Saturday at the park

Saturday was a beautiful day, so we decided to head to a park!  

There is this park in Georgetown that my kids love, but after we drove there we found out that it had all been taken down! 

Sad!! 

But we found another great park and had a great time.

Veda's new bed and quilt

Since Veda learned how to get out of her crib- it was time for a big girl bed! And a big girl bed means a new blanket for her bed. Quinn has a darling comforter from Target, but I needed one that matched that was toddler bed size. So off to Joann's to find some matching fabric. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get the colors close, but I was pleasantly surprised.

 The cutest little pike of scraps

 Thanks to my mom who helped me place these blocks. Sometimes RANDOM is so hard! I put her on FaceTime and we rearranged until it was right. My mom has a good eye :)

 Here's the back

 I am not a perfectionist when it comes to sewing, so quilts are usually my thing. This was maybe one of the easiest I've done though.

 The whole thing went pretty smoothly until I was binding... then some crazy pins stabbed me. I think I'll survive.

 And look! They kinda match!

 And she looks pretty sweet in her big girl bed.

update

Here's an over due update of what's been keeping us busy lately!

Lots of sisterly love!

 This little doll is perfectly cute and SOOOO naughty!!

 Climbing out of her crib all night and keeping her sister up makes her a sleepy baby! She couldn't even stay awake through lunch.

 This cool dude started preschool!! He loves it.

He also started soccer. He REALLY loves soccer

 More of this baby looking way too cute

 Lots of sewing

 Lots of silly faces. I seriously said to her "Veda! Show me your prettiest face!" And she did this:

 Veda and her darling friend Molly

 Two out of three cooperating for a picture.

 Nobody pulls off girl sunglasses and a temporary Cars tattoo quite like this guy

 More silly faces

 More sisterly love

 and PINK!!

my week

Just some stuff that's been going on.

We got this book from the library. SO FUNNY. I've never laughed out loud so much during a kids book.

 Bath!

 Target with my awesome friend

 A few friends met for brunch on one of the first days of school (we needed to help each other cope, right? And nothing does that like some delicious breakfast tacos)

Veda has been asking for "Cheetah shoe
s." I finally found some this week. She has been living in them.

Is she spoiled or what? I'm glad she didn't ask for anything bigger because I obviously indulge her. But look at her!! I can't help it :)

And her first time with pig tail braids! 

visit from Krystal

We had a visit from Dave's sister- Krystal! We had such a fun time with her. We are so glad she came all the way from Salt Lake to see us. Here's what we did to show her a good time:

Zilker Zephyr

We went downtown and rode the train at Zilker Park

 Verts.
We met Dave for lunch by his office one day.

 Round Rock Donuts
What's a visit to Round Rock without hitting up the best donut shop ever?

 The Alamo
Me and Krystal went to a movie one night. We were very excited. And ate WAY too much junk food.

 Date night!
We got a sitter one night and headed downtown.
We got more donuts- This time from Gourdoughs

 And went and saw the Austin bats. It was my first time seeing the bats-- it was AWESOME

 Then went and got some ice cream from a place called Lick. Hence Dave licking my forehead...

 church
It was nice to have someone around to take a picture of all 5 of us. So we took advantage and took a serious family photo

 Labor Day
We went to the pool

 Look at that cute tan line...

 There was a little snake in the pool... gross

 Allisa came with us to the pool. So fun

 Then we went to Rudy's for lunch. You can't come to Texas without having some BBQ

 This sign is really funny-- since Dave is 95% vegetarian

 It was so fun to have her here. Nice to have someone around to catch me at my finest mothering moments.