Valentine's Day Weekend

So last weekend we had really nice family weekend. Matt and Abbey had invited us to go to a children's museum in New Braunfels but on Friday night I started to have contractions so we decided not to venture too far from home. So Saturday we took Brody to two different museums in Austin. One was more of a natural history museum. It had a cool dinosaur bones exhibit that Brody just loved. The 2nd one was the Dell Children's Discovery center. This was a more kid oriented place with fun learning things. He really liked both places for different reasons. Then we finished our afternoon off with burgers, fries and a milkshake. We really wanted to have just a special day all about Brody and I think we were really successful, he seemed to have such a good time. Sunday was Valentine's Day which is always special for Mark and I b/c it was the day we got engaged 8 years ago. I can't believe it's been that long! Again we weren't really up for going out or making big plans so we just made a really yummy dinner and hung out at home. We attempted gnocchi for the first time with a mushroom cream sauce. Everything came out pretty good. Gnocchi is a tough thing to make, it was a little softer then I would have liked but I think we learned a lot and can make it better next time. Mark made an AMAZING mushroom cream sauce. It came out so good, even Brody liked it. Now we are just waiting for baby #2 to make his appearance. I think the last few weeks of pregnancy are always the hardest. I'm very anxious to be done! Well hopefully the next post will be to welcome our new little boy.

Brody on Friday showing off his Stegosaurus.

Loving the dinosaur bones!

Something he could touch.

Looking at more bones with daddy.

He really liked this exhibit that showed different kinds of Texas wildlife.

Putting shapes into holes at the Dell museum.

He got this cool hat at the Dell museum.

The next day still wearing his new hat.

Relaxing after a long weekend, he cracks me up!