Weekend Guests Part II

Last weekend Cara, Jason, Ainslee, & Hattie came to visit.  It has become a tradition for Cara and her family to come to Corpus to celebrate her birthday weekend.  I was a little nervous about making a cake that could top the one I made for her birthday last year, but luckily she requested a coffee angel food cake that is fairly easy to make.

Of course I had to have my obligatory photo shoot with Hattie, the happiest most willing model I can find!

Ruby got in some good bonding time with her cousins.

We did a little shopping, a lot of eating, and made a trip to the Aquarium.  We have taken Ainslee there before, but she was old enough this time to really get into it.

Hattie seemed to enjoy it too.  She would track the fish with her eyes and startle if they swam right at her :)

Ainslee liked the turtles, 

and so did uncle Trevor.

When we got home from the Aquarium we set Hattie up on her first date with Charlie!  I think they really hit it off... she couldn't keep her hands off him :)

It was a full, fun weekend.  We love having family over and especially love getting to love on our nieces.  However, I'd be lying if I didn't say that Trevor and I enjoyed have a quiet house with just the two of us on Sunday night after having a house full of little ones :)

 

Weekend Guests

We have had weekend guests come stay with us the past two weekends.  A few weekends ago Trevor's parents came to Corpus to hang out with us.  Trevor's dad loves to have a project to work on while they are here so he brought a trailer full of supplies to make the herb garden I have been wanting!  Trevor and his dad worked hard all Saturday afternoon making it, while Trevor's mom and I watched and documented with pictures :)  Here's the progress:

We are still waiting a few weeks to actually plant the herbs, but I can't wait!  Of course all the hard work didn't go unrewarded, we stopped by one of the new cupcake shops in town to sample some of the goodies.

We also enjoyed eating out at one of our favorite restaurants on the island, Black Sheep, shopping, and cooking dinner together.  We always love it when they come to town!

Diaper Cake

My boss asked me to make a diaper cake and corsage for the mom-to-be for a baby shower she was helping host.  It was for a baby boy named Noah G. with a Noah's Ark themed nursery, so I went with that.

I did animals "two by two" all the way around the top and bottom layer and his name around the middle layer.  And for the corsage I made two white roses out of baby sock.  I had fun making them and hope that mommy-to-be loves them!

Weekend Getaway

We needed a getaway this weekend so we made last minute plans to go play at the ranch in Hempstead.  We invited the Gilbreaths to join us and also let everyone in Trevor's family know that we were planning on going and that they were welcome to tag along.  We also invited Mal and Rob out since they are so close to the ranch now.  Everyone ended up taking us up on our offer so we had a fun full house!  It was cool outside, but not too cold, so we spent the whole weekend playing outside.

Running around on the hay,

swinging,

having races,

playing croquet

and horseshoes.

Making s'mores, 

taking baths in the sink,

and posing for pictures.

It was the perfect weekend getaway before the big freeze hit.  Love having weekends to spend with the ones we love!

3 Years Ago Today...

Was the happiest day of my life!

 

New Years

We spent New Years at the ranch again this year.  We had lots of fun friends join us, but sadly I was not good at taking pictures so I can't prove it :)  Baylor had a bowl game in Houston right before New Years so a lot of Trevor's college buddies and their wives were able come after the game.  And of course all the  usuals were there too :)

We stayed pretty active playing volleyball, horseshoes, ping pong, washers, shooting guns, fishing, and riding the four wheelers.

We also had some good food and drinks!

And had fun spending quality some with some great people.

And of course Ruby loved all the attention.

If New Years weekend is any indicator of how 2011 is going to be, I think it's going to be a great one!