2 weeks in TX

While Cole partied in China, the rest of us partied in TX. It was soooo nice to be home and distracted from the fact that Cole was half way across the world and in a country! Here are tid bits of what we did.
Dad and Cade went to a Rangers game. He came home with a shirt, and a baseball and bat. Almost everyday he wanted to wear his Rangers shirt and play baseball.

Lots of playing outside. It was so nice to have a backyard for the kids to play in.  Almost every morning we were playing on the trampoline, exploring, playing baseball, swinging, or getting wagon rides.

 

 He is serious about his baseball :) This is his stance.

 Dad was finally able to take his first "son" on a father and son's camp out! He took Cade camping which is the first time for Cade to actually sleep over, in a tent, and pee in the grass! Needless to say they both had a blast!

While the boys were camping we had a girls night!! I guess it is always a girls night if my dad is not around but this night it was official! We had dinner, got our toes done and the got Jamba Juice. It was really fun. Since Rylee was with us she got to have her first pedicure! She sat on my lap and my moms lap and watched. She then started pointing to her toes.  She didn't even mind that a guy was doing them. Normally she would have shied away. She was so proud of her pink toes when she was done.

 Cade and Rylee would run away from me sometimes and then I would find them together on this chair "hiding" together.

 We celebrated Rylee's 2nd birthday and made duck cupcakes! She never actually got one. They were just took cute to eat. And such a pain to make we hated to see them destroyed!

 Upstairs in my parents house my mom has kept the playroom intact as a play room. Years of girl toys have accumulated and been kept. There are thinks in there that I remember loving to play with.  It is essentially a little girls dream room. Cade has always had fun in there but it was really fun to watch Rylee be old enough to thoroughly appreciate it as any girly girl would.

We were there over Memorial Day. My family has the best memorial tradition! They started it after I left so I have never gotten to do it. Mom and Dad write out a handful of random things. Then we draw one out, read it, go do it, and get a picture of it. Then from there you pick another one and do it until they are gone or everyone is exhaused! Some things included in ours this year were: take a picture with something yellow, kiss someone, buy something the color of your shirt, fly a kite, throw a rock in a lake, buy an Asian treat and in honor of Cole, and sandals for everyone!

A very wonderful trip! Thanks to mom and dad for taking care of us while Cole was gone!