Monday, April 25, 2011

MS 150 Weekend 2011

We woke up nice and early on Saturday morning and shoved 5 adults and 3 kids in car seats into our car and headed to La Grange to drop off Scott & Jason to meet up with their Fedex Team.



As soon as the guys grabbed their bikes and bags and we rearranged a bit in the car Reagan promptly threw up. A little back story - since Wednesday of that week we'd been battling sickness with Reagan. She came home with a fever on Wednesday from school, she had to stay home on Thursday because of the fever and seemed to be much better. She had an accident at school on Friday so since it was a short day for the girls I picked them up. She had an accident as soon as she got home and then all seemed well. She was running around like a maniac and what not. Saturday morning I was a little concerned because she was so quiet but she had no fever and seemed well. After she threw up (thankfully just water) she seemed fine. She was talking a little more and slept some. So we headed on to Dime Box to stay the day/night with Delia's family.

It was a beautiful day and it didn't take long for Reagan to ask to go and see the horses.



This sweet horse even "kissed" Reagan's finger when she wouldn't let go of the hay. What else were we supposed to tell her? : )  After that she didn't really want to feed him anymore but Abby fed him a few handfuls as well.

After that we played outside for a bit as it was a beautiful day!




We had lunch and then the little ones napped. Reagan took full advantage of having a Grandma on hand. I think they did puzzles, read books, had snacks, etc. Then we headed to a birthday party!


This is the only picture I got. And then for what feels like the rest of the time we were there I spent it in the bathroom with Reagan. She had quite a tummy ache. I'm pretty sure we visited that bathroom at least 20 times. As soon as dinner was over we got her out of there and back to the house for a bath with all 3 kids. Then they were off to bed and the adults got a little wine quiet time.

The next morning was nice and leisurely. As always my kids were up early and Reagan had had a rough night. Poor thing even asked me if we could go home in the middle of the night. We had breakfast and the kids played a bit before we loaded ourselves up and headed to Austin.

Thank goodness Delia has done this before because I would have had no idea where to park, where to head to, etc. Plus I can't tell you the last time I've even been to Austin! Possibly high school. We found a great spot in the shade and tried to keep the kids interested in watching for their Daddy's.


What stinkin cute is Cooper?

We didn't have to wait long to spot them!



We really couldn't have timed it any better. After the guys showered and got their stuff we went out to eat and then loaded us all back up and headed home. We didn't get home til close to 7:00pm. At that time Reagan threw an epic fit. She was upset we were back at our house and not at Cooper's Grandma's house. Once she calmed down from that she was upset because Cooper had to go home. Needless to say we stuck those kids in a quick shower and then right to bed!

It was a very trying yet great weekend. Much thanks to Delia for sharing her family with us and to Jason for introducing Scott to the MS150. I foresee many more years of rides in our future.


Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bluebonnets 2011 = FAIL

For anyone not in Texas, we are in a drought. Really we are very desperate for rain here. Sadly that hugely effected our Bluebonnet Season. The season this year was quite shortly and sadly we missed it. We met up with the Stanard's and drove out to Chappell Hill like we always do and then my nightmare from the night before became reality. The beautiful bluebonnets that line the road like this from last year:


Well, they weren't there. :-(  Luckily we ran into someone else who told us about a small patch.

 My girls!

 Someone was cranky.......

 Best Friends!

 Little House on the Prairie anyone??

 Reagan got blessed by a ladybug!

 Do I spy a smile?

 Better cover that up!

 Picking a flower always helps

Reagan picked flowers for Grandma

Zoobilee 2011

As soon as I got the flier in the mail I just knew we had to go to Zoobilee. I didn't realize that so did everyone else! The Houston Zoo offers Zoobilee as a members only event. The kids were able to gather stamps for their passports and then get a prize for all their work. We even had dinner at the Zoo and were there until closing at 8:30! We now know why we like to get there when it opens though.

 Reagan loves to stop and take a pic with the Rhino

 The girls are big monkey fans

 Getting their passports stamped!

 Sassafrass!

 Still loving the new African exhibit!

 Drums!

 Abby was quite happy to stop for dinner, especially since we sat by the Giraffes!

 Someone pouted since she didn't get to sit by Mom...........

Our view while eating!

Garden Update 04/07/11

 We have tomatoes!

 Lots!

 Bell Peppers!

 Reagan knew just what to do with her glove and just how to squat

"Abby turn"

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Kemah Triathlon

Sunday morning came pretty quick. Scott got up at some crazy hour and I got up at 5:30am got myself together and got the girls up and headed down to the lobby at 6am. I grabbed a bagel and the girls chose Fruit Loops (blech!) and we were off. We got to the Boardwalk and loaded up all our stuff (why did we have so much) and headed off to where everyone would be coming in from the water.  I was so worried that we were going to miss things but in waiting for the sun to make it's appearance there was a late start. So we found a place and had our breakfast and waited.

 And there they all sit waiting to jump in

 Uh, that boat is far.

 Aren't they cute?!

 Finally we could see swimmers!

Once I could see that those with green caps were swimming in I moved us from the water to the red carpet. Yep, they laid out a red carpet where they could run in from the water back to transition. I picked to stand right by the wetsuit strippers thinking the girls would have a chance to yell out to their Dad when he stopped. The area was very chaotic. There was a lot of yelling and movement and it scared Abby. Seriously, she was crying and clinging to me. Unfortunately with this and the fact that everyone was in black making it hard to spot people I wasn't able to get in pics of Scott coming out of the water. It didn't help that he totally bypassed the strippers either. We headed back towards transition to see where we should head next. I knew there was no way we could see him leave out on his bike so we set up to find the perfect place to at least see him come back. 

 Transition area

 It's a serious sport

Looking for Daddy

He was doing this while we were waiting:
And then we finally saw him coming in. He even said hi this time!

 I also noticed that he was bleeding. Awesome.

We were able to catch him in transition going out for his run.

So while he was doing this:


Reagan made a couple of friends.


 Crossing the finish line!

 Waiting for Dad to come out of transition

Reagan's favorite part of races is getting to wear the medal!

Scott did a great job. Yes, there may have been a bike crash but all was well. The girls are becoming good little race buddies too. They were amazingly well behaved. The hardest part of it all was being able to see everywhere at the same time. I wanted to take pictures of the race but every few seconds I would have to look for Reagan. She's is just Miss Social. She made friends, she pet dogs and gave weeds flowers to people. Next event will be he MS 150 but at least I will not be alone!