Turning 4 is FUN!

My sweet tiny little baby boy (I gotta get that in there while I still can) just turned 4 last Saturday! I asked him how it feels to be 4 and he said he still feels 3, but already knows what kind of cake he wants when he turns 5. These are the important things in life. 

We had another pool party this year and it was all things sports themed for our very active boy!

Davis in action!

Miss Molly

Cousin Clark

Blowing out the candle!

Kids sitting quietly, in awe of sugar! 

Time for presents!

A new watch!

Check out those skateboard skills!

Pump me up!

The ultimate water-gun!

My mom, grandmother, and sister.

Eating the last bite of cake!

We got Davis a new bike for his birthday and he rode it like a champ all day long! He thinks the orange is "sooo cool" and our neighbors gave him an awesome blue string of lights to wrap around the bike bars. He's all set!

My best friend Kelly came in town to help celebrate Davis' birthday, so we made a weekend out of it with brunch the next morning for my birthday. We went to Anne Marie's Carriage House in the Botanical Gardens. I had never been or even heard of it, but found it on Yelp. It was quaint, off the beaten path, and delicious.

We don't need to capture my age with a candle anymore.
It can just say "OMG"

That look......

Happy Engagement!

A high school friend of mine got engaged recently and we got to celebrate this past weekend at her engagement party! 

Katelyn and Pat are currently in Boston (remember my fabulous girls weekend a year ago last May - Part 1 and Part 2). 

Friends and family gathered for a fun fiesta party on the lake:

Happy engaged couple!

Forrest was there, we just didn't seem to get any pictures together :( And yes, that is a maternity dress. I can officially say I cannot fit in my clothes anymore.

RED TOUR

My really cool awesome little sister has some connections to Taylor Swift so we were able to get amazing seats to her Red Tour concert last week. Girl's night out! We started the evening with what every pregnant girl deems a necessity, dinner at ZTejas minus the margarita! 

Who doesn't love Taylor Swift? A little, never ever ever getting back together, teardrops on my guitar, love story, 22, and a little I knew you were trouble. This girl writes about her life which makes her so relatable to my teenage self and all the other hundreds of teens in the audience! The audience was a mix of the tweens, the teens, and the moms. Everyone knew every word to every song and we stood the entire time! 

TSwift puts on a great show complete with dancers and costume changes galore. She's all over the stage, up in the air, and performs a couple songs for those in the back row. We had a fun night channeling our inner teens and I would for sure go see her again (minus the emotional teen who sat behind us and sobbed into her boyfriend's shoulder during a breakup song)! 

The Cowboy Rides Away

You guessed it, this post is about George Strait. You might be thinking, she already wrote a rodeo post. I kinda feel like this one deserves it's very own post, don't you? It is George Strait, after all.

I've never seen the big man perform before and jumped at the opportunity for Houston Rodeo tickets! Most of my Dickson side of the family was there, but we were all over the place...some in a box, some at the Director's club, some in 3 seats out of 80,000. It was packed!

The concert was Sunday night so we spent the entire weekend in Houston with my grandparents. They absolutely love having Davis time. Davis is a really big fan of any and all sports, and I do mean ALL. He loves bowling, golf, frisbee, soccer, tennis, badminton, basketball, football, baseball and more. Annie and Papa have one of those fake putting greens that shoots the golf ball back at you, he can't get enough of it and he's actually pretty good at it too.

A little putting in the living room with Papa

We ended up spending two days at the rodeo, one with Davis. It was super super crowded. Given that it was a beautiful Saturday, I'm not surprised everyone else in Houston went that day too. Even fighting the crowds, Davis still had fun petting the animals, seeing all the Aggie livestock, watching baby chicks hatch,milking a cow, watching bubble-bees make honey, and planting his very own sunflower seed (which is still growing in our courtyard). The one thing we didn't do (too long of a line) was ride a pony. I think he lived.

Planting seeds with Annie

Rodeo rides

The night of George Strait, Papa advised us to get there at noon. The concert, mind you, didn't start till that night. We took his advice and got there early, but not in time for lunch, haha. We did get some shopping in and a pre-drink at the club with Annie and Papa. My parents and my sister actually SAW George Strait pass them in a hallway!!!!!!

The Dickson's

Martina McBride

For me, country fans, and Texans all the same, George is truly a legend. I got goosebumps when he sang and glassy eyes when I heard Amarillo by Morning. I about fell over when he threw his cowboy hat into the audience. I kinda felt like a teeny bopper at a Justin Bieber concert. What a night! His last song that night after playing for over two hours was perfect, The Cowboy Rides Away. And then we rode away, for a good hour in traffic with the 80,000 people.

George

The Bakers graciously offered to babysit Davis the night of the concert. Molly and Davis had a grand ole' time playing in the dog cage. Too much fun! 

Davis Turns 3!!!!!

We love July birthdays around here (yes, I realize it's well into August by now)!! Davis turned 3 and he could not have been more excited about his big day! The second he realized it was July (i.e. when the Disney channel announced, "it's July") he came bouncing into my room screaming with sheer delight, "Mom, mom, it's July, it's my birthday!" I was so proud he realized it was July and knew it was his birthday. I then realized I needed to also teach him that July has 31 days and he still had 27 days of July till his actual birthday. Sweet boy, July went by way too slow. 

On his actual birthday I took the day off from work and we did whatever he wanted to do, which happened to be things I love to do too! We went on a walk, to Starbucks, to the park, lunch with his friends (and mine), to Target, and ended the day with dinner at Nana and Pop's. 

He made us sing 3 times! 

Ladder Golf! 

His birthday party was the next day at our neighborhood pool. For the entire two hours, he climbed up the stairs and flew down the slide! Over and over and over again. According to him, he's a big boy now and doesn't need a life jacket. He is a pretty good swimmer. We had swim lessons the week before his birthday and since then, he's been diving inn and swimming to the side by himself!

Shooting out of the slide!

Serving everyone some fruit! 

The Baker's came!

The Adcocks, sweet Emery is a huge fan of the water!

Uncle Mark!

Thomas cake made by my mom and sister!

Davis with all the boys!

Time for the adults to try the slide!