Utah State vs. Texas A&M football game

It was so fun to see our Alma Mater play here in Texas! Lane and I were basically the only Utah State fans in a crowd of about 80,000 maroon A&M fans. *Thankfully everyone was really cool to us!

We had 2nd row seats, and the game was a really good one. Lane camped and tailgated with a bunch of guys (all A&M fans), and I met him up there the day of the game.

TailgatingUtah State scores another touchdown! (if you look real close you can see the Utah State visitor section on right)The lone blue in a crowd of maroon! We got on the jumbo tron a couple times also! (it helped to be sitting close to the camera, and I think the guy felt bad for us :)Post game- this was the Utah State section... not big, but still was cool to support our school.

CHEESSSSSE

After 21 months of training i've finally been able to get Danelle to pose for pictures!

Now she squats *(since I always get down low to take her picture), and says "Cheesssse".

Here are some cheese pictures of her at the Wildflower Center.

She is getting so big!!!!

Birthday in South Padre

For my 27th Birthday we headed down to South Padre Island (southern tip of Texas).

Danelle loved the beach!!! She surprisingly wasn't afraid of the waves and had a blast playing in the sand.

This is her not happy that Lane is playing in the waves without her.


We took a drive- LITERALLY- along the water. I guess your allowed to drive vehicles out onto the sand and there was no one really there being middle of the week after labor day. *(all wheel drive helps too)Eating at Landry's our favorite seafood place ever.

Feeding the birds.
Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Sew Cute!

Look at me go! I'm really trying to work on my sewing skills and here are 2 of my latest projects.

An apron for Danelle we made when my mom was here: (reversible + a ruffle... fancy stuff here folks)
And a "quiet bag" for church and the car- to put some books and toys in. This we did at our last sewing group. I'll let you know if the "quite" part works out or not :)
*If any of you ever come across good websites or blogs that have sewing crafts/ideas/tutorials let me know- I'm always on the look out!

Trains, Rains and Haircuts

I didn't have much to update, but this is what I could scrounge up from the past 2 weeks:

Danelle loves buckles (in the car seat, the highchair, stroller, etc.)

This is how I found her the other day... trying to do the buckle on the high chair. (we had just gotten back from the pool- she'll thank me someday.)
Playing in the rain. She loves being outside.


I changed my hair color- I know, unless you see me every day you probably can't even tell, but it's darker and so much better! Thanks Ashlee!
Danelle is all about buses and trains now a days. (and buckles) She can spot a bus down the road and start yelling "BUUUSSSS"! She can also hear a train several miles a way and will freeze and open her mouth like she's in shock- then do the train sign.

We decided to take her on a mini train ride called the Zilker Zephyr. She was nervous at first- but then loved it! It was a 25 min. ride around this huge park in Austin. She even got a front row seat, with who else but her daddy.