Never Long Enough

The weekends are never long enough, especially when it comes to spending time with my two boys!  We had a jam-packed weekend, but it was such a blast.  Saturday we took Mason to the Children's Museum of Houston.  Nick had bought a two for one Groupon, and then when we got there the guy at the register said he another one leftover, so all three of us went for less than $10, score!

My handsome construction worker!

Doing a little grocery shopping.

He loved picking things to put in his basket!  He was so mad when we made him leave.

Just like his momma, he put like 5 cucumbers in his basket!

I was trying to show him the cow's utters...

but he decided to just crawl under the cow instead!

The Tot Spot was amazing at the museum.  Mason loved that he had free reign to go wherever and touch anything he wanted.

Legos with Daddy!

After the museum, we headed over to Herman Park for a picnic.  The weather was gorgeous, and I love our little family of three!

How can you not love that face!?

My boys!

First push pop, he wasn't too impressed!  He was done after about 3 licks that we forced him to take.

We had the perfect day!  Once we got home, we all took a nap and then headed to the Dynamo game.  The couple that sits next to us at the games have a little boy 3 months younger than Mason, and they love to stare at each other, share toys, and play.  This game was the cutest because they were giving high fives to one another and talking away.  I wish I had gotten pictures, but there was too much going on.

Sunday we went to church with my parents, hung out at their house, and then had a great evening at home! I am so excited that the weather is getting cooler here, and we will be doing all sorts of fun fall activities.  October is going to be such a busy month for us with Scarecrow Festival, Dynamo games, and Chicago!  I love fall!

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder...

Well, at least I hope it does!  I took an unintentional blog hiatus because I wanted to enjoy every bit of summer I had left with my little man!  He just amazes me daily, and I wanted to really take the time to slow down and make memories with my sweet baby boy (I still refuse to call him a toddler).  Then, school started again which meant I had to go back to work.  Getting back into the swing of things took some time so that prolonged the break.  However, when I saw so many others coming back from their own blog breaks I decided it was time I came back too!

Here is just a brief re-cap of the past couple months:

• Mason is now 15 months old...where did the time go?!  He just went to the Dr. and he is 24 1/2 lbs.(60%)  and 33"(90%).  My little man has gotten so tall!  He has learned so much and is doing so many things that it really blows my mind!

He put on Daddy's shoes and stomped around in them!

Hiding in a corner reading...makes his English teacher momma ecstatic! 

He was playing in the tupperware cabinet, and this is how he comes out of the kitchen.  I love it!

Helping Momma get ready for school.



How adorable are these big boy P.J.'s!?  A co-worker gave them to us, and I just love them!



• We spent a lot of time outside. This kid LOVES being outside and screams hysterically when we bring him in!

I have the greatest husband ever!  He takes care of me and Mason, and we couldn't ask for anything more.

We had a dinner and movie date at home while our little man was sleeping.  It was fantastic!

He sent my back to school flowers!


*Disclaimer:  I started this post, then our computer crapped out, so this is the half of the post I was able to finish and get the pictures for.  Hopefully, I will post the other half soon as well as be back to blogging more frequently.  

Beach Trip!

We went on an impromptu beach trip with my parents a few weeks ago.  Nick and I didn't plan on doing anything big this summer since we recently booked our trip to London!  We were sitting with my parents and talking about needing a vacation so I suggested a beach house.  Everyone was in, but they were worried we wouldn't be able to find anything so late.  I started the hunt, and we had a fabulous house booked by that afternoon!  We stayed on Crystal Beach, and had a perfect relaxing vacation.  It was close to home, affordable, but perfect nonetheless!  Mason loved the beach!!  Here a few pictures from our trip...

Heading to the beach!

Playing with Grandad...

Before the trip was over, Mason started saying Grandad in context!

Mason made a friend at the beach house!  He loved this bird statue.

Beach Baby!

We got this visor for 99 cents at Old Navy.  Nick said Mason looks like a frat boy!

Playing on the deck.

Please ignore how gross I look...this was on our way out, headed home!

Little Man Birthday!

I am finally getting around to posting about Mason's first birthday.  The theme was little man!  I picked this because I have always called him that, and I thought it would be so cute and fun.  The colors were orange and blue.  Nick picked these because of his two favorite sports teams: Chicago Bears and Houston Dynamo.  We agreed that I would pick the theme and he could pick the colors.

I didn't get quite as many close up pictures of all the decor and desserts as I would have liked.  I was running around like a crazy person before the party started, and then when quests arrived my aunt took my camera and was on photo duty.  However, here are some the pictures of my baby's first birthday!  I still can't believe he is one!  Without further ado, Mason's Little Man First Birthday:

Dessert Table...

I made all of the desserts, and I don't know that I would do it again.  Everything, eventually, turned out perfect but it was so much work!  We had cake balls, cupcakes, chocolate mustaches, mustache cookies, tie cookies, and Nutty Buddy Bars in cigar boxes!

Mustache Cookies!

Tie and Bow Tie Cookies!  This picture was after lots of them had been enjoyed!

The party started at 2 so we just did a nacho bar, which saved us from having to do an entire meal.  It was a huge hit too!

While getting food, we had everyone vote on who Mason looked like at one.  I didn't get a picture of the final vote, but I won by a landslide!

Drink Station with 'Mason Water', sweet tea, and blue raspberry lemonade.

The living room had tables set up for extra seating...

Birthday mantle, and we had a picture from all 12 months hanging across it.  The guests really enjoyed seeing how much Mason has grown and changed!

Birthday boy, decked out in his tie shirt!

My brother and nephews, they were stocked about the fake mustaches!

My mom thought it only fair that Mason got to try the drinks at his party!

Cousins with chocolate mustaches

Cousins, how cute is Ava?!  She is a year older than Mason.  My best friend if my next baby could look like her, haha!

Cake time!

There is a Polish tradition (my husband is Polish and I am clearly not, haha) where you place certain items in front of the baby on their first birthday and what they pick tells you about their future.

Of course, my child had to pick up the shot glass first...I'm sure you can guess what that was supposed to mean.

Then, he chose bread meaning he will never go hungry.  We are going to say that was his first choice!

Opening gifts!

The party could not have gone more perfectly!  Everyone enjoyed themselves, thought everything looked and tasted great, and Mason loved every minute of it and that is all that really matters!