ONE cute cowboy!

Bear was going to go as a sheriff last night to the fall festival in Temple we attended BUT a certain somebody....coughcoughDADcoughcough lost his badge. SO he ended up going as just a plain ol' HANDSOME cowboy.... with a horse and handcuffs! Hmmm.


Funny thing is though that I had to make his badge b.c we were late on getting the stuff together (ANNNNND I forget EVERYTHING so!). It was really FUN and really cartoony though so it (would have worked well)... but now that I am typing the word Sheriff (once spelled sherrif on a certain badge that mysteriously showed up this morning...) on this post the red squigglies are going crazy so apparently I spelled it wrong on his badge too.


So moral of the story is that if you spell your son's occupation wrong the Dad will ditch the badge, pretend to have lost it and save your sons reputation... way to go dad!

A good friend and her son came out to visit yesterday and I was going to do their Christmas pictures BUT we ran out of time catching up on life. After she left we went to eat dinner in temple with my cousin and her husband, and My sister and two of her daughters.

When we got done eating we went to the fall festival at the old church I attended when I was younger. You know the one I SOMETIMES went to but still they all KNOW me now! hmmmm isn't that odd how that works out!

I even have a staff photo shoot for this church coming up soon. The old youth pastor (now head pastor) called my mom and wondered if I would be willing to do their staff pictures! So amazing how the loop still remains even when you get placed somewhere else in life.

So we get there and they have 3 huge inflatables. A slide, a bounce house/slide, and an obstacle course. So Bear was intrigued by the jumping house of course. He got a pumpkin painted on his face and was loving life.



My uncle was there and had one first place in the chili cook-off. Now I know there is GOOD cooking deep in my genes :). Miley Bird...'scuse me... Miley Giraffe got to snuggle with him for most of the night. She was indeed enjoying the crowd of COLOR and DECORATION! She is such a people watcher. She is like her "mama" there!


Just a quick FYI. Her removal date is set for the 11th... If you feel led please pray for strength (or intervention... whichever first comes to heart :)!)

OOOH yeeeah...and THAT time of year!

Last night we had our first ever (this year) tornado warning! Of course it was a few hours away from us BUT we did get an alarm regardless! I was up until 2 AM editing pictures when the alarm went off.

It was northeast of us and moving further northeast so we really didn't have anything to worry about BUT I wanted to be prepared just in case. So I loaded food and supplies into a bag to grab and run if the conditions worsened on our end.

Luckily they did not! So we will continue to use our storm shelter as a glorified chalkboard!

On a lighter note, along with the storms came the FALL WEATHER!!! Yes indeed... It is now cool weather and we are LOVING every minute of it.

Fall here means CHILI! ahhhh homemade chili with rice and cheese... or fritos and cheese... whatever you please. (hahahasnorthahaha)...


mmmm donchya want some???

It's THAT time of year...

Where pumpkin patches are screaming our names and (not so) cool breezes blow gently through the (non color changing) leaves.

We have been wanting to take Bear to a pumpkin patch since we got him at 7 days old. BUT we figured he would get nothing out of it the first two falls. But this third one... NOW this is a beauty. I LOVE a two year old in explore mode...





We have been cooped up at home due to his sad sickness he got last weekend. So this weekend with the sickness on the way out we decided it was INDEED time to get out of the house and go see some pumpkins, ride some ponies and sit in a hay filled wagon pulled by a John Deer. As well as run through a maze and eat some good ol' fashioned hot dog and sun chips.



The place we went is truthfully a Christmas tree farm but they oblige the fall festivities with a pumpkin patch for the fall lover in all of us! Bear was having ever too much fun running around between the baby Christmas trees. I was glad for him to be able to RUN off all this "sick-at-home" energy. And I was happy to run (walk rather) off all this "sick-of-home" energy!



It was indeed a great time to be had and we HAD it! My mother and sister met up with us and we got to spend some time with one another.



As you can tell Bear had way too much fun.




No Really!





Okay... so the hay ride had him a bit zoned. I cannot say I blame him we stopped twice to hear the history of the farm. WHICH is typically intriguing BUT not when there are mostly toddlers on the hay ride. NOT so much fun for them to sit still for 5 min in a cart full of hay listening to an elderly man talk about the history of the only dairy farm in so many Cities... NO really I WAS paying attention. I just forgot when the tractor started up again.


but all in all we had a wonderful time... (this picture is thanks to J. After much lighting enhancement and softening I finally got it light enough you could see us :).