Sabrina is 8

For her birthday we celebrated a week early. Hailey, Emma, Kylie, Summer, and Jordyn were her guests. We went to Wonder world in San Marcos where we petted and fed tame deer off of a train and took a cave tour of the cavern on the Balcones Fault line. Then we headed home for pizza, presents, movie time and cake. The girls had so much fun! Zachary also came and kept Samuel busy and happy. 

Last weekend we gathered together for lunch with the aunties and uncles on her real birthday. It was delicious and such a beautiful day!

We wrapped up the day at Salt Lick with Hanna, Jeff, Warren, and Connor. Yum Yum and play time after at the park! It was quite the time.

These sweet moments are the highlights of my life! 

Fun night in San Antonio

Found myself with an unexpected work project last minute but got to bring the family for the first night and a little touring of the Alamo city. They had such a blast! 

Philip and I were captured pretty well too! 

(Photo credit to Princess Sabrina)

We spent time learning and touring the Alamo, watching the video presentation and visiting the museum. The kids were super interested in the triangle pointed bayonet.

Then we saw the half dozen pianos and historic Menger (super cool), and began a very long meandering walk back to the hotel where we started. A couple of nice meals out, a spacious suite room, and lots of exploring time with the kids? Excellent!!! 

Highly recommend the Riverwalk in winter! None of the crowds and so much beauty! 

Another big week!

Samuel learned to ride a bike with pedals in about 20 minutes yesterday! He was intensely proud of himself as were the rest of us. We all credit his balance bike for making the transition so smooth and quick. With his balance already established, it was super simple for him to learn to pedal without training wheels! SO so awesome.

Louie has been signing fan, milk, and all done, but just yesterday with some practice (and yogurt he really wanted) he picked up the sign for more! It was really quick, which was very cool. He is a dancing fool too- loves to rock out while sitting and standing!

Sabrina is really enjoying the chemistry and art sets she received for Christmas. My heart is full when I watch her conducting the experiments and learning cool facts about sugar versus salt! She finished Charlotte's Web yesterday. Philip bought her the movie so that is up next as a promise from him.

Louie and his new (old) toy

Sabrina got this walker, that turns into a car, for Christmas- her very first Christmas. Now Louie is using it as Sam did before him. Toy on it's third round over eight years? That's a pretty good toy. I forgot when milestone mentioned in yesterday's post – Louie is also starting to dance. He has the typical Johnson moves and it's adorable. 

Louie turning 1

This week was a big one for Louie- he turns one on Monday, Thursday is Thanksgiving, and he started taking his first steps.  He also very cutely has began to say 'mama'! 

Last weekend we had his first camping trip. We went to McKinney Falls. It was cold, but we had a cabin in a space heater. We all came back smelling like campfire. It was great!

And scraped out a few pumpkins

Samuel did not want to dig out pumpkin guts. He also did not enjoy it when I helped him try. Sabrina would take out pumpkin guts but only with a spoon.

Each picked a picture for me to copy. Nothing amaze balls, but we got it done and the kids were pleased. I call that success! And it was soooo pretty outside. Newest tradition: sharing pumpkin seeds and carvings with the cheepers! They were so interested!

Today's harvest not too shabby

Green beans and cucumbers- some collected earlier in the weekend, actually, but ran out of daylight for collection!

And straight to the table. How's that for farm fresh? ;)