Venturing to Fort Worth

We've been trying to take advantage of Brent's time off school and no homework! So when I haven't been working (which was still 30 hours this week) we played a lot and adventured around to see more of Texas! On Friday our friends invited us to go to the Fort Worth Children's Museum. Ava loved it. She loved the pretend hospital nursery and she took care of a "newborn" and rode in the ambulance with her friend.

She also tried to buy the baby at the grocery store part of the museum. She wheeled her up through the check stand and everything. 

It has been so nice and warm here, so she got to go outside and dig for dinosaur bones in the beautiful weather.

After the museum with our friends, our little family went to a yummy BBQ restaurant in down town Fort Worth. It's very authentic Texas BBQ and there are all sorts of dead animals on the wall so we decided we are going to take Bob there when we get a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Cowley!

Our phone said it would take 55 minutes to get to down town Fort Worth, but there is always traffic here so it took about 15 minutes longer than that. This city is huge! But we really love Fort Worth (a little more than Dallas). It's so beautiful and has a total western vibe to it.

On Saturday Brent went to the movie theater to watch a couple movies nominated for Oscars while Ava and I went to a birthday party for a friend we've met in the neighborhood. The mom is from Peru so of course we get along ;)

Today we had Brent's professor and his partner over to dinner. We also had Travis and his partner over too. Travis did the same program as Brent at UNT and is from Provo. We had lots of fun laughing and joking, and chatting about movies. For the record, Ava was a cutie pie.

 Those are the highlights of this week! The beginning of the week was me working, Brent watching Ava, cooking dinner, cleaning the house, etc. Brent did take Ava to the park several times. And as I'm writing up this blog post he sent me this hilarious picture. I think it was kind of chilly?!?

Hahaha. Her hair is in the awkward stage of not long enough to do anything with, but long enough to give some really great visits from the hair fairy.

On their walks to the park, Brent says Ava has gotten very anxious to go swim since the pool is next-door to the park. She even learned a new word, "pool."

As a parting gift, here is a cute video from last Sunday. Remember the picture I posted on Facebook of Ava giving big hugs? Well Brent surprised us by taking a video instead of pictures for part of the time and it turned out kind of funny.

Favorite picture from this week:

That's all for this week. Love you!