The Botanical Gardens

A few photos from several of our trips to the Botanical gardens. Really a beautiful place, and lots of great picture opportunities. But mostly, Megan loves to feed the huge Koi fish at the Japenese gardens.

Shots with Mom & Dad

And my favorite fish

A visit to the pumpkin patch

2007 School Picture!

A quick Collage

Today, I was working on a collage so that I could fill in a few photo frames around the house. For some reason it looks funny to keep having these nice frames that I bought set prominently displaying the people whose pictures came in them.

While editing a few, I came across this EASY AWESOME website for creating photo collages. It links to flickr, photobucket, picasso, etc. and creates these cool slideshows in minutes. So I have gone back through and added a few to my older posts as well! This one isn't of "all new" photos, but it does have several of my favorites!

Happy Grandparents Day

Sunday September 9 is grandparents day, and Megan wanted to start the well wishing to her grandparents and GREAT parents.

Click to play | Make your own Smilebox

A Visit from the Griffins

Over Labor Day, The Griffins came to visit while looking for a new house in the Fort Worth area. Megan is so excited that her buddies Ella and Brenna will be moving to DFW soon. Mommy gets to have her old friend (and old college roommate) living closer as well.

No I am not calling you old, Jana!



A few photos from the fun weekend


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More photos on flickr

Aaron & Jill's Wedding

Megan has a great time visiting friends and family. We got to go to St. Lawrence Texas for cousin Aaron and Jill's wedding, and she wanted to share a few photos!

Trip to Houston

This past weekend, we went to Houston to visit family and some college friends. Megan had such a great time. She even rode the whole way (4-5 hours) with only a few complaints! What a great little traveler she was.

Saturday, we all went to the Houston Children's Museum. Of course, when we got to the museum, Megan fell asleep just as we turned into the parking lot. She slept as we transferred her to the stroller, and through the first hour of play time. Once she woke up, she LOVED it! With 4 kids, across the age range of 1 to 5 years old, it was a fantastic hit.

Although the Museum is a Children's Museum, there is a child in all of us!

And a love of the telephone.....

And really, who doesn't love face painting!!?

That evening, the girls got to play and play and just had a wonderful time visiting and entertaining each other!

Thanks for the wonderful visit everyone!!! Let's do it again sometime (maybe when it is cooler than AUGUST in HOUSTON!!) Lots of pictures here!

A Visit from Cousin "Apple"

In August, Megan was lucky enough to have cousin Apryl (apparently this is pronounced
"Apple") come visit her (and Mommy and Daddy!) Since Apryl is expecting, Megan was happy to let Apryl practice having dinner with a toddler at a restaurant with her. (Which translates as "no -- we could never possibly even make it through dessert, please just put what we have in a box). She is such a squirmy child.

The next day, we had a leisurely day and went to the pool to go swimming. Megan has a thing for belly buttons. She just loves them. She loves to poke and prod and generally annoy you about your "Bell-Button" as she calls it.

Apple immediately became her favorite, since being pregnant, her belly button was more readily available to bother. And in a swimsuit, she was just perfect for Megan!

Here Megan shows a shot of her love of belly buttons.



When Apryl left, Megan cried and cried. She gave her a hug and then stood at the curb calling "Apple! Apple!" after the car. It was so sweet that it was just tearful.




Come visit again soon Apple!

Trip to Amarillo

Megan went to Amarillo to visit at the end of July. It was a busy two days, but she got to fly to Amarillo, have a swim and pizza party at Grandma's. She played and swam with cousins and aunts and uncles.

Then, the next day, she got up early to go to church with Grammy and Grandpa. That afternoon, we had a cookout at Aunt Rosie's, and Megan most especially enjoyed seeing the "wabbits" -- she just loves rabbits. A bit of an artifact from ALL of the MANY stuffed rabbits that she received the past two Easters!

Monday, Megan flew home with Mommy and Daddy on the early EARLY flight (she got up at 4:45) and slept the WHOLE way on the plane! What a great little girl she is!