Mother's Day Weekend and My Birthday!

We started off Mother's Day weekend with my Grandmother's funeral and although it was a sad occasion my family was all together and we were celebrating her life.

After the funeral, we headed over to one of my family's favorite restaurants, Mamacita's in New Braunfels. The funeral had been in Seguin at my Dad's church so the drive to New Braunfels was quick. We had planned after dinner to all go back and stay the weekend at my parent's house in Seguin but my Mom got this great idea that since the cars were already packed with all of our stuff that we just head over to the ranch in Fredericksburg! I hadn't been to the ranch since I was pretty early on in my pregnancy... we just hadn't been able to go. We were supposed to have spent Christmas there with everyone, but Charlotte had RSV and I fractured my ankle... remember that?? (I sure will never forget it!) So everyone came to us in Katy :) We were all soooo excited to go and spend some quality time sitting on the front porch and being together as a family. There is nothing more wonderful to me than being at the ranch with my whole family. My parents had just finished building the barn and bunkhouse so my niece and nephews were super excited to stay in the barn! Fredericksburg is only an hour and a half from New Braunfels so we hopped in the car and got there really late Friday night.

the new barn next to the house (this is in the back of the house)

more of the house and part of barn



It was soooo nice to wake up to the sound of dew on the tinroof and to hear my mama downstairs making breakfast. Charlotte LOVED sleeping in her crib there and woke up super happy. We were going to have a great Saturday. My brother-in-laws and Drew helped my Dad with some things in the barn that he needed assembling and the kids ran off to find "forts" and explore the land... oh and harass the donkeys and cows :) My sisters, Mom and I sat around the kitchen table doing what we love to do... talk and talk and talk (Charlotte napped!). We also set the dates for our BIG Disney World trip that we are taking next summer... can you say F.U.N! I'm SOOOOO excited for that trip!

Dustin hauling some rocks... I can't BELIEVE he will be taking DRIVER'S ED this summer!

All the kids (minus little C).. Dustin (14 almost 15), Courtland (14), Kaitlyn (11 almost 12) and Tyler (11)

My niece and nephews with my parents... Grammy and Poppa.

 After lunch, Katherine, Charlotte and I headed in to town to get a few things and when we came back we were all set to make homemade ice cream on the front porch. My Dad grilled an amazing dinner that night and we ate our amazing homemade ice cream and told stories about Grandmother and talked and talked and talked.

Sunday rolled around and Drew and I had to get going pretty quickly before lunch since it was a 4 hour drive back to Katy. We ate breakfast with the family and watched the kids help my Dad build the fire pit. I loved being able to spend Mother's Day with my Mom on my FIRST official Mother's Day (last year I was 13 weeks pregnant and Mother's Day was on my actual birthday, 13th!). I also loved being able to spend it with my sister's whom I look up to as amazing mothers as well.

We were sad to say goodbye but Drew and I put Charlotte in the car and headed home. Since we had boarded Lucy for the weekend before we got home we stopped at one of our favorite restaurants, Dekker's in Fulshear for Mother's Day. They were having live music on the patio so we ate outside and enjoyed it. I had some delicious shrimp and buttermilk pie for dessert, yum!

Happy Mother's Day!

Me and the little one who made me a Mama!

Love her so so so much!



The next day was my 27th birthday! How fun is it to have my birthday and Mother's day back to back?! Charlotte and I had our regular mommy and me swim class at the Y that morning and then my friends and I and our babies headed over to Red River BBQ to have lunch for my birthday! My sweet mother-in-law drove in from Corpus so that she could babysit Charlotte while Drew and I went out to dinner to celebrate my birthday that night. I'm sure spoiled to be going out to eat so much and eating such delicious food! We went to the Cheesecake Factory... and yes I've hit the gym almost every day since being home to work off all this good food I've eaten. Haha Drew gave me a beautiful ring with Charlotte's birthstone on it for my birthday and some beautiful earrings for Mother's Day. What a sweet man I married :)

My baby and me on my birthday (yes no makeup and hair not fixed... but we had just finished our swim class)

Charlotte and one of her besties, Julia

my gorgeous ring with Charlotte's birthstone, Citrine



We had such a wonderful weekend celebrating my sweet Grandmother, being together with family, my birthday and being a mama. What a weekend and special holiday to go down in the books!