love, coco: greatest hits

hi, my loves.

since i have updated greatest hits, it has snowed, rained and warmed up to the eighties.

spring break happened. family birthdays have begun.

time is moving at warp speed, per usual.

why does it go so fast, whyyyyy?

chris measured crosby on the wall where we measure them twice a year. he has grown almost two inches since november. nov-em-ber.

my big boy is almost SEVEN YEARS OLD.

warp speed, y'all.

let's play catch-up before i look up and it's 2032, shall we?

1) it snowed big, wet, fluffy flakes. lots of them. chris stayed home and then posed for this picture with his mini-me. i mean.

we even made snow ice cream, like pros.

2) chris and i had to work during spring break, so we took the kids to the lakehouse for an evening the first weekend. snow had melted, temps were warmer, we tossed a football in the yard, ben practiced his baseball swing, we went to an arcade, rode go-carts, ate catfish and topped it off with blizzards from dairy queen.

{chris was having the time of his life trying to buckle his go-cart seatbelt. can't you tell?}

3) we ventured near the greenville avenue st. patrick's day parade having decided to stay only if we found a good parking spot. and miraculously, we did. the kids loved it.

some drunk guy fell in love with crosby, proceded to adorn him with all kinds of st. patty's swag and then continuously called him 'bing'. oh, drunk guy.

{how does one become a member of the margarita society? i need to know.}

4) chris has been dying to try out brian luscher's new restaurant in deep ellum called, luscher's red hots. the weather was nice enough to sit on the patio and the food was delicious. my children inhaled their burgers which means we will definitely be back. happy birthday, handsome.

5) once upon a time, many years ago, we didn't have children. we spent much of our time sleeping, trying new retaurants, going to movies all willy-nilly at all times of day and night. we would day-drink and night drink and hang out with friends and throw parties. our friends emily and jimmy hosted epic crawfish boils at their house every spring and we would just do what twenty-somethings do: hang out and drink beer.

fast forward to this year, jimmy turned forty and emily threw a party. we brought our kids (there was a bounce house), we ate crawfish, we drank beer and we visited with friends. things have definitely changed since the good ol' days, but we still hung out and drank beer like we always did, just this time with the backdrop of our laughing, playing children. life is good.