Airport fun!

I stayed awake all night and played world of warcraft - I love that game. What can't it do? Ok. A little giddy from being tired. The taxi picked me up at 2:30am, and now our group is waiting to board our plane that will take off at 5:20. Amazingly, the TACA ticket counter was totally crowded at 3:00am! I didn't realize that many people. Would be flying to El Salvador on a Saturday morning... 

I hope this blackberry will work in central america. Otherwise the blog will be boring until I get back. Oh wait. Dana has some videos of Aria to share. I miss you already, Dana! And Aria!

Email test

I'll be in guatemala next week, so I wanted to test the email posting feature. I hope the cute picture of Aria shows up!

pillow gnomes...

I can honestly say i've never lost a sock in the laundry. ever. have you? have you ever lost other larger things? how about a pillow? well we have lost Aria's daycare pillow. we don't know how, but it is gone. the pillow cover survived somehow, but I spent about 2 hours on Sunday scouring the house for the lost pillow.

at the end of every week, Aria's bag of stuff (pillow, bed sheet, blanket, etc.) comes home with whoever picks her up, usually mommy. this past week it was thursday. Aria has 2 pillows, and the one that went with us for the 4th came home. I know cause i pulled it out of the bag when we got home late Saturday.

Now Sunday rolls around, and we've got to get her stuff together for Monday morning. We did a ton of laundry, and then started packing the bag, but no pillow. I looked everywhere. literally. I mean EVERYWHERE. totally objective, looking in the basement, the furnace, etc., where the pillow had no business being. i even looked outside, in case Dana dropped it by accident. so some pillow gnome must have made off with Aria's pillow...

had to post this, as it's driving me nuts!

trip to Texas part 2

After our fun times in Austin, we drove on over to Galveston which was where Dana's cousin's wedding would take place. We stayed in a beach house that had once been a 7-11 sized convenience store. the layout of the place was interesting, complete with "serial" bathrooms and wacky wiring (the refrigerator would turn off if you turned the porch lights off). but with a huge common area, 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, the proximity to the beach, and a nice pool, there wasn't much to really complain about. we even got to go out to a bar for the psuedo-bachelor party while Miss Aria slept (grandparents had monitor duty).

pool fun!

on the really hot day without AC, Aria slept like this (it was actually cooler outside in the shade). The AC did eventually get fixed and there was much rejoicing.

5 pool dorks:

Aria being cute and knowing it:

Mommy and Aria walking on the beach (this tactic was another way to get her to fall asleep)

The Mojito Fairy made her appearance after the rehearsal dinner, flitting from one person to another with her ladle and sand castle bucket. she simply would not take no for an answer. :-)

Aria loved sweeping in the morning - kinda like a parent cleaning up after the kids partied all night.

just before the wedding, it was Aria's naptime, she and i hid in the shade of the bushes during the ceremony.the groom's cake - the army men are funny! (he is a lieutenant in the Army)

i have no idea - either kung fu kick, or sumo stomp. you decide.

all in all, our trip to Texas was a blast! we had tons of fun, and would like to thank everyone who opened their arms in hospitality. Neil, Martina, & family - i will be better at Guitar Hero for the next time! Melissa - thanks for the fun tours of downtown! Joanne & Darlene - Aria loved your cats and their toys, and Dana & I loved Texas BBQ (oh yeah, Aria liked that too, she learned one of the best words that day 'meat')! The Galveston bunch - too many people to mention, but your company made the latter half of our trip so enjoyable. by the time Saturday rolled around, we were wishing the wedding was on Sunday instead. Courtney, thanks for the quick stop-over on our way to the airport. wish we had gotten pictures of the 3 kids playing, maybe next time. :-)

First day at the new school

(More on our second half of the trip later...) Yesterday Aria started at her new Montessori school. It was a successful day with an easy drop off and a very happy kid upon pickup. The teacher said she had a good day, played, ate and slept well. What more could we ask for??? The teacher also mentioned how she was such a talker! I'm glad Aria could open up and feel comfortable in her new surroundings. I'm really happy with this place.

She will be going 5 days a week now. Kevin has the morning routine while I head to work early. He drops her off at 8:45 and I will pick her up before 4:00. We decided not to buy the hot lunch, so I will be making her lunch daily. I'm actually looking forward to this part. She likes simple food and I can make sure she's eating super healthy :-)

trip to texas part 1... long post!

our flight to austin was delayed 3 hours, but we made it (even with some aria spew during landing, but we survived). we drove to our friends over at johnny's brother and had tons. of. fun!

all 9 of us at Oasis--decent food, excellent view!

Aria, surprised to see a UFO in the Oasis parking lot

Aria and her new best friend Paige

that spring holding the tractor up will never be the same...

We headed to The Salt Lick, great atmosphere, great meat. look at it smoking!

Today we went for a nice long (4 miles total) walk, I had to get a picture with Stevie Ray Vaughan

We ended up at Zilker Park, and rode on the Zilker Zephyr, a nice little train for the kids. Aria loved it, here's Melissa and Aria, and then the "fam" in front of the train afterwards.

bathtime! and "the end" ;-)

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Daddy's Day to all you guys! Ok, it's a little late (maybe I'm just early for next year)! And especially to you Goofydaddy. You are the best!