Yiayia's 60th Birthday!

My mom turned SIXTY on September 1st! 

Isn't she adorable? I don't know what "60" is supposed to look like but I would say she looks pretty darn good! 

My kiddos were so excited to surprise Yiayia with her birthday breakfast. 

  

Trying to get a picture of all the grandkids - Grayson is Cora's little assistant.  He always tried to get her into position for the pictures...but you can see she wasn't super interested. 

I catered this breakfast for six adults and four children but it was enough for twenty-five - build your own breakfast tacos with three different options, muffins, croissants, pastries & fruit. Not to mention a full coffee & mimosa bar! When they brought in the SIX bottles of champagne I said, you know there are only SIX of us that can drink...she said, "I've seen worse". lol! Don't worry - we didn't drink all six. And There was SO much leftover food. We ate and ate...then we had some cake! 

Cake at 11am? Why not?!?

Sweet little girls!

Helping Yiayia blow out the candles!

Just a little more decor around the room...We hung out for quite a while. The UT game was on and the kids were content so we didn't really head down to the pool until noonish. We spent the day outside and then later that evening we had a babysitter from College Nannies & Tutors come out to the hotel to watch the kiddos while we went out for a little more celebrating!

Claire & T

I guess all I don't have any pictures with the guys. Oops! 

Dinner at our family's favorite Austin Steakhouse - Austin Land & Cattle. 

Cheers to 60! We love you!

Labor Day Weekend @ Lost Pines Resort

Hope everyone had a wonderful three day weekend! We spend our holiday weekend down in Bastrop, TX at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort with some friends and we had such a great time!

We left our house at about 12:15pm on Friday and didn't arrive to the resort until after 5pm. Boy was everyone ready to get out of the car!!! (Typically that drive should only take about 3ish hours but we had a few stops to make and there was traffic so that is why it took so long!)

After checking in and getting to our room the kids were ready to go explore. We met up with the Birds and Richmond's for dinner at the Firewheel Cafe. You can order off the menu or do the buffet - I say the buffet is the way to go! Lots of fresh yummy food and kids 5 & under are free. It's delicious AND the chocolate fountain makes it worth it for desert. lol!

 

We didn't last long at dinner - there was too much excitement. These kids wanted to roll down hills and eat s'mores. 

They ran up and down this hill over and over again. I love how much energy kids have! (I mean, sometimes. lol)

It wasn't too long before we realized that Grayson was allergic to grass. His skin was irritated and itchy and he was NOT happy...so I took him back to the room for a bath. It was getting late so we got all the kids to bed then mommy met Nat, Shannon and Tiffany for some girl time :)

 The next day was Grayson's 4th birthday! 

This little monkey slept in and cuddled with mommy. Love him! We spent the morning at the pool and celebrated with some cake before dinner. 

While at dinner we noticed there were some donkey's outside so of course we had to go and say hi. This was as close as Grayson wanted to get to them. 

When we were outside I noticed that someone dropped chocolate fountain sauce all over her hair bow. oops! Good thing her bow is so big - kept the sauce out of her hair! lol

We headed over to the bike corral and the kids rode some bikes before moving on to the next thing...

Hayden played on the little playground forEVER. She loved it. 

The boys did a little fishing in the pond

Little toot did not want to take a pic but I was able to trick her!

That evening they were showing Inside Out on the lawn so we hung out and watched a little bit before heading in for a late bedtime. 

He looks pretty tired!

On Sunday we started off with the ponies!

As close as G would get to the ponies

Ryan was excited to ride a pony!

Just some longhorns walking around. nbd

We walked through the butterfly meadow, played in the bounce house, then made our way to the pool. 

Nat sizzle! Crazy we have been friends for over 10 years!

 

Pool shennanigans

Lounging in the lazy river with my crew!

That evening we decided to eat at the pool. We got the kiddos pizza and the adults ate tacos. 

 

And there were s'mores!

Hayden is slightly terrifying walking around with that marshmallow stick. She hates to have help, but she really needed it. 

Happy kiddos!

8 out of 12 kids pictured - not bad! Love the adorable shirts that Nat had made for the occasion. 

My three little nuggets!

We loved our weekend at Lost Pines! Can't wait to go back!