A Walk in the Park

The other day, the weather was gorgeous so I took Joseph on his first trip to our neighborhood park! We didn't even know there was a playground nearby until recently. It's probably a little less than a mile away, so I loaded Joseph in the stroller and off we went!

He enjoyed the walk on the way to the playground. It really seemed like he enjoyed just looking around and taking in all the new sights and sounds. We got to the playground and I was impressed by just how nice it is! It's so fun to imagine the future where he will be big enough to climb up all the neat toys!

I put him in the toddler swing and it was clearly way too big for him. But he seemed to enjoy a little swing in it. Then he swang in my lap as we watched the birds and looked around some more. I also got to point out all the tractors and bulldozers working nearby to build another section in our neighborhood. Here are some pictures from our fun afternoon!

On the walk from our section of the neighborhood to the playground
Posing in front of the playground!

Joseph's first time to swing!

Mommy & Joseph at the park

So exhausted that he needed a nap on the walk home!

And I realize my voice is super annoying on these videos, but anyways - here is a little video of Joseph swinging. I just love the way he kicks his feet - he does that a lot when he is excited lately.

The Girls Reunited

Yesterday after church, we had a very fun lunch with my friend Shelley and her son Grayson, and our friends Misty and her husband Greg who were in town from Dallas!

Misty, Shelley and I all used to work together at iMed Group here in Houston. After we all moved on to different places, we kept in touch with daily emails from our new companies. Now sure, some people may email daily - but we REALLY emailed daily. We're talking probably 50 emails a day, haha. At one point, Shelley was in Texas, I was living in MN, and Misty was living in Arizona and we kept in touch like we were right next door to each other.

Misty and Shelley have been such wonderful friends to me over the past 9 years and I have so many fun memories with these girls! Shelley was my first friend at iMed Group when I started there in 2002. And Misty and I took our first running class together and she got me in really good shape before my wedding! :) One funny memory I have to say about Misty is that at one point, I got moved to the office right next to hers (what were our bosses thinking??!). We both have a fear of roaches and other bugs and one day I yelled from my office to hers (as we normally would) "Misty!! Help me!!" She came running in and said "What??" and then I showed her the spider that had dropped from the ceiling right in my walk way to get out of my office. I was trapped! And she saved me! haha :) (Ok, it was really funny at the time.)

Anyways, lunch was a blast and we had so fun just catching up with each other. It was Misty & Greg's first time to see Joseph so he had fun grabbing their faces and giving them some snuggles!

I was SO mad I forgot my camera, but we have a few pictures at least from camera phones!

The girls - finally all 3 reunited!
Me and Misty with Shelley's son Grayson (my birthday buddy)

Grayson & Joseph