Steph's birthday Crawfish feast

Beautiful crawfish boil (spicy crawfish boiled with spices, sausage, carrots, potatoes and corn) with homemade 2 layer chocolate cake and of course Champagne!

CowBoy!

Sprinkler Chicken Chase

Spring Break 3 - Park

We spent lots of time at the park as Oliver is such an outdoorsie.

Here's a fun video in 3 parts. (I had to break it down because it's too long to upload on the blog)

Spring Break 2 - Zoo

Then we went to Houston to visit some friends. They had a little guest house in their backyard so we stayed for about 5 days.

Spring Break 1 - beach

During Spring Break, Austin hosts an internationally renown festival called SXSW. Hotels are full so residents like us, rent out our homes and leave town.

First stop, the beach with Aunt Amy, Uncle Blake and the kids.

King bed!

Kite Festival

Great weekend in Austin!

French beret

Planes

Every time Oliver hears a plane lately, he stops and listens. Most of the time he hears it way before us! At first he was a little scared but while Ben & I were in Mexico and he stayed in Dallas, he was taught to say bye bye to planes...

Mild winter

This winter in Austin has been very mild. We had a few days in the 40-50 F (5-10 C ) but many more days in the 70s (20 C).
Oliver playing with sand and water at a friend's house last week:

Playing in the backyard

Random oliver pics

Isla Mujeres II

We are still very much enjoying ourselves on this beautiful island.
Yesterday we took a snorkeling trip, got to see a sting ray, barracudas, soft corals and many fish schools.
This morning we visited some small maya ruins at the southern tip of the island and we are now kicking back on the main beach which has awesome smoothies, long chairs and Wi-fi.

Isla Mujeres

Oliver is about to turn 18 months and our 8-year anniversary is coming up so we decided it was a good time for Ben and I to take our first little getaway without Oliver.
Oliver is in very good hands staying with his grandmother KK, his great grandmother Mimi, his aunt Amy, uncle Blake and cousins Reed, Lily and Emily.
A short 2-hour flight from Austin to Cancun, and a 15-min ferry ride to Isla Mujeres, here we are in Mexico for 4 days.
We're staying at a nice Mexican lady's house. She rents out a couple bungalows around her pool overlooking the Caribbean and bunch of iguanas.
It's also in the less touristy area of the island, it's quiet, and we found an awesome local restaurant nearby with great ceviche and very strong margaritas!