Playdates and Cake

Friday was my off day and Linc and I spent the morning playing with Asher and Maricarol at our house. They live around the corner from us, so we just got together after our morning walks. The boys played nice together and Maricarol and I got to know each other better. We had a great time eating watermelon and letting the boys run around the house. We hope to do it again soon.

Here are Lincoln and Asher on his gym.

Later that afternoon we met up with Jenny (my other great friend that I have known since childhood) and her two boys. We headed up to the mall and let the boys play in the indoor play area they have. They all seemed to enjoy themselves and it was great to catch up with Jenny. I didn't take my camera, so no pictures, sorry!

Saturday was great, but I will have to talk about that on another day.

Sunday we all headed over to my parents house for a little welcome party for Paula. Like I said before she has been in Iraq for quite a while and is on leave. My parents invited my grandparents and my brother and sister-in-law over to join. We had yummy bbq from Spring Creek (love their rolls) and then red velvet cake for dessert!

When we decided it was time to cut the cake, Linc climbed up in the chair ready for a piece. He was so excited and anxious for a slice of cake, it was so funny. For a bit he just sat there patiently, but then he could wait no long. Watch as the cake frenzy unfolds.

He sees the cake, but stays put.

He can't wait for someone to cut it, he has to stick a finger in and see what this goodness tastes like.

He won't even let Paula have a taste, he licks her finger too!

My mom wanted her to pick up the cake for a camera shot, and he was protesting.

My mom and Paula with the yummy cake. Ok, now I can't wait anymore, lets cut into this sucker.

What if I say please, will that get me a piece?

He finally gets a piece. Now why could he not be this excited for his birthday cake, haha!

Yum, that is some good sugar!

Now he is starting to just shove it into his mouth and it is getting everywhere. Up until this point he was pretty clean.

He sure did enjoy that, now lets add some ice cream and see what kind of mess he makes.

After the ice cream he literally had cake and ice cream from head to toe. I had to wipe him down several time as well as the chair. Before we left for the day he saw the cake again and tried to climb up there and get some more. I think he takes after me in the sweets department! Looks like I will have to start sharing my desserts now, oh no!

Here is my mom and Grandma after the party.

My grandpa and Linc playing with his hat.

My grandpa tried to wear it, but Linc knew it was his, haha!

It was great to see you Grandma and Grandpa!

Linc was so worn out after the party, he fell asleep on the car ride home (which is only 5 minutes). I think he just had too much fun swimming, eating mac and cheese, playing with his aunt, uncle and great grandparents and then eating tons of cake. He was out from 5 until 7pm. He did wake up, but we just gave him something to eat and he went back down at 8pm. Hope he stays asleep tonight, it was a weird day as far as naps go for him. Have a great week!

A Camelbak Fasion Statement

This week for bootcamp I decided that I would start taking my camelbak. Last Thursday proved that is was hard for me to run without my hands free. I think it is because of the way my soccer coach taught me to run when I was in highschool. He said to always have your hands free and relaxed (maybe even rub your fingers together) so that you are not wasting energy or tightening your upper body muscles while running. I could really tell that I was tighten up so I would not drop my water bottle last week.

So on Tuesday I had Craig find it and fill it with water. I put it on just to make sure it was strapped right before I headed off and Lincoln was really curious as to what this thing was I was sucking on. So I let him have a try and he loved it!!! He was so amazed with it I almost had to leave it at home with him because he was throwing a fit when I took it away. Somehow we bribed it away from him and I was able to get out the door. The camelbak proved to be very useful. The funny thing is that I was not the only one with the idea in our bootcamp class, it seems almost everyone had the same idea and they too showed up with them.

Anyway, so this morning I was on my own taking Linc to school (Craig was on a business trip) and Linc saw the camelbak. I was really trying to get us out the door, but he was about to throw another fit, so I let him try to drink out of it while I put my stuff in the car. When I came back in, this is what I saw him doing.

He had pulled it off from the counter and was dragging it around.
Then he was trying to put it on by himself.

"Hmm, I wonder how I get it on?"

That's a good start buddy, but it is backwards. Let me help you...

Alright, we got it on. The pack actually fits him really well, it is like a mini back pack.

"Yes, I make this camelbak fashionable, don't be jealous."

He was a thirsty little man. If you are having trouble getting your child to drink water, this is the solution. I think they find it so fun that they will drink whatever is in it.

Well, I am off to another bootcamp! I hope to keep seeing results, I have already lost about 2-3 lbs, depending on what scale I am on. I just have to keep up the workouts and continue to keep my sugar consumption to a minimum.

From Mimi's to Rambo, a Typical Sunday

Last week was my sister-in-law's Birthday. So we took Ginger and Bob out to Mimi's for brunch on Sunday! I really love this place and was super pumped when she said she wanted to go there. I even skipped desert the night before because I knew I wanted something sweet when I got there. My normal Mimi's breakfast is a hot chocolate with whipped cream, half of Craig's muffin (b/c I never get one with my meal), a small juice and some kind of pancakes or french toast. Since I am trying to cut down on sugar, I just had the french toast and some of Craig's muffin, but it was still way good!



We have had and will have big milestones this year and it started with Linc turning 1. The next was Ginger turning 35 in July! My brother will also turn 35 and my dad will turn 55! So we have some big party planning ahead of us.



Here are Ginger and Bob after Mimi's. Linc was ready for a nap and so he would not stay still. He passed out as soon as we got in the car.



The rest of our Sunday was pretty chill. While Linc napped, I headed over to the Gap for Friends and Family day. Who can resist shopping when you can get 30% off, not me! I got a few good things, but they were mostly picked over since it was the last day of the event.



I don't remember why Craig got this out, but here is our little Rambo!

Linc was enjoying a mid afternoon snack of apple sauce when Craig tied his paintball bandanna around Linc's head. He was shaking his head and then it fell over his eyes so he took it off. I helped him get it back on.

Wolf den, this is lone wolf, do you read?

War is in your blood, don't fight it!

Yes, I had apple sauce, do you have a problem with that?

Ok, I will calm down.

What did you say? That's what I thought.

Hey, I was just kidding, give me my eye back.

He had fun playing in Craig's paintball stuff. It just cracks me up that Craig actually wears it and is serious, haha. Paintball is so crazy, but he loves it. I guess it is the one place you can wear tons of purple and still feel manly. I forgot to mention that Craig's whole uniform is bright purple, which a huge scull on it.

The rest of Sunday was pretty uneventful. We got out the new splash pad (because the old one busted) and the mister and played in the back yard for a while. After Linc went to sleep we started to smell something close to the smell when you first turn on the heater for the season. It turns out that our compressor was being overworked and that was the awful smell. Craig turned it down to 77 degrees last night and we woke up and it was 80 degrees. Looks like our air conditioner froze over again. It sure does suck that we have only lived in our house for 7 months and we have had the air people out 5 times. I just really hope we don't have to replace it, it is only 4 years old! Our air conditioner is in the attic, which is strange to me, does anyone else have theirs there? Do you have problems with it?

A Walk in the Park

We had a pretty quiet Saturday for the Gabbard Family. Friday Linc came home with a horse voice and a slight fever. So on Saturday morning we headed to the doctor because he woke up with no voice, pretty pitiful little guy when he can't talk. The dr. said he just had a secondary infection from his running nose, I guess we let it go to long. She gave us some meds and sent us home saying no voice was fine and that he would get it back soon.

It was so humid today from the rain, but we really wanted to do something. I thought it would be a good idea to take a long walk at the Benbrook Trail. We packed up the jogging stroller and headed for the trail. I figured it would not be so bad because all of the shade. Well I was wrong, it was so humid that Craig and I were beading up sweat within the first 5 minutes and we were just walking!

I was determined to walk out my sore legs (yes they are still sore from Thursday's workout), so we kept moving. Here are some pictures of our walk today.

In that car waiting for me to get his stroller out.

Daddy and Linc on the second bridge. The trail has a lot of bridges that go over water (obviously), but I don't know what river it is or maybe it is a creek.

Checking out the water, about to chunk his cup!

Is it the Trinity?

Man, I was sweating by this point.

Waiting for Daddy, because he wanted to go up a trail and see where it went.

There he his, running to catch up with us.

The trail has a fenced in area at the end where there are a bunch of Longhorns, we truly live in the heart of Texas!

They are so pretty and there were so many of them right here in Benbrook.

I think we walked/ran a little over three miles today, but my legs are still hurting. I just hope that they are better by Tuesday, haha! When we were done, Craig wanted a Slurpee. I got a pina colada one and Linc practically drank the whole thing, good thing it was a small.