Halloween 2011

With every year, Halloween gets more fun!! The kids were super excited to go trick-or-treating this year! Well, 2 of the 3 :) But our first time to wear the costumes was for the Fall Festival at our church! SO much fun things to do and see! From the Petting Zoo, inflatable bounce houses, and all the games, to a puppet show and lots of good food to eat; we couldn't get it all done!

Ready to GO!

My Cowgirl! 

Spiderman, of course! 

The CUTEST witch EVER! 

Yay for the train! 

Horse riding...yes please! 

A cowgirl needs a Trigger! 

She's smiling because she has candy!

NEXT we have Caden's Costume Parade at his Mother's Day Out. They had lots of fun dressing up and getting candy!  

Brenna was less then exctied about the parade. 

There's my spidy! 

Spiderman was a popular choice this year... there are 3 in Caden's class! (he's the on on the far left, he actually wore his mask!) 

NOW to pumpkin carving! This is alot of fun for me and Jason!

Brenna really enjoyed cleaning out the pumpkins! Gracie thought it was gross! 

Pumpkin hands!! 

Jason is getting to be a pro at carving pumpkins! 

Caden chose a 'mad' face, Gracie chose a 'happy' face, and I chose a silly face for Brenna.

Great job Daddy!

FINALLY Halloween is here! Time to trick-or-treat!!!

Oh, she's so cute! 

Tried to get a picture of all three....and well, here it is. Oh well. 

Love the hat, wish she would have kept it on! 

We met up with the Armstrongs! Taos is a cute little cow and Avery is Rapunzel. 

Here we go!!! 

Moms had camera duty and dads had stroller duty! 

First stop! 

These people went all out! 

We met up with the Cochrans too! 

Fun picture!

I think I got them all! Brenna, Avery, Taos, Caden, Carson (ninja), Gracie, and Callie in the cutest Minnie Mouse costume ever! 

Are they getting tired? 

The Cochrans had to go, but the Woods joined us too!

Caden, Gracie, Carter, Averi and Avery! 

We stayed out a little later then we had planned and the kids were getting tired. So Lindsey and I carried the littlest ones, Gracie was in our stroller and Caden and Avery shared the other one!

So much fun! Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Patch 2011

I told Caden that Halloween is Aunt Wendy's birthday about a week ago and he has been asking me every day "is it Aunt Wendy's birthday today?" He is ready for Halloween! Since we are all getting in the Halloween "spirit", we thought it would be good to get some pumpkin pictures! (I don't need much of an excuse to want to go get pictures of my kids!) The kids smiled pretty well for the most part. I think Brenna's age got in the way of alot of good ones, but that's OK. Here are the best, and I appologize now for the quantity (and sub-standard quality :)

 I'm so glad that Gracie doesn't mind taking pictures! I can always count on her to get some really good shots!

 Caden can only take so many, and then he's DONE.

Brenna's picture with the pumpkins like this didn't quite happen.

 Cheerleader pose! (she looks like she could be 8!)

 I think she was bending over like that b/c I was!

 Cutie pie!

 I've been looking at alot of ideas on Pinterest, and although I didn't see this idea, I think it got my creative juices flowing. I'm sure I'm not the first mom to make letters out of pumpkins and sit their kid inside for a picture :)

 I would have liked to spend a little more time with this idea, but my subjects were not agreeable.

 I think I got some cute ones :)

 She almost rolled over all the way on this pumpkin!

 Sweet Gracie girl!

 Oh, he's so handsome!

LOVE this smile!!!

OK, the next ba-gillian pictures are my attempt at getting a pic with all three kids sitting on a pumpkin. Sounds easy enough, right? HA!

 First, we lost Caden and Brenna is still looking for a pumpkin to sit on.

 OK, everyone has a pumpkin, and we are all seated. Now smile :)

 Uh oh! Lost Brenna! Those are slippery pumpkins!

 Back on the pumpkin, everyone smile and look at the camera!

 Gracie starts doing what daddy is doing behind the camera to get them to smile.

 We tell her to put her arms down.

 THAT didn't go over well. Caden is concerned. Brenna is copying daddy too!

 Time to pout.

 I think we'll be getting ALOT of this look in the near future and beyond. Caden is still worried.

 Daddy is trying to get them all to raise their hands.

He's got 2 of 3!

 Oh, I see a smile! Caden and Brenna's arms are getting tired!

 There we go! Get those arms up Brenna, just a little longer!

SUCCESS!!

He told them to cross their arms! I love how Brenna does it!

We are so blessed!

Hope y'all make it to a pumpkin patch near you!!

The Lord's Prayer

Caden's Sunday school class has been learning the Lord's Prayer. They asked us parents to help them with it, so we've been saying the Lord's Prayer with the kids at night. This past Sunday, Caden was the first kid to get a T-shirt for saying it in Sunday school! He needs some help, as you can see, and he doesn't get all the words perfect, but he knows most of it! And he's soooo cute saying it!

We are SO proud of him!

Here he is wearing his shirt!! He's so proud, but he's smiling that big because I told him "smile big!"!

Funny boy!

July Catch-Up: Girl's Weekend/ Chupacabra Run

I've started running again and needed a goal to help motivate me to continue, so I decided to run in the Los Chupacabras de la Noche fun run in San Antonio! My sister, Wendy, and her friend, Larinda, ran with me. We had a little fun in San Antonio, too!

Ready for the run!

Wendy and I!

The run started at 9PM so we had to wear head lamps! It was set in McAllister park and it was pretty much a dirt bike or walking trail through the trees! Not so good for a someone with bad knees or ankles though. Lots of rocks and tree roots to avoid.

Me, Larinda, Wendy, Allen and Jennifer (Larinda's friends) - the Los Chupacaras de la Noche!

We made it! Such a fun run! Will definitely do it again!

After shopping at the market, we had to eat at Mi Tierras!

And visit the Alamo. I haven't been there since I was little.

And we went on the River Walk of course!

I LOVE the old oak trees at the Alamo. So pretty!

Chinese dinner was so good!

And top it all off with dessert from The Cheesecake Factory with my cousin, Casey, and his fiancee, Lindsey, for company....perfect!

We ate well. Lulu's famous 3lb cinnamon roll was breakfast!!! Yum.

I didn't get any pictures, but I also got to go shopping at the outlet malls in San Marcus! Such a great trip. A much needed get away :)

July Catch-Up: Weekend at GG's

Random weekend at GG's house!

Reid and Gracie

Brenna loves to eat!

Mogan was hungry too!

The boys!

Watching a movie :) GG has lots of movies!!