Another Sunday, Another Adventure.....

Yesterday we found this park! It's pretty close to our house and the kids had a blast there!!! This first picture is just one side of it, it was huge! We didn't stay long enough to play with everything! There is still so much more to explore the next time we go.

Caleb found this train and I think that was his favorite part!

I love this action shot I got of Erika! Pure joy on her face!

One week.....

In one week I will be in Minnesota!!!! YAY!!!! I am very excited! I'm going just because I miss home, but the timing is working out good so far. Next Saturday I will be going to a friends wedding and I will also get to go to the state fair while I am there! :) Cheese curds, here I come! Most of all we are looking forward to seeing all the family and friends that we have missed so much!

A trip to Dallas

Yesterday afternoon David and I decided to take the kids into downtown Dallas. David is down there just about everyday, but the kids and I hadn't been there. We didn't really have a plan to do anything down there, just drive around and look at everything. We found a place called Pioneer Plaza, so we stopped. Then across the street was a fountain. Nothing too exciting really, but it was just perfect! We had fun with the kids and we were only gone for a couple of hours!

The stampede of statues :)



The fountain.....

Of course we had to stop at Mickey D's for a treat afterwards! :)

Erika trying to be sneaky with my pop!

A look at the outside...

of our apartment! :) In the first picture, Caleb is standing by our door. The first window to the left is our kitchen window, and then the second window (covered by a tree) is Caleb's bedroom window. The second picture is the view from where Caleb is standing in the first pic! I'll get some pictures of the other side of the apartment sometime this week!


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Dad's day off....

Daddy was home on Thursday! We already had plans to head to Chuck E Cheese with the playgroup that I'm a part of, so Daddy joined us! :) We had a great time!

Cooling off with a fudgsicle!!

What better way to cool off on a hot Texas day than with a good ol messy fudgsicle!! :)

Thanks to Edouard......

We get a little relief from the original forecast!!! Right now it's only 84 out!! Time to go play I think!! :)

YUCK!!!!!

Check out our seven day forecast.....I'm ready to go home now!

The new place....

Here are a couple of pictures of our new apartment! There are none of our bedroom or the kitchen because neither of them were clean yesterday! :) I'll add those later!

The entry way (nothing too exciting, lol)

The dining roomThe kids bathroom
The next three are Erka's room. All of the bedrooms are huge with huge closets!!!


This is Caleb's room

And here are the kids with their teddy bears....just because they are cute! :)

New living room furniture!!!

Thanks to a generous gift we received when we moved to Texas, David and I were able to purchase new couches for our living room! We LOVE them!!!!

Caleb & Erika love them too!

David's new-do!!!

David's been wanting to shave his head again for a long time and I finally caved and let him do it!!! Here's a pic:

My ring is fixed!!!

We went to the mall on Sunday and while we there we went to Helzberg to have our wedding rings cleaned. We asked the man there if he could fix it and about two minutes later it was a perfect circle and on my finger!!!! And the best part....he didn't charge us!!!! We had gone to a different place in the mall and they would have charged us $35 to do it! I didn't want to pay that much so I decided to just wait! Good thing I did! :)

Our Fourth of July

I know this update is pretty late, but it's comical enough to make it worth it! I had mentioned that we were going to take the kids to a carnival. Well the place that everyone told us to go to didn't exist....or we just got bad directions. After driving around we finally found a place that had fireworks. We sat in traffic FOREVER and ended up just getting re-routed back onto the highway because they had no more parking! It was insane! So as we are getting back onto the highway Caleb is in the backseat bawling his eyes out because he wants to see fireworks so bad! We drive just a little ways and see all kinds of people pulled over and setting up chairs on the side of the highway, in the ditch (which was more like a field)....so we followed suit! We got our chairs out and we were all sitting and ready for the fireworks. Well right at the time they were supposed to start the cops came and told everyone they had to leave. There were at least 50 people there and one cop....the outcome wasn't what the cop wanted. We weren't sure if he was going to sit and wait till everyone left or not so we got the kids back in the car....more tears from Caleb. We didn't leave though, we just waited.....finally the cop just left. Right after he left the fireworks started, so we got the kids out of the car and just sat them on the trunk to watch the fireworks. CRUMMY CRUMMY CRUMMY fireworks!!!! Both David and I said we'd rather have been in Coon Rapids!!! Their fireworks last year were great!!! The one nice thing was after they were done we loaded the kids in the car and got on the highway and didn't have to deal with all the traffic! Here's pics: (there's another story under the pics.....)




So we get home, get the kids in bed and head to bed ourselves. Just like every July 4th, there are people outside letting off fireworks, we expected it. David fell right asleep and was snoring as I layed in bed and couldn't fall asleep. Everytime I started to drift off another firework would go off. Right around midnight I'm hearing a noise and can't figure out what it is and then I realize it's someone pounding on our door. Yep at midnight. So I wake David up, it's our neighbor downstairs....."you might want to move your car, the dumpster is on fire" is what I heard. Like completely engulfed in flames. Someone thought it would be funny to put a firecracker in there. Our car was the closest one to the dumpster, but it was like five parking spaces away. It probably would have been fine, but David moved it just in case. The cops arrived as he was moving the car and put out the fire. I think the cops hung around for a while too because it was pretty quiet after that! So there you have it! Our exciting first holiday in Texas! :)

My ring....

Last week we went to the mall one day so the kids could play at the play area there. As I was getting the stroller out of the trunk my finger (right ring finger) somehow got stuck between two of the metal bars! Look what happened to my ring!! It was pretty scary! The part of the ring on the right bottom side that is sticking out just a bit was actually indented. I used a pliers to bend it out just enough to get my finger out! My poor finger was pretty sore the rest of the day.