Now that's commitment

For those of you who read this and have never lived in Texas then you don't know about the grand tradition of taking pictures in the beautiful state flowers, bluebonnets.
Taking your childhood pictures each spring in a lovely patch of bluebonnets is one of the greatest Texas traditions. Texans are weird people, you know. We are very proud and will go to whatever lengths for the state we are so proud of.

Side Texas story - right after we moved here in 2006 we were at church on the Sunday celebrating the 4th of July. As we are singing songs to honor this great land of ours - "God Bless America," "America," The Star Spangled Banner," we out of no where hear, "The stars at night are big and bright (clap, clap, clap, clap) DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!" I thought Nate was going to leave the building. He has later come to understand the greatness that is being a Texan and no matter what he says is so glad the boys are officially TEXANS!

So back to the bluebonnets. Last week Nate had told me he would be late coming home, the babies were antsy in the house, and we didn't have bluebonnet pics yet. I had heard of a field of flowers in Kingwood, so I got directions and we went.

When I got the directions the word "ditch" was involved, but so was the word neighborhood. I wasn't worried. But when I got there, it was quite an ordeal especially with two little ones.

Another side note. Most of the time you can only find bluebonnets on the sides of highways. They are wildflowers. When I first told Nate about taking pictures in them our conversation went like this:
Nate: "So...you take pictures on the side of the road?"
Me: "Uhhuh"
Nate: "You just pull over on the shoulder get your kids out and stick them in a median?"
Me: "Uhhuh"
Nate: "With cars speeding by?"
Me: "Uhhuh..."
Nate: "That's stupid."

Luckily for us all the ones I found were in a ditch, but also off a quite side road and in a ditch...far away from the cars ;).

So I want you to know that it took some commitment to get these pictures. We had to park, get out, get the stroller, walk around the ditch, park the stroller, get them BOTH out, carry them BOTH down in the ditch, it was really hot and all the boys wanted to do was eat the grass...but they sure are cute!!!




I did get a few good ones...but I for some reason like these the best. In the end, it was worth it!