Sweet Shower

It has become our tradition after first born baby showers to have a mini-shower for the expectant mother. Mini, in that it is a little more low key with just the seven of us. So while I was in Waco for Halloween weekend my besties from forever had a beautiful luncheon for the babies and me!

I forced them to take this cheesy one. :)

Yes, we were down one very critical attendee, but we brought Doha and Wendi to the shower via Skype. Thank goodness for modern technology. Of course there is nothing like the real thing, but thankfully it is a just a few more weeks until our expat is back in the USA for the holidays!! (Sorry for the fingerprints Wendi).

These girls really know how to make a mama feel loved!

My spot had two baby pumpkins, for obvious reasons ;).

I also took home some great loot!! Including pacimals, a moby wrap, and an awesome high chair that hooks onto a table but without question the"My Breast Friend" twin nursing pillow provided the most entertainment.

A vision of things to come...Yikes!

And then after babies it can clearly be used as a serving tray.

I know I am a broken record when it comes to these girls, but I can never say enough how blessed I am to have each of them in my life. As usual, our time together was too short and leaves me longing for our next get together!

Just some good old boys...

This Tuesday marked our second annual Grand Prix Race at Parkway Hills. Which meant it was time once again to create a car out of thin air...well actually two cars out of thin air...or out of a card board box, but trust me it feels like thin air. This project had Daddy's name written ALL over it and I made it very clear that it was ALL his. Thankfully he was up for the challenge and he gets all the credit for our little racing creations.

Meet Bo Duke, driving the unmistakable General Lee,

And Roscoe P. Coltrane, in his standard issue State Trooper.
The boys have enjoyed watching some "Dukes" as they call it with Daddy lately so they knew just what their characters were up to.

Can you say Drama Team...or perhaps Stage Mom?? Sorry I couldn't help myself. :)

Roscoe issuing a citation for bootlegging I'm sure.
Biggy contributed the suspenders!

Gentlemen, START YOUR ENGINES!!
The three-year-old races were first.

Then the big kids took center stage.


At the end of each race the Mommies and Daddies in each class have a little race of their own. Thank goodness Stacey was able to be there, otherwise Coyt and Crew might have been born at Parkway Hills!
So thankful for a great Daddy/Husband who made this a priority for his boys and let me watch from the sidelines throughout the project.

Clown or Turkey Feather? You Decide

I realized when Stacey was about to get out of the car in carpool line one morning that I had failed to capture a picture of his GORGEOUS turkey feather, so I snapped one with my phone.

At one point during the process of making this when I might have suggested a more streamlined approach he said, "Mom, this is my feather and you have to let me make it the way I want to." Clearly, mission accomplished ;).

You KNIT me together

On October 28th I got to help celebrate my baby sister Kacey and Caroline Caprice, her second baby girl due December 21st, at a baby shower in their honor. Here is the beautiful Mommy.
I had seen a cute wedding shower here with the theme of "Knotted in Love" and thought it would translate nicely for a baby shower using Psalm 139, so "You Knit Me Together" became the theme.

What a blessing that we can rest in the truths of God's promises!!

Kristiana, one of the hostesses owns, Krispy Banana Kids and made all of the items for the precious clothes line.

I borrowed the various balls for these yarn balls from my boys, obviously you couldn't tell, but it made me smile a little knowing that tennis balls, soccer balls, and even a Spiderman & Batman ball were just below the surface of the girly centerpiece. :)

The favors were sewing kits and say "Thanks for sharing in the joy of Caroline being perfectly knit together."

As I mentioned Kacey is Due December 21st the exact same day I'll be 37 weeks (which they won't let me go past). So basically we have the same due date and these babies may very well be cousin triplets.

Couldn't help but include this pic of the hostesses showing off our new earrings, our hostess gifts from Kac, makes me laugh, and confirms that I am definitely retiring that shirt - WOW!!

Love you Kacey and can't wait for Miss Caroline to arrive!!!

Arrrrrrrrrrrr

We had a full weekend of Halloween festivities starting on Thursday at Preschool. The boys got to wear their costumes (minus several accessories) and I was in charge of Stacey's class party. We made monster apples.

And then a rather disastrous craft. Who knew glue doesn't stick to foam? Live and learn ;)
Goody Bags
After the party we headed to Waco for the weekend. Both Stacey and Wyatt had lots of ideas about what they wanted to be this year, Buzz and Woody, Zurge, Farmers, Spiderman and so on, but they kept coming back to pirates so that was eventually the official consensus. On Friday night the pirates put on the full get-up for Fall Fest at FBC Woodway. They had real eye patches but understandably they proved difficult to wear so we just went with face paint instead.Yikes, I wouldn't want to run into these guys on the open sea!

Or maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

We were joined by Mini Mouse, A Lady Bug and and Jango Fett (sadly I had to look that one up - couldn't remember which Star Wars character he was - I'm sure that won't be the case for long).

We got to sneak into the bounce houses earlier in the day while no one else was there - score!! but there were still plenty of games to be enjoyed.

On Sunday we headed back to Dallas for our final festivities. First up a birthday party for Noah turning 5 and Dylan turning 1.

Karla had a fabulous carnival set up with all sorts of fun activities including bowling with pumpkins,

and pin the spider on the web just to name a few.
Wyatt was later sad to learn this was only a temporary tattoo.
Enjoying some pop rocks.
We wrapped up the weekend with some good old fashioned trick-or-treating with friends. By this point preggers was ready to pass the baton so I sat this part out while Sarah and Daddy did the honors.
When the boys got home they thoroughly enjoyed passing out candy to our trick-or-treators and I loved hearing them say. "Oh, what are you?"- "Help yourself" - "Happy Halloween" etc. pretty cute.

This morning I overheard Stacey saying to Wyatt, "I really wish we could go trick-or-treating again tonight." Wyatt of course agreed that would be a fantastic plan, but then Stacey informed him that it would in fact be a LONG time until Halloween was here again because it only comes in the fall. He took the news pretty well. And I was pretty impressed with his newfound concept of time.

So until next Halloween Mateys :)