A Rare Texas Snow Day

February 2015

Well, I've managed to fall almost a year behind in my blogging. I'm really trying, but as you will (hopefully) find out, it has been quite the busy year. As I write this, it is late January 2016 and today was a balmy 75 degrees outside. I can't imagine that we have any days like this day from last February coming up, but anything is possible, especially in this crazy Texas weather!

I headed to work in the morning and not a snowflake had fallen. Midway through the morning, snow had started to fall and the roads had started to ice, leaving cars scattered along the roads of Dallas like this:

Everyone left work early and drove very carefully home. I stopped to get the kids at daycare and headed back to our house for a SNOW DAY!! The kids were so excited to get to play in the snow!

Daddy taught everyone how to make snowballs and we had a family snowball fight in the front yard:

 

Jack was really excited to make a snow angel - we always hear about these things, but we so rarely get to actually do them in Texas!

There was even enough snow to make a snowman - complete with a carrot nose and Brussels sprout eyes!

After a cold day outside, Daddy made a nice pot of gumbo for dinner. Our kids may be pretty picky eaters, but they love gumbo - I think they could eat their weight in sausage. Yum!!

 

Happy Valentines Day 2015!

February 2015

I have always loved Valentines Day. I know it is probably just a Hallmark created holiday to sell candy, cards, flowers and jewelry, but it always just makes me happy!

I helped my kiddos prepare their Ninja Turtle and Frozen valentines the night before - Jack even signed his name on his for the first year ever! The next morning, dressed in their valentine outfits (hearts for one, and Ninja Turtles for the other), the kiddos were excited to head to school for a day of valentine fun!

I took a very late lunch from work and was lucky enough to be able to make it to both kids' parties at school. I started with Jack's class. They had all made themselves some lovely hats: 

Ariana really wanted her picture taken with Jack. He was not that into it, but he obliged. Ha! 

I tried to get pictures of all of the party-goers. Man, he had a big class!

Next, I moved on to Livi's class. She was super excited that Mommy was there! 

Here are all of the cuties in her class: 

Happy Valentines Day from Jack, Livi, and all the other Kids R Kids cuties! 

Winter Zoo Visit

January 2015

Everyone knows Texas weather is crazy. Freezing cold one day, 75 degrees the next. Deep in the middle of January, we got one of those beautiful, spring-like days and decided to take a trip to the Dallas Zoo. We have been over to the zoo in Fort Worth several times, but we'd never made it down to the Dallas Zoo. I had always heard that the zoo in Fort Worth was much nicer, so my expectations were not that high. I was very pleasantly surprised! We had a great visit and will definitely return.

We started off visiting the giraffes:

We arrived just in time for the tiger feeding demonstration:

Not a coat in sight on this beautiful January day:

The kids had their own personal discussions with this gorilla:

My little monkeys with some monkeys that don't move around quite as much:

After checking out many more of the animals, we finished our trip to the zoo with a couple of slushies. From there, since we were so close, we decided to try out a Dallas icon, Fuel City Tacos. As the name implies, they are located in a gas station in South Dallas, but make some delicious, traditional Mexican street tacos. I tried a chicken taco and a barbacoa one, and Tommy tried a couple of other varieties. They were delicious!

 

This weekend definitely didn't feel like the middle of January, but we definitely had more winter weather in store.  Stay tuned!