2 week catch up

I've been really busy the last couple of weeks, so below are four postings of the last couple of weeks.

A new room

Brenton and the girls switched bedrooms, so I wanted to paint it for them first. I wanted it to look like a child drew it. I love how it turned out. The girls love it too. They just point at things and laugh.

Cupcake fever!

We have gone cupcake crazy in this house! I made for dinner the other night meatloaf cupcakes with mashed potato frosting. They were so yummy. We had leftover frosting from the fall festival cupcakes so I baked some more, and let the kids decorate them. They had a blast.

School cupcakes

I was asked to make some cupcakes for Amberly and Brenton schools fall festival. I made pumpkins and spiders. I'm really proud of myself, I worked hard on these.

One Busy Saturday!

Ok, everything is backwards so bare with me. A couple of Saturdays ago we had a really eventful day. It started with haircuts for the boys, then McKinney Tades Day, a birthday party, then we topped it off with our community fall festival. We all had a great time, and got great sleep that night!

Toothless

I don't know what is going on, but this week we are definitely keeping the tooth fairy in business. Amberly lost a tooth a few days ago, and Brenton lost a tooth today. Brenton told his teacher that he couldn't eat hard food today, and she took him to the nurses office. He told me that they were trying to pull his tooth out with tweezers. I guess that their hard work paid off, because at dinner it came out.

Pumpkins and Shots

Since we have too many pumpkins to carve we have decided that this year we were going to paint them instead. This was how they turned out. We have from left to right a vampire, a jack-o-lantern, a vampire witch, and a spider. The girls had their 15 month check up. They each got two shots, and were not very happy about it. The doctor said that they are doing and growing great.

The Big Orange Pumpkin Patch

We took a trip to the pumpkin patch in Celina yesterday. This was the first time that we have been to a pumpkin patch, and the kids loved it. When you get there they give you a cup of feed for all of the farm animals. The girls liked the goats, but they did not like the cows. The cows slobber was flying through the air, and getting all over Brily.
Brenton was so excited about climbing on the giant spider, but then got scared and would only go on the legs.
Avery and Brily tried to pick up every pumpkin that they saw.
We could only get Brily to stay when we put her on the pumpkin, she wanted to run everywhere. If your wondering why the hair bow for Amberly, she saw me making the girls Halloween hair bows, and decided that she needed one too. We made a headband for her, but it didn't last long. We all had a really great time. I think that we have a new family fall tradition.

State Fair of Texas

On Thursday we took the kids to the fair. We all had a blast as always! We went through Little Hands On the Farm. The kids really enjoy this, but sadly this was Amberly's last year to get to participate.

The girls got a kick out of the baby Bordon cow. It was licking their toes. One of our family favorites is always World on a String! Brenton was so excited about the puppets.
The kids didn't have much to say about the Midway Barker, they just stared at him.
The gardens were full of butterflies this year. It was so nice to just relax and walk through the gardens. Amberly and I have decided that we are going to make our own secret garden.
Big Tex is sporting some new duds. The trains were around him this year, which Brenton loved!

Brenton absolutely loves tractors! Well, he loves anything with wheels.
Every year there is a big pig. This year there was this one, he weighs over 1200 pounds!
We couldn't have a visit to the fair without seeing all of the cars!
A quick pose out side of the bird show. We all had a great time, can't wait till next year!

Look who's walking too!

Finally, Avery has decided to start walking. She surly does take her own sweet time. Congratulations Monkey!