YMCA Easter Egg Hunt

For my Junior League placement this year, I get to do various community service projects ranging from delivering meals to the homeless to taking underprivileged kids to Fiesta Texas. This month, one of my volunteering shifts was to support the YMCA in their Annual Egg Hunt. I was pumped - what better way to help the community than being able to take my daughter with me? Sophie experienced her first egg hunt of the year. She also got a free shirt from the event.... love the dress!


Sophie "got" the egg hunt process... run as fast as you can, pick up the eggs, and put them in your Easter basket. When you've gotten them all, you can sit down and open them and hopefully find candy! I just love watching Sophie grow into a little person with ideas and opinions. She just insisted she only pick up pink eggs. So, Sophie is running by/ignoring a ton of eggs because they weren't the right color! Kids are just so funny!

Pottery Barn Playground

I took Sophie to the mall to get her annual picture taken with the Easter Bunny. I've been so proud of my little girl as she's never been scared of Santa and has been talking about the Bunny non-stop this season. So, imagine my shock when she was too scared to sit on the Easter Bunny's lap! After a lot of cajoling and bribing, we did manage to get one of the pseudo-professional pictures of her standing next to him! Why do we as parents insist we torture our children just for a "cute picture"? I know I do it, yet I cannot stop! As a reward for Sophie's bravado, I let her run wild in Pottery Barn Kids.

Here's my adorable princess, dressed in her Easter dress... with the added flair of the tiara and wand, of course!

Perfect Day to Fly a Kite...

Well, I'm 37 weeks pregnant and already past the point in this pregnancy of when I delivered Sophie last time around. As I'm just waiting for the "big day" to happen, we decided to go to Zilker Park, enjoy the gorgeous weather and have Sophie burn some energy. What better way to do that than flying a kite? I had found a cute Macaw at my last trip to Costco, so we were set!

I just love watching David interact with Sophie. He is so wonderful with her... warm, patient and just a barrel of fun. She just adores her daddy - there's no denying she's a Daddy's Girl all the way through!

Check out my hot husband with the stylin' Fu Manchu. If I must say so myself, David looks pretty good all things considering the 1970's 'stache. He pulled it off.

Kristin and Ethan joined us for our perfect Saturday morning, too! It was too fun watching the kiddos try to copy us get the kite in the air.

Sliding Sensations

Central Market is awesome. Love the playground, love the open grassy field and pond to fed the ducks, and love that you can eat lunch there as well. We met Ethan for a few hours of wearing the kids out. These two love doing everything together, including sliding down the slide at the same time! Little brother is going to have to do a lot of running to keep up with these two!

Cutie Cal

Sophie plays so well with Shannon & Greg's little boy, Cal. He is one year younger than Sophie, but they get along like best buds. As Cal came over to play in Sophie's playroom, she decided to dress him up. "Cal, now you put this tiara on your head, put these shoes on each feet, now hold this wand", Sophie said. Cal kept saying "yeah, yeah" and was SO proud of himself in his pretty outfit. I know two things now, 1) Cal is going to hate this picture when he gets old enough to know better and 2) I am envisioning many years of Sophie dressing up our baby boy who is arriving next month and baby C will not care, as he will love the attention from her!

It wasn't intentional, but Sophie looks like she's giving Cal the 'thumbs up' for his perfect ensemble of clothes.