Veggie Tales

Eli is dressed in his "Larry the Cucumber" outfit singing the Veggie Tales song... too cute!

BONUS: cute pic of the girls!!!

New Way to Lift Weights

Slides

We went to the park again, such a great way to get out extra energy in the afternoon. The kids always find something new to do at the park. This time is was Elizabeth riding on top of Eli down the slide.... head first!

Then they wanted to do a big train down the slide... silly kids. I love to hear them laughing together!

Fun and Parades

The kids wanted to make a tent.... so one Saturday we let them pull out the tarp and chairs and make their own tent. They had a great time playing in there.

Eli was in the tent then out of the tent finding sticks to use as guns... boys!

Homecoming parade... This year it was a pj theme so all the kids wore their pj's and threw out candy. The kids had a great time riding on the float.

Random Pictures

Lizzy is helping Eli get all his tools on his tool belt.

We had a nice day outside so we went to the park to play. The kids loved doing a train down the slide! They are so cute when they play well together!!

Sister Smiles

Greg surprised me for my birthday and took me to a bed and breakfast on the Brazos River. He planned all kids of activities for us to do on our little get away. It was so nice to just go sleep somewhere with no kids for a night! Thank you to the grandparents who took my kids so I could have a night away!!!

Last Wed night at church the little kids had crazy hair night!!! My kids love crazy hair night!!! 

I have completed my updates from the month of October... I will work on Sept next... stay tuned.

Camping at DeGray Lake

Nothing says camping like a good downpour! When we arrived at our tent site it was not raining but we knew rain was coming so we worked on building a shelter first. We knew it would take too long to put the tent up so we started on the tarp. We got it about half way up before the rain came, and came... so Greg and I got wet putting up the rest of the tarp. After that we had a nice dry place to sit.

The sun came out and we now have tent and tarp up.

We had a great time playing down by the water with our friends...

and on the boat ride... well for the first 10 min of it anyway,

All the kids

The guys went to play golf and the girls and kids went to.... Tarantula Island. 

The park ranger is giving us an educational talk about the island and the critters that live on the island. Thankfully we did not find any tarantula's but did find lots of daddy long legs!

After our trip to trarantula island we then headed over to the visitor center where the park ranger showed us some snakes (yuck) and....

an alligator... The kids loved touching both the snakes and alligator.

The kids in front of the lake.

Can you find the frog in this picture? Look closely...

Catching Up

I know it has been awhile, I have heard... I am sorry!!! I will work on trying to back log some pics from the last two months. I am starting with yesterday, so give me a little time to back log it all please.

At Caroline's school they do a character dress up day on Halloween. So Caroline decided to dress like Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia! I tried several times to turn the pic but it wouldn't so I am sorry you have to look at it sideways:)

Last night the kids dressed up and went to the fall festival near our house. Eli is Bob the Builder, not sure who Caroline is... maybe a princess, then Lizzy was in her Cinderella dress.

Their silly photo shot.

Of course as soon as we got to the festival Eli and Caroline wanted to ride the train. Lizzy again was not sure and did not get a chance to ride it... maybe next year.

She did however get her face painted like a beautiful butterfly!!!

The next thing on the list after face painting was milking the cow. The kids are excited about having land with animals they are practicing their milking skills...

Well except for Lizzy, she looked at that cow and decided she did not want a part of that!!!

Caroline got her face painted also and I forgot to get a pic of it so last night before bed I got the pic:)

Hope you have enjoyed our pics from last night, will post some more later.