Merry Christmas!

...from our house to yours!

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween! I think it involved a pumpkin patch, a ward halloween party, play group party, two friend parties and our street party. Ashlee and Danielle had a blast! It will be hard to beat for next year.

The Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch twice this year, but was only able to enjoy it once. On a Saturday afternoon, Ashlee, Danielle, Aaron and I all got in the car and headed north to the Pumpkin patch. We noticed the clouds when we were about 10 min away from our destination, it was a long drive. Aaron had an experience with a wall cloud while he was golfing a while back, I had never seen one before. He commented that the clouds did not look good. Right as we arrived it started to pour rain. We didn't even get out of the car, we just turned around in the parking lot. That's when we heard the sirens go off. It was pretty exciting and scary at the same time. If we didn't have the girls with us, we may have driven to find the tornado. But with precious cargo we decided to get home asap. It was raining so hard that you could only see about 5 feet in front of us. Exciting things living in Texas! We were all okay and enjoyed some hot cocoa when we got home.

The next attempt Ashlee was able to bring her best friend Madison with us. There were goats and Texas Long horns to feed and pet, a huge pumpkin patch, and a fun hay ride with Farmer Rick still stuck in the hay. It was a lot of fun.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Primary Splash Day.

In Texas it is so... hot during the summer that anything you do outside has to require water. Our Splash day was so much fun! There were a couple children from the primary that wanted to complete a Duty/Faith in God requirement so they were in charge of a couple games; we had food and the water park. It was success!

Dad's birthday.

Aaron had a very casual birthday. He didn't want anything big but I knew he would really enjoy it with some of his friends. We had our neighbors over for dinner and cake and ice cream.

The neighbor boys enjoy a porch night every now and again and they know that Aaron doesn't drink; Aaron would show up with his own "Root" beer. So... that's what they bought him for his birthday. It was really thoughtful!

Ashlee's 5th Birthday.

Ashlee had a great 5th birthday!

I just about didn't make her a cake but after baking the second one,

I have to say that I was pretty proud of myself!

Ashlee had a surprise visitor! Cinderella had shown up to her birthday party.

All the girls were so surprised that none of them said anything for the first couple minutes! They just stared at her!

Ashlee's reaction was so cute! She looked her up and down and had a huge smile from ear to ear, then welcomed her in to the party. Cinderella had lots of games for the girls; she also taught them manners and what princesses do or don't do. That following week, Ashlee was on her best behavior. I need Cinderella to come over more often!

I could say that everyone had a ball! Even the littlest princess!