The Texas Hill Country

So since my Mom came out to visit we decided we better take the opportunity to take a weekend for ourselves. We drove out to the Texas hill country to a small little town called Wimberly. It was actually the first time we have ever left our children for more than a night, and although we missed them a ton, we had such a great time being alone!

For all you non-Texans, the Texas hill country is suppose to be where you go if you want to get away to the "mountains". Based on the picture above you can tell that we weren't really suffering from lack of oxygen because of the altitude. It was, however, a pretty scenic place to stay!


We booked a couple nights in this small little cabin called the "Caribbean Dream", it was somewhat secluded, so we didn't really have any real close neighbors. It was sort of like a Bed and Breakfast but without the Breakfast. Actually, one of the highlights from the trip was going to the local grocery store the first day to buy a few breakfast items. Some of the locals there rated pretty high on the Unintentional Comedy scale, and we almost wanted to go back before we left for some more people watching.

Here is another couple pictures from the inside....

The place had it's own small swimming pool, but it was pretty cold the two nights we stayed, so we didn't try to jump in the ice cold water.

We also had our own hot tub, and with it being so cold, it was great soaking in the hot tub at night.

We talked to a few locals to get recommendations on the best places to eat, and actually ate at a few really great places that had amazing food. This place was called Linda's Fine Foods, and it was so good, they had an old hippie couple there that night playing music that were actually pretty talented, and the highlight of the night was having Linda, herself, come and talk to us after dinner. Linda's husband was also there, hanging out all night, rock'n out with the band. Anyway, with Wimberly being such a small town we were surprised at how good we ate while we were there.

We saw these random signs along the way to our cabin, I guess they use these signs with people's last name instead of street signs.

We got a recommendation to go to this Italian restaurant that was located at a winery. It was about a 20 minute drive out there, but we decided we would go check it out. Unfortunately they were having a wedding or something, cause the place was packed, and it was like a 2 hour wait. So we decided it wasn't it worth it and went back into Wimberly for dinner. We did snap a few pictures though before we left.

We were happy to finally get away for some time alone! We had so much fun we are already trying to decide what our next trip will be!

My Mom's Visit

My Mom came to visit back in January for a few days, it was the first time she has come to stay with us that didn't correspond with me having a baby. So it was good to be able to do lots of fun stuff that we have never been able to do with a brand new baby.


The kids absolutely love their Grandma Karr, she can get them riled up pretty fast, and they start acting crazy. It was kind of nice to have her around, because instead of stepping on my heels following me around the house, they would follow her around the house everywhere.

One of Desaray's friends was in the high school play, so me, my Mom, and Dez all went to go watch him. I'm not sure what was more entertaining, watching the play or watching the awkward teenagers try to interact socially with one another. My vote is still with the awkward teenagers. I'm almost 50% sure I wasn't like that when I was a teenager.

We roasted marshmallows and hung around the campfire one night. I got Nate this sweet fire pit for Christmas. The kids ate way to many smores and ran around the back yard for an hour straight.

Tayla insisted on wearing her sunglasses. She claimed they were to protect her eyes from the smoke.

We decided to go to Tangled one last time, and take my Mom to go see it. It doesn't matter what movie it is, the kids love going to the movie theater's...especially to see Tangled!

One of the days while Tayla was in school, we took Noah to the butterfly exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. We saw lots of interesting bugs and insects, and of course butterflies.

Noah loved the butterflies. He wasn't too interested in holding them though.

He decided to tough it out and try to touch one

But freaked out when he realized he had one on his shoulder, lol. This picture was right before he noticed it on him..seconds later he tried his hardest to get it off, while squealing.

They had a pirate exhibit there and he was really intrigued by all the pirate guys hangin about!

And of course we had to ride the train. Noah will never pass up a train ride. Or should I say, never stop jumping up and down saying train until he sits on it...then he's all serious.

He actually kicked my mom off his seat because he wanted to ride alone on his bench.

As much as he loves trains and makes such a fuss to ride them, he is always so serious as soon as he sits on the train and during the ride, lol.

It's Not a New Year's Resolution

So I have been wanting to catch up on the blog for a long long time, and I finally got some time the last few days to post pictures from the last 6 months! Updating the blog has been on my "to-do-list" for a couple of months, so the massive catch up is not a result of any kind of New Year's resolution. Although being a better blogger probably should be. Anyway, all of the posts don't fit on one page so keep clicking older posts until you get sick of looking at pictures.

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This year is sure to be a good one!! We have already scheduled a TON of fun things this year for the children AND Nate and I!! Here are some pictures we have taken after the New Year:)

He is VERY into looking silly and having me take his picture, lol. He is also very interested in the scriptures! What a good little boy:)

We got together with some friends and had a fun time using the new grill Di and I picked up for the boys on Black Friday:) It was even a bit chilly, which makes us get our fill of camping out in Utah!

Noah is just as obsessed with Tangled as Tayla is. He loves this picture and laughs at it every time he sees it. He loves to sing and dance to the Tangled soundtrack even acts out some of the parts:)

Our little Ham

Look what I saw the other day...DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!! (Well almost!) If any of you have not seen the YouTube video of the guy freaking out about the double rainbow, you should, it's hilarious!

We are headed to see Tangled in theaters...again!

The kiddos couldn't get enough of Daddy and was happy to see him home every morning when they woke up! They were able to go to breakfast lots! One of their favorite things to do with Daddy! (although this time mommy came along!)

Noah and his big boy bed! We switched his crib because he was starting to climb out and we thought he'd like it better. He does like it, but he is the sneakiest and most quite boy, that he will sneak out and start playing without us even knowing! He did good for the first few days until he realized all his new found freedom...and started to take advantage!!

Tayla had given the wig and dress as a gift to her friend for her bday, and she waited it SO VERY BAD!! She was so excited she received them both for Christmas!

Tayla and Addy had a make-over...and Noah happily joined in! He came out and his face looked like this:

He actually did most of it, but his hair was done by the girls:) Noah actually loves to put it on! It's to the point where Nate has taken his role as Dad and has forbidden him to put it on, lol. Dez and I just laugh at him while he is trying to set rules about Noah and makeup. Probably the only subject Nate gets fired up about, lol.

We enjoyed a date night to dinner and a movie during Nate's time off after Christmas! It was an awesome Christmas break because we had so much fun staying here and enjoying all Nate's time off, without having to stress about flying and traveling. (although we did miss our family over the holidays!)