Nature and Science Museum

Today we took the girls to The Nature and Science Museum at Fair Park and then treated the girls to lunch at The Spaghetti Warehouse down at the West End. It was a day full of adventure and we all learned a few new things.

Morgan posing in front of a wetlands display.

Lauren and Morgan digging or dinosaur's.

Lauren and Morgan having fun in the sand.

Open wide!

I know she was a country girl at heart. Morgan milking a cow.

Lauren and Morgan

Morgan comparing her foot size to one of the dinosaur's. That's a pretty big foot to fill.

Morgan's ready for a natural disaster.

Lauren is ready for anything.

Morgan learning about DNA. What are you made of????

Morgan, Lauren and a peacock.

The girls having some fun as they learn.

Look mom it's Happy Feet.

A Day of Fun

Today marked the first day of Lori being on vacation with us so we started our vacation out with a day of fun free activities. First we started out at the farmers market downtown and bought lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. It was lots of fun. The girls loved eating all the free samples of fruit. Next we headed to Lowe's to do their building projects for kids. The project for today was a monster truck but they ended up having some extras from past projects for we ended up making a kaleidoscope, and a pet treat dispenser. It was lots of building fun. Next we headed off to a free carnival that was on the highway near our house. It was so hot so we let the girls enjoy the petting zoo and a pony ride and we called it quites for the day. We were all pooped by then. Can wait to see what the next week has in store for us all.

Lori, Lauren and Morgan doing a little shopping at the farmers market downtown.

The fruits and vegetables all looked to bright and colorful.

The girls showing off their monster trucks they built at Lowe's.

Lori and Lauren working on a kaleidoscope.

Morgan and me.

Lori and Lauren.

Morgan showing off all her goodies she made. Love that smile!

Lauren proudly showing off her pet treat dispenser.

We stopped at the Dollar Tree and the girls got some fun colored fake hair to wear. Beautiful darling, just beautiful.

Lauren enjoying her pony ride.

Morgan enjoying a pony ride.

Morgan loved riding the pony.

Balloon Fight!

Since my vacation has officially started I decided to watch the girls today instead of taking them to the babysitter in order to give her a break before her vacation. So the girls swam and had a good old fashion balloon fight. Pretty sure Lauren was the winner but we dared not tell Morgan that for it would destroy her world. It was nice to get to spend some time with Lauren today. Feels like I never get to see her enough. Love that little girl to pieces.

The girls having a balloon fight.

Swim Class

Morgan started swim lessons this week. These are a couple of pictures her swim teacher took of her swimming in class. Look at my little swimmer. I am so proud of her!

Even underwater Morgan has a beautiful smile!

Happy Birthday Hardy!

A dear friend of ours little boy, Hardy, turned 4 today so we all went to his birthday party. We had lots of fun helping Hardy celebrate his big day.

Morgan is pretty attached to Rosie their baby kitten.

One of Stephen's proudest moments. Morgan asked him to show her how to shoot Hardy's new toy bow.

Morgan learning how to shoot the bow.

Aubrey with our friends baby raccoon she rescued. Both just too cute!

Morgan enjoying some birthday cake.

Hardy making a wish.

Everyone just can't get enough of the baby raccoon.

Hard Lesson Learned

Today I had the erg to clean out my pantry and refrigerator and I sadly learned a very good lesson. While cleaning them both out I was so busy doing so that I didn't realize until I was done that I had tossed out enough unused expired food to fill up 4 huge trash bags and 1 small kitchen bag. It literally mad me sick at my stomach to see that I had spent hard earned money on all these groceries and then just ended up throwing it all away. WHAT A WASTE!! So from now on I am only going to shop from my list and get only what is on my list. No more letting good food go to waste. Not when there are children in this country going to bed at night hungry. It was a lesson well learned.

Up For a Swim Anyone???

For awhile now I have been thinking about getting us one of those small above ground pools so that we would have a place to swim this summer after Morgan completes her swim lessons. So I proposed the idea to Stephen and he treated Morgan with the pool as an early birthday present. So far I can say that the pool is a big hit. We love it! We sent most of the day today swimming. I for see us spending lots time in it this summer. Thanks dad for the great gift!


Stephen and Morgan having some fun.

Morgan having some fun!

Dad check us out!