We had a great weekend. Friday night we ate chickin' wings and cheese fries....yummy! We did our Target run. We had birthday presents to buy - plus our normal load! You should've seen some of the people checking me out at Target. I had toys galore in my cart and Piper sitting in the seat and you could just tell that they thought I was buying my kid all those toys! HA! Jokes on them! But I did get her a toy to put back for her birthday or Christmas. They had the little people farm on sale for $20 so i snagged that up. And heck - maybe I will give it to my niece instead for Christmas. But it was a good deal so I bought it. We headed home and put Jr. to bed and watched Charlie Wilson's War. It was a good movie. It is another true story one and I like those.

Also, on Friday night we took Piper's bike(tricycle) home. You should've seen her face. She was like "IS THAT FOR ME" and she was on it! I thought she wouldn't be able to push the bell thing on it.....sorry for us. Daddy showed her how to do that and guess what we hear all the time now! She loves it! I think it cured her urge for the "bike" thing instead of the plastic ride on thing.... although she was still playing and riding those too!

Saturday we did the grocery store before the party. Then headed to the party. MAN - the birthday party was fun but busy. Lots of people. The birthday girl was adorable! She seemed to enjoy opening her presents. It was cute! Then after the birthday party we all just stayed there for the cookout! Again, people - people everywhere. BUT lots of fun too! It was nice to see my cousins from Dallas. I can't remember the last time before now it was when I saw them. Very nice to see all my family. And we will see most of them again this coming weekend because it is my niece Norah's 1st birthday party on Saturday too. And that will be another party with TONS of people. I hope for decent weather for my brother and sister in law. They have a nice yard, outbuilding and it will be great if people can be outside!

Yesterday was just nice. It wasn't so nice weather wise. Just a nice day for us. We slept in. Steve went biking late morning - early afternoon. Piper and I did some stuff around the house and then played outside. (of course she had to ride her bike!) and when Steve got home he did some back yard work and I did alittle(just a very little) and then we went to get ice cream. Piper hasn't had that much so we were sure she would love it....well, she ate some but I think she is going to be like Steve and I - not real big ice cream fans! After that we headed back home and just relaxed outside - Piper and Steve worked on his bike and she played some. Just kinda a relaxing day. I had a bit of a headache that just got worse as the evening wore on. By bedtime I was a wreck. But its better today. Still there a bit - but better.

Something I really want to do this summer is just take time to enjoy life. Not always be rushing from here to there to here to there. Just do fun things outside. I really want Piper to experience fun like I did as a kid. The bikes, the swingset, the slide, the bugs, etc. It's hard when we work all week and have to get our errands done during the weekend - plus try to enjoy ourselves but some errands and shopping is just going to have to wait. I want to swim more this summer and work on my flowers more this summer. Between being pregnant and having an infant my flowers haven't had much attention. I just want to do "family" fun things.

Another thing..... you should see Piper, Norah and Paige at this point together. IT IS GOING TO BE FUN! I can NOT wait for them to all grow up and bit and be able to go crazy together! I am so excited that Piper will have cousins her age to grow up with. Thanks guys for having your babies close to mine! I have so many fond memories of my cousins when we would all get together - I am so glad Piper will have memories like those. And I am glad for Norah and Paige too! (although I am sure they are going to have siblings close in age.....is that going to be soon?????)