Connor's 3rd Birthday Party

   On Saturday we celebrated Connor's 3rd birthday! We had to celebrate it a couple weeks early because unfortunately Aaron's going to miss his real birthday. I can't believe my baby is almost three {tear}! He has grown so quickly! So many people tell me he already looks like a four year old. 

Easter 2016

  Happy Easter family and friends! We have had quite a fun week celebrating Easter and I am going to share with you all about it. On Wednesday Connor had an Easter egg hunt at school. I was going to stay and watch, but none of the other moms seemed like they were going to, so I decided to skip it. I didn't want to look too overbearing, but I may or may not have driven by a couple times just in hopes of seeing him. ;) 

 He made this Easter basket at school to use for his egg hunt. He was quite proud of it, as was I.

French Riviera: Nice

   Our last day in the French Riviera was spent in Nice {a 30 minute drive from Menton}. After driving around for what seemed like forever, we found a parking garage that fit our large rental van. Aaron got us a map of the city from a hotel and we started exploring the beautiful city.

French Riviera: Monaco

    After exploring Menton Saturday morning, we took a short ten minute train ride to Monaco. I didn't know much about it until Kelsey gave me a little background info. After doing a little research on my own, I learned that Monaco is the second smallest country in the world {the first is Vatican City} and known to be a hot spot for the rich and famous.  It has the lowest poverty rate and highest number of millionaire and billionaires per capita in the world. The annual Formula One Monaco Grand Prix race is is also held there.
   So, now that you know a little background info, here is how we spent our afternoon exploring Monaco. First we had to figure our way out of the train station. It was really confusing and there were stairs everywhere. Eventually we decided to just take the boys down the stairs in their strollers and start walking. One thing we learned was not to try to cross the street outside of a crosswalk. You will get a whistle blown at you by the MANY police officers patrolling the streets. We learned that early one when Aaron tried to rush across the street to see the yachts.

See the police officers? They were everywhere!

French Riviera: Menton

   This past weekend, we went on a quick weekend getaway to the French Riviera. Our friends were planning a trip and invited us, so I convinced Aaron and he said sure! We stayed in Menton {also known as The Pearl Of France} both nights, but also visited Monaco and Nice. It was such a laid back weekend spent roaming the streets, playing on the beach, and eating delicious food. We couldn't have asked for better weather during this time of year. It was in the 50's and 60's during the day, so warm in the sun, and cooler in the shade.

 View of our hotel, Vacances Bleues Royal Minister, from the beach.

ABC Baby Shower

    Two weekends ago I hosted a baby shower for one of my best friends. She is due with her second baby boy in May. I am so excited to meet him and had a wonderful time planning a small celebration for his upcoming arrival!

I decided to do an ABC/storybook theme. I ordered these printable invitations from Pretty Little Studio on Etsy. 

San Antonio Visit

    Last week I posted about our trip to North Texas and South Texas. Now I am posting all about our time we spent in San Antonio. We arrived on the January 15 and stayed until the beginning of February. We had a wonderful time and stayed very busy.

 We had relaxing nights at my parents house.

South Texas Visit

   After spending a week in DFW, I flew to San Antonio to spend some time with my family. Since I have close to 1,000 pictures from our visit with my side of the family, I'm separating our trip there into 2 blogs: South Texas Visit {Corpus Christi and Freer} and San Antonio Visit. First I am going to do South Texas where we spent a weekend with my sister and her family and then another weekend at the ranch in Freer.

    We went to Corpus Christi over our first weekend to celebrate my nephews birthday and so I could meet my new nephew. He was so precious and reminded me so much of Connor was a baby.  

He's precious!

North Texas Visit

      At the beginning of January, Connor and I went to Texas for a month long visit. Aaron had training in Germany, so just the two of us went. Getting to Texas made for an extremely long day for us: a 3 hour drive to the airport in Milan, 2 hour wait at the airport, 10 1/2 hour flight to Miami, a 4 hour layover, an almost 3 hour flight to DFW, and 1 1/2 hours at the airport waiting for a lost piece of luggage}. We were so tired when we finally got home that night!

 Our long day of travel....