Thankful

With Thanksgiving around the corner and nothing too exciting to post on, I thought I would jot down some things we are thankful for right now in our family.


Jace:
Video Games
Clothes
Transformers
Toys
Family


Hayden:
Elmo
Cereal
"Pips" (chips)
Class (church or mmo)


Clint: (made up by Kristin)
A day off
Coming home at a decent time
Texas Tech Football
My wife


Kristin:
A heater (it is already a cold winter)
Mothers Morning Out (every mom needs a morning off)
The rare times Jace climbs into my lap to snuggle
Walmart (I love one stop shopping)
Hayden saying "Watch mommy watch" as he shows me whatever he thinks is cool
A husband who sacrifices so much to provide for our family
A good day
Lemonade
Seeing my boys play together
Family
Friends

There are so many other things I could add to list list, but it will do for now.

halloween 08

Just in case you haven't gotten enough of pictures of peoples kids at pumpkin patches and in their Halloween costumes, here are a few more. Although these may be the cutest kids out of all the pictures you've seen. We spent the morning at the pumpkin patch on Thursday. It was an absolutely beautiful day with incredible weather. We got to pet all kinds of animals, go on a hayride and run around the farm. The boys had a wonderful time.

Jace and Hayden (Jace feels the need to do funny faces and poses now)

Hayden and Jace on the hayride

For Halloween we had some friends over and grilled out for dinner. We then took our first trip trick or treating. Jace really got into. I have never seen that boy walk so fast for so long. It was cute. Hayden even walked up to a couple houses too. He got over that pretty quick though. Jace was Optimus Prime and Hayden was a golfer this year.

Jagger and Jace
Best picture I could get of all 4: Jagger, Jace, Hayden, and Cash

Check Us Out

Well the boys and I have now been in Texas for a little over a week now. The trip has been fun and I will post pictures when I return back home. I just wanted to let everyone know that my sister and I are in a trade show this weekend for our embriodery business. If you are in the Dallas are, please come by and check us out. The website for the show is www.marketinthemeadow.com. Even if you can't come by please check out our new website. It is just now up and running and has a lot of fixing to be done, but you can get and idea of what we do. The web site is www.heavenlystitchesembroidery.com.

Budding Artist

My little Jace has just amazed me with the things he can do since he started pre-school this year. He has learned the months of the year, days of the week, writing a lot more letters, and counting higher. Most of all his artistic skills are starting to show (see example below). This past week they created a family crest in class. I had never seen him draw people so that was exciting for me. He also wrote his last name. That was definitely a first. I was just so proud of Jace's work that I had to share it with you all.
A brief description of what the pictures are of: Top Left: Clint and I getting married Top Right: Our family skateboarding (which we have never done) Me on the left with Hayden on my shoulders, Clint in the middle on a skateboard with Jace on the right, and the sun of course. Bottom: Last name on the bottom.

Knights in Shining Armor

Not sure if that is what it really looks like to you, but that is what Clint and Jace were playing. They were knights sword fighting. Gotta love a 4 year old imagination.

Photo shoot

Here are the pictures from Jace's 4 yr and Hayden's 18 month shoot. It was an adventure. It is the first time we have taken pictures since Hayden has become very mobile. He didn't want to sit down or stay still at all. The lady taking the pictures did a great job getting shots whenever she could. We also had pictures done of my niece and nephew and some of my sisters and me. It was fun. I would highly recommend The Picture People if you guys are looking for somewhere new to get pictures done.

Jace at 4 years old

Hayden at 18 months

My boys: Don't they just melt your heart!

The Cousins: Hayden, Micaela, Riley, and Jace

Micaela and Riley

Riley at 8 years old

Micaela at 5 years old

My sister Tonya with her sweet kids

Tonya, Me, and Stacy

Texas Trip

Sorry it has been so long since I updated. I was busy with VBS for awhile and then we went to visit grandparents in Texas. Here are some pictures from our trip. We started off in Odessa. The boys had a great time playing with their Nana and Pops and there cousins.

Hayden and Jace at the Park

Pops and Jace

Playing with the rocks.
What else do you do with a bottle of rocks but pour them down the slide.

Hayden and Nana Kisses for Nana
A ride on the merry go round
Lexie, Hayden, Lauren, and Jace

After Odessa, we headed to San Antonio to visit my side of the family. We had fun going to see the glider plane Pops is learning to fly and we also visited Sea World. I don't have any pictures though because the battery decided to die on my camera. We also got new pictures of the boys taken why we were there. I will post those soon.

My sweet Hayden

Jace in the plane
Pops giving everyone a lesson

My boys and Pops

Hayden, Jace, Pops, Micaela, and Riley

If you haven't noticed the boys call both grandpa's the same thing, Pops. Both grandma's are spelled Nana but they are pronounced different. It can get quite confusing.