Going, going, gone!

Elizabeth really started moving since she learned to crawl.  She still loves to go after Jason's toys and some days it seems like they trade toys.  As I type Jason is chewing on a baby toy and Elizabeth is attacking his train.  Thankfully Jason hasn't noticed yet, or the screaming would begin.  We try to enforce that the toys are both of theirs and you can't take away something that your sibling is playing with.  We have had to tell both kids no they can't play with a toy because the other one is playing with it.  Sometimes they can play very nicely together though.  For example Jason loves to run his train around the living room and Elizabet will crawl or use her walker to follow him.

We celebrated Thanksgiving last week with Jeff's family from San Antonio.  I cooked tons and haven't yet heard about any cases of food poisoning so that is a plus!  We all piled into their very large SUV and headed up to Dallas for some black Friday shopping.  I feel pretty good that we got quite a bit of our list knocked out.  After the family left on Saturday we put up our Christmas decorations.  I love that it is beginning to look like Christmas, it is my favorite time of the year!  Just yesterday I tried to take some Christmas photos of the kids and only one would cooperate (probably because she isn't fast enough to get away yet.)  So you will just have to trust me that Jason was adorable in his Christmas get up. 

Camping and crawling!

Last Thursday Jeff asked me if I was interested in going camping so we pulled everything together and got packed up.  Saturday morning we left for the local lake that has some great camping areas.  When we first got there we were both a little concerned because it was pretty windy and we were worried that it might be too cool for us as the sun went down.  Thankfully as we went for a walk after Jason's nap the sun came out and the wind died down.  Jason really enjoyed the playground and went down the slides quite a bit after watching some of the big boys do it.  When we finished our walk we started up our campfire to cook dinner and some s'mores. 

While we were hanging out we had Elizabeth down on a mat.  She was loving being outside in nature and even decided to eat a little bit of the nature.  As she was trying to get another leaf to try to eat she got up on all fours and crawled a bit.  Later on in the camper while I was getting Jason ready for bed, Elizabeth tried to go after one of his trains.  She has been improving little by little since then and her favorite thing to go after is Jason's toys.

Opps there went October

I kept meaning to write about what was going on in our life, but something else always got in the way.  October may have started off slow, but it finished with big bang.  I started out the month taking lots of photos of my beautiful babies.






Then we all flew to Virginia for Jeff and I's 10 year high school reunion.  We stayed with my parents and my wonderful brother gave up his room so that we could all stay on one floor.  They took us to a park where Jason got to ride the ghost train (not scary at all) and watched the kids while we were at the reunion on Saturday night.  Jason was an angel and although Elizabeth wouldn't take a bottle she did go to sleep for Uncle Brian.  We had a great time at the reunion catching up with people we haven't seen in...well 10 years.  On Sunday morning we attended the church we were married in 6 years ago and got to catch up with the pastor who married us. 


That afternoon we spent some time with our friends Nathan, Cristy and their little boy.  They played on the playground and fed the ducks and (in Jason's case) fish.  By that time the boys were ready for nap time so we headed home.  Jeff napped with Jason while Elizabeth, my mom and I helped support the local economy.  On Monday we knew most people would be at work so our family did some more supporting the economy and had lunch out with my dad.  We had planned on going to a local nursery for a fall festival, but Jason was completely worn out and took an extra long nap so as soon as we could we headed to the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the mall with our friends.  Before we had much time to explore it started raining on us.  We dashed back to the car and grabbed some dinner and hung out while the kids played.  Before we knew it we had to fly home on Tuesday morning.





Jeff took the rest of the week off because he had some extra time to use before the end of the year.  We tried to get some family photographs on Wednesday and hopefully they will turn out.  The rest of the week we just spent some time being together as a family and preparing for Halloween.  Jason helped carve a pumpkin and we all watched football on Sunday. 





On Monday night we were all ready to get out trick or treating!  Jason still had not figured out how to say trick or treat, but charmed everyone with his cuteness!  Every morning now he comes into the kitchen and sees his pumpkin bucket on top of the fridge and points to it.  Of course he doesn't get any until later in the day, but it is cute that he remembers what is in there. 





November is hopefully going to be a slower month for us.  Besides a couple of appointments we are just looking forward to Thanksgiving.  Since their plans changed recently we invited Jeff's family up here for Thanksgiving and this will be the largest group I have had for the holiday yet.