Weekend in Austin

We went to Austin this past weekend. Adam had a training camp that he was going to and Logan and I just wanted to get out of town. We stayed at Aunt Michaelas apt., but unfortunately she was in Corpus while we were in Austin. We left Corpus around 5pm on Friday and we hadn't even gotten to Calallen yet and Logan was already hollering. We thought, "Oh goodness this could be a VERY long trip." We sang a few songs to her and once we eventually stopped for dinner she quieted down and eventually fell asleep...WHEW!!!
Saturday morning Logan and I dropped Adam off and headed to visit Laura Dupont and baby Ruby. Unfortuantely I didn't get any pictures of her, but she was the sweetest baby. She slept the entire time we were there.
That afternoon we picked Adam up and went out to dinner. After dinner we went by the State Capitol. I had never been there and neither had Logan.

Here is a shot of Adam and Logan in front of the State Capitol

Here is a shot of Logan and I in front of the State Capitol

Here is Logan doing lunges inside the Capitol. (her daddy has taught her well)

Here is a family photo in the Capitol

Here is Logan sitting by the fountain on our way out

Late Sunday morning we headed back home for Corpus. It was nice to get a little break away from home.

Reading to Logan

Check out the post below. I had already ready 3 different books to Logan and I had probably already read this particular book about 5 times before we started filming.
She's too CUTE!!!

Reading to Logan

New Location for Adam's Gym

We spent the 4th of July week and weekend moving locations of Adam's gym. WOW!!! How exhausting yet, it is so exciting to have him so close to home. His new gym is two blocks away from our house.
On Thursday the moving company came and picked up all the equipment and brought it over to the new place. There was so much stuff. Adams gym is now a bit smaller than his previous location, but this location is so much better for visibility. So having a smaller place, yet having all of your same stuff; it left for a huge mess and lots to clean up.

We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday arranging all the equipment, throwing things out that were no longer needed and the things we wanted to keep or sell, went into our garage. Thank goodness we had that "garage sale" a few weeks ago because we had room to put all that stuff in our garage. Logan wanted to be a big help and show us where everything went. On Friday I think we realized that not much was going to get accomplished with her help, so we had a wonderful babysitter come over for a few hours each day and watch Logan while we were hard at work. Logan seemed to enjoy herself.

By Sunday, with some help from our dear friend Jerry, we had the gym as complete as we could get it. All that is left to do is get the mirrors ordered and hung and then of course the sign hung up on the outside of the building. I have to say the gym looks fantastic and it is much more visible from the road. And with gas prices going up like crazy Adam can actually walk to the gym. By Sunday evening we were exhausted, it was a lot of hard work, but it's great that it's all done.

Logan's First Steps

Unexpected weekend

What a weekend. At first Adam, Logan and I were going to head to Houston to visit IKEA, but ended up not going. So I decided that on Saturday I'd go to get a massage and pedicure....a little treat for myself and a break away for a few hours. Friday night we come home from having dinner with our friends Brian and Natalie and put Logan to bed. I was sitting on the couch and my wonderful husband gives me a lovely note about how much he appreciates all that I do for him and Logan and ends up paying for my massage and pedicure. I was so grateful and appreciated it so much.

So Saturday comes and we went and took Logans first year photos and a family photo of us. She did such a great job. She was so adorable.

After the photos got done we came home and noticed that our neighbors were having a garage sale. Our garage is full of SO much stuff and prior to that we had scheduled amongst ourselves two seperate times to have a garage sale, but the days never worked out. So on Friday I had called the Salvation Army to come and pick up our stuff for donation. Well it was 10:30am and we decided to jump on the band wagon with our neighbors and we started pulling our stuff our of the garage and put a sign up that read, " Garage Sale -- Give us an offer." Nope we hadn't even priced a single thing, but we figure well we were just going to give this stuff away and now it looks like we could make a few bucks. Sure enough in no time we had sold almost everything we put out there. Within 2 hours we had made a few hundred dollars. We were very happy. An hour later I left for my massage and when I got back home we took Logan over to Honey's (Grandma Farrell) and Adam and I got to go to a nice dinner. What a great weekend. Made some money, got a massage and pedicure, and had a wonderful dinner with just my husband. Thanks Honey for watching Logan.

Logan Turns 1 !!!

Logan turned 1 year old this weekend. I can't believe how quickly a year has gone. We had a BBQ at our house on Saturday to celebrate her first birthday. Plenty of kids were there and I think she had a lot of fun. She enjoyed playing with the kids and she took a dip with her friend Caroline. She loved her cake. She picked the whole thing up and put it into her mouth...well as best as she could. It was great. She did her first birthday the right way. She got wonderful gifts and is enjoying playing with all of them. And Adam and I survived the first of many more birthday parties to come. It was actually a lot of fun having our friends over also. We enjoyed that because we don't get to have that too often.

Her actual birthday is today...Father's Day...so her and Adam get to enjoy the day together. I made Logan a t-shirt to wear that has two pictures of her and Adam on the front. One is the picture of them last year on Father's Day...which was the day we brought her home from the hospital and the second picture is the most recent one we had of the two of them. On the back of the t-shirt I put on " I Love My Daddy." This morning I put the t-shirt on and let her crawl into the bathroom where he was, so he could see the shirt.