November 22, 2010

A Day at the Arboretum

Today I decided to take Jackson to run around at the arboretum b/c it was such a beautiful day and our friends were headed out there. He had a blast as usual and got incredibly worn out and tired, it was a fun day. Jeff was working half day today so we got out of his "hair" in the morning and enjoyed the day.

Enjoy the pics!


Jackson on a bench outside one of the mini houses!




Jackson in one of the old fashioned chuck wagons!

November 21, 2010

We kept hearing all day from Jackson about wanting this new toy and that new toy. Well I finally decided in order to distract..err deter him from asking about every.single.thing we saw at the store on Sunday that he just HAD TO HAVE I told him the only way he was going to get ANYTHING from this point on until Christmas was to sit on Santa's lap and ask the big man..LOL!
I knew that would stop him in his tracks, however, it actually backfired on me!! He said OK MOM, where's SANTA?!? UGH.
I thought well he won't want to go see him as he'll still be scared, nope. not this year! He's a "big kid" now so he was ready and willing to go sit on Santa's lap and tell him he wanted a gun, a blue sword and preferably some shoot 'em up game he can play on Wii that he's seen Jeff play on his computer.
We ended up going to the Village in Allen and visited the Santa we have been to since Jackson was 9 mos. We got right in as we were there at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon, the night after Santa officially "arrived". We were the second ones in line and right before our turn he looked at me and said "mom I'm not scared of Santa he's nice". I said of course Santa's nice he brings you toys you ask for Jackson! He agreed and it was our turn. He went right up and gave Santa a high five and sat on his lap and froze initially but then said Santa I want a blue sword. Santa replied, "like Star Wars?" Jackson's eyes were mesmerized and showed his shock and awe of Santa's knowledge of Star Wars! Santa was that much cooler suddenly in Jackson's eyes for he knew what Star Wars was and it was all cool now. He got a great picture and gave Santa a hug got down and screamed out MOM! I sat on Santa's lap and told him what I wanted!! I said yes I saw you Jackson, daddy and I heard you! He said OK mom, I'm ready for my blue sword now...ugh. I guess maybe next year he'll really get how Santa operates. lol! Oh well can't complain at least there were no tears this year and he sat willingly even with his John Deere tshirt and all, hey at least it was Christmas green!! :)



FYI this is a pic of the real pic. I took it with my cell phone so sorry it isn't the clearest!

Cowboys Stadium!

At the stadium
(these are all cell phone pics btw)
November 21, 2010

We are friends with the quarterback's parents of the Allen High School football team here in Allen, TX. They invited us to go and see their son play in the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington this past weekend. It was as awesome as we imagined it was and HUGE! We accidentally took a tour just trying to find where our friends were seated. LOL!
In any case, Allen lost by 2points but it was a fantastic game, SO close and Alec did wonderfully at quarterback! We can't wait to see what the team does next year!

Here are some pics I took it really was so amazing in person and the seats were so cush, even on the third tier where we sat!


Jeff and Jackson in front of the Tom Landry statue!


The Allen Flag running across the end zone after a touchdown

Just took a pic of the end zone as a good memory


The Allen football team on the megatron
As our friend Dave said we came all the way to the stadium to watch the TV at the stadium! LOL but it's so big and clear it's hard not to watch it instead of the live action on the field...

Weekend in Austin November 13-14

So, we went to Austin to see the family and also to enjoy a wedding for Jeff's cousin in Wimberley, TX.

Jeff and I had two great date nights! On Friday night when we arrived in town we had free tickets from my dad to see Alan Jackson! What an AWESOME show he put on, we loved it!
Then a surprise on the way home from the wedding in Wimberley my dad called and said he two extra tickets to see George Lopez in a suite on saturday night. We decided that we should take advantage and go see him! What a fun weekend and as you can tell from the pictures below Jackson had just as much fun with his cousins and grandparents!!




Noah and Jackson playing tackle football

fighting for the football

Jackson throwing the football


The Wedding in Wimberley was a Hindu wedding as Jeff's cousin Michael married a Hindu girl Meera. The wedding was very colorful and definitely an experience. Here are some pictures of the traditional Hindu wedding it was a beautiful day for an outdoor wedding!

Jeff's Aunt Debbie and Uncle John

Jeff's Aunt Debbie dancing

All celebrating as the groom rides up on a horse a traditional ritual in a Hindu wedding

The Groom on a horse

Groom getting on a horse

the bride and groom getting ready to recite their vows

Me and Jeff

Me

Sweet Case who is 4 mos. He was an angel and such a trooper. He is the son of one of Jeff's cousin's Brent who also played baseball for UT..woohoo Hook'em!