Our 5th Anniversary!

We just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on August 7th, 2009. It has been 5 years of wedded bliss and our lives have only gotten better. It is hard to believe that 5 years have gone by. Clinton's parents happened to be in Wimberley that weekend, which is about an hour and a half away, so they offered to watch Tanner for us for a couple of days. It was really strange to be in the house without Tanner there. Clinton and I got to go out to eat two night in a row, which is HUGE! We even got to go to the movies. The night of our actual anniversary, we went to eat at a place on the north side of San Antonio called Fralo's. They serve Italian food Texas style, meaning that it is served outdoors on wooden picnic tables. It is also BYOB, so we picked out a nice bottle of wine and brought it along. The food was awesome, and the musician they had that night was really good too. The music he played sounded like something that they would play on Grey's Anatomy. It was really nice. Afterward, we went to the movies to see "500 Days of Summer". I would say that it was definitely rentable, but I wouldn't go see it in the theater. The movie theater we went to was really nice, though. The upstairs portion of the theater was 18 and up, so it was nice not to have a bunch of teenagers texting or anything during the movie. Believe it or not, this was the first movie we have seen in the theater in two years! I was pregnant the last time we went to the movies. Clinton asked me what I wanted to do for our anniversary and that was my answer, "I want to go to the movies". I think he thought I would want to do something more elaborate, so I'm sure he was pleasantly surprised!

The morning after our anniversary, we went to Wimberley to pick up T and we went to a replica of an old west town. There was a neat museum with a lot of Texas relics. We then ate lunch at a place that had amazing BBQ called Salt Lick. The pit in the restaurant was gigantic! We headed home after that. It was a good weekend.

This was something they had in the old west town.

This was a giant jackelope that you could sit on in the museum.

At Fralo's
The musician at Fralo's

Mini post

Some of you may have already seen the pictures of Clinton and Tanner playing in the rain, but I wanted to let you know that I also posted a video. It is the cutest thing ever, and I put it in the "Rain, rain, don't go away" post.

Finger Painting!!!

We did some finger painting one day and Tanner had a blast! She was covered from head to toe in pink and purple, and she loved every minute of it! It's a good thing the paints were washable.  We hung her artwork up in the playroom on her new bulletin board. She is such a good little artist!

Playroom Project

My mom and Aunt Linda came in one weekend to help me tackle a major project - the playroom.  This playroom has been a disaster since we first repurposed the office.  We had no organization, and toys were just thrown everywhere. It was really dark, and not at all conducive to child's play.  While we worked, Clinton took Tanner to the zoo so that she wouldn't be bored to death and we could concentrate solely on the task at hand. My aunt helped me reupholster an ottoman that my mom gave me and it turned out great!  My mom painted the walls yellow and the ceiling blue.  We also painted a cradle that my mom brought from when we were little.  There is a high chair that matches that I will be painting soon. It is not quite finished, but I have added a sneak preview to this post. I will post pictures of the final product once it's done.  The reason it is not done yet is because I am painting stripes on one wall and the texture is so heavy on our walls that I can't tape because it will bleed. I am having to do them all by hand, and it is taking FOREVER! I do a little every day, and I am nearing the end but it has definitely been a process. 

I guess she didn't like the cheetahs very much!

Clinton said she loved the aquarium 

Helping Daddy assemble the cube shelf after they got home from the zoo

I got to sew almost all of the skirt for the ottoman.  Aunt Linda let me sew on her machine and she told me that I am the only other person that has ever done so! I felt very privileged.

Playing in the new playroom 

She loves it, as you can tell!

Rain, rain, DON'T go away!

It actually rained one day last month for the first time all summer, it seems, and Clinton took Tanner outside to play in it. She had so much fun splashing in the giant puddle in the street. It was really neat to watch her get so excited. I have to say, I was pretty excited too. You don't know how much you love rain until you don't see it for months on end.  

Visit with Erin, Daniel, and Claire

A few weekends ago, the Hubert's made a trip down from Tennessee to visit. My parents came in and stayed with us, and Erin and Daniel stayed with Haley and Jason. We had a great time hanging out and watching the kids play. We spent the entire Saturday that weekend outside in the pool and it was awesome! We had such a good time relaxing a swimming. Tanner was floating all by herself with her floaties and she was so proud of herself. My dad even got her to float on her back a little. She did so good! We spent that Sunday in New Braunfels and my aunt and Fallon and Brandon came in. We grilled shrimp and let the kids play outside in the baby pool and on a splash pad that my mom bought for the kids. They had such a good time. Tanner really enjoyed pouring water on Claire and Claire really enjoyed having water poured on her, so it worked out. Tanner is very much in a "mine" stage, so she didn't share all that well some of the time. It was really funny, though, because she kept calling Claire by her nickname, "Claire Bear". She thinks that is Claire's name because that is what everyone calls her. Too funny! She calls Sofi "FiFi" because she can't quite say Sofi. Logan is a little harder for her, so she calls him "baby". She really enjoyed petting his head and watching him eat that weekend, though. She did get a little mad when my mom or I would hold him, but she was good for the most part. On Monday, Erin and Daniel went to Schlitterbahn and Haley and Jason had to work so I volunteered to keep all of the kids. That was definitely an experience!! They were really good, thank goodness! I stayed really busy that day, but it was a lot of fun to hang out with my nieces by myself for a little while. That night, we put the babies to bed and all got a bowl of ice cream. We settled in and watched the season finale of The Bachelorette, and the guys had a great time laughing at all of the inuendos.....

The next day, I took the Huberts to the airport and Claire started screaming in the back seat. She was just screaming to hear the sound of her voice, but Tanner didn't like it at all. She went through the same stage when she was around Claire's age and we would tell her "no screaming". She looked at Claire and said, "no Taire Bear, no screaming!!!" Erin and I thought it was hilarious! I think they were tired of having to share everything with each other by the time the visit was over, and they were both a little frustrated at each other. It was really neat to see them interact. Here are some pictures:

GiGi and G-Paw and the whole gang

Tanner loves pouring water. Luckily, Claire didn't mind!
Logan and Sofi had a blast playing on the water mat.



The kiddos love watching Sesame Street with their G-Paw
Rub-a-dub-dub, three babies in a tub!



Tanner and Logan playing at our house. We have stickers in our yard so we had to put a tarp down.

Pouring again. Logan minded a little more than Claire!

Pictures from the weekend

We had a good weekend. On Friday, we went to Clifton and Amy's for fajitas. Lauren and Daniel came, too, and Tanner had a good time playing with Cooper. For some reason, she thought that Cooper needed to have something on his head at all times. She kept putting toys and baby wipes on his head. It was pretty funny. We got to see Layton, too, and he is already changing to much! We had a really good time. On Saturday, we got up and went to the high school to run on the track. Tanner had a good time playing with Clinton in the bleachers. We ate lunch and headed to New Braunfels to see Haley and Jason after that. We got there and ate lunch at local restaurant called Fork and Spoon. A scary thing happened while we were there. Sofia was sitting in her carrier on a high chair that was flipped over. However, she was not strapped in because we kept getting her out and putting her back. She reached forward to grab her sippy cup off of the table and she fell out of the carrier and under the table while the carrier and high chair fell over on top of her. Haley was so scared she flew out of her chair and SCREAMED a four letter word in the middle of the restaurant! The entire place stopped and turned to look. Fortunately, Sofia had just fallen onto her bottom on the floor and was completely unscathed. After we realized this, we started to let everyone know that everything was okay so that they would stop looking at us. Once we all sat back down, we could not stop laughing at the fact that Haley yelled a cuss word in the middle of a crowded restaurant. Needless to say, it is not something that she would normally do! We laughed about that for the rest of the day! Later that day, we all drove to Spring Branch to go to a river party at Mike and Kim's house. There is a nice spot for swimming on the Guadalupe in their neighborhood so everyone sat out there in lawn chairs and the kiddos got to swim. Clinton and Jason jumped off a rope swing, which was fun to watch. After the river, we went back to Mike and Kim's for a fish fry. We had a good time. The next day, Haley and I got to shop a little and Clinton and Jason took Clinton's truck to have the brakes done. We hadn't gotten to hang out with them for about a month, so it was really nice to have the weekend together.

Tanner and Cooper
Amy and Layton


Lauren and Layton
Putting things on Cooper's head...

The girls and the babies
Going swimming at the river
Tanner and Eileen




This is a lizard that was on Haley and Jason's back porch yesterday.
There are two frogs that live in Haley and Jason's tree and Tanner was trying to give them a kiss. Yuck!
Pushing Sofia in the walker