Reunion, Recital, and Fathers Day

This past weekend was extremely busy for us! It was our 10 year reunion from graduating high school. Nicki, Melody and myself have been working on planning it since September, so it was nice for it to finally be over! The festivities started Friday night with a cocktail hour at Porch Swing Pub in Houston. It was great to see everyone and get the memory juices flowing! Since Jason had been in Canada all week and flying back late that evening, I went solo, but it was a lot of fun!
After getting in late Friday night, we all woke up early Saturday morning. Jason went to play golf with high school buddies in town for the reunion, while Brinley and I headed off to Reese's dance recital. Brinley absolutely loved watching all the dancers. She sat in my lap for an hour without moving (which is rare for her!) After each dance finished, she would clap and say "more" very loudly. When it was Reese's turn she got so excited, waved and yelled "hi". The 2nd hour of the recital she got antsy, but since it was the tap portion she stood in the aisle next to my seat and imitated the girls tapping! I guess we will have to put this girl in dance when she is 3!
After leaving Brinley with my parents, I came home to get ready for the reunion. We had such a good time. It was almost like we graduated yesterday because everyone just started talking, laughing, and dancing like no time had gone by at all. The only difference was we could buy our own alcohol now instead of having someone buy it for you...LOL! It was really great seeing people I hadn't seen since we graduated. So the evening was full of picture taking, laughing uncontrollably, dancing, and walking down memory lane. It was a fun evening and I am glad everything worked out, but I will gladly hand the torch over to someone else to plan the 15 year reunion!

Robert E Lee High School Class of 1998
Me and Jason all dressed up!
Me and Nicki (we have known each other since Kindergarten!)
me and Melody (I think this is picture number 3,056 taken together...LOL)

After another late night getting in, we woke up Sunday morning and headed over to my brothers house for fathers day and to pick up Brinley. We ate a yummy lunch, homemade ice cream and swam for the afternoon. We came home, took a nap and got take out for dinner! No pictures from yesterday due to sheer exhaustion!

Waterbugs

We have been doing nothing but swimming the past two weeks! Brinley loves the water, it is hard to get her out. We have been swimming at our neighborhood pool, the YMCA, and my brother's house (they just got a gorgeous pool put in their backyard)! I am enjoying finally getting my tan back (I have been pasty for the past few years!) and even with 50 SPF sunblock, Brinley is becoming a brown berry...guess she is going to have her daddy's skin tone. With the temperatures already in the high 90's and heat index around 100-105, I think we will be spending a lot of time in the water this summer!

On a fun note, Jason and I have our 10 year high school reunion this weekend. I can't believe it has been 10 years already! I can't believe Jason and I have been together for 10 years (we started dating the summer after high school)! Time sure does fly!!!!

Memorial weekend fun

We woke up Saturday morning and decided to head to the beach for the day (one of the advantages of living 20 miles away!!) Luckily, it was overcast that day, since the temperatures were in the 90's with a heat index of 100-105 (and it is only May....we usually don't see that until July!) The clouds allowed us to stay at the beach for 3-4 hours and enjoy it. Brinley loved being at the beach. She was running in and out of the water and squealing with delight the entire time. She even loved it when her daddy took her deep in the ocean and let the waves crash against them. It took her a while to get use to the sand in between her toes (she kept asking me to clean them off), but eventually she was shoveling and digging in the wet sand like it never bothered her.



After we left the beach, we ate lunch at my favorite Mexican food restaurant, Salsas, for lunch. We used to have one in League City that we ate at every week, but then they closed it down towards the end of my pregnancy...shame on them! So now we have to drive to Galveston to eat it.



We got home that afternoon and Brinley took a 3 1/2 hour nap, guess she was worn out! Jason and I also enjoyed a nap on the couch while watching Indiana Jones...he bought the entire DVD set so he could ready to see the new movie!



It was a great way to spend the memorial weekend and I think the beach will become a very frequent outing this summer for us.


Here I come beach!
Running towards the water!
Life is good! Watermelon and juice.
Filling her sand bucket for the 1ooth time

Pianist in the making

Brinley has been watching her Aunt Marian practice the piano....so she is trying to start her career as well!

Cooped up in the house way too long!

Brinley has been sick the past 2 weeks! I knew I jinxed myself a few weeks ago when I said she hadn't been sick since late November!!! Last week, she had a upper respiratory infection. While she is still coughing a little congested from that, she was acting back to normal. Monday she came down with a stomach bug and has had diarrhea all week (with a little vomiting yesterday). She has missed 2 weeks of MDO and I am about to go stir crazy of being locked in this house! Hopefully, she will be better by next week so she can at least go to her last week of MDO and I can get some things done!!!

A visit from Wyatt

For the past three weeks, my sister in law and nephew, Wyatt, have been visiting from Switzerland. It is always great to see them and let the cousins interact with each other since they are only 2 days apart in age! This trip was more exciting since they can actually play together now (back in January they played separately the majority of the time) I wish they lived here all the time! It is so interesting to see how differently boys and girls develop! Although, we both realized they inherited the Smith family genes of not talking much (Wyatt is a grunter, while Brinley likes to point!!) Here are some pictures of the many things we did over the past three weeks! We had so much fun and look forward to you next visit after christmas.....or hopefully sooner!

My nephew Wyatt-man!

Sharing food while playing in the fountains at Kemah

At grandma's house (it sure is hard to get 2 almost 2 year olds to look at the same time!!!)

Playing house at Monkey N Around play center

sick little girl and traveling daddy

Not much has been going on at our house lately. Brinley has been sick with a upper respiratory infection and running 102-103 fever for the past 3 days. So she and I have been cooped up in the house trying to get her well.

Jason, my dad and brother took their annual man trip this past weekend to Canton, Ohio to visit the Football hall of fame, rock n roll hall of fame and they caught a few Indians baseball games. They had a great time (despite the cold and rainy weather). This is a tradition they started last year with a trip to New York to see the sights, baseball hall of fame, etc. Here are some pictures of his Ohio trip

Dad, Jason and Blake at Cleveland baseball game

The highlight of his trip...eating White Castle (not sure if it was beause the Harold and Kumar movie or from visiting his grandparents up North when he was little.... )

Jason at the Rock n Roll hall of fame