Lillian, Nancy and Holly At the Park: A Video

Even in the midst of great sadness, there are few things more joyful than an afternoon in the park with Lillian.

Nancy and her sister Holly manage to get up to a bit of foolishness. We laughed a lot.

My Birthday — By Lillian

We threw a big bash for Lillian’s 2nd birthday, featuring grilled hot dogs (including veggie dogs for the vegetarians) by Chris and Matt Graves, Grandma Peggy’s fabulous potato salad, and dinosaur cupcakes by the Texas Cupcake Queen, Lauren Massey. In addition to a slew of Houston great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends (and some dogs), Lili’s cousin Kaitlyn came down from East Texas with her mom and dad, aunts and grandparents, and Lili’s friend Josie came with her mom. The girls were dressed for getting wet; a number of the grown-ups weren’t, but got wet anyway. (There was some grumbling at Texas girls who decide to have their birthdays in August rather than just about any other not-quite-so-hot month).

Lillian presents this little video with subtitled commentary (with an assist from ace photographer grandma Peggy).

In the Pumpkin Patch

Lillian is visiting her great aunt Holly in Austin along with her mom and grandma Nancy. She had to check out the pumpkins.

Trying to squash the pumpkins...

More from the Beach

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Grandma Peggy took these pictures. Lillian is ready to go back to the beach.

Meeting My Aunt Elli & Cousin Katelyn

Grandma Peggy and Grandpa Keith came down to visit along with my dad’s sister Elli and her husband Josh and my ultra-cool 2-year-old cousin Katelyn.

Katelyn, Elli and Lillian