Spooky Class Party and a Parade

I love school holiday parties. Any chance to go "all out" with a theme, I'm in! This year I signed up to help with the Halloween party at Davis' school! Planning was just as much fun as throwing it, probably because we planned over a glass of wine. 

Small world because the other mom from Davis' class who signed up to help actually went to high school with me. Way back in the day our mom's planned my junior prom together! So we thought it would be fun to get our moms involved again, get their creative brains working again, and invite them to the party! 

Due to my insane schedule in October, when I say "I" signed up for the Halloween party, I should really say "I signed my mom up!" She did all the prep work and I just drove us there. 

We had mummy juice, marshmallow teeth, worms, and fingers as snacks! Then we read a scary monster book and had the kids decorate monster puppets! 

Then the entire school had a parade in the courtyard and the kids dressed up as different characters from books. Davis' class was the Lonely Beast. 

Pumpkins!

Christmas is almost here and I still haven't posted any pictures from Halloween! These pictures are post-poned until I take my computer into the Apple store because I accidentally slipped the memory card into the DVD slot instead of the memory card slot. Oops.

The good news is, I still have pumpkin patch pictures! I was in Austin one beautiful weekend in October for a friend's baby shower. While in town, we met up with some friends at an adorable pumpkin patch for the ultimate attempt at capturing the perfect picture!

Happy baby shower!!!

Davis loves baby showers as long as there are cupcakes involved!

Trying to impress Molly!

My parents...entertaining Davis and the rest of us!

An attempt at a group photo...

...never gonna happen!

Taking home as many as I can carry!

Davis and Aunt Ann Marie.

LA for the Day

I just got back from a girl's trip to Australia! My sister had to go for work, so my mom and I tagged along. It was a very last minute decision...and here's the lesson I learned: Don't let your passport expire! Mine expired in August and I was in no rush to get a new one. Four weeks before hopping a plane over the Pacific, my mom called and told me we were headed to Sydney. Luckily, the stars aligned and I was able to expedite my passport and it came in the mail the week before I left. Close call. 

The first day of our girl's trip was spent in LA during our 12 hour layover. Instead of hanging out at the airport, we left, checked into a hotel, and toured the city. We also had time to enjoy a workout, a hot shower, and a great dinner before our next flight! It was the perfect way to prepare for a loooong flight! 

Venice Beach

Farmer's Market

From LA, we headed to Fiji. Unfortunately, we did not have a 12 hour layover here. Just a quick stop for the plane to re-fuel. We were greeted by the lovely trio below and enjoyed stretching our legs!

House Updates

As you recall, we moved into a house that took us back to the wonderful seventies. Forrest and I weren't around in that decade, but we imagine this house would have been a great setting for That 70s Show! After a little bit of wallpaper removal, some new tiles, and a whole lotta paint...drumroll...here are some of the pictures after all the work:

Back that post up...

Can we just talk about Davis' first hair cut for a second? I will admit my posts have been scarce so I'm backtracking. When Davis got his first hair cut, I quickly wanted to make sure and document it on the blog and share photos, but that's all I had time for...

I seriously cannot believe he's THREE YEARS OLD and just now getting his first hair cut. We had our moments in the past year or two when we thought about it. There were moments it was out of control and there was an occasional "rat tail" showing, but we decided to let him be a hippie for a while.

The summer was rough on his golden locks. Sun, sand, sunscreen, and chlorine all did a number on his hair and it was time. Let's be honest though, if it weren't for Brandon's wedding, we probably would have let it go another couple of months.

He was an absolute champ about the whole process. Give a kid a lollipop and he'll do anything for you! He loved Cuts for Kids, they do an excellent job of charging you twice the price of a normal hair cut so that you can watch a special movie and sit in a special seat.

Making friends with the hair cut shark! 

They styled him after the Three Stooges!

Another year, another tri!

Fall is kinda the wrap up of triathlon season for me. I'm not one to swim in the cold, let alone jump on a bike soaking wet and pedal through 50 degree winds. Last year, we signed up for a fall triathlon in Kerrville and we had a blast, so we signed up again this year. And this year, we got even MORE people to sign up with us!

This past season for me has been an interesting one, I keep signing up for the races at the very last second. For this one, it was the week before. This means I haven't been seriously training and I've been spending a lot of money on triathlons because waiting till the last minute is expensive!

Weather man, weather man, you done me wrong! The forecast for our weekend triathlon was 100% flash flooding. Cancel the race? Of course they didn't. So we packed up our gear (a lot of gear), cozied up under our rain coats, draped our bikes in trash bags, and went out for an Italian feast the night before...convinced we would maybe be running a 5k in the morning...but for sure not doing a full triathlon.

At 5am, we all received an email letting us know the race was still on! What? We turned on the news and sure enough, there was a blanket of heavy rain throughout the entire state of Texas, with one tiny little hole around Kerrville. Completely clear. You have got to be kidding me! So we headed to the race.

In the end, rain or shine, we had so much fun. We always do! To sum it up...I remember passing my dad while swimming, then somewhere along the way he passed me on the bike, I saw Renee, Robert, and Rusty all running, I caught up with my dad on the run and we decided to stick together and cross the finish line together, Ann Marie caught up with us too!

Davis had a blast too, cheering us on with his loud cow bell and meeting H-E-Buddy at the finish line!

Happy Birthday Forrest!

Forrest turned the big 3-1 on Friday and we celebrated with a delicious breakfast of bacon and eggs, lattes, presents, and Thompson birthday cake! This was all done one hour before taking Davis to school. Cake for breakfast! What a whirlwind of a great morning! 

At Davis' school they sing Happy Birthday and then do an extra verse with the words, "God bless you today." He was singing for his daddy all morning.

"Daddy, your card says: Happy birthday, God bless you."

Singing Happy Birthday to you! 

Davis blew out the candles and found it to be quite funny!

Cousin Eva and Aunt Mary stopped in for a visit too!

I'm pretty sure we sent him to school with chocolate in his hair!