Bill & Bill Retirement Party

Today we had a surprise retirement party for Bill (of Bill & Rita) and Bill (of Bill & Linda). The funniest part of the afternoon was when we all went to give them their retirement cards. Apparently there are only so many retirement cards and with 6 different families giving cards each Bill got three of the same version of two different cards. It was hilarious!
Then after everyone read all of their cards Mark read a poem that he wrote for the occasion - in a Jamaican accent :) Excellent!











On the way home from the party we saw a Hot Rod car show at one of our local restaurants so we stopped to check out some of the cool cars!

Waco Road Trip

What an exhausting and fabulous day :)

We headed south to Waco this morning to meet our friends from Austin for a fun filled afternoon at the museum. We met at 11am at the Collin Street Bakery to fill our tummies with lunch and some of their yummy cookies and then it was on to visit the Mayborn Museum.

Our main purpose for the trip was to visit the Lego Castle Adventure exhibit. It was really amazing. There were building stations for old and young, dragons, knights, and even stained glass made completely out of legos, and the kids favourite - a computerized catapult.
After taking in our fill of the Lego exhibit we hit the rest of the museum. We spent 5 hours exploring the 17 themed Discovery rooms which included the Water and Bubbles Room, the Health Room, the Energy Room, and the People of the World Room. It was definitely worth the drive. Super fun summer day!

Lara's First Bridal Shower and Zing Zang Zoom Circus

What a crazy day!

My sister's first bridal shower was this morning :) Her best friend came up from Houston to help host at my mom's house. Lara invited her best girlfriends and we had a blast. We played "Dress the Bride" and Bridal Bingo, munched on turkey and cream cheese sandwhiches, Chick Fil A nuggets, and fabulous cake and Lara opened some fabulous presents from lingerie to more lingerie! A really fun shower if I do say so myself.

After the shower I headed out because Ryan, the kids and I had tickets for the circus. Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Zing Zang Zoom circus was great! A wacky, fun filled circus with horses, elephants, and tigers along with the crazy guys who walk around the large spinning circle. Kids loved it!

Pinkalicious

Pinkalicious came to Southlake today!

The kids and I (along with a couple of our friends) went to see Pinkalicious - a play put on by a local acting company.

After the play (which was fabulous) we headed over to one of our favourite Grapevine parks - the Spider Park. We had a picnic lunch and ran off some energy with our tennis friends.

Little Miss Plays Tennis

Little Miss started Tennis Camp this week and she loves it! Yeah!
This is her first dabble at tennis and I was really hoping that she'd like it. The first day she learned how to hold the racquet and how to step forward and bring the racquet back. They did a little bit of volleying at the net as well. On Tuesday they repeated the information they learned on Monday and then they started to learn the swing. Today they repeated all that they had learned and kept practicing.