Pumpkin Patch!!!

Okay, all you friends who have anxiously been awaiting my next post, here you go. Today we went to the pumpkin patch. It was a beautiful day and we had so much fun there with our friends. Here are some of our favorite photos from our day of fun.

Kendall, Nathan, Abby, and Kaitlyn

Abby having some running fun with Maylen.

Abby spotting an airplane!

Nathan lonely at the top of the haystack this year without Ansley.

Nathan, Kaitlyn, Abby, & Kendall

I got tagged!

10 years ago... we were living in Abilene, Texas. We had been married 3 months. I was student teaching at Bowie Elementary in 2nd grade. Clay had just started working for ABM Janitorial as an Operations Manager.

5 years ago... I was enjoying my baby boy being 7 months old. We were living in Fort Worth and we were having a great time making new friendships. Clay was working for Homeland Security training at the airport security screeners.

1 year ago.... I was enjoying my 4 year old son and my sweet 1 year old princess. I was staying at home taking care of my family while Clay forged ahead with our custom home building business.

Yesterday I was... Still loving my sweet babies, but getting to love 8 other 5 year olds at my new job I have teaching this year. Also doing laundry, cooking dinner, giving baths, changing diapers and all that fun stuff.

Snacks I enjoy... most any snack. Ice cream (i'm about to go have some), guacamole and chips, peanut m&m's.

What I would do with a $100 Million... pay off kidney stone bills, and other fun medical bills, take the kids on lots of fun trips to make memories, college for my kids and niece,

Location I would run to... any warm beach resort....

Bad Habit....Trying to control things I can't, disorganization, watching TV

Things I like to do.... movies, read, do fun things with my kids: zoo, fair, pumpkin patch, bake, cook, be with my sister.

Biggest Joy of the Moment... I am pretty joyful about my life. I have so many blessings. What's not to be joyful about?

I tag Holly Davis.

Treasures from another Garage Sale!

As I mentioned in my last post, garage sales are a hot spot for our family. Especially Nathan and Clay. Saturday morning was our neighborhood garage sale. The boys left here at 7:30 and were back 30 minutes later. They had bought a kitchen set for Abby, a bunk bed frame for Nathan, and a go cart!!! After a tune-up out in our garage, the go cart had it's first run tonight.

September Birthday Celebration

In the McBroom family (Clay's mom's fam) they have a ton of people with September bdays. So we usually get together to celebrate. This year we went out to Aunt Gail's. She lives in Sunset, TX out in the country. We had a great time there playing outside and just relaxing, but the funniest thing to happen on this trip happened on the way out there. We were heading out there with the kids, Clay's sister Alyssa, and her husband Ryan. We saw several signs on the way out for yard sales, etc. Well what you may not know about my husband is that he loves to stop at these kind of places. "You just never know what you might find," is what he usually tells me. Well he was right this time. We stopped at a huge sale and everyone got out to look around except for me and Abby. When they got back in the car they were all laughing hysterically because the lady running the sale had tried to sell them a $50 donkey!! Now we don't know the goin' rate for donkeys, but that sounds like a really good deal. We've laughed alot over that one the last few weeks.

Abby with sweet Aunt Lyssa

A Night Out!

A few weeks ago we had a rare chance to have a night out with our dear friends Bryan and Kim. We are so blessed to have them in our life. I have known Bryan since jr. high and then Clay met him in college. Clay and Bryan were friends before Clay and I started dating and shortly before we got married Bryan met Kim. It is so fun to have friends who have known you for so long and know all kinds of funny things about you. We love you Bryan and Kim and had a great time on our night out.

Fun with Friends

Last weekend we were able to spend a few hours with our Georgia friends. It was a sweet time and we really wish for more of it. Jennifer and the girls flew in Saturday morning and we got to meet them at the mall for fun play times and then go to church together that night. Nathan was so excited to get to take a "visitor" to class. We sure do miss our friends, but are happy they are happy in Georgia.

Nathan and Charlotte wrestling at the mall.

Those are some really serious thoughts for Miss Abby.



Abby loves to play with Ansley. They don't play near as rough as Charlotte and Nathan.

My Return to Blogging

I have taken quite a hiatus from actually blogging on my own blog the last few weeks. This whole working bit has really cut into my spare time. Hopefully this weekend I will get a chance to catch up on some of my blogging. We've been very busy so I do have alot of stuff to write about.

Yesterday Nathan's class had their first field trip. Since school is only Tues, Wed, and Thurs. they have one Friday a month for field trips. We went to an apple orchard in Roanoke yesterday and the kids had a great day. It was quite hot, but it didn't seem to slow them down at all. After the orchard we went to a park for lunch. Nathan had his friend Sydney ride with him to the park and then got to have his friend Mikey come over all afternoon for a play date. They had so much fun!

One of the nice things about our sweet school is that they let you take siblings on the field trips. So Abby got to enjoy the fun as well. I had a chance to get some sweet pics of her during the sitting and talking part for the kindergartners. She has become quite independent lately and has changed so much since her birthday. She had to get a new toddler-sized back pack so she could carry it herself. She chose purple over pink or flowers.