Growing up

Ally has been wanting to get her haircut for a few months, she wanted more of a "style". Sunday morning Great Clips was having a special on haircuts so I finally gave in and got it cut. Then something happened my baby grew up. I know it was not just because of the haircut but it transformed the way she looked and suddenly she was older. She has been changing for awhile and she is already 5 feet tall but this just hit me in the gut that she was no longer a little kid. Matt is changing some too but he is a boy and they take longer (thank goodness). I am already missing the little girl aspect of Ally, the time went so fast.

My Aunt Nancy is in town to do some training for her new job and we got to visit with her this evening. Our family hasn't seen her in 5 years and while it has been less than that for my mom and sisters it has still been awhile. We went to dinner at Olive Garden and then took some group pictures afterward. Poor Chris has an eye patch because of a bad case of pinkeye but he was a good sport and took pictures anyway. We had a nice time and it was great to see Aunt Nancy.

It's raining baby

It has been hot lately here in Texas and we have had very little rain. Till this afternoon that is, we had rain and lots of it. The girls went out to play and have some fun. They ran around, danced and hammed it up for the camera. They had a blast, unfortunately it is still hot and now real muggy outside. I loved the rain though and the heat is hot but I love it in January.

Rangers Game

Our nephew Josh played on a baseball select team this summer and his fundraiser was to sell discounted baseball tickets, so we bought a packet to go to some Rangers games. Today the Rangers were playing the White Sox and yea they won 12 to 11. We had never been to this ballpark before and were excited to check it out. Lucky for us we had seats in the shade since today was in the high 90's. We had a great time and hope to go again later this summer.

July 4th

Yesterday was the 4th of July and the day turned out pretty good but it started out a little interesting. We decided to try the fireworks at Lake Grapevine this year but we had never been there before. There was a seemingly easy viewing map online that we printed out. We met up with Dorothy and John then swung by so Michelle and Chad could follow us also. After a few wrong turns which made all the people in the respective cars disagree with their significant others we finally found the first viewing spot. It was super crowded and we decided let's go to the next spot on the map which was nearby. It was nearby alright but it took several wrong turns to actually find it. Yeah, this isn't crowded at all but there is a reason because it is about a 1/2 mile hike in which would be no big deal if we didn't have stuff. So much stuff that needed to be brought in but we did it.

Once we were finally at the spot we had a great time. The kids swam in the lake and the adults sat back and relaxed. We had a pretty good view of the fireworks and we were pretty mellow by the time it was time to hike back.