Playdate with the G's

Before Derek started his new job, he and Logan headed up to Denton for a playdate with Grandma Deckard and Great Grandma Miller (the G's). Their day was full of adventure beginning with breakfast and a quick trip to pick up Mommy's favorite treat, a homemade fried pie! Then they headed to the Gainsville park to ride the train. Next it was off to fly a kite...for the first time! Logan had a blast and was really flying the kite all by himself as you can see from the pictures. It was a day for the memory books!

Welcome the new Backyardigan, Logan

It's official...we now have the beginnings of a kiddo-friendly backyard. I am not a person who likes clutter, so I was a little reluctant to start putting a lot of toys in the backyard. However, when we saw this slide set at Buy Buy Baby, I knew it was a "must-have!" I also knew it had to come home with us because we couldn't get Logan off of it in the store. The moment he saw it, the slide was his! We had to really convince him that the slide was coming home with us before he would relinquish his grip on the show-room floor model.

Also, Logan LOVES to play outside. I think we showed him too many episodes of the Backyardigans! He already has a farmer's tan, which is hilarious! Everyday when we get home he runs straight to the backyard and wants to slide.

Here are some pictures of Logan and Derek enjoying the new toy:

Easter Pictures

The Dallas Arboretum has the most beautiful Spring Blooms! We decided to head out there and take a few pictures with the tulips. It was a very windy day, as you can tell by Logan's hair, but he loved running around in the gardens!

Our little Easter bunny

Last Easter, Derek and I were happily the egg-hunters (I mean, even adults like to get candy out of plastic eggs). Fast forward to this year and our little Easter bunny knew exactly what to do with eggs and a basket! Logan ran to each brightly colored egg and put it right into his basket. As a matter of fact, he loved it so much that we had pretend Easter egg hunts for the next week after Easter.

Easter started at our house with the traditional bunny cake. This tradition started with my Grandmother and this year my Mom made the cake to carry on the tradition with Logan. It

really warms my heart to know that we have traditions already started. Next, the Easter

Bunny visited our house and off Logan went. It was so fun to watch him spot the egg and then race over to it, as if there were competition. While Logan was outside, his baskets were set up inside. Grandma and Grandpa Aswell came thru with the best items: Bubbles and a toy dog!

Next we went to Derek's parents house where Logan hunted eggs with 6 other children. My in-laws are troopers as they filled over 280 eggs with candy! It was fun to watch all of the children race around to find where the Easter Bunny had hidden all of those eggs! Luckily Logan and his cousin, who is very close to his age, had their own part of the yard to hunt their eggs. They had plenty of time casually walk over to each egg and carefully place it in their basket. It was so cute to watch both of them! Grandma and Grandpa Deckard got Logan all ready for baseball season. He received a Yankee's baseball cap that looks just like Derek's and an Astro's shirt to help me root on my favorite team! Now it's time to take Logan to his first baseball game.

Below are some pictures from Logan's Easter adventures. As you will see, we had to put a trail of Easter eggs leading into the house to get Logan in from outside so that he could see his Easter baskets.

Safari

I love being a teacher for so many reasons, but one reason I love being a teacher is Spring Break! I truly enjoyed the time with Logan and Derek, as well as our adventure to Glenrose. We had a wonderful time with our sweet friends, the Wiers, and enjoyed seeing some animals at the drive-thru safari.

Before we began our adventure to the safari, Derek and I were a little bummed because the passenger side window in my car was not working. We were concerned that Logan would miss feeding some of the animals if they were on the passenger side versus the driver's side. However, Jesus was looking down on us that day and enabled my passenger window to work for one day only...and that was on safari day! No joke, we said a prayer in the car thanking Jesus for fixing our window so that our child could truly enjoy everything about the drive-thru safari. It's the little blessings right? :)

On with the adventure...Logan was so thrilled to be riding in the front seat with us, first of all. He then quickly figured out the process of throwing food out the window for the animals (this was his favorite part). It was so neat to watch his face light up as the animals came closer to the car!

Here are some pictures from our adventure in Glen Rose:

Enjoying Tres Rios

Fossil Rim (Note: The zebras were VERY friendly, as you can see!)

Logan "driving": He chose to watch the animals instead of the road.

THE Peanut Butter Event

Derek likes to refer to these pictures as "THE peanut butter disaster of 2010!" Personally, I thought it was a fun way to for Logan to eat his PB. It was one of those days where he wanted to feed himself so instead of fighting him on the issue, I decided to let him go for it. Logan had a blast and a full tummy! However, I do try to keep all PB on either a spoon or a slice of bread...this event was a bit messy to clean up.

Snow Day - Part 2!

So in all of my 30 years (that's right people, I welcomed the big 3-0 this year) I do not think it has EVER snowed on my birthday! But I can thank March 21, 2010 for a white birthday. We were driving back from Glenrose after a fabulous weekend with the Wiers. We heard it had snowed, but we expected more of a light dusting. The closer we got to Forney, the more snow there was! When we pulled into our driveway, we had over 2 inches of snow at our house. Happy birthday to me!

Picture of our backyard

Logan was not as excited about the snow this time...

This is why Texas doesn't recieve a lot of snow...we dress funny in our "snow gear"