River Christmas Parade...

After black friday shopping at 3am with my Auntie and Uncle, and a long nap, we ventured out to the River Walk to try and watch some of the River Christmas Parade. It was CRAZY downtown, but luckily we found awesome parking. We ate dinner in the River Center Mall food court because all the restaraunts along the River Walk were ticket reservation only. After dinner we walked to the Alamo to see there tree. Its like the Rockefellar tree but downsized. From there we walked along the river to see if we could get glimps of the parade. The kids climbed up on the old railroad bridge and watched parts of it, but just being in all the hustle and bustle was a blast.. Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere we go...

Thanksgiving...

Just had a great Thanksgiving! It was almost perfect, but Brandon being in the hospital kind of put a damper on things. I wish he could have been here to enjoy family and friends. But we scooted right along and had a blast, the older kids played with bebe guns all day, as well as playing street football, and the little ones ran around eating everyones food. It was so fun to watch my Uncle fry a turkey, and if you haven't had a fried turkey yet, your soooo missing out because it was super yummy! My Aunt's family and Grandma joined us and brought so much yummy food. We had some of our military friends here as well and all in all had such a good time. After we ate I made a "box" of food to take to Brandon, the kids and I went and visited with him for a brief moment. After 2 differnt kinds of turkey and stuffing I don't know what I'm going to do with all these leftovers. We will be eating turkey dinner for days.. :-) Here are some pics of our wonderful yet Thankful day! Now off to bed, hitting the sales at 5am, were leaving at 3am to go stand in line, and our luck its really COLD here! HAPPY THANKSGIVING...

WE ARE FINALLY DONE! Done with the backyard that is. We started work on Oct. 29th and just finished up last night Nov. 18. We are excited to be able to sit back and enjoy all the hard work that we put into it, and are really excited that the kids actually have a place to play outside. It never seems like its that much work until after you are already started and you have been working for a couple days and your sore and your just wondering... "is it over yet?" I would just like to thank my parents who flew in from Atlanta and spent 5 days helping out. Also my brother drove down from Austin and put in a days work for a free dinner. We still have plans to spruce up the back yard and put our little touches here and there including the playset that we are going to put in the kids mulched play area come Christmas. But for now we are just happy to be finished with all the hard labor :-)

Halloween

Its has been a really busy last couple of days, but we managed to fit in time to carve pumpkins and of course Trick or Treating. This year I made the kids costumes. They were both Pirates. It was such a blast watching how excited they were running from house to house, and knocking on doors saying "treat". I can't wait until next year when there both a little bigger, after 2 blocks they were tired, so we came home and passed out candy. When Aubrynn would see a kid she would shout at them, "kids hurry up, I have candy" it was a blast! When I was a kid my mother would make all our costumes, and we would go to my grandma's and go trick or treating with all our cousins. I haven't had so much fun trick or treating since I was a kid, this year it brought back all kinds of memories. Maybe it was because we were in our own neighborhood, but whatever the reason, I will cherish the memories :)
















Brycen didn't go trick or treating with us, this year he decided to hang out with the guys from the football team. But I did manage to snap a picture as he was leaving the house.. Here's my Sugar Daddy! lol