A boy and his dog

Here are Owen and Avery checking out the scene on the street...

All Aboard the Zilker Zephyr! Choo choo...

Well, we finally did it! It took us only 9 months to get over to Zilker Park to ride the one and only... Zilker Zephyr! Owen loved the train ride through the park and took the opportunity to wave to every person, dog, duck and leaf along the ride. He loved it and I know we will make it back soon! Here are some pictures...





After the "choo choo" we played in the park and fed the birds...




I love this picture because it looks like the bird is sitting in Owen's hand. We had a great Friday afternoon in the park... now we are all ready for spring and some GREEN in the landscape!

Owen's fun day at school with green paint

Just before the holiday, Owen came home like this... I forgot to post earlier, but had to share this. He came home covered in green paint, actually all of his classmates were too. His creativity is developing so fast right now. I need to start buying him clothes at the second hand store, because as you can see, most of his new clothes get smothered in paint...or glue...or dirt...or whatever else he gets into. But even though it more work on my end, I am trilled that he is having fun and learning how to be creative...

Our day in Georgetown

Georgetown is a historic town is about 25 miles north of Austin. We ventured there on Saturday to have lunch and sight see. It was a gorgeous day, around 75 degrees, and we had a blast looking at all of the historic buildings and having lunch in the square at the old general store. It felt like Billy the Kid could have been hiding around the corner. We are such suckers for quaint historic towns and there are so many in central Texas! Here are some pictures...


...The courthouse... You defiantly don't want to mess with Texas, there are courthouses everywhere!

...shops on the square...

Happy New Year

To start off the new year with a clean yard, we spent a few hours cleaning up all the leaves which just finally fell. Owen was such a great helper.

Christmas 2008

We had a relaxing and wonderful Christmas in Texas. Owen especially loved opening the gifts and made out like a bandit! Here are some pictures...

Owen's big gift from Mimi and B-Pa was a Radio Flyer Tricycle! Watch out!



Owen discovering the gifts Christmas morning that Santa brought him...

...checking out one of his new books...

...playing with his new Little People airport, he loves all forms of transportation...

...but most of all, he loved the wrapping paper!

More Thanksgiving Photos...

Since we were staying in Austin for Christmas, Santa visited us early at the lakehouse over the Thanksgiving holiday so we could all open a few gifts together.



All the boys were into their new hats... Look at our new Longhorn fan! Owen got two new puzzles and two new books!

Poor Tabasco, on the bottom of all of the boys!

Thanksgiving Catch Up Photos

Sorry all... we have been slacking lately on the blog, tis the season. But here are some photos from Thanksgiving on the lake. We had a great time with everyone - all four grandparents - Mimi, Rennie, Pop and B-Pa, Aunt Amy, Uncle Roy, Kristin, Charlie and Jake. It was a wonderful trip and of course, food was delicious! Here are some pics...

Touchdown!

We have a new college football fan in the house... Owen has definitely taken a likin' to it. As you can see here in this picture, he can't be without his new Texas Longhorn Football. Oh, don't you fret, we are asking Santa for an LSU Tiger and PSU Nittany Lion football to balance out our household.

Happy Halloween

Well... Owen loves dinosaurs. We thought that that would be the perfect costume for his second Halloween... but all they had was a dragon, so we improvised, he was a "dragon dinosaur" and played the part quite well! He was adorable and roared all day long. ROAR! Halloween was busy - we had three parties - one at our office, one at Owen's school and one at our friend's, Jack, Nicole and baby Kate's house. It was quite the day! Here are some pictures...