Perfect weather

Spring has arrived in the ATX! I was loving the late cool snap we had, but I must say, 65 degrees and sunny is pretty gorgeous. Second only to 0 degrees and snow, this is my perfect weather. Grandma and grandpa came into town for a quick visit to watch The Woodlands and Kingwood boys soccer teams play in the State playoffs.

I met them for lunch at Doc's Backyard. Doc's has outdoor eating and a huge playground for the kids. A great lunch! They won't get back tonight until after the kids go to bed and have to leave early tomorrow morning to get back for a memorial service, but what a nice surprise. It worked out great because we actually had a babysitter booked (3rd time!) so that we could go out and watch a friend's band play. Now we saved about 40 bucks! Yay!

Logan was out in the swing this morning for 35 minutes! I tried putting them down for naps this afternoon. They were SO tired, but I gave up after 30 minutes. Logan was not going to nap. They passed out for a few minutes in the car after I tried to get an inspection. I could have REALLY used a nap today. I'm already tired and the show doesn't start until 10pm! Coffee?!

Poop Ornaments

Today we took down the rest of the Christmas decor in the house. I finally had to deal with the 'poop ornaments.' If you remember these are the ornaments in a box that some rodent got into and decided to poop all over. GROSS. I tossed all of the ornament boxes, anything paper/cardboard and washed, clorox wiped, clorox sprayed everything else. Now everything smells like disinfectant, but at least it should be clean and ready for next year. We tried to get rid of cardboard boxes and put more things in plastic containers to avoid this problem in the future. Here's a picture from the de-pooping.

We spend a lot of time at the playground today walking some of the trails (until Logan decided to grab a cactus) and playing on the equipment. It was such a nice day in Austin. The high was probably upper 50s/lower 60s. So very nice.

I almost forgot to add that I found the advent calendar my mom gave (that my Grandmother had made)! It was in a box that we didn't open this year. It now has a safe home right next to the wreath made out of the kids' hands. Two of my prized possessions!

Last night Jenn was kind enough to offer her babysitting services while Brian and I went out. We tried a new Mexican restaurant, Tres Amigos, and both gave it a B. Brian had a stuffed avocado, which was amazing, and I had a shrimp chili relleno, which was not great. The salsa was amazingly good, but I had a horrible margarita. I'm not a fan of fruity drinks and when I ordered a habanero margarita on the rocks I did not expect a pink drink that tasted like trash can punch. Yuck. After dinner we saw "Jack Reacher." I liked it but Brian thought it was 'meh.' Those kind of thrillers are just up my alley, so I enjoyed it.

Tonight we're looking forward to Downton Abbey premiering and relaxing after our hard work around the house. Jenn had a babysitting job from 11am - 5pm, so she'll probably need some relaxing too! We stayed up until well past midnight watching the last few episodes of Gossip Girl. Jenn was a little behind because apparently they don't really get Gossip Girl in Togo, or electricity for that matter.