June and Her Wagon

Yesterday was a cold and rainy day. We cancelled all plans and stayed inside to play all day! It was just too cold! 

When day's like this happen, we spend probably 90% of the day in June's playroom. Building forts, chasing Ranger, and yes, playing in the wagon. 

June got this wagon from Grams and Gramps Mendenhall for Christmas, and at first, she didn't really take much interest in the thing, until she realized that she can climb inside and sit perfectly. June is such a meek little thing, She is timid and likes to make sure I'm around. She isn't obnoxious, and doesn't feel the urge to attack everything insight.  she sits and reads books, plays with her toys, and does really well playing by herself. I really have no clue how we got such a well behaved child! I can only imagine what the next one will be like! Heaven help us all! We have our moments with the little squirt, don't get me wrong, but they don't happen a lot. 

Her wagon has become her go to sit spot. She sits in there to play with any toy, she loves to sit and read in her wagon, all her snacks are eaten in it and she puts all her dolls in there and pushes them across the floor. She even asks for you to sit in there with her, we tried once... and only once. No further comment. 

She is pretty incredibly adorable. She wins all adorableness awards. 

Anyways, I just wanted to make a little note of June and her wagon. 

Our Season Starter at the Ball Park

Summer. Its coming. I feel giddy and excited the thought of whats to come this season. Lots of fun things planned for these warm months, and everything is even better because we have a little one trotting behind us. I am ready for summer.

Summer is sitting by the pool, lots of BBQ's with friends, and lots and lots of baseball games.

We started our baseball season with Texas Ranger's vs. Tampa Bay Rays.

Dan's company was being appreciated by another company for being loyal customers. So that meant free food, face paint, balloon animals, and bouncy houses, PLUS free tickets to the game! SCORE.

It was a great way to start the season. We met up with some of Dan's friends and chilled before the game started.

"Daddy, I told you a hundred times that I don't want the rest of your hot dog. GOSH."
Is this what she is saying? 

Stupid kid photo bombing my picture. Ya that's right, I called him stupid. If he is old enough to smile in a photo bomb picture, than he's old enough to know to not get in it... No really It's kinda funny!

Our seats were second row on the 3rd base side. The sun was pelting down on us until about 7:30. We were dying of heat and it shows in June's little red cheeks. But once the sun went down it was a beautiful night for baseball.

About 7:45 June started to crash. Her normal bed time is 7. We knew she would get passed her little sleepy phase, so we just let her lay there until she was actually asleep or until her happy mode set back in.

The end of the night came with a Ranger victory! YAY! 

We seriously love our baseball. We are excited to go to many more games and to hopefully make it to the play offs this year in October! 

If only you knew how much these two really are best friends

A bee with long legs and the size of a bat... To remember!

So last night.
It was around midnight, and we had just gotten done watching "Doctor Who". I was extremely tired. I have no idea how I even made it midnight! We rocked it on the whole landscaping thing yesterday, and were digging, and planting things pretty much all day. So I was beat!
I honestly don't even remember falling asleep, but I all of the sudden look up and I swear I see a bee with long legs that is the size of a bat. I don't panic or scream. I for some reason just start steam rolling over Dan. Trying to get away from this giant thing that's flying by the side of my bed. I just keep steam rolling him. Dan is half asleep, wondering what in the world is going on. I roll out of bed on his side and start crouching, trying to not get hit by this thing. I am telling Dan that it doesn't belong in the house. He said go into the bathroom and shut the door. At this point I am basically on my knees. I was so scared to go into the bathroom in fear it had gone in there. I looked at the clock and it was only 12:30. There is no way I fell asleep. This is real! I literally would not stop crouching.
    Dan Turns on the light. There is nothing there. Literally nothing. I finally come to my senses and realize it was a dream. "Doctor Who" got the best of me and when I realized what was actually happening, I just climbed back into bed and started laughing hysterically. Dan just stared in disbelief that this was happening. My dreams have been so real lately, but never like this where I actually act on it. 
Anyways I just want to remember this night. Remember how awkwardly funny it was, That I have a good husband who will protect me no matter what, and how real that bee with long legs that was the size of a bat really was.

Easter.... What else!?

So obviously it was Easter Weekend! And that's what I have to blog about. Easter.

Um... I have been horribly off on taking pictures! my i-phone camera is on the fritz (taking it in on Friday) and I have a nasty little habit of leaving my DSLR on all the time, so the battery is Dead! So you get gritty, horribly looking i-phone photos to look at. My bad.

Dan had "Good Friday" off which is always fun to have him home one extra day. Though he only works half day Fridays anyways,  so he usually is home by noon, but still a good few extra hours always is splendid.

The Weather was beautiful on Friday so we decided to pack up some pillows and blankets and head to the drive in! One of our favorite summer activities! It seriously is so much fun! Going definitely got me excited for summer and whats to come!
We Saw the "Oz" and I thought it was pretty good. It got horrible reviews, but for what it was, I liked it. June did great! She got past her sleepy crankiness and got to her drunk phase where everything was funny, Then passed out. She really did good and we can't wait to go again!

We watched all of the first movie and only made it about 10 minutes into the second before we decided to head home. So instead of getting home at 2 am we got home about midnight! Glad we did because we had a huge thunder storm and we would have been caught right in the middle of it. Good call by us! 

Saturday:

June not going to bed until 10pm slept in until about 9... The Easter egg hunt we wanted to go to started at 10. So I felt bad but I kinda had to stir her, so we could make it on time! Why would you wake a sleeping baby you ask? Well we are the kind of  "Making Memory" people, and sometimes it requires a little sacrifice on everyone's end! So Parents... shut it. 

It was so much fun! June had a hard time not going after the eggs until we were told to go. She was just begging to get started. 

 When the whistle finally blew she was off!!

Then she got a little scared of all the commotion... 

IMG 2837 from Lesli Lancaster on Vimeo.

Once we got passed all the crazy people willing to do anything for an egg, She finally caught on to the idea and started filling her basket. It was adorable to watch. 

SUNDAY:

Sunday we woke up and went to find our Easter Baskets... 

We then got ready for church...

I feel so bad! I really have been so out of it lately and didn't even get a whole family Easter Picture! Gosh!!

That's ok though... This little lady is all the pictures I need, oh and dad half smiling in the background because he wasn't quite sure if he was in it or not... 

We had a great time at church, I sang with my ward Choir for our music program, and then had  a wonderful rest of the day... Happy Easter Everyone! 

OH MY LAME POST....  I am so sorry. This post was such an average post that I don't even think I would read it. I mean did I really just end with "Then had a wonderful rest of the day"? gross.  I am lost some where else with other things happening in life, and that seems to be taking from my blogging normalcy... I think sometimes that when I know everyone is going to be blogging about the same thing it makes the fun of it go away. It just makes me not want to do it... Lame excuse I know. So again I apologize for the lame blogging posts lately! I promise to make them better! 

A Half Hour Later...

Dan and I sat down Friday night and Watched Les Miserables. I had already seen it back in December, but Dan hadn't and it is just one of those movies you have to watch. We both read the book in High School and I wanted to be able to talk to Dan more about it. After watching the 3 hour movie, that depicts what happened back then with the revolution, we turned the movie off and headed to bed. As we were laying in bed we started discussing the plot of  the story, the Characters, what part was our favorite, and we BOTH even started quoting the movie..... AFTER A HALF HOUR, we both looked at each other and realized that we weren't talking about Les Mis... Nope we were talking about Tinker Bell.

We just got done watching this magnificent sad love story unfold, that is full of history, major discussion points of life back then, and music that is beyond inspiring. Here we are laying in bed discussing why Rosetta is our favorite fairy, and discussing what fairy magic we wish we had... It got real intense. Dan just started laughing, took back his man card, and told me how glad he is to have a daughter. 

Before you think we are absolutely crazy, June Bug is  a little over the top about Tinker Bell. We have seen the 4 Tinker Bell movies about 100 times each, she carries her Tinker Bell doll where ever she goes, and she doesn't seem to be letting up on this slight addiction.... So this is where the subconsciousness of Tinker Bell came into Dan and I's mind. It is just one of those things we get to enjoy because we have a little girl who love's her fairy...  Goodbye adulthood and Hello Parenthood. 

Car and now 2

    So here Dan and I are, feeling so luxurious because we finally have two cars. It feels pretty darn nice. Don't make fun, you people with two cars. You have no idea how hard it is to juggle a car between two people who have two different schedules.. you get creative, and sometimes a little crabby. 

We moved to Texas with just Dan's car, and that was a piece of crap in it's self, but we drove it for a good solid year. He owned that car. So no payments. Then Dan got an internship up in Oklahoma over the summer and we had to get two cars, so he could drive up there and I would have one.  As much as we hated doing it, we gathered up what we could, slapped a down payment on a Santa Fe and have been paying that car off ever since. Once Dan got home from his internship we donated Dan's car to the kidney foundation. Like I said it was crap and really needed to go the day we got married, but we made it work.

One car suited our life style for a long time. We enjoyed driving with each other, and I worked so close to home that I could walk or ride my bike. It made things less expensive while we were finishing up Grad school. 

Even when we moved up here to Dallas I was pregnant, lived in walking distance of basically EVERYTHING and Dan worked about 10 minutes away so taking him and picking him up from work wasn't to much of a bother. I liked the morning chats and just sitting together in rush hour, yelling at people, honking, and Dan looking the other way of embarrassment.... Ah fond memories.

Then June comes into the picture. Things still are working with one vehicle pretty good. You don't really go many places with such a tiny little thing, so my options were limited, we would walk to the park, or have friends come over, but really no need for a car.

We moved a bit further away from Dan's work when we bought our house, and slowly but surly sharing a car became more and more of a problem and a pain. We really did make it work for a long time and I am super proud of us, but it was getting hard to wake June up at 6:30 in the morning to take Dan when I needed the car and only having the car about 2 times a week. (It get's old, trust me) 

I felt bad mostly for June. Staying in the house all day gets super sucky.... and as she has gone from a baby to a toddler I have come to realize that she needs more outings, more playdates and just more fresh air! You can only hangout in the back yard for so long! We are ready for our pool to be in use again!! And with dislocated elbows and poisonous spider bites we have been needing to see the Doctor on a urgent matter a lot more. Something you just can't schedule.  I have such incredible friends who always made it work, to come to our house and play or give me rides, but I really hate being the bother. It was just time to grab the bull by the horns and get a new car.

The thought of two car payments was not even an option, so we paid off our Santa Fe and the next few days Dan put his research skills to the test and found a car he wanted. 

A 2013 Mazda 3, black. His car. 

We headed over to the Mazda dealership and he knew exactly what he wanted  and three hours later we signed the papers and he got it. It's so funny how gentle you are around a new car, and our other car, the Santa Fe (now my car) gets thrashed! His car is fully pimped out with all these cool gadgets, and the doors unlock with your finger, and my car... well I'm just grateful for my own! but its' cool. He deserves it all!  Dan has done a great job getting my car all spiffed up, he even got it a new windshield and did a full 360 test so everything is updated and running. Full with gummy bears, gum, and a peach air conditioner (Girly smell to him). He is quite the man. 

So really this was a really long post about telling you about our new car. It seriously is so great having 2 cars and no more juggling!! 

Canadian Grandparent's and their visit

Dan's parent's came and visited us this past week. June always has a good time when grandparent's come and visit. She get's so much hugs and kisses! This was their first time visiting us here in Texas, so it was fun to show them around, and show them the house and all that jazz. 

I didn't take a whole lot of pictures. I wasn't really feeling my best this past week, so I tried my best using my i-phone and Dan took charge of our big camera, and he isn't to thrilled about snapping pictures all the time. He's more of a "Living in the moment" kind of guy, which is ok with me. 

They came Saturday night and were here until Thursday, so we had lot's of time to show them around and catch up!

Sunday we went to church at our friends ward since they were blessing their baby girl! It's always fun going to blessings! I just have always loved them, and these are very close friends, so it made it even better! 

After church, and naps we walked down to the duck pond and fed the ducks. One of June's new favorite activities. We walk down there probably everyday since we live so close. It's a great escape. She eats more of the bread than she throws but I say when hunger strikes you eat what you got! 

Duck Feedng

We then had fun talking and watching June and her smartness. This girl is beyond her age. No really though, look how straight those blocks are. 

Monday we woke up and headed down town. We were excited to go to the new Perot, pronounced P-e-r-o. It's a science museum and it was amazing! They had a fantastic children's play place. June was in heaven. So was Daddy. 

Here she doesn't look to thrilled.... 

We had lot's of fun there. We loved it so much we ended up getting a seasons pass. We are excited to take friends there and have play dates. 

after another afternoon of naps and talking we went and had dinner at one of our favorite Japanese places. 

Tuesday we chatted some more. Had lunch and BJ's and ended up going shopping at the outlets. The Lancaster's are not very big on shopping, but it actually turned out fun. Grandma bought her a new little dress and Dan and I even got some clothes, so it was fun. 

Wednesday, we were able to go the temple, which was great. It had been a while since Dan and I have been so it felt really good to be back. Then we really just talked some more. Now the Lancaster's they are TALKERS! I think we covered every subject on the planet over the week! I always leave knowing so much more information! We had a great little BBQ and ended the evening with taking pictures and... you guessed it! Talked! 

Thursday, Dan had to go back to work, and June and I took Grandma and Grandpa to the airport. It was great having them here. It was fun for them to see June and how much she has grown!

That morning after dropping them off, we went out and enjoyed the sunshine. It was a beautiful day! We had no choice. We went and bought sidewalk chalk and blew bubbles all morning.




By the time lunch rolled around we were all exhausted. I think the excitement of the week finally caught up to us all. June didn't even make it through lunch and I was right there with her. We both crashed and took a good long nap!!

It was a fantastic week. Ok I say fantastic way to much, and I can't seem to stop! and honestly it bugs me. I really don't like the word, but here I am constantly saying it. Annoyed.