Jess' Birthday

This year Drew and I celebrated my birthday with shopping and dinner out. When we got back home we found that our absolutely fabulous babysitter, Adriene, and the boys had decorated the kitchen and made me a birthday cake. It was the sweetest surprise.

Mason's "car wash"

The cake the boys made!

Halloween 2010

We did another low-key Halloween this year. We had a toddler party at a friends. There were 5 families and we had about 12 kiddos (the oldest was 4 yr). We only went to a few houses but it took quite a while to get everyone through the line ensuring that all said "Trick or Treat" and "Thank You". Despite the fact that I forgot Ian's stick horse, Bullseye, and Mason's "jet pack" they still had a great time.

Raiders of the Last Trunk

The church where the boys go to school hosted a "trunk & treat" event called Raiders of the Last Trunk. The kiddos got to play games for candy in the church parking lot.

Woody

A very serious Buzz Lightyear

Getting mummified

Trying to blow the ping pong balls across the pool

Day Out With Thomas

Last month we took a road trip with our friends, the Wagners, to Rusk to the Texas State Railroad for the Day Out With Thomas event. The boys had a great time! Not only did we get to ride Thomas but they got to do a ton of Thomas related activities. They played with trains, colored, got tattoos, etc. They were worn out by the end of the day.

Mason holding his ears as Thomas blows his train whistle

Sir Topham Hat - you'll notice that neither of my boys is in the pic (even after we waited in line). They were cool admiring him from afar, but they wouldn't go near him.

Waiting to board the train. Ian is crazy!

Mason, Ian, & Eli

Because the folks live so close we stayed the night with them. RJ & Susan got to experience hillbilly hell for an evening. A terrible storm rolled through, and the electricity went out for several hours. But we still had a great visit. We put the kiddos to bed and we sat around the kitchen table talking for hours!

Mater Detour

Last month we were in Rusk to spend the Day Out with Thomas the Train and we found Mater! Since the boys love Mater we decided we needed to stop to get some pics with him.

Mason was so excited to touch his "tow hook"

Because we're big into monkey see, monkey do - Ian had to touch the "tow hook" too