Halloween Weekend

The 'Farmer' with his 'pet cat' and 'prize pig'!!

Friday night of Halloween weekend our ward had a ward party with games, food, and trunk or treating. It was a fun night seeing everyone dressed up and having fun;)

Of course Ems found 'Nelson' to pet and love on!

The balloon room was a definite favorite of our little lady!!

Emma and Abbie who are the best of buds! First time seeing each other dressed up..priceless, not sure why they each look so funny ;)

I love these two!!

Water...so of course we spent the rest of the time here 'fishing'!

Then Saturday night I had to work so Andrew took Emma trick or treating with some friends to a bunch of people in the ward! The only pics I got from the night... but I am sure they had lots of fun! My mom made Em's trick or treat bag..so cute!! Thanks Mom!

Sunday the official day of Halloween we went to our friends house with a few couples and their kids and had yummy Halloween dinner! Lots of fun! I took my camera but didn't take a picture..oops!

Pumpkin Carving!

Last year Emma loved to play in the pumpkin goo but this year was another story... she didn't want to touch it... so this is what our little lady did while we carved pumpkins!

Working in progress. . . and the final projects! Mine a little lame and un-original but still a fun FHE ;) We love having dad around to hang out with us!

Showing me her red tongue and keeping far enough away from the "hand" Andrew had to get it because it scares her. . . ;)

Train Ride ;)

This is a little train ride that I took Ems to with our friends who have a little girl the same age as Ems. They are little pals together!! So it started off and I didn't think Emma would have any issues with it considering she is an adrenaline junkie . . .

Our caboose. . . little Abby!

And they are off. . . by this time Emma is getting a little concerned mom isn't coming. . .
Meg running along with the girls ;)

By this point she was REALLY worried and starting to cry! And just around the corner...screaming!!! Charlie (our friend) went to help but she only wanted mom soooo... I got to get in and ride;) Silly girl, but fun for us both!

Softball!

Andrew's school put together a softball team for a fund raising event for breast cancer so we got to go watch. It was beautiful weather and lots of fun! The day started with Em's doing this cause she wanted to play with dad! ;) Eventually she got over it but sad for a few minutes.

Andrew's team was all made up of his class mates so it was fun for me to get to meet some of them. They were all really nice and fun to be around!


Emma loved exploring and entertaining the girls in Andrew's class that weren't playing ;) They were great sports to let her sit by them and play with her toys!


Almost caught it!




Everyone played really well especially for never practicing together. By the last game they played everyone was exhausted! Andrew was quite sore for several days...using muscles he hasn't in long time ;) Thanks babe for an entertaining day!

I love this Little Lady!

Emma and I have lots of fun hanging out around the house! She came running to me one day so excited because she was wearing my socks...see that smile!

She loves to play in Yankee's crate...completely sicks me out! Hair everywhere when she is done... I sweep and sweep and sweep and vacuum and still I find hair!

A day playing at the park in turn equals 'dirty little lady'!!! She was absolutely filthy, this park has rubber for the ground so it doesn't help keeping them clean, I realized after this day how much she wipes her face!!!

Cute little bunny! Our friend let us borrow this bunny costume thinking that Em's could be a bunny for Halloween, but when I got home and tried it on her it fit but a little tight and she wanted to hop around like a bunny and every time she did I could hear the Velcro coming undone...so no little bunny for Halloween since we didn't want to ruin their costume but fun for a few minutes!!

I just love this little smile ;)

An Update ;)

I have decided that it is about time I do an update. I have been enjoying everyone else's blog updates and not doing mine ;) The past couple of months have been great! We were able to have Andrew's sister Kelsey come and stay with us for a couple of weeks and loved having her! Lucky Emma got to play lots with aunt Kels! We headed to an Astros game, the beach, shopping, and just hanging out. Thank you Kels for coming it was so much fun having you!

Emma's classic "O" mouth ;)

Look at the nasty mess Ems and her daddy made..she loved it!

The Beach! We sure do love it here and have spent much time playing on the sandy shores;) Yes Emma STILL loves to taste things...I should really be worried shouldn't I??? Oh well...just building up more antibodies...

Just relaxing . . .

Sand sand and more sand. . .

This beach is particularly fun because you get to drive right to where you want to go and jump out and you are there... no more packing EVERYTHING through hot sand! I fell in love with it. . . and much easier to leave with less sand! We went on a Saturday and wow it was packed. . as far as we could see down the beach were cars and umbrellas, surprisingly enough though it didn't seem too busy and we enjoyed it just as much! It was fun people watching ;)

Kels and Ems ;)

We dared it and parked by the dead turtle . . . so sad! I didn't want to bring Emma's attention to it, afraid she would try climbing on it..yikes that definitely wouldn't have been good! It brought tons of people to see it! I hope it had a long happy life!

Thank you Kels for all your help and for all the fun we had with you!!

Other random pics of our little lady growing up. . loves to color!

She is in love with these little animals and lines them up everywhere and talks with them;)

Silly girl and her headband!

We love having these two missionaries at our house! This particular day was especially fun cause it was Elder Michaelson's b-day! Elder Michaelson on the left (from Richfield ;)) and Elder Schaat on the right (Idaho boy)

Emma had to be right up there helping him blow out the candles ;)

The surprise. . .

Andrew had my car this day since I was already at work and he had to drop Ems off at our friends house, when he came out this is what he found! My back window smashed in . . . all for a 70 dollar GPS (which by the way I loved!!!!) Good thing I don't keep much in my car, so it could have been much worse but what an inconvenience and not a way I wanted to spend $300! But I am grateful that was all that happened. . we are blessed! We will probably be finding glass forever in my car though. . . it was EVERYWHERE!

We have been enjoying the end of the summer and now Andrew is in school and loves it!!! This makes me so happy, I don't necessarily get everything he talks about but I can tell he loves it and is passionate about it and that is what is great! He is constantly doing homework, but finds time for us as well. It is crazy he is half way through his first semester ;) The weather is cooling off. . . we decided the other day we are becoming true Houstonians when we were saying " Boy it sure is cold out there today" and it was 82!