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we're back....and ready to update you about our month of may....stay tuned!

my loves...

Don't you just love sweet pictures....you know...the ones that really captured something? This one captures so much to me....obviously two of my favorite creatures on this earth....William loving Grace unconditionally  and Grace tolerating William's presence and learning how to love a brother.

You see...this is technically Grace's window in William's room....and she has recently, so graciously, started sharing it with her sweet brother.  This particular day Grace was wondering what the commotion was all about in our backyard (the men had started working on our deck) and William wanted right next to her to check it out. I just loved it!  Doesn't it remind you of all the sweet Caroline and John John Kennedy photos...it does me:)

Audrey's Baby Showe

Wow....our house was a sea of pink recently...and no I have not forgotten that I have a son...not a daughter!  Last weekend we celebrated Audrey and baby girl C with a baby shower at our house. It was so nice and baby girl got lots of cute new things.  I think the table and party turned out super cute and everyone enjoyed celebrating.  We are so excited to meet baby girl in July. Enjoy some pics from the shower....there really aren't any pics of people because we didn't take one picture during the shower, can you believe that? Oops!

Nana and mommy to be Audrey

the table

it was sort of a carnival/circus theme....which one of my guests even realized from the invitation - YEAH!

delicious drinks

pink cake pops

some yummy guacamole hummus

circus animal cookies and yummy fruit

melt in your mouth cupcakes...I love the little green ribbon I tied on them...

the table....my mom found the inspired by table in a party cook book...I think I did a pretty good job with the recreation!

the centerpiece...i CAN'T arrange flowers...so a potted plant it was!

tulips and the invitation on her gift table

wishes for baby...I LOVE THIS....don't worry - you will probably see it again at William's 1st Birthday!

aunt di's wishes for baby

 yummy baby burgers, chicken nuggets, pretzels and peanuts

the table was so fun!

baby burgers

chicken nuggets

the table from the other end

Thanks to my sweet husband I was actually able to pull off this party by myself...he was an excellent William keeper at all the right moments, grilled some yummy yummy baby burgers and helped with clean up....I knew he was a keeper!

life through pictures...too busy to write:(

so some highlights....

tess, papa, kat and josh came to town for a wedding weekend....we had a great dinner out at fish city grill...our babies were the life of the restaurant and did SUPER well considering we had a lengthy wait for our table of 6

we got to keep august for the day and night while they drove to possum kingdom for the wedding....it was SO much fun....she and william had a blast and I LOVED getting to play with the Diva all by myself...and most importantly - to dress her:)

we hit up another market sample sale....a few finds for william and august cleaned house....she is the perfect size for samples!

nana and aunt audrey came over to play with william and have dinner....they had been out and about baby shopping for baby cefalu....audrey got a super cute diaper bag and we enjoyed a nice relazing dinner (catered by central market of course!!!)

we have decided to put in a deck - WOO HOO....we will now have an outdoor party space and I am so excited!! pics to come when it is complete!

we celebrated rodney's 40th birthay and it was FABULOUS! Jen pulled off the ultimate surprise birthday weekend and we loved spending every minute with them....

and right after that we celebrated Easter....we had muffins and mimosas and a fabulous Egg Hunt in Tess' backyard.....the Easter Bunny even came....

We have enjoyed lots of family time in our bakcyard thanks to this gorgeous weather!!!!! William loves to be outside and so do we!

we have played and played and played and played....william continues to eat well and grow like a weed....mommy just tries to keep up with him and daddy sometimes laughs at the way we appear at the end of the day - ha!

enjoy some pics from around our world....

william at the arboretum for Dallas Blooms

william and william.....sweet friends

august saying "come on william, over here"

ready for our outing at the arboretum...too bad the parking was full and we had to come home:(

so we settled for some backyard play time

the diva

a little friendly play

william at the neighborhood petting zoo for Easter

the Easter Bunny came....

let's see what he left for William

yes! bunny ears!!!!

these are the coolest!

family pic on Easter....too bad we don't have one in our pretty clothes...

William meets the Easter bunny

posing with daddy....

I found an egg

my Nana came over too...and she brought me Bud the bunny

look at all these Easter presents

I am having so much fun right now!

I love my pool towel Tess and Papa

Mom's fabulous table for Easter

I think I am so cool....this is when he learned how to sit up in his crib....so yes it had to be lowered....he still towers above it when he stands...sigh

this was about our 5th stop past their nap time...the mall....passed out!

while drinking her bottle....

and sucking on those fingers

we gave teething biscutits a shot...big mistake...so messy and he had so many teeth already he just chewed it up and almost choked....bye bye to those

i still like to smile and giggle....

magic pop...yum yum

this is the day william found his rocking chair in his room...he loves it!

tornados in Dallas....everyone to the bathtub

what? you mean i am not supposed to dump out EVERY toy from my basket

st. patrick's day with mom and dad

and brad and william....it was so fun

because people like this are at every St. Patrick's Day parade, right?

lunch at CM afterwards

bubble machines are AWESOME

wow....

Grace wants in on the action

8 months old

feeding himself avocado

play time at Petsmart

avocado in the mesh feeder

fort time with my dad!

mom thinks i look like stevie wonder here....

doing a little laundry

and fooling around

escape....

our sweet girl....

crawfish boil at the cefalus

yum yum

chris and audrey

h family pic

sad day...putting away the play mat and bouncer

and his sweet swing...

round 2 of feeding himself avocado....get naked first!

is it almost gone?

really, no more?

well that stinks!