A Beautiful Mother's Day

After waking up to breakfast in bed (cereal bar crumbs that Brookie left behind from her breakfast) I was treated to Starbucks and a Sausage Mcmuffin (2 of my favorite things!) Saturday morning I was treated to a manicure/pedicure courtesy of my family and dinner at Cheesecake Factory (another favorite!). Sunday afternoon we went to downtown Fort Worth and enjoyed some window shopping and dinner. Brooklynn even got a pink cowgirl hat! I was treated to a few great finds from some of the boutiques. All in all it was a truly wonderful Mother's Day!

Happy Birthday Macy!

This weekend the three of us went to a birthday party to celebrate our friend Macy's 2nd birthday! The party was at My Gym and Brooklynn had a ball!

Dinner with the girls!

Last weekend we went down to Arlington to see Chris and Monique's new baby Jonah. We had a great time admiring the new baby. Brooklynn even let me hold him (for a little bit) :) Some other friends of theirs came down to see the baby as well and we all decided to go out to dinner. The girls had a lot of fun and Brooklynn even explored using chop sticks.

A Day at the Museum

Between finals and computer problems I've been a bit behind on blogging. So now I'm trying to get all caught up blogging all the events that took place over the past few weeks.

Wednesday, Brooklynn and I went to the Dallas Children's Museum with her friend Keller and his mommy. The kids had a great time! We were there for three hours (that's a long time in toddler world) and the kids would have stayed longer if we had let them. The museum was amazing, they could play on and explore everything! We loved it so much we booked Brooklynn's birthday party there! :)

Thursday'sThirteen

13 Things I Want to Say to my Mom...

1. I'm sorry for the night I stayed out until 3:00 a.m without calling. I now realize the agony I must have put you through.
2. Thank you for chaperoning every field trip. I now realize why you did.
3. Thank you for always finding a way.
4. Thank you for always putting your children first.
5. Although I will never fully recognize all the sacrifices you've made over the past 30 years, I now see the type of sacrifices you make as a mother. Thank you
6. Thank you for giving me such a wonderful sense of style, a great sense of humor, and a compassionate heart.
7. Thank you for reminding me that no one is better than me and I am not better than anyone else.
8. I have never known the feeling of needing something and not knowing when or if it would come, thank you.
9. I now understand why I was only allowed to have one Little Debbie Snack at lunch time. Two really is too much sugar!
10. I don't know how you let me go off to Virginia for college (Brooklynn's going to a local college so she can live at home). However, you did. Thanks for letting go so I could grow!
11. Thanks for being there through all the boyfriends,break ups, and heart aches. Oh yeah, I'm sorry for the long distance charges. What can I say, I thought I was in love! :)
12. You have always supported my choices, whether good or bad. You allowed me to make mistakes and learn from them. I now see how hard it must have been.
13. There is no way I could possibly put all of my feelings in a list of thirteen. You have taught me how to be a strong, compassionate, educated, spiritual woman. I pray daily that I can be the wonderful mother for Brooklynn that you have been and continue to be for me. There are no words to express the depth of my love and admiration for you. You are my best friend and I thank God for you every day!

Daddy Is The Greatest! (at least in Brookie's book)

On top of all of the usual things I have going on this week, I have finals for graduate school this week. Our computer decided to black out while I was working on one of my final papers, which added to my already high stress level. So needless to say when 7:30 rolled around I was totally prepared to put Brookie to bed and get back to studying. Brooklynn was bathed, calm, and ready to go "night-night". Well, Daddy came home seconds before I planned to put Brooklynn in the bed. He thought it would be a great idea to bring her balloons from his after work function. WHAT! As you can imagine, it was a big hit with Brookie! Daddy was the greatest, balloons and a rescue from bedtime! What more could a toddler want! So after 30 minutes of balloon fun, Brooklynn finally retired to bed. Of course, both Daddy and Brookie thought I was being "no fun". You gotta love Daddies and their timing! :)



UPDATE: "God is good all the time!" This morning Brooklynn decided it would be fun to watch her balloons fly near the ceiling fans (which were on). Hendersohn didn't see the harm in this, his exact words, "what's the big deal?". Well of course they got stuck in the fan and twisted up the cords. Hendersohn spent 20 minutes trying to pull blue balloon out of the fan while Brooklynn and I watched in amazement! :)

At the Car Wash! :)

So today Brooklynn and I went to get the car washed. To me it was just one of the many errands and chores on my to do list for the day. However, for Brooklynn it was an exciting adventure! She loved going through the car wash! It reminded me to take a minute to marvel at the things around me that have just become a part of my day to day. Below are pictures of Brookie's reaction to the car wash.