The Strawberry Festival!

My very favorite thing to do in Texas is go to the Poteet Strawberry festival! It is everything I love and I know Christian loves me because he has taken me there every year! This year was even better than I had anticipated! Here's our little family! It was SO much fun just to go the three of us! For eight bucks we each got to eat the most delicious steak tacos with guacamole and share an ice cream cone. Tyson was so good to share with us! They even take you on a tractor ride so you don't have to walk from the parking 'lot' to the festival. It was so much fun! Thank you Christian! I love you!
Our friends the Shipleys gave us secret directions to miss all of the traffic and it took us through the most beautiful fields of wildflowers! Spring really is the most beautiful time of year!

Happy Easter!

Easter was beautiful this year! Tyson was finally old enough to know what was going on (although the video doesn't really show it...I just like this one because it's funny!)
Tyson's eggs were hidden outside in easy spots and Christian hid my eggs inside in harder spots. However, Tyson watched Christian hide all of the eggs and so when I came downstairs Tyson would find them all for me! It was too cute! Anyway, the whole weekend was wonderful! Christian didn't study and we got to watch the world-wide broadcast put on by our church twice a year. That meant we got to listen to the prophet speak to us directly! It was beautiful. If you're interested, here's the link to the website: www.lds.org.
Anyway, I am so grateful for the real reason we celebrate Easter. It has nothing to do with bunnies and eggs and everything to do with the miracle of life and the amazing love of our Savior, Jesus Christ. He broke the chains of death and because of Him, we will see our loved ones who have passed away from this life again. I'm so grateful for the gift our Savior has given us. I love Him with all of my heart. So even though we know the real reason to celebrate Easter, I still made Christian where the bunny ears while he searched for his prizes in the back. He was a good sport!Tyson just followed him everywhere! It was so cute! Isn't he a cute boy?!! I love him so much!

New Puppy...For A Day!

This cute little puppy followed us home about two weeks ago. It was so cute and friendly with Tyson that I didn't mind it following us until it came inside our house! But then it was still cute and fun so we decided to keep it for a day! All we had for it to eat was Kix so it was a good thing it later followed my good friend Nichole home who has a dog and hence owns dog food! It only hung around for another two days before it scampered off again. Tyson still asks about the puppy and loved every minute of it's company! It was a lot of fun to have one for a day but I'm not sure we could have kept her happy much longer than that!

Spring in Texas!

I love Spring!! These pictures were taken right outside our back window! This morning we went on a walk and counted more than a dozen different kinds of wildflowers! It is so pretty! I am actually really grateful we live here!
He's getting so tall!
Our real backyard is peppered with thistles and so Tyson has learned that it is not safe to help himself up after he has fallen down! He's so cute!
What a handsome boy!
Bluebonnets are the Texas State flower. Aren't they lovely?

Second Spring Break!

So luckily for me, after our Spring break, Christian's parents came to visit during their Spring break! It was the most wonderful week imaginable! Every day I got to spend time talking, gardening, and sight-seeing with two of the most incredible people I know! Tyson even started preferring Grandpa to his own Daddy--That is really saying something!Here we all are at the Riverwalk under the most beautiful smelling flowers! Tyson with his new favorite person!Here Tyson is helping Grandpa! They helped us plant raspberries in the back and flowers in the front and it is beautiful! That was one of my favorite things we did...gardening with Sandra!On Sunday evening we went to the park to feed the ducks. It was in the 70s everyday and beautiful! By the way, didn't I marry a handsome man!?One day we went to the Japanese Tea Gardens. Greg went around and around for nearly an hour to find us a parking spot! Finally he parked at the bakery we had stopped by earlier. What a champion!Sometimes Tyson will let me hold him. You have to capture the moment though! It's not every day!
Aunt Laurie made us a book for Christmas with all of the letters in it. This shot will be perfect for G--Grandma and Grandpa!Grandma and Tyson by the waterfall!We got to go to Sea World together and we had a blast! Especially Tyson who would jump and clap during the shows! He absolutely loved every second of it! Thank you so much Sandra!This shirt with fish is from Greg and Sandra. Every now and then he would point down on his shirt and say "fish!" It was cute!Isn't he getting big?Tyson had a good time playing with the chain/rope as usual! One thing I love about my mother-in-law is she is always willing to take the time to let a kid just enjoy themself. She is absolutely wonderful!Aren't these frogs cool? They are real and very poisonous! I think they're cute!

All in all it was a great week and even after trying to work off the extra weight gained from Greg's fabulous nightly desserts and going out to eat, I would still love to have them anytime they'd come! Thank you so much for a wonderful week! We felt absolutely spoiled!