Easter 2011

Despite Easter being much later than it was last year, a cold front blew in a cooled things down a bit, requiring us don sweaters with our Easter attire.  We had a lovely day.  We started the day with Mass, followed by a delicious lunch with family at Mary and David's.  Despite the cold the kids were so excited about the Easter egg hunt.  Luke could have hunted for eggs all day long!  Another treat for the day was having a photographer come by to capture some special moments.  Suzanne is a friend of the family and has an amazing eye.  See some of the photos she shot of our family on her blog SuzOjo.

What a wonderful day we had, spending time with friends and family and celebrating our Lord Jesus and the suffering he endured for US.  What an amazing gift!

Fort Worth

It's funny how now that I live in Wichita Falls, it seems like Fort Worth is so close.  Who would have ever thought that I would consider a 2 hour car drive "not that far"?  Well I do, and it's great!

We have been on the go lately, and today we drove down to grab a little TCU wear, nom on some Uncle Julio's, visit our sweet animal friends at the Fort Worth Zoo, and take Mr. Cade to the cardiologist to check on his little heart murmur.  Followed by a quick zip into the local Central Market, to stock up on the necessities!

The day went perfectly.  We picked up some TCU shirts for Trey and some game day gear for the kids.  We have some future frogs on our hands, good thing they both look good in purple and love frogs!  After lunch with Sarah and the kids, we zipped on over to the zoo to meet up with our sweet friend Stephanie and her girls.  They kept Vivi while Trey, Cade and I went over to Cooks Children's Hospital to meet with the cardiologist.  Fortunately the visit went great!  The doctor confirmed that he has a VSD, which is the most common form of heart defect.  There are a couple of possible outcomes related to the VSD, the most likely being that it just sporadically closes up on its own.  This could happen any day or in many years, but it won't have any impact on his ability to grow, or play sports a few years down the line.  What a relief!  We will follow up again when he is 6 months old!

Austin

Since we drove the 5 hours from Wichita Falls to Austin we decided should make a weekend out of the trip.  We spent the rest of the weekend being shown the finer parts of Austin by Mary Martha and James.  We ate some delicious Mexican food, relaxed at MMK's house, took Drake to Red Bud Isle dog park, shopped at Whole Foods, and ate a delicious surf and turf dinner.  It was such a fun and busy day!  That night we learned that the kids do not do great in hotel rooms.  So we left early this morning, had a delicious lunch at Hard 8, and were home before dinner!

Wheeler-Wharry Wedding

We were lucky enough to drive down to Austin this weekend to celebrate the marriage of two of my sweet friends from TCU, Katie and Bryan.  Boy were we all glad to see them finally tie the knot!! They started dating in college and are such a wonderful couple to be around, I know they have a long and happy future together!  They had a beautiful ceremony at the Mansion on Judges Hill followed by an incredibly fun reception.  It was a wonderful evening with some dear friends.

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