Dallas Blooms

Today, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and the beginning of Spring Break and paid a visit to the Dallas Arboretum. Every single thing is in bloom, and the dazzling array of flowers and colors was just amazing.

This year, the play houses exhibit has a "Fairy Tale" theme, so the boys had fun exploring all the castles. Here's Jackson at Aladdin's humble abode.

We enjoyed having Gramma and Grandad join us for a bit, and it was fun to find the special flower bed dedicated to Gramma! The sign says, "This area of our floral display has been given in honor of Eleanor Penrose by All the Family." :)

Grandad was nice enough to take a couple of pictures of the 5 of us. (Luke enjoyed wearing Grandad's hat.)

Then I took about a million (if you ask them, they'd say it was more) pictures of the boys. Here are just a few!

I had told Cody to squeeze in with Jackson in the above picture, and he took me VERY literally!

Luke was an ever-moving blur throughout the morning....I don't think he slowed down at all during our visit.

I got Cody and Jacks to sit together for a minute by promising they could take a silly picture after the "serious" one.  So here's serious:

And here's silly:

And even more silly!

I did get this nice shot of Cody by the reflecting pool.

Anthony tried to get a few pictures of me with the boys, but by then, they were just DONE with the camera. So Cody stuck a little wink in this one.

And he refused to smile in the rest. Plus, Luke was sad because he'd just done a giant face-plant in the grass (I actually found a big green smudge on his forehead after this picture).

Clearly, it was time to call it a day. But we had a great time, and we hope to go back again to see even more of the spring flowers!