May

So peaceful!

 This is what happens when you fall out of the pool...

Just chilling in the pool.

Pepper loves to play in the water.

To hot to wear shirts!

Boxer!

Intently fixing something for Mommy!

The theatrics

Stockyard cattle drive

Taking my parents on a tourist outing

Look at Cyprian's expression as the horse started moving

Grandma helping to make sure the little rider stays on:')

At the restaurant where we ate fried pickles

Bronze cows in downtown Dallas

Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, downtown Dallas

At the farmers market watching a band perform

Dallas Farmers Market

My Dad, Franz and Cyprian went to the races

Using all the blocks my Mom purchased from a rummage sale for a couple bucks.

The castle

Grandpa couldn't resist building with the boys

Waffles yummy! My Mom said she thought she gained 5lbs. while they were here:')

Cyprian and his creative tower

The new way to bowl, Kick It!

Family bowling

Camping with our friends the Berquists.

Franz enjoying the hard to cook brat

Cyprian begging to take more pictures after he took almost thirty.

Our campsite right by the lake

Campsite set up 

I just love the prettiness, there is beauty in Texas, you just have to go find it

Daddy helping Cyprian with his s'more. He didn't like the sticyness

Daddy demonstrating how to lick off the stickyness

Marshmallow on fire

Run away in the woods

Let's chase the ducks

Sun setting

The start to our hike

On the trail

Cyprian was getting tired from all the walking

Wild flowers

Family shot

Renaissance Festival, that was the knight were cheering on 

Clements view of the jousting

Cyprian and I riding the elephant

Julie may be pregnant but she can still hoola hoop

Let's sword fight

Cousins just hanging

Pepper wanting to eat with everyone

Observing the bird that flew into our window and knocked it self silly

Dove, yes a mourning dove

So cute!

Cyprian rowing his boat and Clement balancing on his perch

May brings the end of the semester for Franz. Yeah! Then we started all kinds of fun outings. We went a nice camping trip with our friends the Berquist at Joel Pool Lake. We swam in the lake, hiked, cooked over a fire. After putting the boys down praying the rosary, we stayed up late playing banana grams.

 Family visited, my parents, and the Martyns. My parents were here for Franz and my 4 year wedding anniversary. They graciously watched the boys, so Franz could take me on a couple hour horse back ride through the woods. We were served grilled steak, grapes, veggies, and wine, by a catfish pond. We had a camera to take pictures but twice we got to jump our horses over a creek bed and Franz who was holding the camera dropped it so it wouldn't take pictures. Someone took some pictures for us on their phone and they were suppose to send them via email but I never received them. Oh well, I still have the beautiful memory....We took my parents to the stockyards to watch the cattle be herded down the street. We ate at a barbecue pit and had fried pickles etc. We took them to the farmers market and downtown for the bronze cow display.

Shortly after my parents left the Martyns came for a visit. While they were here we visited the farmers market the bronze cow again. We also had a nice brunch with our friends the Berquist and Mrs. Berquist family who roadtripped here to Texas from California. We went to the Renaissance  Festival. Where we wondered around, watching shows, and Cyprian and I rode an elephant. Cyprian, Clement and I were suppose to go to Houston with Julie and Wrangell, and Franz would come a day later. I ended up being so ill, that I kinda wondered if I was dying. I had a horrendous headache, I couldn't eat anything for feeling sick to my stomach, and was really weak. Thankfully Franz was around to help watch kiddos so I could rest in our dark room all day drinking just water. I felt really bad because I was not able to enjoy our last day with Julie and Wrangell. Thankfully after a good nights rest I was much better the next day, not 100% but much improved. So next it will be our adventures from June....