The show

For those of you who don't know, my sister and I have an embroidery business. We started it about 5 years ago. Unfortunately my sister is left with the work while am not living in Texas. However, I do get the opportunity to come to Dallas for a weekend to do a trade show. It is called Market in the Meadow. This year was our third, and best year. While it is not near enough to make up for all the work she does the rest of the year, it does give us a chance to work together. I enjoy that most. We get the chance to design and create products, but spending time chatting with Tonya is the best part of it.
The week/weekend was crazy. I got there a few days before the show and it was non-stop work from there. Luckily we enjoy doing it. We are also lucky that our mom comes and watches the kids for us. We couldn't do it with out her.
A little about our business... We mainly have a baby line and a home line. The baby line includes things such as bibs, burp cloths, pantie covers, hooded towels, blankets, and personal blankies. Our home line includes things such as kitchen towels, aprons, guest towels, napkins, place mats, and pillow cases. And like I said before, we started about 5 years ago. It was slow going at first and a lot of learning on our part. But now Tonya stays busy all the time with orders. We have not created a website yet, but have plans to do so after the first of the year. I can't wait to see where it leads us.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween came upon us fast this year. I let Jace choose what he wanted to be and he wanted to be Superman. I had great plans to make a costume but ran out of time, so he got a store bought one. Hayden also got to be superman. Here are some pictures of Halloween day. Our church had a trunk or treat so we got to spend the evening with all of our friends.

Jace and Hayden's Tshirts

The three of us, Hayden wasn't too excited about anymore pictures

My Super Hayden

Jace and Anna

Jace and Mark

Jace and Jagger

Jace's friend Caden was there too but that picture is in his mommy's camera.

The night before we painted pumpkins. Clint and I have always carved pumpkins, but thought Jace would be able to participate more with the painting. We had a great time. I will let you guess who painted which pumpkin.

Long time

Sorry it has been awhile guys. We just spent two weeks in Texas visiting all the family. I will write about that and show some pics soon. I am currently trying to get my house back in order and the erupting volcano of laundry done. Here is a picture to tide you over.

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday we attempted and outing to the pumpkin patch with some friends. We had a great time for about an hour. The kids saw some animals, took some great pictures, looked at the straw maze (they were all to chicken to go in), and ran around and had a great time. It started to sprinkle just as we got on the hay ride. By the end of our hayride the rain was coming down pretty good. They dropped us off at a patch of small pumpkins so each kid could pick one. The problem with this was that it was as far away from our cars as possible. By the time we got our pumpkins and got to the car we were all soaked. We had planned a picnic to eat there, but had to move it to one of our houses. The kids had a great time anyway!

Jace and a miniature horse (or something)

Hayden looking so cute and posing for mommy Mason, Anna, Jace, Hayden, Jagger, and Mark Me and my boys (Hayden was ready for a nap)Jace soaking wet

KC

I just wanted to post a few pictures from our trip last weekend. We went to KC to see my sister and her family. They were in town for a conference and I went to entertain my sweet niece and nephew. We also got to visit with some of my friends from high school. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of that.

Micaela and Jace at the Nature Center
Jace and Micaela at the park

The only picture of Hayden... at the park
Jace, Riley, and Micaela at the KC Zoo

You just never know...

what you will see or hear with Jace around. Just a couple quick stories for you. The other day I was driving to Taco Bueno with the kids to get some dinner (Clint was on call and still at the hospital). We see a fire truck and Jace says to me "I like red, but a pink fire truck would be my favorite!" Pink is his favorite color right now. I hate to admit it has lasted longer than all his other favorite colors. Second story. This morning we were heading to our weekly walmart trip. I walked into the garage and pushed the button to open the garage door. I turn to close the door to the house and I hear Jace screaming. I turn around and see Jace hanging on to the garage door as it is lifting him of the ground. By the time I get across the garage, Jace is 3 feet in the air. I couldn't stop laughing, but felt bad about it because Jace was crying because he was so scared. Last Story. This morning the Orkin man came to spray our house (no we don't have bugs it was a preventative thing). Jace is normally very shy. For some reason though Jace followed him around the house talking his ear off the whole time. I was amazed. You just never know what you will get with Jace around.

Labor Day

I know this is a little dated, but I had nothing else new to blog and have been meaning to get pictures of Labor day posted earlier. Clint's parents flew in for an extended weekend. The boys and I went to pick them up from the airport in St. Louis and went to the zoo for the afternoon. Here are a couple pics from the train. This was probably Jace's favorite part, except maybe the camels. After the zoo we headed back to Columbia for the night. On Friday we went to Kansas City to the Great Wolf Lodge. It was a blast. It was basically a large hotel with an indoor water park. They had an outdoor pool area too. The room was great. It was decorated like a lodge would be and had a little log cabin with bunk beds in it. Jace loved his new room as he called it. The following pictures are of Hayden swimming with his pops (Jace swimming on his own, with floaties, behind them) and Jace counting to 3 before he jumps in to his daddy.
On Monday Clint and his dad played golf why the boys and Sandra and I hung out. We had a great time and would recommend anyone going there. They have one opening up in Grapevine too sometime soon I believe.