Busy Memorial Day Weekend

My Mom's Birthday was Friday & I decided to surprise her with a quick trip to the BIG "D"!! I am always looking for an excuse to go there & I scored an awesome hotel room on priceline for $35 & we were on the road.... Can you tell that I REALLY like traveling? Also, I think that we do it so much that Caden really likes it too! He came along- just the 3 of us!!

Once we arrived, our first stop was birthday lunch at our favorite Tea Room in Plano called Into My Garden Tea Room. It was so delicious & we had lots of fun shopping the downtown area. I got the best baby sling ever called a "Yummy Mummy Wrap." You can read more about it here: http://www.yummymummywraps.blogspot.com/ I had been looking for something that Caden couldn't flip out of & that he didn't mind & this was it!! It is so comfortable & he loves riding in & has already fallen asleep twice in it! This was great for shopping too!

Friday night we went to one of my favorite special occasion restaurants & had a great dinner at The Melting Pot. It is a fondue restaurant & we dipped away in our cheese, cooked our meats & veggies in a delicious broth & had all kinds of yummy stuff to dip in chocolate for dessert. Mom & I loved it & Caden had fun too!

The next morning we did more shopping & stopped by THE BEST tortilla factory ever called Luna's for some fresh homemade tortillas to go. These are so great & there is a lady there that hand rolls these!! YUM & David was so excited to get these as a little souvenir!

On Monday, we celebrated Memorial Day at my parent's house. My Dad grilled ribs & chicken & I was assigned a dessert. I have a HUGE love for cookbooks but often just end up making up recipes & don't use my cookbooks. But....I decided to pull out one & I found a great & easy recipe for a lemon pound cake. It was so so good & I also made homemade vanilla ice cream in our new Cuisinart ice cream maker I got at the garage sale for $5 last week.

Such a pretty pound cake!!

Look at that lemony goodness!!

Caden is eating everything in sight & he thoroughly enjoyed his meal & required a bath afterwards! He had baked beans in his hair & potato salad on his nose!

Caden enjoyed playing in his new ball pit!

Relaxing on the front porch!!

Hope everyone had a Happy Memorial Day!!

P.S. The Kitchen is ALMOST done!!! Pics to come!