{busy, Busy, BuSy, BUSY}

First of all....My best friend Lauri and her daughter Jocelyn came into town a few days after we got back from visiting my family in Kansas. Of course we had to take some pictures of the kids together. I have a lot more and will post some when i have more time to work on them. They came in town on Thursday evening and we left on Friday to go to OKC where her dad got married. We had lots of fun there and arrived back home on Sunday afternoon. They headed back to Albuquerque this last Monday morning. We had tons of fun and can't wait to see them again.Since then we have been up to all kinds of stuff. Gavin started Soccer. He has practice 2 times a week and games start later this month. He keeps telling me "Mom, i love soccer!" He really does. So, of course, i had to buy him a soccer drink for his practices. He loved it. :) Tanner and i still work hard during preschool. Friday's are game and baking days. We have made choc. chip banana bread, we have made muddie buddies, and our most recent was rice krispie treats with chocolate on top and peanut butter. Yummy! Tanner had fun licking the chocolate!

Making his crazy wild face....

All clean...
Jaydon enjoys watching us cook from his seat... Oh, and do you remember that wall hanging i told you i was going to turn into a chalkboard? Well, if you don't, scroll down and you can see what it looked like before. And here is how it looks all done! :)....

Daddy and the boys had a "pool party" yesterday. They got into our jacuzzi tub...we filled up some balloons and turned on party music. The boys had contests to see who could stay under the water the longest....

They decided to fill the tub with bubbles and had fun putting bubbles all over daddy's head. They thought it was so funny....

Here they are surrounded by bubbles....

Yesterday we also went to the Oklahoma / Texas Fair. I have been to better fairs, but it was still fun. They had goat showings, which i had never seen before. It was like a dog show. The goats tails were cut weird and they try to make the goat stand in this perfect posture. It was so funny watching it. They also had horse contests going on. One of our friends here from Norway trains horses and rides. She was in the horse showing and contests all day yesterday. So we were able to watch her for a little bit. And of course here the boys are on the rides and enjoying the petting zoo area...

Last night we went to the Midwestern State football game vs Southwestern Oklahoma. I wasn't sure who to cheer for! haha! Midwestern whooped them. It was a fun game. There were tons military there! It was free for them so they all showed up. The half-time performance was very patriotic with lots of military out on the field marching and spreading out a large USA flag. There were fireworks and a flyover(very loud, but always cool). We had a busy and FUN day yesterday! :)

So, i like to have things to look forward to. This weekend is the Fall Fest, which i am excited about going to. Also, my family, minus my little brother(who is going back to s.korea), is coming to OUR house for Thanksgiving this year. I am so excited about it. Then for Christmas we are staying here, so we are going to make a drive to San Antonio to experience Sea World, which the boys haven't seen yet(i am so excited!), experience the river walk and the Alamo. I cannot wait. Shane gets 2 weeks off for Christmas and that is the only time he gets off for a whole year, except for the occasional day like Veterans Day or 4th of July. Ya know. So, we are going to make the most of those 2 weeks and experience what we can in Texas as a family while we are here. :)

Let me tell you, life is busier than it has ever been. Gavin is loving school and makes sure to pray that he "can work hard". And he sure does work hard b/c at the end of his school days he looks tired and says to me "I am tired of working hard." Tanner reminds me everyday that "we need to have preschool mom." He loves learning new things. He loves when daddy asks them at the dinner table what new things he and gavin learned in school that day. It makes him feel like a big boy. Jaydon loves just being a one year old. He is way too much fun and we cannot get enough of his fun personality. He makes us all laugh so much and it wouldn't be the same without him here. This household is Crazy, but so much fun.