Celebrating Brandon and Liza

This past weekend we went to Dalhart to celebrate Brandon and Liza's upcoming wedding with a wedding shower. Chris, Megan and Terry all prepared dinner that was yummy and then the couple opened their presents. My girls, as always, were super helpful!;) The shower had a great turn out and they received some great gifts. Mali decided to make party favors for each guest and colored a picture for everyone there. She received a lot of compliments on how well mannered, how verbal she was, and just how cute she was. We have to agree. We were encouraged by a few ex-kindergarten teachers that she was definitely ready to start kindergarten. We also got to spend some time with Kisha and Josh while they were in Dalhart for a wedding. It was a great family weekend!

Lubbock or Leave it

We also got to visit our friends the Dallas Family. Mali had a great time going to the movie with them while I took Eleri to the appointment, playing and playing, playing the Wii, swimming, jumping on the trampoline, and eating pizza at Dions. Tim and Beth made hamburgers for us all and had the Williams family over and Angie, Jackson and Lauren over. I was so excited to meet Lauren for the first time, although I didn't get any pictures!:( She is a cute, little girl. We all swam together and enjoyed just hanging out. The girls and I stayed the night and headed back early to get home.
As much as I love my friends that live in Lubbock, every time I go back to Lubbock I'm pretty thankful we don't live there anymore. Our home and neighborhood here is so much nicer and as crazy as it sounds, Amarillo is just a little prettier. I drove by our old house trying to kill some time and it made me very glad to be where we are now. Every time we go back to Lubbock I'm so amazed at what new things are being built. It really is growing.

Heart update

Eleri had her annual cardiac appointment on Wednesday. It was so much easier this time around. She didn't even try to pull of the leads (I have NO idea how to spell that but that's how it sounds, its probably an acronym or something). Eleri loved seeing Dr. Flippin's dogs Bella (a standard poodle with pink bows and pink toes) and Pinky (a breed that I can't spell, with pink hair). Dr. Flippin said that Eleri still had some pulmonary stenosis and that she would only pseudo-outgrow it. I was really hoping that she would be 100% healed and fine, but I'm really not sure that will happen based on Dr. Flippin's comment of pseudo outgrowing it. At any rate, her pulmonary stenosis and murmur have not gotten worse which is wonderful wonderful news! I'm thankful for the outcome and that it was a positive appointment. The only repercussion seems to be that Eleri has to take antibiotics before going to the dentist.

Double the fun

Our girls nights have become Double the Fun!!! Eleri will now sit and watch the movie with us. She is so excited about popcorn and signs/says it until she gets some. Friday night, she cuddled up next to Mali with her bowl of popcorn. Sunday night we watched an IMAX movie about sea life. The entire movie she kept saying "uh oh, uh oh." I'm not sure why, but it made for a less than relaxing viewing. It was fun anyway though!:)

Father's Day 2010

This Father's day did not turn out nearly as good as I anticipated it as I thought of all the things we could do to love on Eric. We had been out of town the past two weekends and will be out of town the next two weekends so we decided to just stay here. Eric played golf with friends on Friday and then again with his dad on Saturday. Sunday, Mali and I made Eric eggs over easy for breakfast but in all honesty I don't think they were very good. Eric politely said "they were a little runny"! He was thankful and appreciative but they just didn't turn out right. After his breakfast and church, I went and picked up Rosa's for his Father's Day lunch. It was a really hot afternoon and the girls napped and Eric watched the US open on TV. Eric requested cereal for dinner which was a pretty easy fix so we ate cereal and then finished the night with the Under the Sea IMAX movie. The first picture is the girls with their daddy on Father's day and the bottom picture is of Mali waiting up for her daddy. She drew him a picture and put on her most beautiful dress up clothes dress. It was sooo sweet. I also asked Mali to tell me what she loves about her daddy. Here is her list:
He takes care of me
He tells me silly things to do you (to me, Brie)
I like watching him play with Eleri
He teaches me how to play baseball and soccer-he used to
He lets me listen to iPods with him
He lets me go on trips with him and takes me to the theatre sometimes
He comes in my room and sees what i did
He helps me do stuff I can't do (I LOVED that one!)
Sometimes he gets to talk with me about the bad things I do
Having slumber parties
He takes me camping, fishing, to the house together, to the cabin together, swimming with me, jump and jive, and the zoo sometimes
He eats snacks with me
When we play with Eleri on his stomach
Training Aspen, Shank and Scotty with him
He's my favorite guy
When we talk together

She had quite the list. Its easy to see that he is the King of her World.

When the zoo is free

When the zoo is free its worth going. Unfortunately, the previously free Amarillo Zoo has now started charging. Fortunately, Mondays are free. So I took both the girls to the zoo and met one of Mali's preschool friends, Allie, at the zoo with her three siblings. Both the girls had fun. They loved the herpetarium (the new addition worthy of the cost I assume) and the giant turtles that were out eating grass and slowly moving along. Eleri would point and laugh. Eleri also loved holding Allie's hand and Mali loved running around with all the kids. Mali got to see the peacocks running around too which is her absolute favorite part of the zoo. It was fun, but we were all hot and tired when we were done. I guess its a good thing we don't have a bigger zoo.

T-ball Wrap up

Mali has finished her t-ball season. It is amazing how differently the kids played at the end of the season compared to that first game. The last two games, Mali was able to play pitcher for at least an inning each time. She did wonderful!!! We were so proud of her. She fielded the ball and threw it home nearly every time. Minus a few dog pile fights with her teammates over the ball. We were so proud of her and hope that she might just continue playing pitcher just like her Daddy! We were all a little relieved that t-ball was over for the year, and we are looking forward to an even better season next year.

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