Hooray for long weekends!

Picture Tuesday:
Tate at 14 weeks.

I am having a really hard time catching Tate while he's smiling. He'll smile for me but as soon as I put the camera up he stops and just looks at the camera like, "Oh no, I don't smile for that thing."

Tate thought Rosie was very interesting during "Tummy Time" today.

Glenn has the best work schedule ever! He works a 9-80 schedule which means he works eighty hours in 9 days and then he gets the 10th day off. SO, he gets every other Friday off! This past Friday was great because it happened to be my 26th birthday and Glenn and I played the whole day. It was wonderful. I had breakfast in bed, went shopping, had dinner at Cheesecake Factory, and got lots of sweet cards (Glenn likes to surprise me with cards all day long) and tickets to see "Wicked" when it comes to Austin in August! It was a great birthday! It was sort of wierd to celebrate a birthday away from my family. It's just always been a family affair, but Glenn sure made up for it.

Then on Saturday our friends the Cluffs came down from Austin. Janelle's parents live down here so they came to spend some time with them and we got to butt in on a few fun activities too! They are a super fun couple to be around and their two little girls are so sweet. We miss being around our friends in Austin. We have yet to meet people to hang out with here so having them around to play with this weekend was SO nice. We went to an Astros game with them on Saturday afternoon. Their 3 year old Tori was full of energy as usual. Everyone around us just laughed as she danced a very fast little jig to Take Me Out to the Ballgame. The game was fun but I think I enjoy the atmosphere of being at a huge park as much as I enjoy watching a game. Minute Maid park was amazing. It's a huge indoor park but the roof can open when the weather is nice.

The Houston Astros were playing the Texas Rangers so Glenn and Tate thought they'd just wear their longhorn shirts to show that they support Texas as a whole.

Tate thought that the stadium was really cool but he didn't love all of the noise. He kept trying to fall asleep and then something exciting would happen and he would jerk awake. So sad.

Then on Monday we met up with the Cluffs again and went to a retired Battleship, the Texas. It bombed Normandy, Africa, and Iwojima. It was the flagship of the US Navy in the Atlantic and the Pacific during WWII. Glenn was especially intrigued by the history of the ship. I just thought that seeing the living conditions aboard a battleship was pretty neat.

Oh yes, and Glenn really enjoyed the BIG GUNS. Sometimes it's funny to watch grown men turn into little boys again when they are around things that they think are cool. Like this:

And this:

Yes, there were some young boys waiting for these two grown men to get out of the gun seats so they could have a turn. They waited a while.

It was a really great weekend!