Catching Up: Visiting: Perot Museum

Another visit we made during spring break was to the Perot Museum in Dallas. They had an amazing featured exhibit called 'The Art of The Brick,' showcasing Nathan Sawaya's collection made entirely of Legos. It was the Perot + Legos, y'all... how could we resist?

At the end of the exhibit there was even a board where Audrey and Henry were able to leave their contribution to the show...

Catching Up: Visiting: Boerne (Spring Break)

For spring break we decided to take a few days and drive down to the outskirts of San Antonio and visit our Lange friends. We listened to Harry Potter via audio book, snacked on trail mix, and only had to make one pit stop each way.

We arrived in the afternoon and it was clear and warm and amazing. The kids spent some time playing in a creek behind their house, then we all dressed up and went to dinner.

 

By the next morning a cold front had rolled through, but we still managed to get out and chase a few ducks! Another couple great restaurants and one more sleep and we were headed back home.

Thanks for showing us a great time, Jenn & Sonchai!

Catching Up: Holidays

Our story in this space left off on the cusp of The Big Holiday... and so there we shall pick back up- with our merry and bright celebrations.

Solstice 2018: it was actually chilly for the Solstice this time around, but we had run out of firewood! We had our special feast by candlelight and treelight, then opened the Solstice Bag and spent the rest of the night playing magnetic mini-board games.

Christmas with Mimmy & Pappy: Mimmy Pappy came up to our place to celebrate, and we had a traditional turkey dinner (while trying to keep overly-excited Suka from smashing Tommy the whole time), then sipped wine and opened presents. We were gifted an entire Game of Thrones house goblet set, hand-made by my mom and freaking awesome. Audrey and Henry both received wands that they carried around with them nonstop for weeks afterwards.

Christmas with Nanny, Grammy & Gramps: Continuing with the Harry Potter theme, Santa brought Audrey and Henry a Marauder's Map, some real parchment and a quill with an inkwell, and wands that could cast spells on their tablets. Audrey and Henry gave Grammy & Gramps tickets to a show in the spring that turned out to be a great show (or so they reported!).

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Now of course there have been other holidays and reasons to celebrate since December, for example...

Henry's (part blurry, dark, & loud) 8th Birthday: Henry chose a party at the GlowZone for his birthday, and the whole even is pretty accurately represented by the dark, blurry pictures below. It was also about as loud as you'd think. It was a fun place, though we made sure we balanced it out on  his actual birthday, which was way more low-key.

Easter 2019: We spent Easter morning hunting eggs in pj's, then went over to a friend's house for the afternoon. He had la oveja on a home-made spit, another round of eggs for the kiddos to hunt, and just about the most perfect weather you could ask for. 

And then most recently we had the Summer Solstice, which saw us at the water park and later poolside at a friend's house, and therefore we have no photos to show for it. It was a good time, though.

So now we're all caught up with the last 6 months' worth of (significant) celebrations. Coming up next, catching up on where we've been visitin'!

Circling Back Around

Well, it's been about six months... a six month break, six months of keeping all my beautiful moments (mostly) to myself... six months that have slipped by basically unrecorded, unexplained, undocumented. That bums me out. From a family history perspective, I really love the potential of this space. So I've decided to make this record-keeping thing a priority again and give it another go.

We've got a lot of catching up to do...

Where You'll Find Me

We are almost halfway through December- one of the months in which I classically post almost every other day (and some years even more frequently than that)- and this year? This year I am writing my very first December post on the 13th. That's not to say that I haven't had anything noteworthy going on... what it really boils down to is that I haven't had the time or attention to spare for this space. It's a fact that's been looming like an elephant in the room for over six months- a fact I didn't want to face because I didn't want to let go of the idea of meditating on something, fleshing it out through my camera lens, and putting it down in well-thought-out and edited words. But today, on December 13th, I have to face it: I can't maintain this blog like I want to. Like I'm used to. Like it's always been. So for now, poetically at the conclusion of the year, I will conclude my efforts to maintain this blog and instead indulge in the less-demanding, more forgiving, and practically instantaneous real-time cyberspace of Instagram. Please pop in and find me there (@cleburneaggie), where I can so much more easily share our daily treasures and trials without the guilt that has come to haunt me with this blog. I will leave this blog up for posterity, though, and perhaps at a later date and under different circumstances I will revive it. Until then, though, we wish you happy holidays and a prosperous New Year!