Texas and Tahoe!

What a busy week!  Last week was wild...I am still playing catch up :)

On August 31st, I had my 30th birthday party, on September 1st, I turned 30 (!), on the 2nd, Eddie flew to TX and on the 3rd, Cal and I hopped on a plane to join the Williamson family for Labor Day weekend and the season opener in Cowboys Stadium.  Cal and I stayed out there for the week so he could get some good Grammy/Poppy time.  After Texas, Cal and I flew up to Lake Tahoe for my cousin's wedding....

Here are some pictures documenting our journey....

At RDU airport trying to wave at the planes.  This was before the WORST flight of my life :) Cal never slept and was WILD throughout the 3 hours it took to get there.  We were in a window seat with two other people next to us.  He flung milk every where and had graham crackers all over the woman next to us.  I had the shakes for 2 hours after we landed.  It was ROUGH. 

After we landed in DFW, we strapped him into the car and he was out like a light-- of course! 

Grammy had balloons in the house since we all know what a fan Cal is... he carried them around the WHOLE week-- those balloons would not die!  He was given golf clubs as a birthday gift and would swing them at the balloons :)  Also, his aunts were there acting as paparazzi...

Cal sitting in Poppy's chair playing with his golf clubs that were an early birthday gift from Grammy and Poppy.  They gave him a gift every few hours while we were there!  He loved the clubs and carried them EVERYWHERE we went while we were out in TX!  Actually, they went to Tahoe too! haha

Game Day! The bottom two pictures were from the grocery store in Fort Worth!  I was AMAZED by them!  The first one is boxes of Diet Coke with purple Fanta spelling out TCU. The second one is Fanta and Diet Dr. Pepper with Dr. Pepper making the football.  We walked into the store and I could not get over the amount of time that must have taken a grocery store employee!  (it's the little things, right??) 

The top two pictures are riding the family bus to the game and the bottom pictures are from the game.  Cecilia, the adorable little girl hugging Cal is the daughter of one of the football coaches.  We spent some time with Cecilia and her mommy, Jenny, while we were out in Fort Worth.  Cecilia is SO FREAKING SMART!  Her mom is doing something right.  That child is 2 1/2 and can count (really high) can say her ABCs, can point to a letter and tell you what it is (she's about ready to start reading), and thanks to Dora, the girl can count to 5 in SPANISH!!!  And she's TWO!  Isn't that impressive?  (okay, I just went off on a tangent there...)

This was a highlight of the game.  Mr. Cal Boy made it up on the Jumotron at the game!  The crazy thing about this picture is it was taken by some random girl who was just trying to take a picture of the field and who didn't even know Cal.  A friend of my sister-in-law's saw it on this girl's facebook page and took a picture of it and sent it to Tricia.  Small world, right?

Poppy's "shrine" of Cal pictures.  I try to send Patty and Big Ed a picture a day, and Big Ed will print out his favorites and put them up on the board.  He can't bring himself to throw any away.  When the pushpin will not hold any more, he will remove a few and put them in a folder on the side of his desk marked CAL.  That folder is about to need a backup--it's overflowing. 

This picture just cracks me up.  Getting in the tub with his TCU shirt on (and his little cheeks hanging out--haha)

We took Cal to the mall one day to look for some new shoes.  We pulled into the parking lot only to discover we left his stroller in the garage back at the house...opps!  So, we rented one of these little creations.  It was interesting, to say the least!  Cal had his first and only melt down the entire week at this mall.  And it was a DOOZIE!  You would think it was his terrible twos from the way he threw a fit.  Lord, help me when the terrible twos really do hit! A few graham crackers and he was good to go with some new shoes too!

We celebrated Cal's first birthday with the Williamson's while we were out there.  He LOVED the cake and had a blast eating/smashing it.  haha-- SUCH a mess!

Fort Worth has a wonderful children's museum that we visited one day.  Cal had a great time pushing the shopping cart around and he was obsessed with the bubble tunnels. 

Visiting Poppy at TCU's practice

swinging on some swings at the CUTEST park that Jenny and Cecilia took us to

We made it to Tahoe! The weather was much cooler--it was wonderful! Cal was wild on the flight again, but this time, my dad bumped Cal and I up to first class so he was wild with more room :)  Tahoe was GORGEOUS and we had a great time exploring.

At the rehearsal dinner out on the beach-- beautiful setting!

love some of these from the rehearsal dinner

At the wedding on top of Heavenly Mountain.  And it was just that: Heavenly!

Molly's little girl, Sydney, and Cal

Playing with Grandpa at the wedding-- it was too cute watching him!

Mom and Dad- good lookin' couple!

Cousins!  love love love her :)

Love these of Cal taking grandpa for a walk.  He was pointing at all of the birds and talking baby blabber up a

My cousins: Patrick and Molly on the wedding day-- LOVE them!

It was a great 10 days, but I was SOOOOO ready to get home!  Cal was a trooper the whole time.  In TX, he slept until 8:30 every day (9:30 EST) and took two naps a day, each over 2 hours!  He is super backwards now that we are home.  He is sleeping late, but his naps are all screwed up.  We will get back on track soon, I swear!