Girl's Weekend

A few years ago my friend Allison and I took Hillary to see the New Kids On The Block for her birthday in Houston when they came out on their reunion tour. The concert was so great and we had such a good time that when they were scheduled to come back to Houston this month we decided that we had to go again. This time it was me, Hill, and Sam. I have been looking forward to the trip because I love to go places and I haven't been anywhere in a while.
We took off Saturday morning and had a nice day of shopping and eating at one of our favorite restaurants-La Madelaine-Yum! We checked into The Magnolia Hotel downtown at about 4:30. We have stayed there several times before due to the convenience of it being right by the Toyota Center and it is pretty nice. We had to wait a while for our room to be ready- along with lots of other people. It was a concert night and a baseball game night so I guess that is to be expected. Once we got dressed we headed out to another great restaurant-Guadalajara Del Centro. It's located in the Houston Pavillions complex. Unfortunately it was super crowded and we ended up having appetizers and drinks at the bar because the wait was so long and we had to get to the concert.
We got to the concert right on time and had fantastic seats. Jordan Sparks was the opening act. She was pretty good, but we were ready for the main attraction. New Kids were on tour this time with The Backstreet Boys who I was never a major fan of. We had a blast and the concert was great, but I think I much preferred the last concert where the New Kids were performing solo. But, it seemed that most of the other screaming girls in attendance were major Backstreet Boys fans so it was very high energy. After the concert we headed back to the hotel and got a fabulous night of much needed sleep.


We left pretty early Sunday morning to shop a little bit more before we headed home. We ate lunch at another one of our favorite-Pappasitos and ended up making it home by late afternoon We had a great time spending time together and doing some of our favorite things.
While I was away Brady spent Saturday with his Daddy. They went visiting and he got to swim at Debra's and went out to the river camp to see his Nana. My Mom came to our house Saturday night so that she could keep him for Todd to go to work on Sunday. She said he was great and he was in a good mood when I got home so I assume that everyone had a good time. It was a successful and much needed girl's weekend!

Catching Up

Brady has done so many fun things over the past year and changed so much. I am going to go back in time a little bit and tell you a bit about what he has been up to--
1 Year Photo Shoot





We have been lucky enough to have one of his daycare worker who also works as a photographer take the last few rounds of pictures that we have had done. She does a great job and Brady loves her so he usually smiles.

Trip To The Beach








Todd and I took Brady to my parents time share property in Galveston. He spent one night with them so we could have a night to ourselves and then we all spent the next night there. It was Brady's first time to get in the pool. He loved it! It was also his first time to really get on the beach. He didn't seem so crazy about the sand, but he did seem to enjoy it. We hope that he is going to be a water baby because we are planning a week long Florida beach vacation this year and we love to spend our time at the beach and in the pool when we can!

Happy Birthday Baby!

Well, when people say time flies when you are having fun it is definetely not an exaggeration. I haven't updated in FOREVER- but I am trying to get back into blogging while I am home for the summer. This week my sweet baby boy turned 1 year old! I can't believe that time has gone by so quickly. In preparation of his party we put many of his baby things away in order to make room for his new toys. What a sad day that was for me to realize that my baby is no longer a baby! But, we are moving on to a new fun stage(most days, lol) of toddlerhood.

We had his jungle animal themed party last Saturday and boy was it alot of work! All of the housework-inside and out that Todd and I had been avoided for months defintely caught up with us. We had a fantastic group of family and friends come out for the party and it was a great celebration for Brady.