The Trinity

During Familia today, Josie learned about St. Patrick and how he used the 3-leaf clover to teach the Trinity. When we got in the car, she said, "Mom, today, we learned about the Father, the Son and the Bird." And then she showed me her shamrock, which clearly had a heart sticker indicating the Father, a cross symbolizing the Son and a bird for the Holy Spirit.

Cousin Matthew

While we were in San Antonio, my sweet nephew, Matthew, offered to read to the girls one evening. Thank you to Bonnie for capturing this precious moment on film.

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San Antonio Zoo & Witte Museum

As part of our help Daddy finish his PhD plan - the girls and I have been leaving town...a lot. We took a short trip to San Antonio to see my sister and her family. It was a rough start as we were all sick the first night. In fact, that night is going down as one of my most horrible nights of motherhood thus far. If I could have blinked and been home or blinked and had Kevin there with me - I would have done it in a heartbeat. But by the next morning, we all felt better and the week ended up being quite fun. My sweet sister took us to the San Antonio Zoo and the Witte Museum.

Evelyn loved playing with the air machine and the ball.


The water area was super fun. The kids enjoyed this part the most.


hmmm, why are we sick all the time? Maybe because we drink the water from the water exhibit at the Witte Museum. Yuck Evelyn!


Mommy and her girls


Aunt Bonnie and the girls


As we were leaving the Museum, we had the pleasure of meeting Pepper. He could say his name and a few other phrases. The girls liked him, but only from a distance.


Right when we walked in, this lady was holding a snake. Evelyn was not brave enough to touch it and Josie - well, she is hiding behind me as I take this picture.


Watching the monkeys at the zoo.


The Butterfly exhibit was awesome. Evelyn enjoyed it. Although, I was certain she was going to step on one of the poor fellows sitting on the ground. The girl loves to squash bugs, spiders, really anything on the ground.


Josie was not to happy about the butterfly exhibit. She really just wanted to get out of there.


Has this lady had twins or what?


Isabelle was such a trooper.


Enjoying the cool room watching the fish swim and yes, staring at the hippo's rears.

Happy Birthday Roscoe

Thank you to my brother Royce for coming over to help us fix a leak in our yard on his birthday. I love the fact that we can play in the yard now and not step in mud. Yeah Kevin for fixing the leak and yeah Royce for helping!

Happy Valentine's Day 2011!

Grandma's Wagon Ride

My mom came back from my West Texas trip with me to help with the girls so I could get some work done. The girls loved the attention and I loved being able to do my job during the day rather than midnight. At one point, I looked up from my computer to see Grandma pulling Isabelle in the wagon in the yard. I had not put Isabelle in the wagon yet so I grabbed the camera to capture her first wagon ride.

Snow 2011

It finally snowed in College Station and we were out of town again. Fortunately though for us, we were in West Texas where it snowed even more. Unfortunately for us, we were in West Texas where it was WAY colder than it will ever be in College Station. So while the girls got to see more snow, they did not get to play very long in it because they were in their words....freeeeezing.

Popo and his girls


Mommy and her girls


Clayton and Tye got a snow day so they were able to join us in the fun.


Tye taught Josie how to make a snow angel.


Uncle Marcus taught Evelyn how to eat snow.


Evelyn liked the snow.




I could barely get Josie to look at the camera. She was having too much fun.


Evelyn boots kept falling off so we had to sit her on the car a lot so we could put those boots back on.


Grandma and Popo enjoying the snow.


The girls decided watching the snow fall was much more enjoyable from the warmth of Grandma's house while eating cheetos.