4th of July weekend!!

Fourth of July weekend was such a fun and busy weekend for us! On Friday, we drove up to Oklahoma to visit Jason's brother and his family. Cousin time is always a fun time 😁

They have a HUGE backyard that we thoroughly enjoyed all weekend. 

On Saturday morning, they took us to the Oklahoma Science Museum in OKC. That place was sooo amazing and it puts both science museums in the DFW area to shame. They had one area that had a huge indoor playscape and then lots of fun kid stuff that was still full of science too called CurioCity! We spent over an hour in the area alone!

This little carousel was propelled by them them moving the arm handles. So fun and cute! A lot of this area had circus type of theme with lots of science stuff incorporated into it.

A giant pin cushion that you could make designs and hand prints in 

The other side 

Sling shots to hit the targets 

 The big "kid" 😂 had fun with the sling shot area too!

The bed of nails!! The kids enjoyed it, but I said no thank you!🙅

They also had a cute little cave area next to the water station area that wasn't full of sand but little pebbles that looked like sand so it didn't stick everywhere!!! And all the mommas said "Thank you!" My least favorite thing about sand boxes - the sand just gets EVERYWHERE!! Am I right? The kids had fun digging for bones and other little trinkets and then were able to put their shoes back on without that grimy feeling of sand!

 Now this was sand but it was a dial that spinned around and you could make designs in it.

 They would jump on the balloons and they would move out of the way. The littles had a blast with this thing!

They made paper airplanes here and then the table would shoot them off for them to see how far they flew

J played in this area for a while. The tubes were filled with blowing air and some you could move to make different pathways for the ball to go. He had fun watching his ball go around and around.

We left the CurioCity area and explored some other parts of the museum. This area was a huge tree house play area. So so fun! 

We looked at airplanes 😃

 J had a blast watching all the trains going around on this display of model trains. I think there were 4-5 different trains going. He kept yelling "Train! Train!" and when they went in the tunnels he would get sad and say "where they go?". He is my little train lover. 💙

This was the space area and this was machine that you practiced landing on the moon. My little space lover (E) had fun with this thing.

Then the gymnastics area! A huge hit with my kiddos!!

All the cousins!

We went back to their house after a yummy lunch at Freebirds and played with trains and puzzles for the rest of the afternoon.

J stuck on of the motorized trains on his head and got it stuck in his hair. We couldn't get it out no matter how hard we tried so we just had to cut it out. He had a bald spot in that area but its already growing out again so no harm done. 😬😬

This was right after we cut up out the train. I was trying to distract him and it wasn't really working. He was traumatized to say the least. Poor guy!

 We headed back home to the DFW area Sunday after church because Jason had to work on Monday but we had a blast with family! Fourth of July started out with a yummy breakfast! Powdered GF/DF donuts and eggs in a hole with a cut out of a star

We celebrate the 4th obviously on Halloween plates 😂😂😂

We then headed to the bike parade that was in a local town nearby. The kids came with decorated bikes for the 4th and then got to ride them around a blocked off round about around town hall separated by age groups.

Aren't they so cute?? E declared it the best and wants to do it again next year. 

My cute little firecrackers 🎇🎇

We had fun in the backyard pools in the afternoon! 

I made a sugar cookie fruit pizza for dessert after dinner that night. It actually turned out really yummy! 

It was great 4th!! Holidays are the best!

Life happened

So yeah, I've given up on getting caught up on all the stuff I want to put on here. It will get done, but for now I will just do current things.

We have had some busy weekends in the month of April. The last two weekends have been especially busy. Brace yourself with a lot of photos.

The weekend before Easter, we started the weekend off with E's soccer game. She is really enjoying it this year and it's been fun to play with some of her friends on the time.

She won the character award after the game. Courteous was the character trait for the week and she was so excited that she got to have a medal AND get a sign for her yard for the week.

J hitching a ride after the game

Jason worked on Saturday afternoon/evening at the traveling musical at Fair Park working as the physical therapist and I took the kids to find Easter outfits. Clearly we all know who had the harder job here..ha!E picked out the headband and declared that she wanted this for her Easter outfit so I quickly found J's outfit to match the colors and then grabbed about 7 different dresses in the color scheme and quickly tried them on in the dressing room while I also tried to keep J from climbing underneath the dressing room door. (Jesus, help me)

Sunday we had church and then we rushed home and had lunch really quickly before heading out again. I'm part of a natural/crunchy mama group on Facebook, and we had our annual picnic on that Sunday afternoon. It was sooo much fun!

E got to ride the ponies. I was kind of jealous and wanted to do it. 

E has been wanting to fly her kite that has been in our hall closer for FOREVER and this was the perfect place to do it. She had fun flying it with her daddy.

I chased J around while he played with balls, sticks, and dirt and tried to have conversations with several mommas and met several new ones.

Fast forward to Easter weekend:

We had another soccer game in the morning. E played almost the entire game and I tried to corral J so I could watch her play.

J playing with one of our friend's kids

After the game, we stopped by one of our friend's little boy's birthday party at the park. We played on the swings, we went down slides, and we played in the dirt. It was quick and then we got back to do baths and have some down time with family before heading out to a wedding!!

We stopped at Starbucks on the way and I tried out a new drink. Very Berry Hibiscus - gets 5 stars in my book!!

Jason's cousin was getting married that Saturday night and almost all of Jason's family came in for the affair. It was such a great time celebrating the happy couple and spending time with family. The wedding was in the cute little chapel and then the reception was in the garden outside. It was such a cute place.

Quick pick of us in between dancing and eating 

This is where my kids spent most of their time - on the dance floor. My girl LOVES to dance and J does anything that his sister does. We had fun doing the Cupid Shuffle together as a family among other dances. Ha!

Don't ask me what I was doing. Clearly I have awesome moves 😂

We had to get a cute picture since we were all dolled up. I will spare you all the many pictures it took to get this one.

EASTER SUNDAY!!! I love Easter! Love it! The kids opened their Easter baskets before church. (We don't do the Easter bunny with the giving of presents but they get their pictures taken with him sometimes. I don't really put much emphasis on it. To each his own 😀. They got lunch boxes for all our picnics to the zoo and parks this summer, swimsuits, books, sunglasses, some fun dollar toys and some yummy snacks.

Showing off her Paw Patrol watch

Checking out his sunglasses

We went to church and then I made Easter lunch for Jason's family and our next door neighbors and their kids. In total = 24 people including our family of four. There was a lot of food and we had leftovers FOR DAYS. (I may have over-prepared) We even had an Easter egg hunt before the lunch festivities for the 7 kids that were there. They had all those eggs within 5 minutes. They brought their A game.

Just part of the crowd for Easter lunch 

Playing with playdoh with his great-grandma (GG) 

I tried getting a really cute picture of the two of them in their Easter outfits, but I waited until all the festivities were over and they were just over everything. 😅 This was the best I got.

Hope everyone else had a fantastic relaxing Easter!!!