Saturday, July 25, 2015

Birthday, Birthday, Birthday

As with most summers, Olivia got birthday celebration after birthday celebration!!  I just love celebrating that special girl.

First up, family birthday party in Houston at Ducky and Pong Pong's!

 Big Jim :-)

 Love this sweet one, great grandfather looking so lovingly at his youngest great granddaughter

 Uncle Matt!

 Birthday Twins!!!!!  Uncle Matt is such a good sport to share his day with my O

 Mrs. Linda from Abu Dhabi came with her cutie grandson, Carter

 Love this one!  Three generations of Murphys.  We are just missing my mom!


 Sweet embrace by the birthday twins


 Sweet tooth girl going after a cupcake

 Eliza got a few birthday presents too!

 She loves these "bee-noculars"


 My little reader loved getting the "Ramona" books

 Legos!

 Mimi and Mike


 The next day at The American Girl Cafe for a birthday lunch






 Shopping girls

Selfie


 While the big girls were at AG cafe, Mike took Eliza to Top Golf



Next birthday celebration was a Lupe's!





 Saying goodbye is always so very hard.  I love this lady so very much.  My "Snow Sister".  I am forever grateful for meeting her and our friendship.  We dropped her and Mimi off at the airport before heading to Austin.

 Her actual birthday!  We arrived the night before in Austin and stayed at Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Belinda's.  Olivia had decided that on your birthday, you get breakfast in bed.  We told Uncle Jimmy about this and he so thoughtfully had all of these muffins and pastries sent over from the bakery to their house to satisfy this request!


 We went over to Nana and Papa Bill's for some swimming fun

 Lunch at Sweetish Hill with Rosina!  Birthday cake number two

Cousin Colin and Olivia at her final birthday celebration at Phil's Icehouse!

 Birthday fun!



 Eliza and Chase

 Uncle Fife

We had tons of trouble getting the candles lit.  Happy Birthday, Sweet girl!!!  Love you!

 Enjoying one of her birthday gifts, a mermaid tail!  Thanks, Colin!

Speaking of birthdays...my dear dear childhood friend, Eileen, just happened to have her first sweet baby girl just a day before we arrived in Austin.  Arden had absolutely perfect timing and I am honored to have gotten to hold her in the hospital.  Pure sweetness.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Canadians in Texas

Carolyn and Mimi came to Texas!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was so fabulous seeing Carolyn again this summer!!!!  We hadn't seen Mimi in two years, as she didn't make the trip last summer.  

 One of our first stops was the crazy busy Houston Children's Museum.  The girls "working" in the restaurant


 News reporters

 E driving a truck

We hadn't seen Mike since leaving him in Paris.  We met him at El Patio...the perfect first stop upon landing in Texas


We were invited to Memorial Forest Club to see our sweet sweet friends, The Hayes Family.  Olivia was so brave and went off of the high dive!

 
These sweet girls hugged for a solid minute when they first saw each other.  It was so heart warming.

 After swimming and pizza, we went to get ice-cream at one of the girls favorite places from the old neighborhood, Orange Leaf

 Next up, an Astros game.  Our friends, The Bakers from Abu Dhabi, got tickets right behind us



 After the game, the girls got to run the bases!




 The next day we got to meet up with The Leedy's (minus Ross)!  

Love this picture--Mike with three girls in his lap while taking a call :-)