Saturday, January 29, 2011

Children's Aquarium

We made the trip down to Fair Park today to check out the Children's Aquarium that just recently opened after finishing renovations. It was great! They remodeled all of the inside, updating their aquarium areas and adding some cool fish and ocean creatures. They had a lot of interactive features as well. They also have an outdoor area that they call Stingray Bay where you can actually pet baby stingrays and a huge tank with various species of sharks and huge sting rays for you to look at. That part was fantastic - Brayden thought so too.

The Dallas World Aquarium is very cool downtown but it's expensive and so large that it's a bit overwhelming for little children so I think this aquarium is perfect. They have just enough cool things to see and the admission price is much less - which is great. Ryan got to go too, which made it even better. Nanny came too! So we had a great Saturday morning. Here are some pics:



Albino crocodiles
Huge sea tortoise


Sharks!
They had zebra sharks and bonehead sharks



Love his face here!
He was trying to read the panel :) Very into it.

Red king crab

Sea turtle - there was a fish that was riding on his belly

Had to get a photo to prove I was there :)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Happy Birthday Ryan!

It was Ryan's birthday today! The weekend didn't turn out as planned for the celebration as Brayden got sick on Saturday with a stomach bug and we spent most of the weekend home taking care of him. No fun, poor little guy. We were able to have his parents and my dad (Jackie was not feeling well either) come over for dinner and cake tonight. Happy Birthday to my sweet Ryan...we love him so!

I was able to make him his favorite for breakfast... cinnamon pull aparts... yummy!
Nanny's chocolate cake.. his grandmother's recipe...another one of his favorites..

Brayden helping Daddy blow out the candles.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Just because...


I love this sweet face :)

Playing with Daddy

Yesterday was the first (maybe only) snow in Dallas. It was quite beautiful but did not last long and didn't accumulate much on the ground. It was cold though! So we stayed in most of the day and decided to light a fire in the fireplace in the evening. Brayden has started getting interested in playing with the soccer ball with Daddy and also throwing the football, so they were playing in front of the fireplace last night so I grabbed my camera and took a few shots.. my favorite time is to watch these two together, my sweet boys :)