Pre-halloween festivities

Well, it's that time of year again! The annual pumpkin carving...(this year Cam was really into his bald wig, and would not take it off)

Lights on

(Busted kid in background)

Lights off

Then it was time for the school version of dress up. They are to dress like a "book character" to keep it nice & clean.

Captain Underpants and Wolverine away!!

Always gotta put the Brandon/Madison pic in here!

Trip to Roundrock!

The boys & I decided to make a trip to Roundrock to visit Charlotte, Corey & the kids while Blake spent some good time in worship @ The Men of Light Conference.

This trip was 4 fold.

1. To visit one of my dear friends that I hardly get to see.
2. To watch Lincoln play t-ball!
3. To watch Gwenyth play soccer!
4. To watch Maison play volleyball!

Did I mention that we went to go watch some sporting events?! They all did SOOOO well, and it was really fun to see the Kosse's. We miss having them so close!

Lincoln & I before the game

Tatum

Char & I

Me & my favorite boys!

Lincoln running home!

The proud mama!

Piggy tails & a soccer ball!

One beautiful 9 year old girl!

I still have my french braiding skills!

We had so much fun, and can't wait till the next time we get to see them all!

Why I do what I do...

Brandon made me this at school. I love this kid! (And Cam too...but he's out of the "writing Mom special notes" stage already.)

you get chickens, you get chicken eggs!

So I thought to myself one day, I wonder if I can let the chickens roam throughout the backyard? Really, it's OUR training, not the chickens I was worried about. Can we be SO careful not to let the 2 dogs out, so that we can keep getting eggs and not have chicken stew?

So, after a phone call to my friend Rob & Kim, my chicken goo-roos, I decided to let em out of their cage! And man...do they LOVE it! They chicken around all through the backyard & have a blast! (These pics really pick up all the beautiful hill country rock we have in the backyard. It's free, by the way. Just come load & take as much as you want!)

Then, they do this strange dirt bath thing where they waller around in the dirt. It's weird.

And now they're coming up real close to the house! They're getting braver & braver!

Right after we started letting them out, they started laying more! I was so excited one day when I got this!

Then, a couple days later, we were up to this!

Needless to say, we eat a lot of eggs. And egg sandwiches. And omlets. And egg soup. And boiled eggs. Eggs, eggs and more eggs. Blake checked today, and found 11 more! Seriously!

Fun in the Rain & Favorite Shirts

This blog is about 2 things. Control and Fun.

1. I love control. One of my big control things is picking out my kids clothes. I pick them out. They don't have their own "style" they have "what Mom picks out style". I think this stems from all the pics of me as a child, not wearing the coolest clothes. I don't want that for my kids. So, I pick out their clothes.

2. Fun. I love for my kids to have fun. Especially if they can do it neatly and quietly.

This day was about NEITHER. There was NO control over what they wore, and it was very messy. But, they had a BLAST!!

There's nothing like playing in the rain, in what you picked out to wear. (At the time, it wasn't raining very hard, so we had to add the sprinkler for more fun.)

Camron has on a pink shirt. Go figure. The kid is starting to come out of his shell. He thinks pink on boys makes them real manly and cool.

Bran has picked out green shorts and an itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny power ranger under-roos top. Classic Brandon.

I just love these kids!! They are SO fun!