Here's our weekend update....Friday morning we got our bounce on at Urban Air. We jumped and ran and jumped some more! I really like the action shot of Eva in the air on the bottom right picture above.
On Friday afternoon Ryan went with some men from our church to a conference so Eva and I drove to Dallas. We went and played at the Galleria mall before meeting my parents for dinner at Mi Cocina. Whenever Ryan is gone overnight I make sure to plan something fun for me and Eva to do so that I'm not left thinking about how different our house feels when he is away. I may be 30 years old, but I DO NOT like to be home by myself at night.
Around 7 AM Saturday morning I was awoken with a loud explosion sound. Very startling. Thankfully this has happened before so I knew it was the transformer (or something like that) from the power line outside our bedrooms. This has happened before in the middle of the night when it was terrifying so at least it wasn't as scary. But it did get us up and going nice and early on Saturday. The explosion knocked out our power for about 5 hours so we enjoyed a nice cold breakfast in the dark.
Later that morning I took Eva to see her first movie! We went to see
Frozen and she did surprisingly well. We got there early and sat on the back row so she would have some wiggle room. They played an old Mickey Mouse short film at the beginning and that almost made her want to leave. Very boring and outdated. Why would they do that???? But we did like
Frozen. We stayed for an hour, got up and walked around in the lobby for about 30 minutes, and then caught the ending. I just kept reminding myself the whole time that it was about the experience of getting to go to the movies with her for the first time, way more than it was about the actual movie. I wanted to give her the grace to just be a two year old - whether that meant staying 10 minutes or getting up and down often or eating too much popcorn and cookies to stay motivated :)
Saturday night my bff Marianne turned 29! She hosted an awesome birthday party where everyone brought multiples of their favorite thing and we did a "favorite thing exchange". It was such a neat idea! I ended up with some awesome lip balm, cute stationary, warm fuzzy socks, and bright colored athletic socks (which I really needed!). I love this idea for a great girl's night or birthday party!
While I was enjoying my girl's night, Ryan was taking Eva bowling for the first time. His dad turned 63 on Sunday so our family met up to bowl and eat. How cute is that girl with the giant bowling ball?!?!? I can't believe I had to miss that. Thankfully Ryan took video so I could still enjoy the extreme cuteness.
A bit of church fashion. Our church is pretty casual and honestly I could probably take Eva in her pjs and nobody would care....but what fun is that? Part of the awesomeness of having a little girl is getting her dressed up, right? I love this combo of purple and gray with her boots. It looks like something I would wear, which is probably why I love it on her so much.
Sunday afternoon we had temperatures in the 70's. Woo-hoo! It won't last but at least we embraced the afternoon. We all went to play at the park and enjoyed our time outdoors :)
Eva was a great bowler! Love the weekend of firsts! I'm glad you got to see most of the movie and I agree - the Mickey Mouse short at the beginning was not the best!
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