Free Thursdays

Once in a while, I get real courageous and take the kids downtown to the Free Museum Thursdays. We only get 3 hours of free fun + overpriced parking. And it's worth it, sometimes. I love to visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the kids love going to the Children's Museum Houston. Witty obviously had other things to do because he was absent this time. It's fine though, he likes it that way. 

Crafts and KitKat

Last year, we spent Easter weekend at the Aranda farm! We love going to Moomie & Granpop's and doing crafts and pigging out on chips & salsa (Texas' Official State Snack btw) Moomie makes the best salsa, for real. And Dawna as the balloon lady, was just thee best.

Easter 🐤🥚

Well, this post was almost timed perfectly---Easter, One Year Later--should be the title, right? Easter is around the corner for 2020 but here are last year's pictures. The Easter bunny brought some goodies for all the kids (it was me and they knew it, ha). I don't normally do this but I think Caren had also bought some stuff for Leo so it worked out perfectly. The kids liked their gifts but honestly, they were here for the Easter Egg Hunt. So the day followed our normal protocol: It was church, lunch, and Easter Egg Hunt! Sunday Tradition 😄

Rockport 🌊 and some mud bugs

Spring in Texas is my favorite y'all! This post is from last year (duh) but it sure brings such sweet memories. Brother and Sis-in-law invited us over to their house one weekend to eat mud bugs! They offered us some sweet southern hospitality and we came running (we actually drove in our van, but you get the point). So off we headed to see family we rarely see nowadays and the kids were so excited to see their cousins! 

🌸 Spring in Texas 🌸

 ...from 2019

It's that time again where people stop on the side of the road to squat at wildflowers in Texas. While the Bluebonnet is the official wildflower of Texas, my preference however is the Indian Paintbrush. It is an annual hemiparasitic flower that is more abundant than Bluebonnet at times. This species is Castilleja indivisa. I found a huge field of them right outside the small town of Dublin when we went to visit my mother. The kids came with me and the sun was just about to set. Hurry kids, hurry!