. So, good bye gross bugs. You will not be missed.
* I was going to put a picture of them on here but it grosses me out to much! :) So if you care to see what these nasty little things look like just google them. Don't say I didn't warn you! ;)

Blessed

The kids love to play hide and seek in our guest bedroom. Usually the game consists of one of them hiding under the sheets and the other person acting surprised when the sheets are lifted up:) I had to document. Love these two. So blessed. 

Early Anniversary and More Summer Fun

Well, we have enjoyed being outside a lot lately! We're usually at the splash park, pool with friends, or running through the sprinklers at our house. We've been busy celebrating friends birthdays, trying new restaurants, and just this past weekend Tommy and I celebrated our 6th anniversary a little early. We decided that from here on out, our weekends are jam packed. So, this is literally the only weekend we had open for the next couple months! Crazy!!!!! So, thanks to our good friends, Kelly and Brian for watching the kiddos, we had the best day together!!! First, we went to lunch at a restaurant called Hula Hut, which is on Lake Austin. So good!!!! From there, we literally walked 20 feet to the dock where we had a jet ski waiting for us! We had 2 hours to spend jet skiing on the lake. If you've never seen Lake Austin, it's not a typical lake. It's more like a giant river. There are a lot of celebrities who have homes on the Lake, which we got to see. All the homes on the lake are so beautiful. We had so much fun!!!!! Then, from there, we went to Mozart's, which is right next to Hula Hut, and had iced coffee and chocolate chip cookies:) Then, we drove to town lake which is the river that pretty much runs right through downtown Austin, and we went stand up paddle boarding! I have wanted to do that since we moved here! It was so much fun and definitely  A LOT harder then it looks! But we had a blast and got a pretty good workout:) After an hour and a half on the river, we drove to the Whole Foods downtown. Whole Food's headquarters are in Austin, so it is a pretty amazing Whole Foods!!!  Tommy had never been, so I had fun showing him around:) It has little restaurant bars through out...pretty much it's like any other Whole foods, but on steroids:) After a fun long while there, we had dinner reservations at a place I have been trying to get into for months now. It's called Uchi. And it is beyond good. Probably one of the best meals I have ever had. It is japanese/sushi restaurant. Supposedly, the chefs are on Top Chef? Or some show like that? All I know is that they book out weeks in advance for reservations. So, I figured it must live up to all they hype. And it sure did.
We had the best day and are thankful to have had such a great day to celebrate 6 great years!!!!

My kids love the little rides at the mall :)

Of course, at the splash park!

Love them.

Had brunch at a super yummy place called, Chez Zee

Celebrated a sweet baby girl's first birthday!!!

Gunnar and Kin

Fun nights at the pool with such sweet friends!!!!

And these two are always keeping me on my toes...

Yummy Yummy Hula Hut

Lake Austin and our jet ski

So fun

Ah Mozart's. 

The water was so so warm, which made it so fun

Actually stand up paddle boarding! So much fun!!!

Now, this picture doesn't do the Whole Foods justice, but here it is! 

On the Patio at Uchi!!

I enjoyed getting texts from Kelly to update us on how the kids were doing!! 

Delicious food at Uchi! Here is the tuna, goat cheese, and fuji apple drizzled with pumpkin oil!!! 

Well, I LOVE brussel sprouts. Weird I know. But Tommy doesn't like them. BUT, he ate more of these brussel sprouts then I did!!! So, we ordered more:)

Delicious sushi

More delicious sushi

All I know is this was SO GOOD

mmmmmm

And since we were celebrating our anniversary they brought us this dessert....again not 100%sure what it was, but it was SO good:) Oh Austin, I will miss all your yummy food!!!!!!!!

                                                 

Silly Face

Not sure how miss Kinley comes up with this stuff, but if you ask her to make a silly face, she'll stick her tongue out! Hilarious, this girl.