December 2016

December is always a busy time of year and this was no exception. Between school obligations, birthdays, and Christmas, we were on-the-go!

As part of Caitlin's TAG class, she did a presentation on peacocks and presented her posted at the TAG ISP night - she even dressed as a peacock and made the district website!

We hosted Bryce's work group for their annual Christmas party which was a lot of fun, especially the White Elephant!

Ryan started back up with his swimming lessons - he had taken a hiatus during soccer season.

We had a girls night out - we went to dinner and then a musical, The Little Mermaid!

Beautiful downtown Georgetown

Enjoying some Oma time while waiting for the show

The super cool part about this local theater is that afterwards, you can go up on stage and meet the actors!

One more picture with the grandmas (Mema came too but left before we took the picture).

Me and my girl

We also celebrated Chelsea's birthday with friends at the Thinkery!

We painted pictures and explored the museum.

Ryan's favorite area was the water!!

And Caitlin's ballet class did a little performance which was awesome.

More December to come!

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...