Texas de Brazil and Burleson Duck Pond

 Mike and I at Texas de Brazil Friday night after eating our super deliciouso wine, meal and dessert :)  We were excited to spoil ourselves and get all dressed up.  We signed up for email notifications and stuff from Texas de Brazil and they sent me a complimentary dinner certificate for my birthday so we decided to take full advantage of it :)

 Mike picking out what wine we should compliment our dinner with since it's a ginormous list!  I'm not a big connoisseur when it comes to all that, but Mike's pretty good at it, and his choice was great!

 Saturday morning we woke up and decided we wanted to treat the puppies since we had spoiled ourselves the night before.  We decided to take them for a walk and let them swim in the Burleson pond.  When we get their travel crates ready and loaded up in the car, we put both of them in Olivine's crate so here they are.

 With Mike's sprain foot, this is definitely not resting, but he really wanted to get out and about since he had been sitting and resting it so much.  Olivine and I were a little bit in front of Bronx and Mike so we wanted to take a picture of the men :)

 There's a field, pool, tennis courts, and basketball courts just behind the pond so we walk back there and then turn around and walk back when the pups are nice and tired so they can swim.  There are a few ducks swimming around, but I'm not sure if you can see them in there.

 Bronx and Olivine dove right in when we let them off the leash.

 Here they are playing around in the water.  It's so funny because Bronx is a great swimmer (thanks to Mike) and absolutely loves being in the water and swimming around.  Olivine, on the other hand, is not the best swimmer, but does just fine and she loves the water.  When she jumps in, she gets taken by surprise how deep it is and gets the panic face of, "Oh crap!" and starts to swim back as fast as she can.

 Bronx with his big smile cooling off and swimming.  Olivine was running around on land.

 Bronx had jumped out to join Olivine and we caught him while he was shaking to dry off.

Olivine discovered ducks and wanted to be "friends" haha.  We're not sure if she wants to eat one or play with one, but she definitely tugs on the leash like crazy to get to them.

Well in latest news, Mike's dad had a triple bypass and we've been praying for a swift recovery for him.  Jim came to pick him up and they headed to Waco to be at the hospital with Jan while Rich went under.  Matt and Heather were with them as well.  I was at my gang class all day, but Mike kept me updated over the phone.  The surgery went well and now he's at home recovering.  On Easter Sunday, I told Mike I really wanted to get up and go to church, but after having a super busy night Saturday, there was no way I was able to wake up and go to church.  So when Mike and I did get up, we went to WalMart to get fresh mushrooms and asparagus so I could make our big Easter meal.  Oh and HEB and Target were both closed haha.  When we got back, I started fixing the rack of lamb and the sides of fresh mushrooms and asparagus and thew in some tomatoes.  We also had mashed sweet potatoes, which are my favorite!  Mike's not the biggest fan of them since they're sweet, but since I always want them and he never does, we decided to have them for Easter.  While everyone was cooking, Mike put in some of my old CD's from high school and college, which brought back memories!  It was definitely funny listening to those old rap songs and singing and dancing to them.  Mike's not a big dancer so it was a lot of fun.  Once everything was ready, Mike had put in U-571, which we got on Netflix, we sat down and said a prayer, and chowed down.  After all that, I got ready for work and headed in.
Now the month of May is coming and it's going to be a busy one.  This coming Sunday (May 1st), we're heading to Denton for Luci's (our goddaughter) baptism.  I work Saturday night until 0700 and we have to be in Denton at 1115 so it's going to be a long day.  If I don't get a nap in I'm going to take off work Sunday night.  That coming Friday (May 6th), Matt and Heather are coming to stay with us, yay!  And then on Saturday Matt and Heather are going to help Jim and Lexi move.  Mike was going to help, but with his foot that's not going to happen.  That night we're going to Addison to celebrate Guy's 70th birthday and then staying the night out there, so I'm planning on staying at home with the puppies that day and trying to treat them a big before we leave for the night.  Dani offered to watch them so they'll get to be with their Aunt Dani and cousins Pumpkin and Red.  Then May 13th and May 14th, I think there's something going on, Oh wait!  It's Matt and Heather's wedding!!  Yay!!  The Friday before we're heading down there for the rehearsal dinner and all and then Saturday is the big day!  My dress is at the dry cleaners right now and my shoes are ready to go.  I also bought some pearls to accessorize since Kohl's was having an absolutely amazing sale today and I've always wanted some so it all worked out :)  The weekend after that Mike has OCS so that means no talking, but I email him every night to keep him updated on what's going on and it makes it feel like I'm talking to him.  So that is what May looks like for us so far.  It's going to be busy, but a lot of fun seeing all the family!  And with OCS, it just puts Mike one step closer to being done with Phase 0 and moving onto Phase 1, 2, to done!  In June, he'll be gone pretty much the whole month in Kansas and then July, he's gone one weekend and then we get to go on our cruise!!  We're definitely both counting down the days to that one!  Yay!