Showing posts with label gorgeous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gorgeous. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Visiting the tulip fields!

The end of March...
We enjoyed a visit from our favorite "Casa Millar" guests --  Tida and Jason.  We always have a fantastic time with them and our kids adore them too.

It took awhile to start playing games...I think we all got distracted.  :)

Max and Jason playing soccer in the morning

That afternoon, we drove out to look at some tulip fields.  Everyone knocked out on the way out there... We ended up waking up Maxwell once Emmalyn woke up.  That was a BAD decision because he was Mr. Grumpy pretty much the whole time we were there.

Some of the tulips were in full bloom and some had just passed their prime.  There were so many varieties.  I had no idea!

Me and Emmalyn

Rubbing his eyes and crying


These were my favorite tulips that we saw (we didn't get to see all of them because we got tired of dealing with Max's bad mood and decided to just leave)




My favorite

This is the best picture we got of both of them.  UGH
We had to bribe him in order to get him to let us take his picture.  Next time I need to remember to make smiling a part of the bribe.

She knew something was wrong with Max and tried to reach out to him, which of course just upset him more.  Sheesh.

We bribed him with a sucker .

The drive home was absolutely gorgeous.  My phone didn't pick it up but these fields were the prettiest shade of green!

Video - Maxwell is a rockstar with his sister as his backup dancer.

her big cheesy smile

pretty girl rockin' her pretty dress (and those curls!)

At the park with Brittany



No more air guitar, now he can rock his real guitar




We had another trip to the dentist.  I hoped this would go as well as last time.

All smiles!

He didn't do quite as well as last time.  He was more nervous once they started working in his mouth and kept swallowing the stuff so we weren't able to do the fluoride treatment like last time.  Hopefully next time he will be good.  One thing Maxwell is great at - - - he really looks forward to going to the doctor or the dentist.  I can't think of a time where he's been nervous or scared - even when he knows he's getting a shot or something.

Before I took him to school, we stopped for lunch at Chik-fil-a... and finished lunch off with a treat.  It was fun to go on a lunch date with him.

I've hated how dark the front of my house is even when my porch light is on... But I also always forget to turn my porch light on so my house is even darker outside.  I am going to add some landscape lighting so here's a diagram that I had to submit to the HOA of where I am going to place the lights (where the white squares are).

I'm excited!!!

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Dallas Blooms at the Arboretum

I took Max to the Dallas Arboretum to enjoy the gorgeous spring flowers.  This is one of my most very favorite activities in Dallas.  I think everyone should come visit us during the spring so they can experience it too!

Someone offered to take a picture of the two of us - thank you kind stranger!



YIKES!!! I snapped this pic right as Max tripped and fell.  While it was happened I had this awful flashback to the last time we were at the arboretum and thought, "Oh no!  Not again!  We have only been here for a few minutes and now we are going to have to leave because he's gotten hurt.  Luckily, he picked himself right back up and was okay.





Max's chariot for the day.  He wasn't interested in staying in it.




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Being silly.  He kept walking from the sidewalk to this rock and then putting his hands behind him.





He enjoyed emptying the diaper bag quite a few times.

I tried to put the lady bug on Max but he wanted NOTHING to do with that.  He shook it off him each time.

He was fine looking at it as long as it was on Momma.

Snack time - raisins!





I pointed out this flower and tried to get him to smell it.  Instead, while I was taking the picture, he pulled off a petal.  :(  Sorry flower!  I learned my lesson.



Seems like the perfect form for a running back, right?  He's got that apple safely tucked!


It was a really fun afternoon and I enjoyed the Momma/Max time.

I cooked again!!  The perfect end to a great day - Chicken and asparagus cooked on the grill with diced tomatoes on top of pasta.  I really enjoy this dish and it's perfectly topped with olive oil we brought back from Italy and balsamic vinegar made in Italy.  I think I need to go back to Italy!