Gymnastics Firehouse Visit

Alison set up an a tour for our gymnastics class to head over after class on Wednesday to tour the Southlake Fire Station. 

 It is the best one to go to. 

 The guys are awesome and informative and patient and love to show you around. 

 The kids loved climbing on the truck and seeing the real firemen. 

 We had a picnic lunch right outside the station afterward and the weather was amazing and the kids just had a blast running around and playing together some more. 

First Field Trip

Kinley had her first Kindergarten Field Trip this week! 

 I signed up to be a chaperone and it was my first day to leave Dylan. 

 It was weird leaving but, he did awesome with Honey and took a bottle well. 

 It was so exciting to just focus on and be with Kinley all day. 

 The field trip was to The Big Orange Pumpkin Farm in Celina, TX. 

 The pumpkin farm was like an hour away which is hilarious since there is a pumpkin farm literally a few hundred yards from her school on the same street. 

 But, the kids were SO excited about riding the school bus. 

 The parents met at the school in the classroom and then followed the bus in our own cars.

   

The kids were broken into groups of five with two parents per group. 

 Kinley and I were put in a group with her two new bestie friends in her class, they are twins and their mom was the other adult chaperone with me. 

 It was a dream come true for these girls. They were thrilled to be in the same group and asked us to take hundreds of pictures of the three of them with a ton of different backgrounds. 

 Here are just a few.

   

There were also two precious boys in the group too that were precious and I promise, we didn't ignore.

 

On the field trip the kids got to go through a Hay Maze, do a hay ride, feed some farm animals, have a picnic lunch and pick their own pumpkin.
We tried for a couple class pics. Getting 20 kindergarteners to all look and smile is kind of impossible.

This one cracks me up.
 We sent all the kids over to the spider to take pictures and they automatically segregated into a boy side and a girl side. So funny.
 
Petting and feeding the animals


My girl...

Football and family

Even though the Aggies are not having the greatest season...I think we are calling it a "rebuilding" year....we are always dressed for Game Day. 

 Even Dylan has a maroon onesie.

   

How cute are these boys? I am hoping they will love to watch Aggie football together for many, many years. 

 

We love to match... 

The last couple weeks we have picked up the pace a little and I have started making more outings with Dylan. It is still mild torture taking him places because it is like 70/30 that he will scream the entire time in the car. 

 We are not past it yet, sadly. 

 But, it is a little easier when Ben or my mom is in the car with me. 

 So, naturally, one of the first places I wanted to go was with mom to Dallas to go see Anson and Olivia. 

 We took Olivia lunch and I got to hold that perfect baby. 

 I swear he never cries still and he is just the sweetest sleeper.

   

He loves having his hands in front of his face. 

 Actually every sonogram Olivia had, Anson had his hands in front of his face and he still does it now. 

 So cute.

   

More Dylan and Anson picks

   

And one with O & I and the boys. 

 We both mutually agree that we would prefer to just take pics of the boys but I am sure one day we will want to see ourselves in a picture too occasionally. 

 

Another outing we took with Honey was to our first Casa Manana show of the season. Honey bought us season tickets this year and we are pumped. 

 The first show was Snow White and mom and I took all three kids. 

 Dylan was quiet and slept or ate the whole show.

   

Kinley was in heaven dressed as Snow White and loved the story.

 

Ty was interested for maybe 10 minutes and mom had quite the job of keeping him entertained the rest of the show. He was not disruptive or anything, just not super engaged. 

 Maybe Snow White wasn't his thing. 

 But, they were thrilled to get to spend some time with Honey, like usual. 

 

We usually end the show by taking a picture with the marquee outside. 

 It was especially sunny that day. 

Anson Travis Howe

I am an AUNT! 

 I still can't believe it. 

It is so surreal and I am thrilled to take on my new role. 

 On early, early Sunday morning October 5th Bart & Olivia had sweet baby boy Anson Travis Howe and he is just the most precious thing I ever did see. 

 We met him Sunday afternoon and I just couldn't get my hands on him fast enough. 

 He is beautiful with the cutest blonde semi-curly hair and blue eyes and is just the sweetest baby. 

 I hadn't laid eyes on him 30 seconds and the waterworks came.

   

Dylan and Anson are 33 days apart and I just think it is so fun. 

 I love that they will grow up so close together in age. It was crazy to me that Dylan looked sort of big compared to Anson. 

 They really grow so, so fast. 

I tried really hard to get all my family in a pic with Anson but Ty wouldn't cooperate. Kinley is posing though. 

 

Finally Honey coaxed him in a pic as long as she could hold him. 

 

Anson, we are so in love with you already and thrilled to watch you grow up in the care of your amazing parents. 

 You are precious to us sweet boy!