Our weekend... in pictures

WOW, did we have a great weekend?! Aiden and I drove to Greenville to pick Ryann up from school. She wasn't sure she wanted to make the long drive back home with us, but in the end I think she was happy she did. It took us over 3 hours to get home, there was traffic the WHOLE way. The kids did great, and the trip was actually a lot of fun! When we got home they got to work on a gingerbread haunted house. Both kids and Daddy seemed to think that was TONS of fun!

It turned out pretty cute, huh?

Saturday we headed out to the Pumpkin Express in Argyle. That place was great, and we hope to make this an annual thing. We got to ride a train, play on the bounce houses, go through a hay maze, and much much more!

After our afternoon nap we headed to the park. That was a lot of fun. Aiden just about gave me a heart attack working on this.

Ryann was so brave on the rock wall....

Then we headed to the safety fair. The kids got to see Care flight helicopters up close; we even got to see one take off. They got to climb in the fire trucks, and then we got to watch the SWAT team take over a car... that was so AWESOME!!!!

Sunday Gamma came over. We just hung out at home and played until Ryann's mommy came by to take her home. It was a very busy and FUN weekend.

Today I ran over the donations, for the family in my previous post: to Adrian's. All I can say is I'm surrounded by the best, most giving people I know - you guys ROCK!!

We are already for tomorrow. My little spider is ready to do some trick-or-treating!! Hope you all have an awesome and SAFE Halloween!

Many, MANY, many more pictures in our gallery!

A family in need....

I just recieved this email from my sister-in-law:

Hello moms out there I have a family in need of some support. Yesterday my daughters best friend (I am best friends with her mom as well) anyway her dads house burned to the ground. They lost EVERYTHING!!! They barely had time to get the kids out and they were not able to get there animals. They had the clothes on their backs and that was it. I feel absolutely horrible for this family of 5. (mom, dad, 2 boys and a little girl) To top things off they were renting. Please pray for this family they are in need of that desperately. I am also hoping to get some clothes donations and any household items for them as well. If you have any "extras" please respond to me. Here are their sizes for the clothes.....
little girl clothes 2t, size 6 shoe
little boy size clothes 3t, size 8 shoe
little boy size clothes 5t, size 1 shoe
mens medium shirt, 34 pant, size 10 shoe
women's med shirts, size 3 pants, 8 shoe

Tooth Brush? No, no that can't be right!

This is how I started my morning:
Mommy, "Aiden go to the bathroom so I can brush your teeth."

Aiden, "I love my new teeth brush!!"

Mommy, "I'm so glad you love it, but it's a tooth brush; not teeth brush"

Aien, "No, no... You brush my TEETH, not just my tooth"

Mommy, mumbles to herself, "I can't argue with that!"

Aiden and I woke up to an empty house. Adam left for the week. We miss him like crazy when he is gone, but also LOVE the time to ourselves. We also woke up to a COLD front!! I already miss the warm summer sun!!!

We had a wonderful weekend!!! Friday was Adam's day off, so we took Aiden to play at Paradise Pond - we love that place!!
Saturday we had to redecorate the yard. We suspect a dog got a hold of our blow up pumpkins. I started our shopping trip saying, "I want cute Halloween, not scary" somehow that translated into turning the front yard into a grave yard - yeah not sure how that happened! It looks great though!!! Adam and Papa took a trip to Frisco Saturday night to watch some tennis. They got to watch McEnroe and Courier.

What is the fun of watching McEnroe, if you don't get to see him have it out with the ref??

Adam had a blast!!
Sunday Aiden got to try his hand at flying a kite. The weather was PERFECT. He thought it was pretty cool, but lost interest when we pulled out the football. In looking at the pictures you notice Aiden wearing gloves... yeah, I have no clue what that was all about. He asked to wear them when we were getting him dressed, and surprisingly they stayed on almost all morning.

We forgot all about the Blue Angels coming to town, but that turned out to to be okay, we got to see most of the show sitting in our front yard.

I would file Sunday and our trip to the park under wonderful! The whole day was filled with family time. I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my Sunday.

I'm working on getting pictures from the weekend up, check back soon to see those - I'll edit this post later to add a few.

Hiding under a rock??

I'm sorry it's been so long since my last post. I was happy to see all the emails that I needed to update, I'm so happy so many of our family/friends use this site to keep up with us. I don't even know where to begin. Adam and the kids are doing great in school. Adam had test in both classes last week, he was really worried - I still don't know why! He brought home a 100 and a 90 something. Aiden is learning SO much SO fast in reading school, he has amazed us all. We just got word from Ryann's mom that her first report card came in and it was AWESOME! She is excelling in everything, but again; I'm not surprised! Ryann also finally learned to tie her shoes!! I can't wait to see her do it. We worked and worked on this a week or so ago, she was SO close; but didn't get the hang of it before we had to take her back to her mommy. I know she is so proud of herself, and so are we!!!!

If you've checked out our pictures lately you'll see I've been slacking there too. We've just been SO busy - I promise to try and do better. Last weekend we took the kids to the park. We played and had a picnic and feed the ducks and goose. Ryann was a little scared, but stuck it out and had a good time! She told me she was a little afraid because they didn't say "quack", isn't that funny!

We also went to Carson and Cambree's homecoming game. They were so CUTE!!! They both did a great job!!!


Aiden played his first game of "football" while we were there too. He is such a big boy! The kids that he was playing with were 4 and older... he did a great job keeping up, and he wasn't much smaller than any of them -I love my big boy!!!

I'm sure I'm rambling... that tends to happen when I haven't updated in a while...sorry. I've started scrap booking again. I didn't really know just how far behind I am. I'll get caught up one day. I just finished up his first birthday.... and I'm now planning his 3rd! I've got a lot to do!!

We're all ready for Halloween. Aiden is SO excited! He is going to be a spider. I can't help but think he picked it just to freak out his sister. You see, Ryann HATES spiders; and Aiden being a true little brother thinks that is SO funny! I told him he was going to be the cutest little spider ever, and he told me, "No Mommy, I won't be cute; I be very very scary!" Isn't that too funny? I have been enjoying my little boy so much these days. He is so sweet and smart, and FUN! He keeps me smiling, that's for sure.

I guess that's it for now... pictures are up - check them out!