Disney on Ice

April 23, 2010 - Disney on Ice came to Cedar Park. And since they were so nice to come to our town, we decided to bless them with our presence (ha ha) - especially since Madison loves Ariel right now. Four is such a cute age. AND, while we were there, Mackenzie lost her 2nd front tooth! Dave had to save it in a water bottle so we wouldn't lose it before the tooth fairy came.

Easter Time

April 4, 2010 - Easter Sunday. What can I say except the Easter Bunny delivered? Here's also a pic from our Bella Vista Easter party taken earlier.

Visit to the Natural Gardener

April 2, 2010 - The girls came with me to the Natural Gardener, a huge nursery of plants and gardening supplies. They also have animals, a swing, and some bluebonnets growing about. So we enjoyed the day and had fun taking pics with my phone (my camera died on our cruise). Mackenzie took this one. And Madison took this one.

Spring Break Cruisin and a Trip to Grandma's

March 13-20th, 2010 - We drove the girls up to Grandma Linda's for a week of fun time while Dave and I flew to Ft Lauderdale to board the Celebrity Solstice for a week. Amazingly refined decor and restaurants. No Carnival crowd here. Glass blowing demo off the back of the sun deck, the aqua spa, and we stayed in the Aqua Class rooms. This meant we got to eat at Blue, the special Aqua class restaurant. It was a great experience but a bit too euro for our tastes after a while. We stopped in Puerto Rico, Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Gorda BVI, and Haiti at Royal Carribean/Celebrity's private island pit-stop. The huge earthquake hit Haiti just a few months before and we wanted to go and try to help the economy. We bought some things from a canoeing salesguy during our waverunner excursion but weren't able to see much else of the island. They kept us pretty isolated (on purpose, I think - Haiti is a very poor country and even more so since the devastating earthquake). This is the last picture we took the whole trip since I put our camera in my pocket and then got hit by a huge wave at the Baths at Virgin Gorda. We met Jim and Sarah Mather there who we ended up hanging out with the rest of the cruise. Really nice couple who live in Daytona Beach now. Wish I had a picture of them, sigh...

Chocolate Pizza Mondays

Madison started her first ballet/tap class this year (09-10) at the MA Dance Studio on 1431. We go on Monday mornings at 10:45. Afterwards we always go to Double Dave's pizza buffet for the pizza and salad and (most importantly) 'chocolate pizza' afterwards. It is this amazing confection of chocolate-chip cookie dough baked over a thin pizza crust. It is sooooo good, it's gotta be really bad for you. But I figure if a 4 year old with her perfectly unclogged liver can't enjoy it, then who can? Sometimes you just have to embrace life. :) One Monday, her classmates came along. Aren't they so cute? Madison, Addy Fort, Grace, and Avery Bates

Snow and a Lost Tooth

Feb 23, 2010 - It surprised us all and actually snowed in Austin. Miracles do happen. And Grandma Linda was still visiting and got to witness it. I have a lot of childhood memories of the rare snows we had in Huntsville, Alabama. It made it all the more special that it was so unusual. The girls had a great snow-flinging fight and got mostly soaked. Aaahhh, wintertime. And on February 28th, Mackenzie finally lost her first front tooth. It had been barely hanging on for over a week.

Mackenzie's 7th Birthday Party

Feb. 20th, 2010 - Mackenzie wanted her party at Build-a-Bear this year. She had a big bunch of friends build bears together and then we all had pizza and cake in the food court. No clean up, yay for Mom!!! Sophia Tenrreiro, Jharna Kamath, Madison Elena Venincasa, Kaitlyn Genzer, Emma Stallings, Bella Ousterhout Avery Pratt, Meredith Lannan, Kenzie, Hannah Soechting Emma, Kenzie, and Meredith