Claire's Weekend with Pierce

Recently one of my oldest and dearest friends, Courtney, was able to bring her family to San Antonio for a weekend visit. The first time I remember meeting Courtney was in Mrs. Perry's Intermediate Accounting class at A&M. We quickly became friends, and she played a major role at many points during my life - vacations, living together in L.A. during our internships, studying for the CPA exam, moving to Dallas, first "real" jobs, weddings, pregnancy, and even watching our babies hit milestones as amazingly they were born within 3 days of each other!

One of the things we miss most about leaving Dallas is not being close to Courtney, Jared & Pierce, but we've managed to see each other several times over the past two years. It was so wonderful to be able to have them here for the weekend. We started out by meeting at the Grist Mill in Gruene for lunch, and then we went into New Braunfels so the kids could play at the Children's Museum. Claire and Pierce loved checking everything out together.

We tired them out pretty well with the Museum, and after an early dinner at a kid-friendly burger joint here in SA, we got them to bed so they could rest up - and we could visit without having to keep an eye on the 2 year olds.

Saturday morning we got an early start, and after breakfast tacos and cinnamon rolls at one of our favorite breakfast places, we went to the Botanical Gardens to let the kids run around before it got too hot to be outside. They had a blast running through the gardens and checking out the playhouses and forts that are currently on exhibit. Everyone was pretty worn out after finding all of the playhouses, and the mommies and the kids all got some good naps that afternoon.

Saturday evening, Jill and her crew came over for fajitas and more fun. Judging by all the smiles, squeals and giggles, I think taking wagon rides through our backyard was the highlight of the evening for Claire, Pierce & Kate.

Court and family had to leave fairly early on Sunday to spend time with family in Temple as they made their way back to Dallas, and we were all sad to see them go. Claire absolutely loved Pierce, and later when I asked her if she missed him, she said that she did and agreed that we need to visit them soon. Robert and I kept commenting all weekend that we'd never seen Claire have as much fun with another kid as she did with Pierce - our typically shy kid spent the whole time running around trying to keep up with him, hold his hand, give him hugs, etc. It was SO cute and just warmed my heart to see how much she enjoyed being around my sweet friend's little boy. Hopefully they'll have lots of chances in the future to develop their friendship!