Is that my baby?

So I have to start this post by saying that Cash wants to do everything by hiself! EVERYTHING. Now when we go shopping Cash has to walk... He will not ride in the cart and if you have ever been shopping with an almost 3 year old it takes 5 times as long as he walks slow and watches every person.

So we were at Walmart get some basics, shampoo, hairspray, and deodrant for me and Toby, I had put ours in the cart and was moving on to the next isle and he layed down on the floor in Walmart and started screaming. For the life of me I could not figure out what was wrong, he kept saying something, about mine.. shdfkjlsdhfkjshl! Thats what it sounded like, I could not make it out. So finally I told him to show mommy and he took me to the deodrant isle and picked some up and said "Mine Mommy" and put some in the cart. When he was not looking I took it out, and put it back on the shelf, but he still thought that mine was his. We finished our shopping and went home.

Fast foward about a week. I could not find him in the house, and I called his name and went into my bathroom and he had taken his stool in there, and this is what I found!

I quickly ran and got my camera and took this picture. This is when I realized a couple of things...
1. He is not a baby
2. He copies everything
3. He observes everything even if you do not think that he is...

New Orleans

I had to go to New Orleans for the weekend for work and put on a training session, Todd our friend and one that I work with also was helping to hold the training. It was on Saturday so we decided that we would make a mini vacation of it since our good friend Marcus lives there and none of us had ever been to New Orleans. We left Houston late Friday morning and made the 6 hour drive to New Orleans. Once we arrived we checked into our hotel and waited for Marcus to arrive to go to dinner.
We went to a local resturant called Drago's. It was a seafood resturant and everyone thought that it was really good. I had steak fingers, so not really sure how great the seafood was! Ha! The desserts were huge. We ordered the brownie and icecream and it took up an entire plate!

Here were all were on Friday night. After dinner we went to a little bar called New Orleans Daiquiris. It was a fun place that we all just hung out for the evening. The next morning Todd and I got up early and were off for a day of training. Toby slept in and then spent the rest of the afternoon with Marcus. It was great that they got to spend some time together.

That evening Marcus, Toby and I went back to New Orleans Daiquiris bar, and are an appetizer and then headed to meet Todd and Dana for dinner and a night on Bourbon street. For some reason I thought that it would be like Vegas.. . I was a little wrong! It was nuts! Nothing that I pictured!

It was a really skinny street and there were people all over!! There was bar after bar after bar! We spent most of the evening just walking around and people watching. Toby even got to make some friends.

We were walking down the street and there was a bachelorette party and she had to find someone to propose to her. So who better than Toby?? It was pretty funny! He felt pretty special! Look at the smile on his face! Sunday morning it was up and to breakfast at Brennans and then home! It was a fun work weekend!!

** By the way, the hair on Friday was a wig, I am pondering cutting and coloring, but wanted to see if I liked it before I did it one day!! So it was a great way to test it!

New Kids on the Block!

I still need to post my actual birthday pictures from last Thursday. But this is what I have from our girls night to the New Kids on the Block concert! Me, Julie, Dana and Suzy all went and had the time of our lives!

We started the night off by going to cheesecake factory and eating dinner, and then a rainstorm blew in so we went to do some shopping to kill some time. We arrived at the concert just in time for New Kids.

We were able to park right across the street from the concert. We had great parking. We arrived at the concert just in time to see them, as the opening act had already played. We had great seats on the lawn and made ourselves comfortable for the concert.

They started playing right around 9pm, and played till a little after 11pm. It was awesome. We scream and danced and yelled and acted like kids again!

Notice the 80's ponytail I was wearing for the picture below. It made it more dramatic! Ha!

The people that sat behind us had the new kids sheet from back in the day and used it as a back drop for us. We had a great night having a girls night out, and have to make plans to do it again soon! We had a lot of laughs and made a lot of memories!!! :) Thanks for going with me girls!

4th Of July

On the 4th of July we got up early and headed to the 4th of July parade in Kingwood. This was Cash's first parade and he had a blast. We got there early and got a great shaded spot.
Cash loved watching what was coming down the road. He really liked getting to see all the fire trucks in the parade. This was the LONGEST parade ever! It was two hours long!

Cash would wave his American Flag when the floats would go by waving at him.

The Kingwood Tea Party Organization had a float in it and this guy was walking behind it carrying this sign! I loved it! There were some other funny ones, but this is the only one that I caught on camera! Only in Kingwood would this work without people saying something about it!

That afternoon after Toby got off work, the Schultz's came over to my parents and we all swam and cooked out! it was a lot of fun and we all had a blast!

Watching Cash and Cole together is so much fun! Cash loves getting to have a buddy to play with. I think that he gets bored with me!

Trip To Dublin

I am a little behind in the blogging, so I will try and catch up. The last weekend in June, we went to Toby's parents house for the weekend. Anyone who is in Texas knows how hot it has been. Cash wanted to be outside while we were there, but it was so hot. Toby's mom, had a big tub that we filled with water and let him put his suit on and go swimming. He thought that it was the best. You can see his facial expressions as he was sitting in the water since it was cold.
He loved playing and splashing in it. It was just his size. We gave him some bath toys to play with while he was in it and he was set!

Toby's dad made ayummy cake while we were there. Cash normally does not eat sweets unless its a cookie. But he ate two pieces of the cake!

I know why he had to eat two pieces as most of it ended up on his face!

We had a blast up there and enjoyed getting away for the weekend.

San Antonio Trip

Well, it finally got here... the trip Suzy, Julie and I had been waiting for! We left from Julie's house for San Antonio, for some good girl time of just hanging out! Our first agenda item was to find a post office so that I could mail a package. One would think that this would have been an easy task, but it wasn't. We even stopped in Giddings, texas and asked where one was only to not be able to find one. We were going down the road when Julie, saw this, did a uturn in the road and turned around!! At last we had found one.... where were we you might ask? Thats the same question that I asked. The post office was smaller than my living room... we were in Warda, Texas.

So I jumped out went inside to get a packaging for my present that I needed to get in the mail and then I was off to drop it in the box!

After a few laughs about the post office we contuined our drive to San Antonio, As we got closer, Suzy had the great idea to go to the drive through Zoo!! We turned off I-10 and hoped that our Garmin was going to lead us the right way, after driving off the beaten path for about 45 minutes we were beginning to wonder, we found it! This was the craziest thing that I have ever done!! It was nuts!!

The animals would come up and eat right out of your hands... the only rule, you could not get our of you car... I had issues with this, but Julie and Suzy would not let me get out! :(

The Zebra were our favorite!! At one point we had all the windows rolled down and had Zebras coming in 3 of the 4 windows, with me in the middle of the backseat trying to get away from them and Suzy jumping out of the front seat, her Zebra actually ended up stratching Julies Car! It was a little too Friendly!! After the drive through zoo it was off to San Antonio to check in to the hotel. We stayed at the Crown Plaza hotel. We checked in and decided to hit the riverwalk. We headed down to the Alamo for the first stop.

We were on foot, and it was 100 degrees and hot!! We took the wrong turns and had to take the long way to walk to the Alamo, we passed a lot of really creepy scary people along the way! We were glad when we arrived to see lots of people, as we were a little nervous on the walk there. We rode the riverwalk boats and walked around for a while, by this time we were hot, and tired and wanted to go to the room and clean up and change before dinner.

After cleaning up we headed down to the Riverwalk and ate dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. We got to sit outside on the river. We had a good time people watching.. we thought that we would stay there till late that night, but actually ended back up at the room early that night. We decided that we could call it a night and just hang out in the room. We figured out how to set the timer on our cameras so we could actually get a picture of us all together. We changed into our girls trip shirts and got comfortable for the night.

We talked and laughed for a while and then decided to order room service to our room, we order hot homemade cookies and milk. It was the best room service order ever!! The cookies were so warm and soft when they arrived and they brought the milk in a ice bucket for us.

Here we are eating milk and cookies instead of partying and drinking on the riverwalk... I think somewhere we grew up! Kinda depressing! After the cookies and milk it was lights out. We thought that we were going to call it an early night before heading to the outlet mall then next day, but we ended up talking in the dark for about 3 hours. I think that we finally drifted off to sleep somewhere around 1am. It was only about an hour later that Suzy and Julie woke up to me screaming at the top of my lungs, " WAKE UP WE HAVE TO GET OUTTA HERE" The fire alarm was going off in our hotel, and the loud speaker was telling us to evcaute. We grapped our purses and ran out the door before we even realized that we were in our matching shirts and Pajamas.

It was down 7 flights of stair, luckily we were not any higher. When we checked in I was going to ask for a higher room, I was glad at the point I did not. We ended up in the lobby with the other hotel guests who like us had gotten woken up. There was drunk guy in the lobby that kept telling us it was safe and to go back to the room. (I think that he may have pulled the alarm) Finally we were allowed to go back to our room, as they told us it was a false alarm.

The next morning we checked out, and got our room discounted because Suzy talked to the front desk about them waking us up and not being able to sleep because of the alarm, and we headed to the outlet mall for shopping and then back to Houston.

It was a great trip and we had a blast!!! The Zebras and the fire alarm were the best highlights of the trip, we laughed and almost cried during both!!

Pool Time!

I took a couple days of vacation, and got to spend alot of time with Cash! We had a blast. I bought a pool for the backyard on the days that we can not go to my parents and go swimming. He had his friend Cole over this weekend, and they had a blast! They swam and splashed and jumped in it for over 3 hours!

The boys got along great and would copy each other. What ever one did they other one tried to. It is really neat to see them interacting with each other at this age and talking up a storm. They have their own little conversations. I had to go back to work on Tuesday! Not looking foward to it! Wish I could have more time to play with my little one! I love this stage.