Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center

So last weekend on our drive to Houston I couldn't help but notice the amazing Blue Bonnets and really all the flowers that grow wild here in Texas. So while I never thought I'd be one of those moms forcing her kids into a patch of Blue Bonnets and towering over them with a camera, I totally was her yesterday. But I mean c'mon, minus the Blue Bonnets this is what I do all day, right? haha! Well the weather man was forecasting rain all day Thursday but we tempted fate and headed out to the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center in south Austin with Jack, Scott and Skyler on Thursday. It didn't so much as sprinkle on us and oh my gosh we had a blast! We found lots of Blue Bonnets and so so so much more! If you've never been to this place, you have to go! It was almost empty thanks to the rain forecast so we had full run of the place and there is so much to see. Of course tons of flowers, but also tons of great Austinart pieces, a stream that runs through the whole center, a caterpillar house, an art museum and a super tall tower thing you can climb up and see tons of hill country and all of the flower center from. Skyler was not in the mood for pictures, the only one I got of him in the Blue Bonnets he was on the verge of tears in but at least we got one! Jack was rockin' his fake/forced smile in a lot of these, but I'll take it! Scotty was Scotty, hilarious and loving every minute! Scott especially loved the Art Museum because it had an echo that was out of control and it was empty so I let them get as loud as they wanted and Scott LOVED that. Scott also really liked all the bees, he was full on tackling flower bushes to get the bees to come out, the kid loves bugs just like his dad! Jack got a big kick out of the stream, it was small enough for him to jump from one side to the other so all I head all afternoon from Jack was, "Yook Yook Mom, yissen I'm not gonna fall in. I pinkie promised I'm not gonna get wet so I'm not! See yook, Mom, I'm not wet!" It was so much fun.

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