Snow in Austin!

Once a decade Austin sees snow. If EVEN that.
And it comes the day prior to our ski trip!
:-)

I was happy to see snow, I LOVE snow. I was actually jealous of the east coast blizzard (sort of), but wish this had come around Christmas. Not in the Spring-time??

Sydney and I packing for our ski trip, getting in the spirit.

"whooooshing" down the mountain!

We went to the outlets in San Marcos, and Sydney made about 2,309 wishes with all the pennies I had. I wonder how many wishes she actually had in her head!

Thinking hard on this one. I heard her whisper something about her friends.

Kelli playing a game called "throw things on the ground and watch Mommy pick it up, so I can throw it back on the ground again".

So I showed her a game called "sit down, be quiet, look at the camera and pretend to be really happy"

Sooooo bad at this game. I win!

Sydney is getting good at it, though!

We later drove up to Wendy's and passed the Echelon building. No more plane sticking out of it, but talking about putting that into perspective. Much different than seeing it on the news.

We had an engagement party for Jenny & Doug, but as usual, Sydney and Kelli take center stage.

Who doesn't have a craft table at an engagement party?

Doug said "crafts? Oh, I thought you said you want to make crabs"

Kelli has to climb on EVERYTHING. off course this is reinforced by everyone squeeling "Yaaaaay Kelli!!!!"

Well if everyone else is so happy, I might as well be happy!

more "yaaaaaay! Kelli!!!"s... she was loving it!

more climbing.

and chit-chat. Lots of "dada baba deeee dee"

And she loves to play the drums now.

Sydney decides to train for her 1/2 mile race.

Love this picture of Wendy snatching her up.

More pics of the Echelon on the way home.
Feel so sad that there actually was a victim from this incident after the initial news was that no one was killed. There were several people injured, but they said no fatalities. Then news came they found two bodies (obviously one of the pilot). So I feel so terrible. He was a 2-time Vietnam veteran, too. And that's the way he had to go.

I love pictures of Sydney sleeping in the car.
I don't know why. Don't ask. It's just cute.

My Week, My Boring Post Title

This is the parking lot at school at 7am (which illustrates how many people love 8am classes. What a quiet morning too... little did I know 3 hours from this moment some angry dude would fly a plane into an IRS building in North Austin. Sheesh. One memorable day in our city! one for the books: 2/18/10... since normally, you know, news in Austin consists of the bats under Congress bridge breeding, when the butterflies are migrating into the city, or.. well... traffic. That's our news.

Friday, Sydney and I made more "goody bags" for the homeless, to keep in our car. We usually see them when we run errands near Town Lake etc, and they almost always have a dog. So we put dog food in there. Our treat bags have grown from lunch bags to larger plastic bags. At some point I'll have to limit myself!

We actually went LOOKING for them on our way to Wildwood Art Cafe, and didn't find one. Sydney was really disappointed.

This is our favorite gluten free cafe on Rollingwood Dr.

Kelli acted her age and threw crap all over the floor and flirted with patrons.

Sydney ate a whole turkey sub herself, though she insisted the turkey was bologna... I said "you have never had bologna in your life, what do you know about bologna" and she told me "I know everything about it".
Off course!

I got the same thing, except I had lettuce and avocado on it. It was so good. Everything in this cafe is gluten free, and I think the people get really irritated with me. Since we don't get up this way too often, I usually stand there staring at the menu and goodies saying "ummmm.... uuuhhh... and Ill have.... and I'll take one of... oh! and I want... and ummmm" with about 12 people behind me, 10 minutes later, "OH! and ONE more thing!"
It's like being in a candy store.

Sydney was giving me a face because I wouldn't go lay in bed to let her give me a check up. I told I can't do that while I'm holding Kelli and she said "well, I have a good idea. You can just put her down."

The kids next door came over to wash my car (have I mentioned how much I love my neighborhood????). So Kelli wanted to watch!

Since Seth (properly known as "Seff") was doing it, Sydney had to get out there and help.

Today, even though she's now displaying GREEN boogers, Kelli is showing off her boutique style.

Her boutique crib shoes from http://www.littledivagirl.com/

Kelli's Rollercoaster

When I dropped her off at the daycare in the gym, (I don't even want to call it a gym, it's a "fitness club" it's so fancy)... she was SO happy.

Then I heard my name on the loud speaker to "report" to the child center. I thought, great, what did Sydney do? haha.
Nope. Kelli was crying her head off and wouldn't stop. I picked her up and she passed out.
I'll probably talk to the director of the center because this is the 3rd time it's happened here and that has never happened at the YMCA. I don't know what all of their policies are, and I know they get more traffic there, but for crying?
I think she might have been teething so I gave her tylenol and bounced her around, Sydney played some more but Kelli was NOT happy being there anymore so we went to the cafe and ate and Kelli got upset again so we skipped the zoo (poor Sydney... didn't get to swim either!) and went home.

I apologized to Sydney and she said "today has been a great experience anyway".
what a trooper.

To make up for missing the pool & the zoo... she got a package from Trace in the mail!

He sent her a Valentine monkey!

And a princess card. (happy again)

This is how I spent all evening (and why I didn't get to study a BIT)

Between trying to use the 'free' 2 hour childcare at the gym to study (no dice) and Sydney's ballet lesson (no dice) this is what Kelli did to me. Pulled on my pants all day, cried, wouldn't let me put her down, cried some more. I ended up caving and gave her the big guns: ibuprofren. And that actually seemed to do the trick for a little bit. Thank God Sydney wasn't so needy yesterday.
I couldn't get ANY babysitters. None.
So I am about to take a test without one ounce of studying under my belt.
So far I have one B+ and an A+ and I'm trying to stay on that track! I'll die if I get anything under a B.