So... I'm Carrie

Wimberley

Jason and I took a little weekend trip to Wimberley.  I'll be honest... we missed the kids the WHOLE time.  hahaha  we had fun though.  We stayed in a super cute little cabin.  It rained the whole weekend so it kind of limited our options.  we did a lot of hanging out and eating and drinking.  pretty much what we don't really get to do at home with two kids... sit. sleep. relax. 

here are are few pictures from our adventures...

we kept seeing this group of these 4 baby deer.  and they were pretty comfortable with the fact we were in the car.  we would stop and watch and they would stand there and watch us.  i had this image blown up and put on canvas already.  i love it.

these were on the road towards our cabin.  pretty cute.

This was at Driftwood Estate Winery.  This place was beautiful - i wish the weather would have been better.  Oh well.  We enjoyed a wine tasting and bought a couple bottles to bring home.  

I would love to figure out how to make wine and sit up here on this hill and watch my grapes grow.  what an awesome gig.

from Driftwood we went on to Duchman Family Winery.  While I enjoyed it, it was a stark contrast to Driftwood.  It was more commercial.  They have this amazing restaurant next door that draws quite the crowd.  They give tours.  We had another tasting here and spent time on the tour and then went next door to the restaurant and waited about an hour for a table.  

the other highlights include - on the way up, we stopped in Luling for some good ol' Texas barbecue at Luling City Market.  If you are ever in the vicinity, make the stop.  SO worth it.

We went to Wimberley Glass works - another fun thing.  you can watch them blow glass and they have an awesome gallery filled with things I would love to have but can't afford.

We both LOVED the pizza at Brewsters  and their beer was also amazing.  YUM YUM YUM.  

If you don't know about the show The Daytripper on PBS, I highly recommend it.  It has given us many Texas vacation ideas!  

We are really lucky to have such awesome Moms and Dads that will watch our kids for us so we can have a break and get away.  I really enjoy my husband, and trips like this remind me that I made the right choice.  Sometimes in the thick of the everyday, it's kind of hard to remember our days pre-kids.  

fun stuff!

Gram and Poppy have all kinds of babies at their house right now!  Goats and puppies!  The kids had a great time trying to catch all of them.

Sidney is scared of the goats - she sat on top of that box the whole time we were in the barn!

In typical Texas fashion, we are having crazy weather.  It will be cold one day, spring like the next.  It means we get to spend some time outside.  My kids love to be outside and I love to let them do their thing and take pictures of what's happening.  I caught this one of Sid and it's one of my most favorite pictures to date.  It is so her right now.  She loves Dora.  She loves pink and is, as you can see, in pink from head to toe.  she loves to swing.  she is getting so BIG.

we are getting pretty competitive with our family soccer games.  either jason or i usually hold sidney while playing.  she thinks she 'runs faster than carter' when we hold her... we are getting a heck of a work out.

my poor girl was pretty sick last week with an ear infection, an upper respiratory virus and pink eye.  she wanted all her pals with her to hang on the couch and watch Dora the explorer while wearing her monkey pajamas.  can't say no to requests like that.

this was a fun thing for a rainy day.  i poured out a bag of dried pinto beans into a tray for him and sid and they played with the tractors and bull dozers and diggers for quite a while.  easier to clean up than sand!

and here's the last one in this random photo catch up.  The kids' school had "pet week" and we brought Scarlet in for a little visit.  it was lots of fun!







 

 

what the heck is a chimichanga?

I know people talk about newborns and how sleep deprived parents are, etc.  Apparently someone informed my kids that they should be tormenting me in the middle of the night more.  And i know what you're thinking - your kids should be past this.  

you would think.

my kids like to make their own rules, and frankly, at 3 am i'm not too good at being an enforcer.  At 3 am i'm not good at anything but checking out the backside of my eyelids.  Carter has decided that our bed is far more comfortable than his.  He's stealth.  He slips in undetected and usually gets busted when the alarm sounds @ 5:45.  Well, every once in a while he messes up.  Snuggles in a little to close to me and I wake up.  

On this particular night, this happened.  So he wakes me up.  Then, at some point scarlet starts barking at something she sees out the front window, my guess, a frog.  seriously.   Then Sidney, of course gets the memo that we've got a full on party going on.  and the dog indicates that now that everyone is awake, well, she needs to handle her business outside.  

Did I mention that Jason is still sound asleep? naturally.

So I get Sid back to sleep, the dog back inside (after having to go out in the cold to retrieve her OF COURSE), get Carter back in his bed, crawl back in bed myself and Jason starts snoring.  

4:30 am - ish i finally drift off back to sleep.  

5:45 - alarm sounds.

I go out to the kitchen to get the coffee started and notice that the dog has at some point in the night gotten into the trash can and was apparently looking for something that was near the bottom, because most of the contents are now spread across my living room. 

FAB.U.LOUS.

guess who's grumpy!

Jason is showering and is still clueless of how eventful the last few hours have been for me, so I'm filling him in.  

Carter was edging me off the bed, so i get up to put him back in his bed, Scarlet gets up with me and looks out the front window, sees a frog and starts barking.  the barking wakes up sidney and I have to get her settled back down.  Scarlet then decides she needs to go outside, so I let her.  She won't come back in, so I have to chase her around the yard.  It's REALLY cold outside.  I get her back in, get back in bed, FINALLY.  You are straight snoring your face off.  L O U D L Y.  I finally fall back asleep.  Now I go into the kitchen to start the coffee and the dog has all the trash in the living room and ate half a chimichanga.

And without missing a beat, Carter looks at me and says "WHAT THE HECK IS A CHIMICHANGA????"

and just like that... none of it mattered.