Happy Halloween

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy and Safe Halloween. We really don't have anything exciting planned, we are just going to pass out candy to the few trick or treaters we do get. We live at the end of a culd-a-sac so it is hard to see our porch light from the street. So we never really get very many kiddos. But it will be fun none the less with the ones that we do get.

HaPpY HaLLowEEn

My scarecrow people on the front porch.
How cute are they!

Jesse

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse.... What can I say about Jesse! Our neighbor's ended up with him after the hurricane. His previous owner lived in Galveston and lost his home to IKE. He moved into our neighborhood to his sisters house who said that he couldn't not keep the dog. So long story short our neighbor's directly next door took him in. The first week or so he was real cute and all that good mushy stuff. Now he GROWING!!!! We actually feel kind of sorry for him though. I think he is to much DOG for them to handle. It was all fun and games at first and now I feel like they neglect him a little.. About 2 weeks ago we noticed that they keep him chained to a tire in the back yard. Pretty much because they are to lazy to fix their fallen down fence from the storm. Being in the backard is one thing but he has no where to go for shade because they have no trees, and his small little water bowl seems to never have water in it because he always dumps it over. Now when they do let him out to play, they bring him in the front yard and let him off the leash. NOT SO SMART!!!

This weekend Jeff was working in the yard and out of no where here comes Jesse! And what a SHOCKER no one was with him. So he hung out with Jeff doing yard work for a few minutes until we took him back home. Did I mention that Spencer is scared of him..... My poor baby! OH and did I also mention that he has massive poop? I know this because he keeps leaving it in my yard. And his nice owners do not ever pick it up...... So the next time Spencer thinks he wants to go to their yard to visit.. I think Ill let him and repay the favor!

Jesse hanging out to do yard work!


Telling Spencer Hello through
the dining room window. Spencer
is telling him to GO HOME!

Buck Rubbings

This weekend Jeff was doing some much needed yard work, when he came upon some deer rubbing's on one of our bushes in the front yard. There is always deer here in the neighborhood but in the 3 years that we have lived here we have not ever seen any in our yard. Right after the hurricane we drove around and did see about 10 bucks in someone else's yard about 1/4 mile from the house. However normally we don't really get to see them until around Christmas/ January. So this was a nice little treat. The funny part about all of this is that last weekend we were out of town for 4 days. And when we got home we noticed that the branches on a bush right next to the air conditioner were broken. And like always we blamed it on reckless kids riding their bikes or whatever through our yard. When really it was taken out by a deer. *Sorry Kids*

Woody Wood Pecker

This is what we woke up to yesterday.. This annoying little bird pecking the crap out of our neighbors tree, that pretty much hangs over our back yard. I let Spencer out in the back yard and thought for sure he would scare him off. Well I was wrong! I had Jeff grab the camera and I think I was able to get some pretty good pictures of the little fella. As he was pecking away on their tree we noticed another one come up, but before I could get my camera focused they were both gone. It was really neat to watch but I hope they don't come back anytime soon!

Little Man

Doesn't this face just make you smile? I just wanted to share this picture with everyone. Connor has went from a cute baby boy to such a handsome little man. He too is growing up way tooo fast!

Mr. Potato Head

I know every kid growing up had a Mr. Potato Head. You remember it was the big brown potato and then you would stick the eyes, nose, ears and mouth on it. And no matter how crazy looking it really was your parents ALWAYS told you how cute it was and that you did a really good job!!! Like it was really hard cramming body parts into a plastic potato, and remember it had a "flap" in the back to store all the parts when you were done playing. Anyways getting to the point. My sister bought this cute little "decoration" for Kinley's princess party this weekend and I thought it was absolutely to cute. And I have to admit, it was a little fun putting it together. The only difference was this one was called the "Party Princess Pumpkin". I guess a party princess potato didn't sound as appealing. Anyways it was cute no the less.

This is the Mr. Potato Head that
we all grew up playing with!

And this is the Miss. Princess Party Pumpkin
of today. Pretty CUTE huh!!!

Misti's Baby Shower

This past Sunday I helped host a baby shower for my friend Misti and her new baby girl Emersyn. Misti has 2 boys already so when we found out she was finally going to have a little girl to love as well. We all went nuts, and I think she is all PINKED out now. She got lots of cute girly gifts and pretty little bows (props to Nicole for her newly found talent of bow making). We all had a really good time and I was excited to see all my friends from Providence. I miss you girls something awful..

Cake table

Emersyn's tutu!

the presents

the guests

pink pedi peds

I had her bobby pillow embroidered with
Emersyn's name

~* Congratulations Misti I cant wait to meet little Miss Emersyn Brooke*~

What a difference a year makes.

Just a quick post about Kinley again. I was looking back at some pictures of her over the past year. And my gosh how she has changed. Since we live in Houston and don't really get to see her that much to us she looks completely different every single time we see her. And looking back at these pictures I realized just how much of the past year I really did miss.

1 day old.

1 year old.

Kinley's 1st Birthday Party!!!

Well I absolutely can not believe that Kinley is a whole 1 year old. It seems like yesterday that Shelly told us she was expecting. She has went from a beautiful baby to an even more beautiful little girl. And I fall more in love with her every single day. She is such a sweetie pie. I know how much I love her so I can't imagine how much I will love my own kids. Craziness!!!!

Saturday was Kinley's birthday party. It was all PINK, frilly and princessey(is that a word). Just as you might have guessed. Everything was just perfect and Shelly really did a great job making sure everything came together just so. She had a lot of friends and family come by to help celebrate, which was great because I don't get to see them very much since we all live all over the place. She LOVES birthday cake I might add and she had a blast in her bouncy house. All in all she had a very good day. And we all look forward to what her next year in tales.

**Auntie M loves you Kinley and I hope you had a great birthday!**

Princess Cake

dont you LOVE her TUTU

Me and Kinley
(the best picture i had )

yummy delicious cake

enjoying her cake

fun times in the princess
castle bounce house

4 Day Weekend...

So we are off for a fun filled 4 day weekend in Waco. We are so excited and can't wait to get home. We both have to work a full day tomorrow and then we are headed out. We are going to be staying at Jeff's parents on Thursday night. We are ready to see if the new house looks any different since the last time that we saw it. Then Friday I am going in for a much needed HAIR CUT!!! And can hardly wait for that part. Sad huh!! Then Saturday is Kinley's 1st birthday party. This for me is probably the most exciting part of my whole trip. It is so hard to believe that she is that old already. There will be alot of my family there that we do not really get to see. So that should be fun. THEN Sunday I am helping host a baby shower for one of my EX-coworkers. I am excited about this too because I miss these girls so much and I hardly ever get to see them. So it will be good to catch up with everyone. Sunday we plan on just hanging out and then we head back to Houston sometime on Monday. Not really my idea of a "relaxing" 4 day weekend, but a FUN/BUSY weekend none the less.
So im sure that i will have lot's of good things to blog about when we get back.