Updates

Hi all!

I know most of you have probably given up on even checking my blog, but I will continue to post whenever I can. I'm still trying to work out all the kinks of this working mom thing. It's tough.

On Nov. 1st Logan and Stu went on their first cub scout camp out. It was in the lost pines area of Bastrop. They had lots of fun and the weather was great. They did lots of cool stuff like archery, a nature walk/leaf hunt. They didn't get to have a camp fire due to the burn ban, but they did put on skits and tell jokes, both of which Logan did in front of LOTS of people. He's turned into quite the little entertainer.

Then the next weekend we went to Zilker park to the botanical garden and their dinosaur display. I hadn't been down there in years. The botanical gardens are awesome and worth taking your kids to even without the dinosaurs. We had fun.

This is the way Logan likes to wear his hair to school now. I think it's cool that he wants to have a say about his style. I asked him if any other boys in his class have their hair like that and he says "no?", like what a stupid question, mom. He's bold like that and doesn't seem to worry too much what other people think, which is good and bad. It definitely suits his personality. I just hope he doesn't want it to be too wild when he gets older!

School's been going well. This year has absolutely flown by. I can't believe that it's almost Thanksgiving and before you know it, it'll be New Years! Too crazy.

The patch business is going very well. New things are happening all the time. It's all very exciting still! I'm still getting smaller too, so that's really good. Especially considering my workouts have pretty much stopped since I started working. It's just too hard to fit them in most of the time! Like I said, I'm still trying to work out the kinks!

So those are my latest pictures. For some reason I completely forgot to take pictures this past weekend when we took care of Erica's kids. Oh, well. Ces't la vie! We had fun, but we were all tired when they got back from Kansas!!

Have a great weekend!

Halloween

We had a great Halloween. We decided to go to Aunt Erica's house to Trick-or-Treat this year since we didn't have to worry about getting up and going to school the next day. Here are some pics of our time there.

Erica dressed as Sarah Palin of course and looked great. I was like a vampiress or something- minus the teeth. You can't see it in the picture but I had on these huge eyelashes with glitter on them. Cool.

Ellie was a beautiful southern belle and Logan was a zombie. Every time we took a picture this is how he posed! He looks pretty scary in some of them! I thought everyone looked great.
Overall it was a great time trick-or-treating. All the kids did great. No crying or fits!! Woo hoo!

The kids also decorated a haunted castle like we do every year, although this year it didn't get done until Halloween day!! They did a great job. I hardly helped at all! It was great. There are some great perks to kids getting older. Also, I'm learning to let go and let them do their own thing. Even if it isn't exactly like what I would do. Being a preschool teacher is definitely helping me with that. It's more important that the kids do things themselves than for them to look perfect.
Also, just for a little "only in Texas", here's a pic of the kids on one of our first cold nights in front of the fire eating popscicles! They also roasted marshmallows, but I thought the popscicles were just hilarious!