dad & son swang

simon plays with his new bath toys

the blue star lights up and turns as water fountains from the middle and the green frog holds the ball with the yellow star - you can use it to scoop up water. bath time fun. thanks olivia and caroline! love, simon

in search of the perfect austin t-shirt

we spent the morning looking for t-shirts and the afternoon at the alamo drafthouse south. it was a slowish day in comparison to the rest of the week. last day of the austin tour...so sad. simon loved seeing his cousins first in the morning.

hill country tour-destination fredricksburg, enchanted rock and cooper's with pit stops at whittington's jerky, wildseeds farm and luckenbach

the judds and bluebonnets - a texas hill country tradition

photos at mueller are the only documentation for that day, so my brain that is actually creating this blog entry on june 20th has forgotten what else we did that day. one of the best reasons to update the blog regularly...
and then I remembered months later (it's october) - we went to georgetown because rick read that it is one of the best cities to live in in the US. we went to sonic; the kids' favorite and the georgetown museum.

ut, trailer tour and ut again

thanks to caroline we have many visual memories of the judd family visit - here are just a few pictures from our first full day of adventures. we started with a trip to ut austin (harry ransom museum, photos of the tower and surrounding area, a tour of the school of architecture) then we went straight to south congress. that is where we had our first 'trailer cafe' experience: the mighty cone (a trailer of hudson's-on-the-bend). most of us indulged in fried, greasy goodness. rick went for the vegan tamales a few trailers down and shocked us all. a stroll in the congress shops and a quick caffeine break at jo's got us ready for the most exciting stop of the day: gourdough's gourmet donuts. the donuts were delicious and ridiculous at the same time - sweet, so sweet and big and gooey and overwhelming. we got 8 different types and passed them around. each person seemed to have his or her favorite. after that we had to go home and rest from all the eating, but not for too long because we had tickets for a ut baseball game. we stayed until the 5th inning then ran to our final destination - man bites dog on manor. the day ended with buffalo hottie, my big fat greek dog and frito weenie pie. by this time simon called quits for the day and got us all to stop our nonsense and go home.

ut austin - caroline has perfected the self portrait

simon cheers for ut

the judds visit austin

the first of many photos of little mister by his cousin caroline

last day of music class at the hepburn's

big boy bed - again

we love taking pictures of simon while he sleeps - his bed

is just so big and he looks so litte when he isn't on the move.

simon the sailor man...

simon and fletcher and bluebonnets

big boy bed redux

eric came running down the stairs for the camera while simon slept to

capture an image of simon peacefully sleeping in his too big bed

easter morn and bluebonnets

after throwing a bunny, simon headed outside for a moment

on the swing before we drove to the hill country with indi,

mick & adam for some Texas bluebonnets and barbeque.

simon plays peek-a-boo by covering one eye with his hand - very entertaining.

simon contemplates about his youth passing him

by while he poses for 'one more' photo.

the family