Strawberry Picking

 I was determined to pick strawberries this year (we missed last year because we were moving). Everything grows here a few months earlier then the rest of the country (we are used to picking our strawberries the beginning of June). The kids and I asked around and found Marburger Orchard, about a hour north of us. It was totally worth the trip too. The day was slightly chilly (65-70) which meant no sweating and hardly anyone was there which we always love. Unfortunately the season was coming to a end to the strawberries were slightly small but they were perfect to freeze for smoothies. LOVE!

The flowers were gorgeous. I couldn't stop myself from taking way too many pictures of just flowers.

 Jackson would have stayed there all day running up and down the rows. He was a sweaty mess by the time we finally left just from running back and forth. The two older kids were really good sports to keep racing him back and forth.

Easter Sunday

One of my favorite things about Texas so far are the wild flowers that bloom in the spring. I have never lived somewhere where they are so plentiful and beautiful. Thank you Lady Bird Johnson. A few days before Easter we had a play group up at a park a bit north of here. The flowers were amazing so I decided that we had to go back on Sunday to take pictures. In retrospect, taking pictures right at noon wasn't the best but I knew if we waited we would never come back...Sunday naps and all. The kids loved walking through the flowers and I loved the little bouquet they picked for me to take home. 

This was Andrew trying to pose like his sister...what a stinker he is.

Easter Eggs

Around here I like to do Easter festivities on Saturday so we can concentrate on the true meaning of Easter on Sunday. This year we did sand buckets and a few treats...I really hate that every holiday seems to revolve around candy candy candy. The kids also dyed their eggs. I was pretty proud of myself. I don't usually like to do eggs because of the fear of dye spilling everywhere but since Zac was gone I decided to do it anyway. The kids did really well, even Jackson. They were all really careful while using each color.

We did a small Easter Egg hunt in the back yard. After they finished the kids said I hid them too easy and they went ahead and hid them again and again then had Jackson find them. They probably did this three or four times till they got too warm. Yes, it is already warm here in Texas.

Corpus Christi

One of the days over our Spring Break the kids and I made the three hour drive down to the Gulf of Mexico to Corpus Christi for a day on the beach. It was so worth the drive. When we first arrived it was a bit cloudy and muggy but as the day went on the sun came out and the mugginess blew away. It was wonderful. 

 The two older kids were fearless. The jumped right into the water and didn't come back out for at least a hour. I think they missed their Hawaii days.

Jackson on the other had a bit of a hard time with the sand. We finally got him to take his shoes off...he didn't like the feel of sand on his feet but the getting him to walk anywhere was a huge deal. He spent the first  hour sitting next to me with his feet raised up off the ground. It was kind of funny. It reminded me of my first time to the beach when we first moved to Hawaii. I couldn't stand all the sand everywhere. He must be my child.

I finally convinced him to play in the sand with a shovel and a cup...as long as the sand did not come in contact with his hands. 

Wish I would have gotten a video of Anne dancing on the beach. 

I again didn't have my camera out for it but a funny story...Anne was eating her chips. All of a sudden we heard all this squawking so we looked up. There were like 20-30 seagulls circling around us. Anne freaked out and started running away and of course all the seagulls followed her. I was laughing but I think Anne was a bit scared. She finally just threw her chips down and ran away from the seagulls. Talk about crazy birds.

Spring Break

I have been a serious slacker in blogging for the past few months...this is why I am just getting to posting about our Spring Break way back in March. Because Zac was gone we didn't do anything too fancy. Mostly we just enjoyed good weather and playing outside in the beautiful 70 + degree weather.

Jackson became super confident on the swings. Andrew pushed him for hours.

Not sure why Anne had her purse outside but they must have been having fun doing whatever they were doing. There was a lot of laughter floating around.

The kids also picked tons of Sugar Snap Peas off the bushes my mom and dad planted way back in October. We were lucky enough to get tons of peas. They were so yummy.

One afternoon the kids got the sprinkler out and had a blast cooling off.