Somewhere in Texas a Village is Missing its Idiot

HAHA! My favorite bumper sticker about Texas. We just got back from a great visit in Texas. My family mostly lives in Houston and we try to go a few times a year. It was great seeing my Grandparents and cousins. I actually love it there and would consider moving there later in life. I would prefer if they had a few more liberals and mountains but you can't have it all right. It would be nice to sell our tiny box of a house and buy a beautiful house there for 1/3 of the price!

Here are some pics of Dani at the Museum of Natural Science. We love their butterfly exhibit and visit everytime we are in town.


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My Grandpa Len


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A visit to Herman Park


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This one might need a little explanation. My grandparents next door neighbor own two chickens which live with them in their yard and also in their house. Weird??? kinda, but quirky. I like quirky.


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Here is my girl showing off her new backpack. Tyler has a similar full size model (not a tiger I might add) Dani loves to steal it from his room and drag it around the house. We found this perfect mini model at the Oakland Airport. It's hysterical she drags it around everywhere. We turned a lot of heads with her wheeling her own luggage through the airport. She cracked us up.


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I paid over $130 last week to get my hair done. How come it never looks like this! WTF???!!! I am so jealous.


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Dani hiding in the cat tunnel at Auntie Marjorie's house


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My Grandma Lisel


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Auntie Marjorie, Penny the dog, Milo the kitty and Dani

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Milo "hiding"


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Not the best pic but how can you resist 4 generations :-)


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My cousin Cary, Tanya and baby Emmy


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Auntie Marla and Dani with Chancey


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Playing with Uncle Kennard


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If you are from Cali this is always a surprise when you go to feed the ducks. Steve saw the pics tonight from our trip and said "Why did you let her get so close to the water. She looks like a snack to an alligator!" Marjie assured me they have never actually seen an alligator in her neighborhood.

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"Pee Pee Poo Poo Potty"

Yep, that is what Dani has to say lately people. Lately Dani's mind has been well, on the potty. She has been more interested in trying to go. Not a lot of success yet but heading in the right direction. Her biggest fascination currently and frankly the way she spends the better part of her day now is diapering her babies. She diapers them and then shreaks "baby poo poo potty". She finds this hilarious and then proceeds to take the diaper off. At this point she prefers that we further inspect the situation. She usually says "Yook Mama, baby pee pee poo poo" or "baby poo poo potty". "Yook" is her way of saying look and we hear this word a lot. Too cute and I seriously hope she says 'y' instead of 'l' for awhile becuase it warms my heart in a way I never though possible.

We had a nice weekend and spent time with my parents and my cousin who was visiting from Texas. Last night we went out for Chinese. My Mom and I thought it would be too cute if Dani wore her Chinese Cheongsam (sp?) to dinner. The ladies at our favorite Chinese place were over the moon when they saw her. It was pretty funny.

Here she is after we got home:


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Caught scaling the coffee table on Sunday Morning!


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Tyler recently started taking tennis lessons. His coach was really impressed with his ability and he was chosen out of his group to represent his site at a tennis tournament. Here he is rallying during warm up:


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THis cracks me up. Dani was wearing her monkey pj's and robe. Muggin the camera.

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A little happier when she found out she was going to play with her friend Erin.

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Oh Blokus How I Love Thee...

This is my new addiction..my new favorite thing to do with my husband and Tyler. Want to know why??? Cuz I can beat the pants off of them that's why! Never before have I been so good at any game. I NEVER win people! Seriously. I now have the ability to challenge them to a game that I have been winning every time. I am sure they are sick of my gloating and sheer excitement since my Mom gave Tyler this game last weekend. I can't get enough.

It's just a game of strategy involving tetris shaped pieces. Simple to learn and play. I have never really been a game person but I have been known to become a little obsessed once in awhile with Bejeweled and Tetris. Once a year or so I will have down time at work and play Tetris or Bejeweled on the computer. Then I become an addict and have to wean myself off. I get bored and forget about it for ahwhile. This game reminds me of those and man it's fun. Ok, yes I'm a dork!

I will post some new pics over the weekend. We are going to see Aisha Tyler tomorrow night at a comedy club. I think she is pretty funny. I had wanted to go last week because Anjelah Johnson was playing. I hadn't heard of her until recently when I saw this. Hilarious...not meant to offend anyone. She seriously has that accent down pat!



BTW is it at all fair that she is that pretty and funny??? If she is that funny that probably means she is smart too. Ughh JK :-)