November

Whew! I finally did it, got my pictures updated on the blog! It gets harder & harder to find the time to get on the computer. Shepherd is taking a nap right now & SK is at a friend's house so that helps a lot! We had a great November, lots of birthday parties & a trip to Vegas! Eric & I haven't been away from the kids, well since we started kids, so this was a nice get a way! Gigi flew to Texas, thanks again Gigi!, and spent Wednesday thru Saturday with them. The kids did great and enjoyed time away from their crazy parents too! :) We met up with our great friends Rachel & Daniel and enjoyed Vegas. The above picture is us right after the Garth Brooks concert. It was so wonderful!! I highly recommend going to see it if you're heading to Vegas. Sorry my pictures are a little out of order, enjoy!

M & M factory, of course we had to get some!

One of the many casinos

Eric, Daniel & Rachel

One very late night

"trying" to be cool

Such a great trip!

Here's little Miss Sara Kate Thanksgiving morning. She was in her kitchen cooking Thanksgiving dinner. :)

We enjoyed a very relaxing Thanksgiving with our neighbors Kathy & Aiden. Aiden's dad is deployed right now so we're happy they got to spend this holiday with us. Here's SK & Aiden building a gingerbread house.

Sleepy after all the turkey!

One of my favorite pics of my handsome boy!

This picture cracks me up. Let me set the scene, Eric is trying to set up our outside Christmas decorations, SK wants to pose for pictures & Shep just wants to hit sister with his weapon! Here E is getting on to Shep while sis still manages to smile for the camera!

New favorite pose!

Favorite pose with a little twist!

Sis is always taking care of her little brother!

Watching a Christmas movie

Aiden's skating birthday party!

SK didn't want to skate but Shep did!

playing games, Shep didn't want to take the skates off!

The next weekend we had Ellie's birthday party. Here's SK getting her hand painted.

So glad Daddy was able to make it to both parties, this always helps Mom out so much!

Go SK!

Abby, Naomi & SK

The boys wanted a try at it too!

Making Daddy's sign for his 1st half marathon!

Yay Daddy! We are so proud of you!

Fall Fun!

Chef SK & Chef Chloe

playing the elephant game

It's so nice to have great neighbors! My kids love to play with Chloe & Hannah!

Big play date at the house one day

Sara Kate's little friend William brings her balloons every year on her birthday!

Birthday supper at Cosi. This is SK's favorite place!

Daddy came home early to take us out for SK's birthday!

One Friday night Eric took SK out on a date to see the play Beauty & the Beast. SK was so excited all day, she loves having her daddy all to herself. Here she is all dressed up and ready to go!

Can't you tell she's excited? :)

She even had her purse with her. Before she left she told me that she had her cell phone so call if I need anything!

Since Eric & SK went out on their date, Shep and I had one too. We stayed home & baked brownies for the Fall Festival. Well, Shep's new favorite thing to do is get a chair and go to any light switch and turn it off & on! It doesn't matter how many times I tell him to stop or move the chair, he moves it right back and continues to do it. Here he is in action! Just look at that smile!

There he goes! After he did this about 100 times, he did help me with the brownies. We were both almost sick since we "sampled" so many of them!

The next morning we went to our neighbor Aiden's fall festival at his school. Here's SK posing with the Belle purse that she talked her daddy into buying her!

Our friends Laci, Todd, Ellie, Katelyn & Ellie's grandma joined us. It was so fun & hot!

Me trying to talk SK into playing some of the games. She wasn't too sure of it at first!

SK & Ellie

Shep was kinda a grump that day, maybe he had a tummy ache from eating so many brownies the night before!

The puppy she bought for 2 tokens. She just got so many presents from her birthday and this is her favorite new toy!

fishing for some candy

Ellie coming down the blow up slide. Love the look on her face!

SK loved it too!

cake walk! SK won on her very first try! I couldn't believe it!

SK was excited to see Dusty, her friend from school

SK & Ellie posing with their cakes. Ellie won a cake on the very next walk!

Posing with the HEB bag

face, or hand, painting

Showing off her pumpkin

The next weekend we went with our friends to the pumpkin patch. It was the perfect day, not too hot and breezy. We all had a great time!

SK & Abby

Shep & Eric on the hay!

SK loved the air bounce

Laci and her new little girl Katelyn

Shep,his hair was pretty wild!

SK & Jonhenry

Tyler, SK & Abby walking to the hayride

checking out the pumpkins

on the hayride

Shep trying to find the perfect pumpkin!

SK found one!

He kept trying to pick up all the big pumpkins!

all the kiddos

Allison, Laci, me, Naomi & Jamie

riding the barrel ride

Here they go!

corn shooter!