November 2016

November was filled with the end of Fall sports, a new addition, and family time. 

We started out the month with another swim meet at UT for these two. Both did awesome!

Caitlin actually got a time (no disqualification) in Butterfly which is her favorite stroke, and Evan got a time in breaststroke which he was DQ'ed in last time! (Plus he shaved some seconds off his other times). Great job kids!

We celebrate Aunt Shell's birthday.

We finished out the soccer season for all 3 kids.

School pictures from this year - man they are getting so big! 

We celebrated Thanksgiving at Preschool with this Turkey!

We welcomed our new nephew/cousin, Baby Oliver! So cute!!

We went to Mayfield Park to see the peacocks. Caitlin did her TAG project this Fall on peacocks, her favorite animal. How cool that we can just go see them wondering around?!

We met up with friends for a playdate during our week off from school for Thanksgiving break.

We ran the Turkey Trot. This year we tried the Georgetown one because it's both closer and starts earlier. It was nice to deal with much smaller crowds and be done by 9am. However we did kind of miss the tradition of going downtown. We will see what we do next year!

The kids did the Kids Run and rocked it. Evan even finished first of all the kids! He was flying.

Ryan thought it was the best. I loved that we could just let them go by themselves (since it was much smaller). They have a blast! And both Evan/Caitlin even joined us at the end of our 5 mile run to finish off the race. What a great way to start Thanksgiving Day.

Coloring the kids table tablecloth prior to our big meal.

It was a great day of family and football. So very thankful for all of our family and friends. Thank you!

Halloween

We love Halloween! It's a busy time of year but the kids look forward to all the activities and fun. Ryan is no exception! This year, he picked out a firefighter costume and he was pretty darn cute.

This was his Halloween party at school with all the kids:

Fishing for prizes!

His preschool also holds a trunk n treat on the weekend before Halloween. It's always a lot of fun for everyone!

Mema and Papa got to come this year! We went on a hayride too.

Bryce was out of town so I enjoyed having the extra help! He was in China for work for 2 weeks at the end of October, beginning of November. I was very thankful Mema and Papa came down a little early to help with these 3!

On actual Halloween, we go trick or treating around our neighborhood. Allie and Chelsea usually come and join us and it's kind of a chaotic affair! So many kids and so much candy!

This year, Caitlin went as Wonder Woman and Evan as an army guy. 

Evan with his third grade girls :)

Running from house to house!

Picture of a bunch of the neighborhood kids that all live around us! See, crazy amounts of kids!

These 4 are ready to go trick or treating!

My sweet Wonder Woman - not sure how much crime fighting she would do...

Evan with "the dab".

Cute cousins!

I heart these three. They make everything so much fun and so tiring at the same time. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. It was a great Halloween (even if we did lose Evan for a short time - he got way too far ahead!).

Pumpkins!

Every year I try my best to take the kids to the Pumpkin Patch. It's always somewhat difficult to fit it into our busy October but we have a good time. This year, we went on Columbus Day when the kids were out of school and Oma tagged along too.

Our first activity is to always take pictures in the mounds of pumpkins. My kids are not so thrilled with this but it's a requirement of the trip!

Oma and the grandkids

After all the pictures, I let them pick a few activities to do.

The kids love the big bouncy pillows.

Ryan loves the barrel ride!

Everyone loves the hay ride.

And feeding goats...

And then of course, we have to carve the pumpkins we bought!

The finished products... 

October 2016

October is always a busy month - so many Fall activities. 

Ryan started playing soccer too. This Fall, he did a program through Lonestar called Lil' Lonestars. It's more of just a practice once a week (no games) which is perfect for him. He had a blast with Coach Troy!

We went to the Chalk Fest this year for the first time. It was pretty fun and the kids enjoyed coloring their own squares.

We had National Night Out (in Texas they do it in October a lot of places because seriously, August... way too hot to be outside!) Our neighborhood does a great job - face painting, food, Fire Trucks, Police Cars, bouncy houses.  Too bad it's a school night!

I felt like in October, I was constantly at the Dr. this year. Ryan was having a lot of chest congestion issues and had to do breathing treatments for a couple weeks.  Caitlin burst her eardrum and had a very persistent ear infection that took shots of antibiotic to finally clear up. It made for a lot of trips to the Dr.  Thank goodness we had already met our deductible :)

October is Oma's birthday so we took her out to Rudy's for dinner.

More soccer - we had some beautiful weather!

Caitlin started doing some private lessons with a coach at gymnastics. She really wanted to make it into the Hot Shots class so we added in a few private lessons where we could. Coach Jenn is the best!

Caitlin went to a roller skating birthday party with friends - so much fun!

 Caitlin did a cheer clinic at RRHS where they learned some cheers. 

And then they got to cheer at a RRHS football game!

Evan and Caitlin did a swim meet at UT.  This was Caitlin's first ever - she rocked it!

Caitlin on the starting block

Evan on the starting block

Ryan got a big boy bed since we gave our crib to Baba for the new baby! He loves helping Papa do work.

We threw a baby shower for Baba! 

And we took my mom out to a concert - Straight No Chaser - for her birthday present!

And that's not all! I have more to post on October including our annual trip to the pumpkin patch and Halloween of course.