Nathan's First Hunting Trip!

Nathan got to experience opening weekend for deer season with Clay this year. Not many deer were seen, but they had a great guys' weekend. They had so much fun being outside, eating junk food, & shooting stuff. They came home awfully dirty & full of candy!

Best Girlies!

Whenever I ask Abby who her best girlie is, she says, "Mallory is!" Denise, Amy, Kim, Kara are some of my best girlies. We all became friends when we lived in Nelson our freshman year at ACU. We had SO much fun together. We all became the best of friends so fast and created so many great memories together. Since college we have all moved away from each other, but every so often we are able to get together and hang out and it's the best! We had the chance to spend the day together in Southlake a few weeks ago. We shopped, talked, ate, & laughed our heads off. We ended the day by going over to Denise's and looking at old pictures from college. You can imagine how funny that was. I wish I had some of those pictures to post. It was the best! Every time we are together we pick up right where we left off. It's like no time passes. So to me that definitely makes these girls some of my best girlies. To borrow Abby's term. Thanks girls! Can't wait for our next reunion.

Halloween 2008!

We are having a girls only Halloween night. Nathan & Clay are on a boys' hunting weekend. So Abby and I did Halloween festivities alone tonight. We started at a birthday party for a friend of Abby's from school. It was a Snow White themed party with lots of little cuties in their costumes.

Our Little Ballerina!

Apple prints with the poisonous apple.



Several of Abby's little friends from school.
Ella, Julia, Abby, Juliana(Bday girl), Cameron, & Ivie


Such concentration!

Such girlies! Abby and Sofia are just a small portion of the large group of blonde girls in their class at school.
Abby & Sofia doing the mummy wrap to mommy Angela!

Pigs-in-a-blanket!

After the birthday party, Abby and I went to eat dinner at Chick-fil-a and then we headed to Trunk-or-treat at another friend's church. I will say I am a fan of the trunk-or-treat approach. It's much more laid back than some of the other church festivals I have been too. Perfect for a girls only Halloween night.

Here's Abby with her little buddy Matthew. He LOVES Bob the Builder right now.
Ready to go home with plenty of candy!

Pumpkin Patch!

Last Saturday we visited a local pumpkin patch to do some exploring and get the annual pumpkin pics. The kids had a great time running around and checking everything out. Lots of pics, but it was really hard to just choose a few. Enjoy!

I Love These Guys!!! Days like this are the best!

Update on our Nathan!

As you can tell school has started and it has majorly cut into my blogging time. I thought I would update on some of the fun things that Nathan is doing right now. For the most part he has adjusted to going to school full time. Some mornings are a little harder than others when we have to get up and he definitely looks forward to his weekends, but all in all 1st grade is going really well for him. He got his first report last Friday and we are so proud of him. He made the Honor Roll!!! I never thought I would be, but I might actually be one of those parents who puts the honor student bumper sticker on our car. Other exciting news for Nathan is that he doesn't have to wear his glasses anymore! A few weeks ago his glasses broke to the point where they were not wearable. So before buying new ones I took him in for a check up. The doctor said the astigmatism has corrected enought that he no longer needs them. Both eyes are working together and he said if that was the first time he had seen Nathan he wouldn't even put him in glasses! Nathan was very unsure about this at first. He said he still wanted to wear the glasses. I guess he had just grown so used to them and felt really comfortable with them. He looks so different and so grown up without them.

Nathan is also still playing golf. He loves it! He goes to golf one afternoon every week with his friend Mikey. He and Mikey were in kindergarten together last year, but they go to different schools now. So this has been a great way for them to keep their friendship going.

Nathan really loves projects. Here is one of his Magnetix projects he did recently. We had to take several pictures of it just in case Abby messed it up. That we he would be able to build it back.

This past weekend, Nathan got to go to Abilene to stay with his Grandad and Mimi. He had a great time and came home completely exhausted. Getting up this morning was tough! They had a great time going to the pottery store, golfing, & going to the Texas Tech football game in Lubbock on Saturday afternoon. They sat in a box at the stadium and Nathan came home with all kinds of Tech gear. I think he really enjoyed it. The game was really exciting and even went into overtime. He is into watching all kinds of sports right now. Golf, baseball, & football. He even slept with some of it last night! Abby has really enjoyed the foam "Guns Up!" finger. She has a great shooting noise she makes when she wears it. Thanks for a great weekend Grandad and Mimi.

Our Shelter

We have been running a shelter here for the last 9 days. My sister and Mallory left Houston on 9/11 to get away from Hurricane Ike and traveled to my mom & dad's house where they spent a week. They came to our house on Friday, 9/19. We thought it would probably only be for a few days, but it turned out to be a nice long visit. We had alot of fun, but it was busy! We celebrated 3 birthdays(Matthew, Marcia, & Clay), had one broken down truck, ran one 5k, cooked dinners, took one kid to golf lessons, one child to gymnastics, one child with fever, school, work, and still managed to have a great time with lots of laughs during their visit. Matthew actually got to come and visit them while they were here. So that was good. Matthew left on Friday and Marcia and Mallory left this afternoon. Here are some fun shots from our visit.

Feeding Mallory her bottle on the go.

Waiting for Abby at gymnastics.
Abby at gymnastics.

Treats from Mrs. Kylie after gymnastics!

Happy Birthday, Maf! We celebrated with Chicken Express and a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake.

These two are going to have so much fun. Abby tells us all the time that Mallory is her best girlie!

Abby is such a helper. She wants to help me make dinner every night. Here she is making grilled cheese sandwiches.

Mallory really enjoys finding things to put in her mouth. This sword was one of her favorites.

I guess sometimes a Capri Sun just hits the spot! :)

These two LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, Mallory. Nathan is so sweet with her and always tried to make her happy if she needs cheering up. He had a blast running around the house and letting her chase him.