Where are we now?  Well, a truckload of diapers and wipes and a ton of bottles later, Dixon is now just about 6 months old.  He just started eating solid foods.  Whoever knew that rice cereal could be such an exciting adventure?  He lunges at the stuff like there was nothing else better in the world to eat.  Actually, we’re pretty sure that if we let him eat spaghetti, he’d find a way to gum it down his toothless mouth too.  He seems to always be hungry.

He’s got a 6-month old well-baby check up on April 13th (yup, Friday the 13th!) and we’re thinking he’ll be about 20-1/2 lbs at that appointment.  He hasn’t gained much weight since his 4-month appointment, I guess it’s about that time that babies start to plateau anyway.  Hey, I’m plenty fine with it, I think my arms are going to fall out of my shoulders sometimes, he’s quite the solid chunk to hold!  I love it though, he’s so kissable, huggable, laughs so much and gosh darn it, he’s just so cute!  We’re collecting a lot of good blackmail-able photos and videos too.

The adoption was finalized on March 19th, hooray!  We received an official certificate in the mail last week and celebrated with Subway sandwiches (kind of lame, I know…but the sandwich was delicious!).

Watching a baby sleep is like watching a campfire.  There’s not much happening, but you can’t help stare at it anyway.

On Wednsday, we picked up Jason from work in Austin and went to Wahoo’s for fish tacos.  Ruby was more happy to eat the black beans off my plate than the ones set before her…yum!

On Thursday we were at Athenian Bar & Grill with Ruby anxiously looking up to our plates, wondering when she could get her hands on that good stuff too!  We also went to visit a small part of one of the museums downtown that had a cool staircase.

On Friday, we drove down to Austin and rented a canoe and a double kayak for a ride down the river just by downtown Austin…sorry, don’t remember which river, but it’s pretty!

We were so thirsty from our water activities that we stopped at Jack-in-the-Box for $1 mix-your-own-drinks…the cups being as big as Sophie’s entire torso.

Football weekend started out at the Round Rock high school.  The Round Rock Dragons hosted the game and Cam was a part of the half-time entertainment in the Marching Band who were really great!  Cam is somewhere in the cluster of band members to the right.  The Dragons barely lost their game to the away team, too bad.

Michele & Michelle…cheering on the team!

Football Saturday!  In the morning, Steve & Jason stayed home to watch football on TV while Michele, Megan & I went to the movies to see ‘The Help’ (and it was so good that I actually cried a couple of times…ME, crying in a movie!!!  so it must really have been good if I cried, right?).   We met up with the rest of the family at Rudy’s for great BBQ…SO YUM!!!  Then we dropped off the kids back home and headed down to Austin to the BYU vs. TX college football game.

In the morning, I’d been on facebook with Matt Christensen and had mentioned trying to meet up somewhere at half-time, but then he and his brothers were driving and I never checked back online.  So, when Jeff Christensen called out Steve’s name as we were going around the concourse, it was a lucky run-in!  We probably haven’t seen Jeff, Tom or Matt Christensen since 2005 so it was great to catch up with them.

Really a lot of pomp and circumstance to this TX showing…definitely everything is done bigger (and may I really even say better) in this area.  I was amazed at the enthusiasm of the fans, even as TX was down for the entire first half of the game, they cheered like they were ahead the whole game.  The rest of us may have something to learn from that.  BYU lost by one point…not such a good 2nd half.  Too bad.

It’s us in TX!

Sunday morning, just playing with Ruby as everyone gets ready for church

On Monday it got back up to 102F.  We went out to lunch at Logan’s Grill, then topped off our appetites with some fantastic shaved ice.  Jason also got some Round Rock Donuts to take back home for the kids in school.

Can’t wait to go back to visit the Steeds again one day, we always have a grand ol’ time with them and they are such great hosts to us, THANKS SO MUCH STEEDS!!!!

I’ll tell you one thing though, the band is impressive and they sure do know how to put on an interesting halftime show.  The fans are excellent too, something BYU fans in a home crowd could learn a little more from I will even venture to say!  Good times, good times…

Luckily we ran into Steve and Michele’s cousins (Jeff, Tom & Matt Christensen) whom we haven’t seen in ages, grew to catch up with them after so long.

…more about our TEXAS trip to come!