Fall

As it is decidedly winter-ish outside I suppose I should catch up on the happenings of Fall.  I'll let the pictures do most of the talking :-) 

Going back to the beginning of October, we went to the annual National Night Out event up at the elementary school.  As usual the kids had lots of fun and ran around with their friends.

Lindsay, Sam, Will L, Bubba, Will C.

 

 

 New this year- PONY RIDES!  Huck's first!

Fall also means the Texas State Fair!  The kids were out of school for "Fair Days" (which are really teacher work days), but unfortunately the day we planned to go it rained.  So being the cool mom that I am, I snuck them out of school early one Friday so we could go when it wasn't so crowded. 
If you want a little insight into the personalities of my kids, this experience is a good example.  I did not tell the kids I would be picking them up as I was not sure the weather would cooperate.  So the kids got called out of class and told to bring their backpacks with them.  Dutch came skipping into the office, smiling and excited, ready for whatever was coming her way.  Bubba came in slowly, very tentative and with an anxious look on his face.  I told them my plans when we got to the car and they cheered!  Bubba said "I've always wanted something like this to happen to me!"  Several times throughout the afternoon Bubba said something like "This is the best day of my whole life!" 
We started with corny dogs and lemonade.  We did some rides...

Some games...

Little Hands on the Farm...

And new this year, a kids tractor pull :-) 

Huck was not a fan of the new Big Tex- "Me no yike that big cowboy!" 

He didn't really love cotton candy, either. 

Bubba and The Hubby went camping with Boy Scouts.  (Need to get pics from The Hubby.)


The other kiddos and I enjoyed beautiful Fall weather at an art festival, complete with hay bail maze!

 

 

 

Of course there was Halloween...  We had two pirates and a ninja.  Pretty standard, trick or treat on our street, hand out candy, stay up late :-) 

And some dress up days at school for Red Ribbon Week.

Backwards Day with Vivian

What I want to be when I grow up- Bubba- paleontologist, Dutch- teacher at Wallace

And lastly, we took a road trip to Austin to celebrate a great college friend's 3rd baby.  We were fortunate to stay the weekend with Alison and her family.  The kids all had fun playing together.  Her brave husband deserves a medal for watching my 3 kids AND her 3 kids for the afternoon- that meant 3 2 year-olds!  It was so fun to just hang out and catch up with the girls.  This group of girls is so easy to be with, you'd never know it had been 2 years since we were all together.  Good thing we did it when we did because just 4 days later little Liam decided to join us in the world a few weeks early!

Shannon, Alison, Melissa, Me and Sarah

 

 

On the way down we stopped in Waco for burgers and shakes at Health Camp.  The kids approved. 

 

Looking back it has been a crazy month and a half!  And in that time I also had two doula clients deliver just 20 hours apart!  Next up a trip to Mom Mom's house for Thanksgiving!



Ten

The Hubby and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary last week. 

Staying true to us, we didn't do much special.  The Hubby spoiled me by making a delicious dinner for the family AND with this beautiful anniversary band.  I was completely surprised!  Apparently when we were shopping for our wedding bands 10 years ago I said something along the lines of "For our 10 year anniversary you can get me an anniversary band to match the wedding band."  And he remembered and did it.  Isn't that love?

 

The Hubby's celebration was adding this lovely piece of furniture to our family room. 

 

 

It's comfy for sure... that's really all I can say about it.  But he deserves a comfy place to rest because he works so hard to take care of our family. 

Thanks for being a great husband, father and provider!