Fall Happenings!

Fall is our families' (and everyone else's) busy time of the year. Keith is gone most weekends from before sun up to after sun down. In light of us keeping up with each other and "keeping the flame alive" if you will, we have resorted to using our children's toys to leave little messages for each other. When I came home the other day from school, I was greeted to this message as I went to begin dinner. It is amazing how it will make you feel when you receieve those little notes of love when least expected.

Since Keith is gone all day for the entire weekends, I have to find something to keep the kids busy and for us to enjoy the wonderful weather. This past weekend, we went to a church fall festival and had a blast. The kids are excited at the opportunity to dress up twice for halloween and to get twice the candy!

Finally, since the weather has changed, I decided to spend my weekend changing out the girls' summer clothes for winter clothes. After I realized that the stored winter clothes were not so clean because they had been stored in a trash bag that had come untied, I had to wash them all. As you can see from the picture this took the ENTIRE weekend just to wash their winter clothes in preparation for winter weather. The most amazing part of it all, all of these clothes pictured are hand-me-downs. They are all winter clothes that have been passed on to us. Thank God for wonderful friends with older girls.

Other small events going on in our lives....

1) I have 5 classes down and all As in my quest for a master's degree.

2) Not sure what is new with Keith, haven't seen him in 4 days

3) Girls are still dancing and loving the practice that we do at home (behind closed doors I practice too)

4) My sister, my mom, and I took the 3 youngest grandchildren to the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens a couple of weekends ago. I am so excited that Andrew and Ashley are really growing up together and building a bond!

5) Richard is just being a typical 9 (almost 10) year old. Testing every limit placed upon him!

6) I went shopping a bought a dress for my little sister's wedding this weekend...I am super excited that she is getting married..BUT I HAVE TO LOOSE WEIGHT!!! wowwie!!!!

Off to the gym.....

Man Tag

I have been tagged by my sister's blog tag! Enjoy!

MAN TAG:
1. Who is your man? Keith
2. How long have you been married? 3 years
3. How long dated? 2 years
4. How old is your man? 31
5. Who eats more? oooh... Keith
6. Who said “I love you” first? Keith...after MANY years!
7. Who is taller? I think we are the same height
8. Who sings better? um, neither
9. Who is smarter? I am (I can say that I think)
10. Whose temper is worse? Keith's
11. Who does the laundry? both of us!
12. Who takes out the garbage? Keith
13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Keith
14. Who pays the bills? Keith
15. Who is better with the computer? I am
16. Who mows the lawn? Keith
17. Who cooks dinner? we share that experience
18. Who drives when you are together? depends on whose car it is
19. Who pays when you go out? we both do...joint account!
20. Who is most stubborn? We are both hard headed!
21. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? me
22. Whose parents do you see the most? I'd say its pretty equal
23. Who kissed who first? Keith after many years of chasing!
24. Who asked who out? Keith asked me out on our first official date after knowing each other for 8 years.
25. Who proposed? Keith
26. Who is more sensitive? KEITH
27. Who has more friends? um, me I guess
28. Who has more siblings? me - 2 sisters (Keith has 1 bro)
29. Who wears the pants in the family? ME (I think)

I tag Stacie Nix!!!!

OUR KIDDOS!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLARA!


Clara's birthday is tomorrow, October 11th. She will be 5. Before her 5th birthday she successfully mastered learning to ride her bike without any training wheels. At her birthday party on Saturday, we took the training wheels off and today (4 days later) she has it down pat. She can start and stop and turn without any trouble. The only problem is if her bike riding skills are any indication of how she is going to drive, we are in trouble.!!!! She only has one speed and that is SUPER fast. And she is a typical girl, wanting to look around at her surroundings instead of ahead of her. Watch out world...10 more years and she will be back on 4 wheels instead of 2.

I have also posted some pictures of Richard at his last elementary school program which was last night. He played a muscle in the program which was all about how the skeleton is put together. Clark would be so impressed at his knowledge.

Ashley is just plain old Ashley at the moment. She has not asked for the paci in the last month since we got rid of them at her birthday. She even found one tucked away in the toy box and she just handed it over like it was nothing. I would ask that anybody that reads this put Ashley on your prayer list though. Her excema is out of control and I think she is going to have to have a double root canal on her two front teeth. When we were moving at the first of August, she feel and dislocated her two front teeth. We were told they 'might' die and we would know because they would start to discolor. Well....they are beginning to discolor so we are going to see the pediatric dentist. We will have to see what happens from there. Keep her in your prayers because they will have to put her to sleep do to the root canal.

Other than that, we are still going 90 m.p.h each day. Keith is in his 'superbowl' month so he is a silent member of our family at the moment...at least on the weekends. But he loves it so what can you say....