Lauren and I decided when she moved that we should go on a road trip to visit our moms! So this last week we drove all over Texas. On Sunday I left Abilene, drove to Waco to pick her up and we continued on to her moms house in Georgetown. We stayed 3 nights in Georgetown and 3 nights in Kingsville. The trip was a little crazy at times, but a whole lot of fun. The best part of the driving was that my inlaws let us take their mini van!!! It was so awesome. The kids did great on the drives because they just watched the dvd player the whole time. You can tell they hardly ever watch tv because they are glued to it the entire time it is on. The van also has so much room. I might have to get one the next time we get a new car.

My kids both got a stomach bug while we were on the trip though. Mason threw up all evening Wednesday and Sawyer did all night Friday. I didn't get much sleep Friday night. They were also really fussy towards the end of the trip since they didn't feel good. William hasn't shown signs of picking up the bug yet though. One of our craziest times was lunch the second to last day. We stopped in San Antonio to eat on our way to Georgetown. By the time we left there were half eaten crayons, torn up napkins and child menus, food pieces everywhere, and a spilled glass of water. Our table looked crazy. The kids had been cooped up in the car and did not want to sit still to eat. We did lots of fun stuff though. We watched the entire season 5 of The Office, talked and laughed a ton, had photo shoots of the kids, ate a lot of great food, and did a bit of shopping. Here are the pictures in no particular order.

This is Sawyer hiding from me-

cooking with Grammy-

Eating at Hula Hut-

I think fall is my new favorite season! The cool weather, football games and so many things to do!! The fair, the balloon festival, the homecoming parade and carnival, Halloween. I love it. This past weekend was the balloon festival. We planned on going Saturday night, but it didn't happen. The kids were exhausted and would not have enjoyed it at all. But Chrys and I took them on Saturday morning to jump. Mason loved it, but Sawyer would not go in it without me. She was not a fan.

This week has been a lot of fun so far. Summit has been going on at ACU so we have had lots of visitors. One of my best friends from college came in town for a few days and it was sooo much fun to get to hang out!! I miss Rachael and Lauren living here so much. Stephen (rachael's husband, Melody and Daniel were also here. We went out to eat a lot and just hung out.

Rachael is 30 weeks pregnant so while she was here we shot a few maternity pictures. You can see more on my photo blog. Isn't she stunning?

We also had our first day of fall and it was wonderful. It has been cool and I am loving it. The kids can finally play outside and burn up!

This weekend Ericwent to the Texas v Tech game in Austin with his dad. They had awesome tickets and I was so sad I didn't get to go too. I had pictures Friday and Saturday night though. So Chrys stayed in Abilene with me to watch the kids while I worked.

One of their favorite things to do right now is pull out our shoes and try to walk around in them. It is pretty funny to watch!

Tonight we went to the fair with mimi and papa! The kids had so much fun. I have never been to the fair, but I found out there was a petting zoo there so I thought it would be fun to take the kids. The kids loved getting to feed the goats, ate aggie french fries for dinner, and rode a couple of rides. Thanks for taking us mimi and papa!!





















This week Mason said his first sentence. Kim, Chrys and Jenn were sitting in the living room with the kids. I left for a minute and they said that he looked around and said "where mommy go" a few times! So crazy!

It has been quite a while since I last updated! So I will start from 2 weeks ago.

Here are our 2 little monkeys. I don't think it will be too long before they learn how to climb out of their cribs, but I am hoping and praying it will be a while. I am going to leave them in there as long as possible.

Here is Mason in his candle light bath. 2 weeks ago our power went out for 4 hours starting at dinner time. It was interesting.

Mason giving sweet Claire a hug. He loves her!

My parents were in town for Labor Day weekend. So we did lots of fun things with the kids. We took them to the Grace for the first time, did lots of shopping and had some park time.