Date night, dewberries and launch week

Best date night EVER! We found a quiet restaurant with a little corner where no one could find us. :) We desperately needed a date and we had a lovely meal, good conversation and fun! We enjoyed the jazz festival in downtown Bryan afterwards.  We felt like kids again :)

We are growing all kinds of garden goodies.  We are awaiting the growth of these dewberries so we can make cobbler!

I survived launch week at the gym! I wasn't able to finish all the classes I was teaching this week because Jonas caught a bug.  Spent the rest of the week nursing my baby back to health and praying that all will be well for Milo's First Holy Communion weekend. :)  Hopefully, some pics to come soon!

Grammie and Papa visit, Franklin Safari field trip and Hot Shots

G & P came up and treated us to dinner and gelato while Daddy was at a conference!

     Jonas grew lovely carrots in his garden box at school!

   Traditions Montessori had a field trip to the Safari Zoo. We had a WILD TIME!!!!

We fed all kinds of creatures from the bus!

Jonas wanted to pose in front of this lemur because he reminded him of Zaboo from Zoboomafoo!

We love our Arthos!

Group picture of some other wild creatures :)

And home in one piece!  What an adventure!

Jonas is loving Hot Shots this semester, I am so thankful. It has usually been some teeth-pulling to get people to play soccer in our house for some reason. I didn't expect it to be fun for that aforementioned reason, but it really has been!

Happy Easter and Uncle Steve's birthday

Our Easter celebrations began with an egg hunt at Traditions Montessori with some of our best buds, the Arthos!

Holy Thursday we enjoyed a Seder-style meal with help from Shiraz Shish Kebab. :)

We had a footwashing ceremony before Mass.

On Good Friday we took part in the Walking Stations of the Cross with many good friends. It has become a very meaningful tradition for our family to continue.   On Holy Saturday, we enjoyed coloring eggs!!!

And Easter Sunday we attended Mass in Houston at my parents parish were Papa did the reading and Grandma did the greeting! It was a blessing that Bronius' Mom was also able to join us!

The light and hope of our Savior be with us all!  He is RISEN!!!!!!

We enjoyed some egg hunting at the park near Grammie and Papa's.

And Uncle Steve celebrated his birthday too! So thankful for this blessed life and family that I have!

Spring Break 2016

   Our Spring break was a nice blend this year of a few outings, a few visits with friends and lots of time spent together outside and indoors. It was just what we all needed! :)

   Papa gave us passes to the Natural Science Museum in Houston and we scoured the place for as long as our feet could take it! Energy exhibits, Gems, Texas Wildlife, Dinosaurs and MORE! What a great place for growing curiousities and imaginations to run wild!

    We had a picnic at the Cherie Flores gardens beforehand. It was lovely to see all the families gathered, young children, elderly couples, dogs of all kinds and many cultures represented. It felt a little bit like heaven, I must say.

The boys had to pause to climb some rocks and be photographed. :)

  Aunt Les popped over to see us before getting ready for a friend's wedding.

And we got to have frozen yogurt and stroll with the newly-weds-to-be! :)  Then we headed home for dinner and a sleepover with Grandma and Papa. 

Uncle Steve and Mike took these boys to an awesome Aggie baseball game - we won BIG TIME!

We saw Zootopia with friends and had sleepovers. 

And a superhero backyard picnic!

And later on in the week we made a day trip past many wildflowers to La Grange, Tx for some hiking on Monument Hill. It was a perfect, PERFECT day, in every way! It was also a very significant day for our family as it was Bronius' father's birthday, the feast day of St. Joseph and Jonas' baptism day!

We toured the ruins of the old Kreiske brewery.

And later stopped in Round Top to visit the Gardens.  We could have explored for hours.

We stopped in Burton on the way home for a French country dinner at the Brazos Belle.

And after one of the most picturesque country drives at sunset I shall ever remember, we returned home. So thankful for this time to explore, relax and reconnect with family! We hope you are enjoying all the hope and renewal that Spring brings, too!