the monday update

good morning! it's been a long time since i've posted anything. mckinlee was on spring break and we spent most the week in waco. prepare yourselves for a ton of pictures!

friday afternoon did not start out so well. i was going to pick mck up early from school--but there was something she had to stay for, so we left at about 3:40. this was my view for about 2 hours. (i figured since i wasn't doing anything else, i might as well take some pictures!)
we were in non-moving traffic for 2 hours! there was a bad wreck on i-35 and they had shut down the highway. thankfully, by the time we got up to it, they had opened up 2 lanes so we didn't have to exit off.

this is not the best representation of it, but the hov lane was a nightmare. there were people going south on it, then police and highway workers were everywhere opening sections of it so that people could turn around, because they needed everyone to go north. it was such a mess, people were just stuck. they just had their cars turned off and were walking all around talking to people. i was SO thankful i was not in the hov lane.

we finally made it to waco. i dropped mckinlee off at brooke's house to spend the night and i went to danielle's. i was so late that sadie had already gone to bed :( but i did get to peek in at her and couldn't believe how much she'd grown!
saturday we had mom and les' first anniversary dinner party. we all met at se cocina and had a wonderful dinner and then went back to danielle's for dessert and presents.

here's the happy couple

mike, danielle and sadie (i'm sorry danielle. this was the only picture i had.) we laughed so hard at this picture because the way mike is sitting, he looks like a little boy!

mckinlee and i

aaron and peggy

nathan and vicki

for dessert we had fresh fruit and the yummiest cupcakes. aren't they pretty?

mom & les opening their gifts

did i mention how good these were?

monday danielle, sadie and i met kali for lunch at chipotle. yum!

then we went to the mall where sadie got her first sunglasses. too cute!
mckinlee spent a lot of time holding or wanting to hold sadie. i love these pictures of her (i think nana was making her laugh!)


she has the biggest, most beautiful eyes and will imitate you if you open your eyes real wide!
wednesday was hair cut day. here is mckinlee's before:
and the after:
(i love her with short hair and pray that she wants to keep it this way)
mckinlee and sadie at chick-fil-a
we stopped by to see my sweet grandparents before we left to come home
friday was our 16th anniversary. mckinlee went to stay the night with a friend and chris and i went to the galleria to shop a little and eat dinner.
chris is big into shaving right now, so this store was right up his alley.
then we went to dinner at the oceanaire. it was beautiful and the food was fabulous. here's a shot of the restaurant and chris browsing the menu.
our menu said happy 16th anniversary--how cute!
chris and his food (actually, that was my food. they mixed it up!) i got the pan seared costa rican mahi mahi, king crab tortellini & lobster cream. oh. my. goodness. can you say delicious? we also had roasted garlic mashed potatoes, haricots verts amandine (green beans with almonds) and chardonnay roasted mushrooms with garlic and thyme infused butter (this was, quite possibly, the best thing we've ever eaten in our lives! no joke.)
and here i am with chris' food. (jumbo lump maryland style crab cakes with creamy mustard mayonnaise) equally as good.
they also brought us out a baked alaska for our anniversary. here our server is lighting it. it was good--probably not what we'd order, but good.
pretty yummy--but no chocolate anywhere :(
we didn't realize the galleria's stores closed at nine, so we walked around a little longer and then drove home. it was a nice anniversary and the first time we've actually done something on our anniversary in a long time! (usually we just wait until chris is not so busy at work)
saturday was so cold and rainy when we woke up and by that night snow was coming down.
but, we were in no way prepared for what we saw when we woke up sunday morning...



is that incredible or what? apparently, it had snowed all night and was stilling snowing when we woke up. we got 7-9 inches of snow on the second day of spring! i don't what the record is exactly, but i know we've set one with all the snow we've had!
today, it's beautiful, sunny and should get up to 65! crazy i tell ya!

i have lots of errands and stuff to do today--so i better get started! have a great day. tomorrow is project life tuesday and i have two weeks to make up :)