HALLOWEEN

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

So Today is Halloween! I love this Holiday and this time of the year! This is the 1st year that the kids will get to enjoy it. They will both be able to SAY TRICK-OR-TREAT. Both will get to walk this year no wagon pulling (Yeah)!!

This morning for daycare the kids got to dress up in there costumes. There having a Halloween festival. They were so excited. This year Matthew is going to be Diego and Aubrey is Dorothy from the Wizzard of Oz! (Although I did not buy the red shoes for a one time event.) Here is a picture of them dressed up for school.

Here is Matthew's friend Dawson as Batman
Since Grammie and Grandpa won't be here this year we will be going to Rick's cousins house; Kristi to go trick or treating in her neighborhood and have pizza with her tonight. I'm sure her son Trevor will be so excited to go trick or treating with Matthew and Aubrey.

When we got to Kristi's house her sister Kim was there with her son Tyler. Here is a picture of all the BOYS.

Trevor as Bob the Builder, Tyler as the Red Power Ranger, and Matthew as Diego. Aubrey was to busy playing with all of the toys to take pictures.


Matthew and Aubrey playing with Trevor's Toys

Rick and Aubrey "Dorothy" walking down the street Trick-or-Treating.



And this is a picture of Jackson as a "Dragon" . He is 9 months old. This is Elisha's son, a lady I work with. He was just so cute I had to post a picture of him.

Bathroom Remodel Complete

The Bathroom Remodel is finally COMPLETE!! It took alot longer than expected but it is complete. I am so HAPPY to have 2 bathrooms again, and of course my deep soaking bathtub.

The picture turned out a little dark but you can see we put in new faux wood blinds. I still need to get some curtains but other than that pretty much finished.

Here are a couple of more pictures....to be posted later....Computer problems right now.

And to make our bathroom remodel a little more expensive and just our luck we had to replace the toilet. Our old one had a crack in the tank although the plumber said it should be ok for a couple of years.(Guess he was wrong! :P ) So the only the thing we have left to do in here is to replace the faucets to match the fixtures in the bathtub and the light fixture.

Bathroom Paint

So we had another busy weekend. Matthew had a game at 11:00 Saturday morning. So we were awaken by our wonderful children at 7 a.m. So I got up and started making breakfast.

After breakfast we decided to take the kids to the zoo to see the new baboons that arrived last month. The kids absoultely loved them. After the visit to the zoo we headed off to go take pictures for the soccer game. Oh yeah we won 6-2. Matthew didn't play a whole lot this game he just wanted to keep taking breaks. I have a sneaking suspicion all he really wanted was the snacks we had made for the team. Aunt Lisa came to watch him play this weekend. He was really excited to see her come watch him play.

Later that afternoon Memaw and Papaw came and picked the kids up and took them to Cuero so that Rick and I could start painting our bathroom. YEAH - Almost done with the bathroom remodel. I also decided to do some touchup painting in our living room. The last time we painted was three years ago. So who knew that the new paint would dry darker?? And yes we used the same color RICHARD!! So much for a nice relaxing weekend.

Here are a few pictures of the paint in the bathrrom and of the work done so far. The tile people are coming tomorrow so I'll post again then.

Here is a close up of the wall color and the tile we will be putting in tomorrow.

Here is the tile work almost completed they will be here on Tuesday to grout the tile

Good 'Ole HARD Working Saturdays

So Today was Matthew's first Soccer game. He actually did really well. He kicked the ball a couple of times and the rest of the time he just ran off and on the field with the rest of the team. We won our first game even though they don't really keep score! But everybody knows that the mom's do. We won 6 to 1! At least I think. Not really sure how you keep score in soccer. So let's put it this way OUR TEAM made the ball in the goal 6 times while the other team made their ball in the goal once. And to my surprise soccer is really fun to watch. Here is a video (Hope it works) and a few pics of the game. Matthew is #2

And here is a picture of Matthew and Dawson - His best friend

After the game Rick and I had decided last weekend to take the kids fishing in Cuero at my mom and dads place. It was a REALLY HOT Day. So hot that the fish didn't even bother to bite. The only thing we did catch were the minnows my parents bought at the store. :P. At least the kids had fun! I think they just liked pulling that poor little minnow in and out of the water. Maybe that could be the reason we didn't catch anything. We really never gave the fish a chance to bite the line.

Here is a picture of Rick helping Aubrey waiting for a fish to bite the line.

And here is a picture of Laura helping Matthew waiting for a fish to bite the line.

Here is Papaw with Matthew and Aubrey fishing in the pond.

When we got home from Cuero we called one of our friends over to help put up our old BBQ pit back into the ground. If your wondering why it came out. My dear 'ole husband was mowing the grass and hit it. And there she went. Before he went and put it up again I had Rick move it closer to the house instead of out in the middle of the yard. That way the kids could have more room in the backyard and if we put up a swingset it wouldn't be in the way!!!

Here Rick is digging the hole to put the pit back in the ground.And this is the final product. Just waiting for the concrete to dry. And of course it started pouring down rain this evening. Hopefully it won't affect the concrete too bad.

Well that was our wonderful hard working weekend. More later......

Oh Yeah by the way Happy 60th Birthday Grammie! Love you.