CEO's digs

Fashion Week Awards Afterparty

 

We offered our office space to host the Fashion Week Awards afterparty.  I snapped a few random photos.  Later discovering this photo included project runway star and her photographer, children's vampire book author, unknown partygoer and my coworker Lea at Lea's desk.

Check out this fun video my co-workers made.  Those are my colleagues in the 'dance train'.

Ballet for 3s

Holden with one of his coaches

 

Holden at day camp

 

 

Summer Camp Ice Cream Cake Dance

Ah, to be three and in summer camp. Lily was having a blast dancing to Ice Cream Cake on 'Pajama Day'. She must get her dancing skills from her dad.  You can hear Evan in the background, he was more interested in confiscating my camera.. 

Pick Your Favorite

Trying to select bedding and beds for the boy's bunk room. I already have the cowboy curtains and dusty sky blue walls so building the rest around this pallet.

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Quilt (see first photo) or Duvet w/ Monogramed shams (like below): I'd love to have both....but you know, the budget thing...

Smoothies!

Lil Firecrackers

Happy 4th everybody. We had a fun packed weekend. We kicked off the festivities with our annual neighborhood parade and carnival. The triplets decorated and rode their bikes for the first time. Ah, big kids.

Holden didn't want to ride in the wagon, but insisted in pulling it the whole route - although he did take a short cut across the park. I didn't mention but he gave his bottles away to baby Hudson a week ago and is now officially a big boy. David took him to pick out a special toy to celebrate - he chose a cat piano keyboard. He is proud to be a big boy now but has been a bit of a terror, he will not wear clothes, difficult to going to sleep and generally just a mess. I think he just needs to learn how to unwind without the bottle. Hopefully this is just a phase, a short lived one.

David and I spent Saturday with friends at a lake house with a boat trip to devils cove which was hip hopping, but fine in small doses. I prefer the tranquillity of the lake house. Sunday was also full with a family barbecue pool party complete with sparklers.

Tiny Dancers

Lily joined her friends, twins Harper and Lucy, on Saturday for their first ballet class - creative movement. I think I enjoyed it as much as the girls. They were so cute in their pink tights and ballet shoes. I couldn't resist getting a tutu and ballet bag for Lily. The boys really wanted to go watch, we will all get to view the dancers on their last day of class.

Lily and Lucy

Let the Summer Begin

Peach picking at Barsana Orchard.

Baking, chocolate brownies and cupcakes.

Memo maked the strawberry cupcakes almost entirely by himself. I set up the ingredients and he did all the mixing and pouring himself.

Rewards for the chef.

Haven't you wanted to do this?

Waiting for cupcakes to bake, passing the time making 'snow angels'.

Worm hunting...

Hello Jaguar

Will, Rowan, Evan, and Holden have a close encounter with a jaguar at the San Antonio Zoo.

American Anthem

The Champions with their first trophies

Possum hang

Balance beam

Backbend tumble

Pommel horse

A weekend in April

Holden helped water the garden.

We took a family jog down Shoal Creek and back up to Central Market. They had a funky African band playing on the deck which made for some creative dancing for the kids.

Memo monkeying around.

Easter

Easter pic sans Holden who was in day care. Our church celebrates by having the kids add flowers to a cross in the courtyard. Thankfully our friend Lawson managed to capture us in a moment of relative calm.

Happy birthday to Jennifer!

The family birthday party.

Lily made a special drawing for her mom.

Please join me in sending your birthday wishes to this incredible woman.

Explorer, Inventor

Evan is the oldest boy in our family (by a few seconds anyway, he and Will were born in the same minute). He is extremely curious and always seems to be into or up to something. For example, when we got our new vacuum cleaner he spent at least 20 minutes examining every part and needed to try it out.

Here is is solving a problem we've been having lately - Holden getting into the refridgerator and pulling everything out. Evan found a flat stick outside and asked me for the tape. He placed a strip of tape on each end of the stick, effectively sealing the refridgerator.

Holden was appropriately foiled.

I just wish I had gotten a full photo of Evan that day. He had a badge holder on his waist (one he had procured from David's office) and was wearing black socks and crocs, that he had picked out himself.