Birthdays and Other Happenings

Mae turned 2 a couple weeks ago and, man, did she love her birthday! She was anticipating it for weeks telling everyone she met that "Mae's birthday comin' up!" I'm so glad it lived it up to all the hype...really, all she wanted was a cupcake and balloons though. Know that won't last forever. Since then she still asks us, "Mae's birthday coming up?" then quickly answers herself, "No, Mae birthday over." It's pretty funny. She's now onto Daddy's birthday "comin' up" which is still a couple months away.

Here she is on her birthday morning with her new Mickey and Daisy (we already had Minnie), and new Pinkalicious sticker book. Happy girl.

A cupcake on the night of her birthday. She kept wanting us to re-light the candles, sing Happy Birthday and blow them out. Really taking in the whole experience...

You think she likes it?

And, then it was my 30th birthday a week later! We had a little fiesta with some friends and I was even seranaded...and given a sombrero. Would have been nice to have had a couple margaritas but that was kind of frowned upon being 7 months pregnant... It was such a fun birthday though!!

Houston's lunch on my birthday...we even braved the ice and snow to make it there. Totally worth it. Not sure if Mae was just happy to be out of the house or to have french fries for lunch.

Just thought this was a cute pic. We have been in a supper club for about 4 years, I think. We started as just married couples and now there are 6 kids and 2 more on the way. We had all the kids come to the last dinner and actually got a pretty cute pic. So sweet!

As I'm sure you know, we've had quite a bit of snow and ice in Dallas lately. We were homebound for several days and thankfully had lots of new birthday toys to keep us occupied. Mae is loving her new blocks!

Lots of snuggling on snow days...with daddy...
...and Tex.

We hosted lots of tea parties with our "friends".

And playing in the snow with the Edwards and Gus. She loved it but we had to cut it short when Tex cut his foot on something running around in the snow, and Jason had to rush him to the vet to get staples in his foot. Always something! We love getting a good snow every year though....just ready for the warm temps now!