greatest hits

our internet/phone/cable went out on thursday and i panicked.  i have no desire to be unplugged.  thank goodness, it was fixed on friday but i was still recovering from the shock of potentially not having internet all weekend that i forgot about greatest hits.  are you buying that excuse?

me neither.

here's a peek at our week:

1) this motley crew are old friends.  we were lucky enough to celebrate one whole year of nolan brown being in this world.  happy birthday, nolan!

 {we finally met susan and camilla's angel, harper.}

 {nolan took care of business.}

2) we took the kids to check out the chagall exhibit at the dma.  crosby was not impressed, so chris and i appreciated art in shifts that day.  however, our tasmanian devil was impressed with the center for creative connections.  if you live in dallas and have children, take them here.  it's free now!

 3) crosby and i spent a whole day with my niece, the swimsuit model.

 4) we are painting our house (green!).  some of the painters have been with the company for years and years.  they love my children and my children love them.

 5) ben doesn't hug often, but when he does, he hugs the hell out of you.  crosby was trying to escape this particular embrace.

looking forward to giving my honey 34 birthday spankings!  happy birthday, chris-bo.

how was your week?  what are you looking forward to?

love,

coco

take me back to tulsa

did you know that tulsa is awesome? i had no idea.  i seemed to have stereo-typed the entire state of oklahoma (shame on me), so when we arrived in this beautiful metropolitan city, i was surprised in the very best way.

chris and i took one of our now signature 24-hour trips out of town.  

we stayed in downtown tulsa where building after building is in the art-deco style (tulsa boomed in the twenties).  art schools, city parks, small bars, quaint restaurants, gallery after gallery after gallery.

it reminded me a little of ft.worth: a "big" city with a small town feel.

we stayed downtown, ate downtown, went out downtown.  for dinner we cozied up to the bar of the restaurant tavern, where we shared bacon-maple popcorn, the devilled egg trifecta (horseradish, wasabi and bacon), and roasted chicken.  we drank local brews (tulsa has breweries, of course they do!). 

 it was divine.

the year ben was born, i saw robert earl keen perform six times.  since the birth of our babes, we have had to be more selective about which shows we choose.  we see him annually at bass hall in ft.worth, which is so nice, but robert earl keen is meant to be seen in a dancehall.  

cain's ballroom is just that; a dancehall with history on the walls, plenty of room to twirl and stomp, and bartenders who sell you a six-pack at a time (on the rings, mind you) so you don't have to miss the show by standing in a bar line.

genius.

art, good food, beautiful architecture, and a historical honky-tonk.

how could i not fall in love with tulsa.

have you ever been?

what did you think?

greatest hits

so sorry i'm tardy for the party (that was for you, sarah).  i left town on my normal greatest hits day (more on that another time).  i'm getting bored talking about myself.  i wanna know about yooooooou.  leave me a comment and tell me how you're doing.  k?  thanks.

here's a sneaky peek at last week:

 1) i ran in a race last saturday.  a very, very cold 10k.  i warmed up (because i am a sweat machine), but my poor cheerleaders were frozen solid.

 i was a little nervous because i had felt like poop leading up to the race, but on the day of i woke up feeling great.

 we ran over the margaret hunt-hill bridge (gorgeous) and throughout the design district.  a great race overall.

2) my ladies met for dinner at the gin mill to hand-over all of their hard-earned cash money.

 who has two thumbs and is planning our mystery girl's trip this year?

this girl!

{one thing i dislike about age 33: all of a sudden my upper arms have the same girth as an offensive lineman's neck. what is that about?}

3) an after-school stop at the lake to see the ducks.

super-grover had the time of his life.

he sat on stumps, attacked innocent pigeons,

carried around heavy blocks of cement,

and harrassed geese.  i was just waiting for them to harrass him back.  he got lucky.  this time.

4) you may already know, we signed our big boy up for kindergarten.  i was a weepy fool, but managed to keep it together for the actual meeting.  it was a close call.

looking forward to: spring break.  not really, my schedule stays the same although my kids are out of school.  it makes scheduling a little trickier.

how was your week?  what are looking forward to?

love,

coco

kindergarten

how, how, how can we possibly be signing this little boy up for kindergarten?

my heart may just explode.  momma's not ready, nosiree.

greatest hits

i feel crummy.  fuzzy-ears-scratchy-throat-nagging-cough crummy.  it won't get better, but it's not getting worse.  how that for glass half full?

this week has been a good one, and i even forgot to drag the camera to a breakfast date with chris' sweet god-mother and her daughter, and again to a farewell dinner with the boys' fire-fighting-superhero uncle matt.  he is leaving for a mission overseas for an undetermined amount of time (so your prayers and happy thoughts would be much appreciated).

here's a peek at the rest:

1) we did a little birthday party research at a new bowling alley in town (bowl & barrel).  it's a go.

 2) a trip to our favorite park is always nice.

 3) that bathtub is a one-way ticket to crazy-town.  aren't baths supposed to be relaxing?  not in our house.

 4) the tree swing that santa brought was finally hung.

 {he scares me to death}

 {i think ben likes it}

5) i just wanted to document on camera the mountain of laundry and the zombie-children in front of the television.

looking forward to running accross the margaret hunt-hill bridge tomorrow morning and hanging with my ladies tomorrow night.

how was your week?  what are youlooking forward to?

love,

coco