home alone.

it's 11:05 on tuesday night, and i'm home alone. the hubbs has a softball double-header (sounds big time, huh?) and won't get home until 11:30 or so. i had big plans for tonight. i had several crafty things i felt inspired to do, and have been making preparations to get everything done and cleaned up in the alloted time before the hubbs got home and found me working and not relaxing.

immediately after he left, around 8, i embarked on my first craft project (pictures to come later). I got all my supplies out on the kitchen table - spray glue, glitter, papers, paper cutters, templates, tape, scissors and a stapler. i was well on my way when i needed to make a trip out to the trashcan in the driveway. i opened the back door and i heard a LOUD thump. i just knew that a bird had flown into my house. i came back inside and sure enough there was something flying around... the biggest grasshopper i've ever seen. seriously. all joking aside, it was the size of an iguana. have you ever seen that movie about the mothman? this was the grasshopperman. i immediately grabbed georgia and ran back into my bedroom and shut the door. i've remained here for two hours - craft project still laying on my kitchen table for the husband to see in all it's glory. lights all still on. music still playing. popcorn still in a bowl on the kitchen counter. glitter all over the floor (not kidding).

i texted j. to come and rescue me, but i guess he was too busy catching fly balls to help out! i'm praying that he will be home soon and won't say (or see) anything about my mess in the kitchen. i also pray that he captures the grasshopper. i would hate to walk out there in the morning and have a grasshopper fly down my shirt! ahh!!!! (i think i might have nightmares tonight).

okay - will try to wait patiently while watching the cosby show. have a great night!

photo shoot.

This morning, we woke up bright and early to head down to the Arboretum for some good, old fashioned, family pictures! We were so excited to book Summer this year to take our pictures! She's super talented and had Brady giggling to no end with her puppet! (She even had J. and I laughing at one point because she was being so silly!) We can't wait to get our pictures back, I know she did an awesome job!

It ended up being a nice morning, so we hung around after our 'shoot' was finished and took a few more pictures as we walked around. Summer and I were talking about the last picture taking visit we had at the arboretum: I was desperately trying to walk B. out of my belly!! (Of course, it didn't work!) I think I walked 5 miles in the course of 2 hours when I was 9 months pregnant! It certainly is filled with wonderful scenery though!

Summer - Thank you, we had a blast!

pierce's b-day + halloween

dirt.

A few weeks ago, Nana was helping prune the back yard rose beds and we ended up with a whole bunch of dirt in a clay pot. B. thought it was super fun to dig (with his baby tools that daddy bought) and dump the dirt on his head. This is all well and good until he does it without me catching him in the act....

I have got into the habit of keeping our back door open whenever it's really nice outside, so Brady can go in and out as he wants to while we're playing downstairs. Too bad when I was taking a potty break, he got into his dirt pot!!! Took a few baths to get all of the dirt out - but he sure is a muffin!

p.s. excuse the amount of pictures - making up for lost time, I guess!

A Texas Tradition

This afternoon, after the roller coaster that was the Cowboys game, 7 of us piled into one car and we headed down south to the State Fair. Yes, it rained and yes, it was cold - despite what we all thought on our way down there. But yes... the food was GOOD. Between all of us, we ate 4 corn dogs, a slice of pizza, tornado taters (my favorite), fried snickers, fried oreos, 2 corn-dog cheeses (awesome), and a funnel cake. B. had some of the tornado taters but other than that we brought his own snacks... and he had fun eating just like the rest of us. He especially loved the Midway and watching the people scream on the brightly lit rides. We even danced to a MJ song while we waited for Josh and Jeff to get our fried desserts. The rain could have been a damper, but we made it work. We tried to wait in line for the cookie dough three times, but each time it was at the same place as the fried butter - and the line was 20 minutes long or MORE! For Fried Butter? Please... has anyone eaten this? What does it taste like, because to me, it sounds gross!!!! Thanks to Mr. Josh and Miss Kaytie for sharing your "season pass" with us and driving us all down there! We had a lot of fun!

Unloading the car...

Josh with his leftover coupons from Saturday's visit...

The Bug was not sure what was about to happen...

Brady LOVED it when Big Tex talked. He was absolutely fascinated with him.

B. enjoyed a long piggy back ride from Mr. Matthew...