Waco Weekend - Part 1

Last weekend we traveled to Waco for some fun and to shower Baby Fischer who is due to arrive in June.  We spent most of Friday watching basketball, watching babies, and getting ready for the shower.  We snuck in dinner and a baseball game as well.

Love baby girls in their PJ's!  They really wanted to help us in the kitchen.

I left Eli to finish his breakfast and came back about a minute later.  He had dumped all of Avery's puffs on his plate.  Sneaky sneaky!

Daddy putting shoes on.

After the boys left and Jillian was down for a nap, we took some pictures of miss Avery in her birthday outfit.  We had SO much fun!  Aren't her eyes gorgeous??

Don't you just love those cheeks!!

A shot of the whole outfit.  So cute!!  I got J a matching shirt for her birthday.  We ordered them from http://www.sheshemade.com/

Then we had to get some pictures in her Easter dress.  LOVE those feet!

Precious smocking!  And again...those cheeks!

Big smiles!

I can't remember why Eli wasn't wearing pants, but I love those bare little bird legs.

The girls playing.  They laugh at each other and are really starting to love playing together.

Pretty mommy and baby girl.

Friday night we had dinner at Taco Cabana.  For those of you who didn't go to Baylor, there are about a dozen fast food restaurants right across the highway from campus and Taco Cabana is one of them.  Brought back a lot of memories...like when Regan and I used to go get tortillas and queso late at night after studying freshman year.  So fun!

After dinner we look Eli to his first Baylor baseball game.  Here he is showing me his ticket!  He doesn't have a Baylor hat so he wore his Rangers hat.  Eli associates all baseball games with the Rangers so he yelled "Go Rangers" a lot.

He was SO excited!!!!!

Avery was pretty excited about the game too.  She was practically jumping out of her seat! :)

My little baby BIG boy!  Doesn't he look so old here????  *sniff sniff*

Cheering on the Bears!  He screamed and clapped for whoever was at bat.  He wasn't concerned with which team they were from.

Brett & Jamie

Sam & Tracie

Chris, Amy, & Avery

The weather was perfect!!  It was warm, but not too hot.  Even after the sun went down it was still nice.

Me and my boy.

Eli giving baby Avery a kiss.

Arboretum

Last week while Stephen was on Spring Break we took the kids to the Dallas Arboretum.  Grandpa came with us and we were sure glad he did.  We didn't realize all of Dallas would be there on Tuesday.  By the time we got there, the parking lot was full so we had to park a couple of blocks away and ride the shuttle over to the Arboretum.  I was a little nervous when I saw the word "shuttle."  I was picturing out of commission school busses.  We had both kids, a very full diaper bag, my camera bag, some sandwiches from Subway, a small cooler with drinks, a small lunch box with Eli's lunch, and the double stroller.  Luckly, the "shuttle" was actually a charter bus.  They put everyone's strollers down below and somehow we managed to carry everything else.

After a rude encounter with the ticket lady who was very confused by our two for one ticket we picked up at Capital One, and changing J's dirty diaper (which according to her screaming is the worst pain she has ever felt), we were on our way.  Once we were inside, we really didn't feel like it was too crowded.  There were lots of families and kids, but the walkways weren't over crowded at all.

I know this is expected when you go to the Arboretum, but everything really was just so beautiful! 

There were tulips EVERYWHERE!!  They are my favorite flower so I took lots of pictures of them, but I'll spare you and just show a few.

L-O-V-E these colors!!!!!

They had a small petting zoo set up and LOTS of kids inside.  Eli loves animals and ran over to get in line.  Here he is waiting his turn to go into the petting zoo.  He kept calling this a reindeer.

There were lots of goats a sheep, and a rabbit.

Petting the very large sheep.

They had brushes out for the kids and Eli loved brushing the animals.

Petting the rabbit.

They are having a fairytale castles exhibit right now. This is someone's cottage but I can't remember who it supposedly belonged to.

Exploring the cottage.

I love this picture.  It's his real smile. :)

Eli smelling the flowers.  I stood really close in case he tried to pick one. :)

Mommy & Eli

The Beauty and the Beast castle.  There were lots of other castles too, but this was the only one I got a picture of.

Eli with the Beast.

Little miss was fussy for a while since she skipped her nap.  Crackers made it all better.

The boy loves grapes!

We brought sandwiches for lunch and were lucky to find a table close to a couple of the castles.  Eli would take a bite and run off to play.  Stephen and I took turns tracking him down.

We should have just brought the single stroller because Eli walked most of the time.  He had fun exploring but we had to watch him like a hawk!

Grandpa and Eli

A boy and his Dad...looking at the fish.

Three generations: Grandpa, Daddy, Eli

Family picture.

Jilly girl four ways.  I just loved the colors of these tulips!

Jillian was so concerned with the flowers around her that I couldn't get her to look at me for a picture.  A lady passing by stopped and tried to get her to look and smile.  It worked!

Right before we left we attempted to get a good shot of both kids with the flowers.  Both were WAY too interested in what was going on around them.  Eli kept screaming "CHEESE" even though he wasn't looking a the camera.  This is the best one we got.

We asked Eli to give sister a kiss.  He tried a couple of times but she wouldn't look his way.  This time, he got her!
We had a great day, but I won't be taking the two of them by myself anytime soon!