The girls and I made mini strawberry cakes the other night..Joe is gone for 3 weeks so we need something to do in the evenings! This was a really messy idea, but the girls had fun :)

Lily had those sprinkles everywhere!

Thursday after we dropped Ella off at school, Lily and I went to the grocery store and when we came out it was POURING! We headed home and since it was so warm I put on her raincoat and sent her outside so I could take some pictures. It had mostly stopped raining, but she enjoyed playing with the water that was coming from the gutters

Monday we went to a waterfall (Joe called it a waterfall..I saw it and kind of laughed) with Joe's friend from work and his wife. The walk to the fall was pretty short, but then we went on this crazy walk through the bushes looking for a geocache. It was also really hot!

Eating lunch
We started by looking for a geocache in this rock pile...we didn't find it :)

Walking to the fall


The waterfall

I played around with the settings on my camera to make the water look cool

The sweaty girls!

We headed in to Temple since we were already half way there. Ella needed some new summer clothes, (she is getting way too tall!) and the goodwill there has cheaper kids clothes. There is also a BBQ restaurant there that has a penny machine so we stopped there for an early dinner

The girls loved the outdoor playland

Joe with all the food!

Joe after eating LOTS of food :)

And we still had a lot to bring home.

Lily loves broccoli!

San Antonio Zoo

We woke up Saturday and decided we wanted to do something, so we headed to San Antonio to go to the zoo! I didn't realize it was a 3 hour drive or we would have started a little earlier so we could have done a few more things while we were there!

Lily had a screaming break down soon after we got there.. I realized she was probably just really thirsty (she usually drinks a lot and we didn't have her cup!) and getting too hot. So we took off her sweater and bought her a tiger cup and she was good the rest of the time :)

Think we need a bigger stroller! ha

We ate outside on the deck.

The girls loved looking at the birds, but it was pretty hot and stinky!

Hippos have really nasty teeth...

Ella chose to sit in the stroller most of the time..

I wish I had a stroller after 5 hours of walking around the zoo!

Lily ready (almost-I just realized she is pantsless!) to go to the valentines lunch!

Ella pouting before leaving for the valentine lunch...aren't kids so much fun?!

I already posted some pictures my friends took at the park, I forgot my camera...but here is a shot of them after 4 hours of park time and WAY too much candy :)
They had another party on wednesday at the library..here is Ella with her Valentines

and Lily with hers..I think Ella might have ended up with some of Lilys

Valentine decorations

Yummy cake..in the last post I put a picture of the girls on our Valentine date..Joe took a bunch but that was my favorite one

Lily is getting into so much lately..I heard the water running in the bathroom and found her brushing her hair with her toothbrush..

While Ella was in preschool the other day, I went to goodwill with my friend whos daughter is also in the preschool group. She had never been to this particular one, my favorite! She found a bunch of cute stuff for her two girls and some things for her..and I found this fun slide for Lily, best part? It was $3! We had the same one when Ella was little but sold it before we moved.

The pink plasma car is also a goodwill find. They are about $50 new in stores, and I got this one new with tags for $12

dinner after bedtime

we decided at 8 as we were driving home from target that we wanted to eat dinner out...the girls actually did very well considering they go to bed at 8 every night. We didn't leave until 10..they took forever! But we each got a free dessert so its all good :)

Valentine Lunch at the Park