Suburbs

Last Friday night we went to the Grouplove/Young the Giant concert.  It. Was. Awesome.  I was a little apprehensive because it was at a bar.  I thought, "Oh great, it is bad enough not having control over people next to you smoking at large venue concerts- how's it going to be when we are couped up in a bar with tons of people"?  BUT, because it was an all ages show there were a lot of teeny boppers there, so there was actually very little smoking and drinking going on.  Grouplove did a great job, and though I wasn't a huge YtG fan before (just because I hadn't heard much of their music), I thought they did great and I am definitely into their music now.  I only took one picture while there, but Jeremy did take some video and posted it to YouTube.  I am too lazy to link it.

Because we are going to spend the majority of the day in the car tomorrow, we decided to dvr conference and do some fun outdoor activities with the girls today.  So we got up bright and early and headed over to the Oak Point Spring Fest.  (All of my pictures suck.  I guess I couldn't tell in the light that my pictures were overexposed.  I thought I had adjusted the settings correctly, but evidently not.  One of these days I really will take a class.)

Oh!  By the way...Joey's hair is not wet in these pictures.  She SMOTHERED herself in vaseline last night.  We washed her hair with baby powder and Dawn dish soap three times and it was still nasty.  Tonight we tried peanut butter and that actually helped it, so we might be back on the road to normal soon.

Joey spotted the Easter Bunny as soon as we walked up and would not take her eyes off him.

Not a great picture of Shelby, but I was trying to get a shot of her shirt.

Can I just say how proud I am of Shelby?  This is her surrounded by the swarm of greedy kids.  Actually, I shouldn't call them greedy.  It's not their fault.  Their parents were coaching them prior to the egg hunt saying things like, "Go fast, get as many as you can!  Fill that basket to the top!".  I don't know, I just found that totally off-putting.  Kind of like Black Friday.  Anyway, Shelby was so polite, never shoved anyone out of the way, and if she saw anyone going for the same egg- even if she was closer- she would give it to them.

In Oak Point, at the end of the egg hunt, you have to open all the eggs, get your candy, and give the eggs back so they can reuse them next year.  We're a small town.

 After the egg hunt we tried out Velvet Taco in Dallas.  Mmmmm.  It was goooooooood.  Then it was off to the Arboretum to walk off some of the food.

View of downtown Dallas through the trees.

These Azaleas reminded us of Mamaw, so we had to get a picture.

I love living in a small town so that we can do the small town things like the Oak Point Spring Fest, but close enough to a larger city so that we can enjoy awesome restaurants and fun things to do.  We were talking about it today and Jeremy was telling me the places he wouldn't mind living.  They were ok, but when I was thinking about it I really thought about how much I have liked living here.  Not sure how long that feeling will last (ask me again in July when it is 110 degrees), but for now, I am pretty happy.

First Date

Today marks 13 years since our first date.  My how time flies!

March 27, 1999
Laconian Dance
Salmen High School

JFJ

This girl melts my heart. She really talks a lot now. Some of the cute things she says are:

- Hi guys!
- Bye guys!
- Thank you!
- Love you!
- Shelby, eh awww you? (Shelby, where are you?)
- Dooby Dooby Doo! (Scooby Dooby Doo!)
- Essssss you! (Bless you!)
- Oxy! Hush! (Roxy! Hush!)
- Get away from me!  (OK, this one isn't so cute.)
- More cereal please!

She says so much more but it's late and my brain isn't fully functioning.  I just wanted to write down a few things, especially since I have been feeling guilty lately about the lack of info I have recorded in her baby book.

Joey loves to sing.  I put the Primary CD in the car today and she was trying to sing all the words to all the songs, even though she was just hearing some of them for the first time.  Her favorite songs to sing are "Popcorn Popping", "I Love you" (The Barney Song), and "Baby" (Justin Bieber).

She can be really stubborn and opinionated at times, but super sweet others. She is also very shy and flirty with guys.  Yesterday we went to eat at this Irish pub for St. Patrick's Day and she kept smiling at the old man at the table next to us, but whenever he would say something to her she would bury her head in my shoulder. 

Joey has also been very cuddly lately.  She LOVES to lay in my lap and watch Scooby Doo.  In fact, she really just likes to sit in my lap and do anything.  If I walk into the playroom where she is and sit down, she will promptly get up and come sit in my lap, and then continue to play with whatever she was playing with.  The other day I was doing Ab Ripper X in the playroom and pretty much did the whole thing WITH Joey on my stomach.  I couldn't get her off. 

But, as cuddly as she can be with me, do not be fooled.  She does not like other kids to get in her face.  I always ask the nursery leaders how Joey did when I pick her up.  The past two weeks I have been told she has been aggressive.  I asked if it was provoked or if she just randomly went up to kids and hit them (not that it matters, both are wrong) and it was becauses other kids got too close.  She likes her personal space.  I am pretty sure that is characteristic of a lot of two year olds (or almost two year olds), and I am sure Joey is guilty of invading other kids' spaces as well.  We'll just have to try and teach her that not all kids want to take her toys. 

Anyway, just a few things I wanted to record about that sweet little munchkin.

Today

Today was a good day.  Jeremy worked from home because I had a training to attend this afternoon.  Man I wish he could work from home everyday.  It was so nice to have someone take turns changing diapers or going up and down the stairs for juice.  After work this afternoon we headed over to Red Robin for dinner.  I'm not sure why I was craving it- it's not like their food is that great.  I think because my sister had been talking about it though, I just couldn't get it out of my head and I figured the only way to remedy that was to eat there.  Anyway, since it was so nice outside (love Spring in TX!) we decided to check out a park nearby.  They had some really fun playground equipment that I haven't seen before! 

This thing was cool.  You stand on it and your weight causes the slightly tilted base to twirl.  You can twirl really fast in that thing.

There were several different rock walls.  This was the biggest one.

After she got to the top she was kind of scared, plus we realized there was no easy way down, so I had to climb up.

 

This thing was like a tilted merry-go-round that you stand on.

Attempting chin-ups.

Playtime!

This is Joey's banana costume from Halloween 2010.  She was 6 months old then and the costume at that time was already too small and we had to cut holes at the bottom of the bunting so her legs could dangle.  She found it the other day and insisted on wearing it.

Oh my wordy, look who's 30!!

Last Thursday Jeremy turned 30!  (It was also my 8 yr anniversary at work, but we'll focus on what's important- Jeremy getting old.)  He had a training thing in Plano that day so he got to "sleep in" until 7.  Of course I made him his favorite breakfast- tomato gravy and biscuits.

The rest of the day was pretty low key.  We went to dinner that night, but we had to make it quick since Joey decided she was going to run all over Outback.  We came home and had cake and called it a night.

The real celebrating came Friday night when we had an 80s themed birthday party.  We had a great time dressing up- who doesn't love blue eye shadow and leg warmers?

Jeremy wanted a close up of his hair.  He used to part his hair this way and then flip it up along the part when he was like 5.

Of course there was lots of yummy food.  I took the easy route and ordered sandwich trays and queso, made an easy Funfetti fruit dip, tomato/mozzarella/avocado salad, hot wing dip, and had Sprinkles cupcakes.

We also played Win, Lose, or Draw, which the girls dominated.  The guys made fun of us for taking so long to fill out our slips of paper, but we knew better.  We took our time and really thought about how easy or difficult things would be to draw.  They gave us things like Dirty Dancing, Purple Rain, and The Land Before Time- all things we drew/guessed in less then 20 seconds.  Haha!  I guess they'll know better next time.

I think Jeremy was zeroing in on the dark chocolate cupcake.

After cupcakes we played Trivial Pursuit 80s edition. It was a million times harder than normal Trivial Pursuit. I probably should have bought Scene It 80s edition or something else that was more focused on pop culture. Oh well.

 

Oh yeah!  So this is how I wrapped Jeremy's birthday present.  It was sitting in our room for a week.  He just thought it was decoration for the party and had no idea his present was inside.  I got him tickets to the Grouplove/Young the Giant concert.  This concert sold out almost as soon as tickets went on sale and he had no idea I had found some (of course I had to pay a lot more for them, but he's worth it).  Actually, it was kind of a selfish present to give since I am super excited to see Grouplove.

I hope Jeremy had a fantastic birthday.  I am so happy to be his wife and to get to share these milestones with him.  Happy Birthday, Jeremy!