Pulleys Visit!

Thankful Dan, Kaitlyn, Will & Aubrey were able to fly down and visit!

We had a great time...

in and around the pool!

Shared our love of LEGOs and Lego Masters

Explored the neighborhood a bit on bike and wagon and found the ducks.

Rio enjoyed having Kaitlyn over too!

Sadly they had to cut their visit short due to the COVID-19 outbreak. It was great to have real contact, but now we're ALL back to FaceTime, Zoom and Video Chat.

Happy (2nd or 8th 😜) Birthday Abby!

I got to join Abby for lunch on Friday, and help her pass out vanilla ice cream cups for a birthday treat!

Mini Chocolate chip muffin family for  breakfast. 

Oreo ice cream cake at home on her birthday.

You are SO loved!

Happy 2nd Leap day!

Dare to be you. Dare to know yourself and be loved.

Abby's Spa Party!

These Silly 8 year old Girls...

had a GREAT time at the spa together! They were very excited.

Brooklyn * Abby * Tegan

They enjoyed kiddie pedicures, simply strawberry lemonade, and of course fun with the "NASA created" massage chairs.

Cute and Pretty Toes!

We came back for Oreo Ice Cream cake and made up a silly Mad Libs birthday story at the table to match their silly energy.

Some thoughtful cards and gifts.

(I forgot how 8 year olds have a shorter attention span than 10 year olds! so quickly thought up a game to tire them out.) We finished with a fun rousing game of Noodle Ball! It's like soccer but with pool noodles.  I think we had a sweet fun party for a sweet fun girl :)

Frets Visit!

The Frets flew in for a great visit to Houston!

While the kids were in school, we did the tram at NASA space center.

 

This control room is being used for training with a mock mission (with all the problems getting thrown at them while the real control room is quite boring), but in a few years will be a real control room because they'll have 2 missions going on at the same time.

Frets got to be here to help celebrate Lydia's birthday! 

Family Swim 

Smiles!

Levi

Naomi

Shared some real Texan BBQ with them at Rudy's.

We enjoyed having them visit us!

Lydia's Pedi Party!

Friends and a pedicure...what more could a 10 year old girl ask for?

OK, I'm smiling, Mom. 

Digging her cute frog cake.

Friends arrived at 1 and then we rode over to Tiffannie's for a special 1:30 appointment.

First they got to choose a foot bath scent; they all picked the almond. 

For nail polish, Sasha selected classy white & gold, Shravya a magenta and sparkle/speckle, and Lydia pink sparkle to match her totally pink ensemble!

The girls were pampered and their nails were buffed.

yes, those are real fresh rose petals in Shravya's foot bath

yes, they served them mini cupcakes and sweet strawberry lemonade.

yes, this is Sasha's first pedicure, and it feels weird but good.

 A little gab time and...

"That was amazing!" they said.

 Then we brought back our pretty toes to the house for cake and more fun.

Sasha wanted to make it harder for Lydia to open her present. She suggested a blindfold!

A birthday Mad Libs story got everyone to LOL!

The game of Limbo got really looow.

To polish off the party, the friends played with the gifted Jumbo slime kit and Kinetic Sand.

Happy birthday to my sweet gabby loving girly girl!