Adorable Abbie

So Abbie has gained this new Independence with preparing her own food. It could be the fact that I refuse to cook for her every 20 minutes (no joke, she really asks me that often) and that I work during the day on the computer and can't just get up all the time to cook her food, but she has come to the realization that she truly CAN COOK! So Tori helped her yesterday afternoon make her own Mac N Cheese in the microwave. It turned out great and she was so proud of herself she wouldn't even share with her sister. But when Tori made her own, Abbie asked for more and Tori was reluctant but after some gentle guidance (the golden rule) Tori gave her some. Well, some wasn't enough and Abbie wanted more. So she decided to make her own, again. Well this time Tori didn't help her. I was behind my computer when I heard some popping noises in the microwave. I of course got up quickly, ran to the microwave, and found a sippy cup without a lid full of dry macaroni. Abbie was waiting to the side of the microwave ready for her magical mac n cheese to come out perfect and was quite disappointed with the smoke and burned popcorn smell that still radiates our home 18 hours later. It even melted the cup! You can't help but laugh and give her a big hug at her attempt to cook for herself. Adorable Abbie.

OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA!!!!

So Brad and I decided to drive to the border, get out of Texas and see the world. Oklahoma is about an hour and 15 minute drive from home so we decided to venture out and see what its like. Well, its definitely the middle of nowhere in hickville. Now I know that we were in some podunk town on the outskirts of Oklahoma but HOLY COW, it really is out there. For the first 10 miles or so there are no exits. Now I don't know how far you have to go to find an exit, we didn't take the time to drive that far. Instead of exits, they have little dirt roads that are directly off the freeway and little turn around areas too, so we slammed on our brakes to turn around since there was really nothing to look at, and then sped up as fast as we could to keep up with traffic until we found a dirt road to go and see the scenery. The first picture I got was right off the freeway it was a rundown house, I thought, wow, this is a picture to take for the blog, just what Oklahoma looks like, this and lots of little RVs and trailers! We got stuck on a dirt road (never saw a paved road besides right along the freeway) that had a train we had to wait for, and then that road led to some other dirt road that had dogs and their puppies all along it, I never realized how small Chihuahua puppies are, holy cow. They surrounded our car and I was just waiting for some old guy to come out with a rifle telling us to leave. We didn't see a soul until we got back on the road that leads to the freeway. We decided to stop at the border of Oklahoma and TX and get a picture with the nice big LoneStar :)