A little behind on blogging!

September-Halloween


Some days I think "what am I going to do with the kids today" and then I blink and the week is over! We have been staying busy and sometimes I have to remind myself to just slow down and spend a day at home playing in the playroom with kids and not worry about having something to do or some where to go!

I can not complain though, I enjoy being busy and I feel like I have a good balance of working and staying at home.

Anyways, we have been up to some fun the past 2 months and I wanted to capture some of it before I forget!

The kids, my mom and myself went to Grapevine's street fair! It was in the historic downtown main street and they had a wonderful play area for the kids. They had giant soft Lego's and a huge amount of small normal Lego's (compliments of LEGOLAND) for the kids to play with and to build. Amber loved jumping in the pit with the giant soft legos and Nathan built a "car" (well, it had 4 wheels and rolled) that he rolled down the big ramp they provided (over and over again)

 

 We visited a firehouse museum in a not so great part of Dallas, but the museum was fun! I had been there before but not since I was a teenager. We had the place to ourselves. Amber thoroughly enjoyed playing with the wheels of all the firetrucks and they were not clean firetrucks either! The 2 of them were covered in dust and dirt by the end!

 Nathan had to climb up into every firetruck and pretend to drive it. There was a few trucks that he wasn't supposed ot be in, but of course my mom would sneak him in anyways. I know this is shocking news for those of you who know her! HaHa

 The 1st week of October we made our yearly visit to the State fair of Texas. We went ot the dog show and that was the kids favorite part. I didn't get any good pictures but they were both dancing to the music and smiling as the dogs jumped.

 They also got to pet some goats and other animals. Nathan needed some behavior modification when we were in there so he was placed in timeout in a corner. Well, our heads were turned for a minute and he had managed to unlock and open the gate to the pig pen (which was a part of the corner he was sitting in)! Luckily we were able to close the gate before they got out, but it was kinda funny!

 Now that sister is wanting to walk all the time, we spend a good majority of our time outside letting her walk with her push carts. Nathan always has to push his lawn mower and he loves to have her "push him" with her cart.

 

 We went to a pumpkin patch

I can't believe I have both of them looking at the camera at the same time and smiling!!

 



My new favorite of sister!

 



We went to the zoo and Nathan's favorite thing is to play in the little river they have and feed the fish! He gets such a thrill out of watching the Koi swim over and eat the food.

 



Such a good picture of Gram-E and sister

 



They had a baby cheetah, which apparently is rare to see, on display. We could have touched him if we wanted! He was so cute and he is being raised with a Labrador puppy!



 

We did several activities for Halloween. First we went to a Fall festival the week before Halloween. Nathan and Amber got to hear music and bounce in some bounce houses! He liked getting candy in his bucket but he doesn't like eating any candy unless it is M&M's!



 

 

Directing music agian

 

We also went to another church festival and it was so fun because it reminded me of the type of Fall festivals we had at our church when I was growing up. Each classroom had different games for the kids to play for a piece of candy!



Amber got an apple from bobbing for apples and proceeded to eat the entire apple!

 

Then on Halloween night we went trick-or-treating just in our 10 house culd-a-sac and then went to a friends house for a cook-out.