This Weekend's Fun

We decided to have a family Valentine's Day celebration this year...mostly because I am not ready to leave Gabe yet. We wanted to go see a movie, because that is a favorite date of Peter & I...but it is not too nice to other people who are paying to see a movie to have a toddler and an infant sitting next to them! Every trip to Houston, we always drive past a Galaxy Drive-In Theater in Ennis and have always wanted to see a movie there. So Thursday night was the night! We packed up the boys, including their pajamas, snacks, and books (for Joshua), and headed to Ennis. Y'all this is such a fun date or family night idea...you get to watch two movies for $6/adult and young kids are free. They have a concession stand with lots of junk food...so we enjoyed corndogs and nachos.

Joshua loved the idea of a drive-in movie. He got to sit in my lap in the front seat...he got to eat in the car...he got to watch a movie on a big screen! We were loving it too, until he figured out how to roll the windows up and down...up and down...up and down. Then how to unlock and lock the doors...unlock and lock the doors...you get the picture! At that point, he got put back in his car seat and he fell asleep for the night. Gabe slept almost all the way through both movies like a champ!

The picture didn't turn out too good...the screen and other cars are in the background, but you can't see it in the dark.


On Friday, Joshua went to KDO and Peter, Gabe & I spent the day together. Gabe turned four weeks old on Friday, so we went to get professional pictures taken. It was a lot of fun putting him in a different outfits and putting him in several poses. Even with all of the fun, we didn't end up liking the pictures too much, so we are going to try again next week.

If you live in North Texas, you know that Saturday was a wet, messy day...with rain and hail throughout the day, it was not a great day for going out. This meant that I had a bored 21 month old and husband on my hands by 4:00 pm. We finally got out of the apartment to go eat at Pei Wei, thanks to a Valentine gift card from my parents! On our drive home, we saw the most beautiful rainbows. That's right, rainbows...plural! The colors were so vivid...we could see the entire rainbow...and there were two (one inside the other). The pictures we took did not do God's display justice (and you can't see the second rainbow very well because it was pretty faint). The pictures are taken at our apartment complex and we had to take several pictures to try get the whole rainbow.