A Daily Conversation with Jace

and I mean daily. At least once in a 24 hour period I have this conversation with him, and many more like this but with a different topic. He has turned in to the gotta know everything kid.

Jace: "Where is my daddy?"

Me: "At work."

Jace: "Why is he at work?"

Me: "To make money."

Jace: "What does he make money for?"

Me: "To pay for our house, and clothes, and car, and food, and stuff."

Jace: "Why does he pay for our house?"

Me: "So we can live in it."

Jace: "What we want to live in it for?"

Me: "So we can be warm and safe."

Jace: "Why we want to be safe?"

Me: "We just do Jace."

Jace: "Oh!"

Gotta love him!

Texas Trip

A few weeks ago we made our trip across Texas. It started out with me and the boys flying to San Antonio to visit my family. Then my mom, the boys, and myself drove to Dallas to see my sister and her family. This is when we had our trade show. Clint flew in that weekend to join us. From there Clint, Jace, Hayden, and I headed to College Station. We got to visit with some friends there. Then we headed to Odessa to see Clint's family. We made a pit stop along the way in Abilene. We ate some great food at Sharon's restaurant and toured campus a little. They have made some great changes since I was there last. While in Odessa we took some family pictures. Here are a few snapshots I took while we were there. They are not the best, but this was pretty much the only time I took pictures.

Jace, Clint, Johnny (Clint's dad), and Hayden

Jace and Hayden
Cousins: Lexie, Jace, Lauren, and Hayden
My family
After my two week trip went to head home and a warning light came on our vehicle. It was Saturday and no one was open to look at it, so we had to switch and take Clint's parents vehicle home with us. It all worked out and we made it back safe and sound to the dirty house and mountain of laundry to awaited me!

9 months

A few weeks ago Hayden turned 9 months old. I can't believe how fast it has gone. He now has 4 teeth. He is not crawling yet, but he gets around with an army crawl/scoot. He has gotten much better with the eating and will eat just about anything now. I have started giving him real food some and he loves it. Here are a few of his pictures. They were so hard to narrow down, but these area some of my favorites. The last one is him sucking his thumb. He always holds his other hand!

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.