Dallas

Matthew sat and listened to his music for a long time the other day. He busted out the old discman and hooked it up with his new headphones he got for Christmas. He also scored a really cool license plate cd holder from the Olivers for his birthday. It holds all his favorites. I still love how he arranges everything.

We watched our Longhorns lose a tough game the other night. We're all left wondering what might have been. To ease our broken hearts we had the company of good food and friends and family. Matt & Ava's happy moods were never shaken! They played great all evening.

Saturday morning we drove up to Dallas to attend Josh Brown's 3rd birthday party. I'm pretty sure both our boys had a blast running and crawling all over the place. There was a great area for the wee ones to crawl around, so Will was all smiles scooting around.

Alison made not one, but two amazing cakes. That woman is seriously talented. The race track cake was Matt's favorite, and he politely turned down numerous plates of the Lightning McQueen cake being passed around until the race track cake was sliced.

After we were stuffed with pizza and cake we enjoyed the rest of our evening back at the Brown's watching Josh open all his cool birthday presents and then playing some Beatles Rock Band. The kids were worn out. Thankfully I didn't have to go through with any of my threats I posed to Matt before he went to sleep with Josh in his room. Matt fell asleep immediately, and I'm told he was snoring. Sure signs that he had a big day!

We enjoyed a nice breakfast out with our friends the following morning before heading back home. Matt probably only asked when we'd get to Austin about 50 times. I think he was tired of the car.

Look at this little thing. He loves those pantry sliding shelves. And so do I! After a yucky cold last week he's back to his happy, chipper self. Cutie pie.