Bluebonnets!

I got an email that said, "You know you grew up in Texas if..." then it went on to list many typical Texas things. One of them that struck me was, "if... you have your yearly pictures taken in bluebonnets." I realized that we have lived here for 3 years and I didn't have one single picture of my children in the bluebonnets.

SO - today we drove up to Brenham to take pictures in the bluebonnets... and now the kids are officially Texans!

The flowers were gorgeous and I was surprised to see all the cars stopped on the side of the freeway with people taking pictures. If I wasn't driving I would have taken a picture of all the cars and people literally walking around with their children on the side of the 65mph freeway.

We found a spot about 1/2 mile off the freeway with a gorgeous field of flowers. We started out trying to keep the kids from stepping on any of them... but once Andrew ran through them and threw himself down on them, I just surrendered and let them have fun.
Andrew thought it was great fun to be out running in a field of flowers. Sean and I were both a bit stressed out by his jubilation, however, since he kept running and darting toward the road and parking lot. At least we weren't by the freeway!

Sean wasn't real excited about the whole adventure... but he suffered through it. :)



What I didn't think of was to dress my kids in cute matching outfits. We'll have to do that next year! :) Check back in 2011...