The Blanton Family

Thursday, December 2, 2010

2 months old! can you believe it?!

how cute is her birth mark, and seriously the best smile on the planet!!!

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

planning our route

eli looked at everything with such amazement

our first pit stop

me and my boy.

e is fascinated with windmills because his grandma and grandpa have one at their house

rhino, he was enormous!!

pink flamingo's under the most beautiful red tree

the elephants were elijah's favorite

gazing at the giant koi fish

headed back to the parking lot, everyone was exhausted but happy

iris was an angel all day. she smiled going home, i think she loved the zoo too

Sunday, November 7, 2010

patrick and i just got back from our first night away since iris was born. don't we look blissfully happy?

we happened upon a free grupo fantasmo concert at the main plaza, they are awesome!

veterans day parade, it was great!

we even walked through the alamo, we have both seen it numerous times before but hey it's free and why not walk and walk while you can without any diaper changes, tantrums, or snack breaks.

the truth is our hotel room was not quite ready yet.

on our way home we went to a corn maze, so much fun.

can you find us?

Friday, November 5, 2010

i was going through iris' closet and realized she had not been photographed in her wonderfully large tutu my friend amy made, so that meant impromptu photo shoot.

smiles

iris smiles all the time now, it is amazing. she has the most awesome dimples, and her eyes just twinkle. she loves it when her daddy looks in our giant mirror with her.

as most of you know we love halloween and love dressing up! this year we chose the flintstone crew, we were the rubbles, the wonderly's were the flintstone's, and mom and dad were their bedrock neighbors. oh, and iris is the rubbles second child that never quite made the script.

elijah was a bit leary of trick or treating at first, but definitely got the hang of it!

our sweet friends the colliers with their little humpty dumpty

gardening

Saturday, October 30, 2010

elijah helped me plant a winter garden, took a bit longer than planned. he liked to pull the plants out after i planted them. we planted a salad garden, collard greens, cabbage, brussell sprouts, and refreshed our herb garden with sage, basil, and parsley.

we'll keep you posted

daddy's girl

so while i was working out in my shop during nap time i caught patrick taking pics of our precious baby girl, so sweet. i think he captured her in the most angelic state, don't you?