Sneak Peak

Hello blog friends and relatives! A hurricane has come through Mexico and we are getting torrential rain from it. So, Anderson and I went to the mall to play on the indoor playground! And I'm OVER THE MOON, because we met some friends!! YAY!! A mom and her 20 month old little girl! We had lunch together and they seem so nice. Future play date?! Hopefully!

I don't have much to say today except for that we are going into Dallas tonight to have supper with my cousin Meghan and her fiance. I'm excited! Anderson will be up past his 8 p.m. bedtime, but once in a while won't hurt, right?!

I wanted to give you a sneak peak at Anderson's Halloween costume. Can you guess what he's going to be?


Annabelle is tired of all of the spotlight being on Anderson so she says "hi" :)

Chick-Fil-A and Poopey Pants

Don't you just love Chick-Fil-A! I mean where else can you get this

plus a container of Cheerios, balloon and entertainment for free??

I have made a vow that Anderson and I will only eat here ONCE a week(not like we used to like almost everyday). Today was our day-HOORAY!!

We attempted story time and crafts at the public library(note to self, 18 month old WILL NOT sit through a story and crafts...what were you thinking??!!) Anyways, so I thought we would go to our favorite restaurant and eat and then afterwords have some free entertainment on the indoor playground.

Thankfully, there were many children in there who were nice, sweet children. Let me explain, a couple of months ago, Mom, Anderson and I went there. When I let Anderson go play, there was a four year old little boy in there who kept calling Anderson "poopey pants" you know kids can be MEAN! I know he was only 4, but I told him " I can hear you and I'm going to tell your momma" to which he begged me not too. Mom joked that I almost took out that little kid! I really didn't...:)
Today, Anderson got so excited that he really was "poopey pants" and I didn't change him until we got home. I KNOW the other kids could smell him, but they said not one word. I was just waiting if they did...


Are you that kind of momma(you know, CRAZY)? Come on make me feel better!

Weekend Wrap Up

It was a beautiful weekend here! The only bad thing was that the temperature was in the mid 70's and I don't like that, especially when I have given up my sandals already for winter shoes. I LOVE cold weather, in fact I would have loved to have moved somewhere it was very, very cold during the winters.

On Saturday, we took Anderson to the Ft. Worth Zoo, which is one of the top ten zoos in the U.S. It took us 4 Hours to get done with all of the exhibits. It's really neat! Have you noticed this trend, that we go to the zoo A LOT!! What can I say Anderson LOVES animals and really enjoys being outside, so we bought a season pass, which will give us something to do during the week when Adam is working.My mom, Nunna, got Anderson a pink flamingo when we went to the aquarium last week and he has not put "Mingo" down. He loves to look at Flamingos too! For some reason though he thinks they sounds like dogs, so he makes Mingo bark! Ha!

On Sunday, we went to a Methodist church in Arlington and it was not good at all! Not ONE person spoke to us and welcomed us to the church and we didn't see ANY people our own age there. So this Sunday we're gonna go to a LARGE Baptist church in Dallas with my cousin Meghan. This one has a contemporary service, which is more of what we are looking for. Hopefully people our age too!!

After church we went to the pumpkin patch and got some pictures of Anderson!

Here he is on his pumpkin


And falling off his pumpkin!

For moms of children age 18 months to 2nd grade my MIL gave me a fabulous website that we use here at the house for Anderson and he ADORES it! It's called www.starfall.com go use it, it's totally free and totally educational--it's a reading and music website! We love it!

She's leaving on that midnight plane to Georgia

Actually, she left this morning for Alabama and I am SO sad! My mom has been here for the last week and Anderson and I took her to hop a plane back to Dothan.

My mom validates me. Do you know what I mean by that? She makes me feel like a good mom, values my opinion as a mom and makes me feel loved unconditionally!

Before she left this a.m. we had a great time the last two days hanging out, going to the Texas Aquarium and to the mall to ride the carousel. Which, nunna let Anderson ride over and over again, because he kept saying "ride"!

Come back soon, we miss you already!

Even Annabelle and Gus miss you already, they're hungry again!Ha!

State Fair of Texas!

My momma is here! On Monday(Adam's last day before he had to start his new job) Mom, Anderson, Adam and I all struck out to the State Fair of Texas! Oh MY GOSH!!! The Peanut Festival has NOTHING on this place, well except we found no BOILED PEANUTS (gasp).

When we left our house on Monday morning, I went through the mental list that every mother should go over in her head- Milk -check, sippie cup-check - diapers- double check(that could be bad if none of those were with us). We got to the fair and I HAD NO CAMERA!!!! I left my beloved camera at home. I whined and whined an finally Adam bought me a disposable digital camera, but alas, I cannot upload the pics from the c.d. to our computer-UGHHHHH!!!

Anywho, so I have NO pictures and I'm super bummed! But a couple of cool points about the State Fair of Texas. 1. They have fried butter( I think I saw a guy in the line have a heart attack while eating it)

2. Oprah was there yesterday and taped her show from that location!!

3. The place is HUGE and is probably bigger than the city of Ashford.

So I thought I'd just throw up some cute shots of us and Anderson(cause when all else fails, show some cute baby pics-right?!)

This is for Mrs. Tami(Adam's mom) who wanted a picture of Adam of his first day of work.

Check out the VERY official name badge he's got...pretty governmental!

See you soon with pics of our comings and goings!

Ole Tide!

I'm really trying to blog everyday so I can keep you guys (all 3 of you) up to date. This morning we went to a neat flea market called Traders Village. They were having a BBQ cook off and our mouths were watering for some good ole Texas BBQ. Darnit!! They weren't selling any. We thought briefly about pretending to be judges, but decided against it :)

Texas is a funny place. You can feel one minute like you are right back at home in Alabama and then BAM the next minute you feel as if you have entered a WHOLE other country with Spanish being spoken around you and another different culture all together. Apparently, I better start learning to speak Spanish soon(it's kind of like that feeling in the nail salon, when the Vietnamese women are talking about you and laugh and look right at you). They sold everything from Elmo blankets with some Spanish words to ripped off bath and body products for 50 cents. We saw this tent and were headed to go tell them ROLL TIDE, but they had no clue who Tennessee was and were they were even located. HAHAHA!!!As I told you yesterday, Anderson LOVES to go play outside! Here is what he did when we weren't fast enough getting to the door.
And then when he was outside! Ha!
He can totally say Roll Tide...except it kinda comes out something like "Ole Tide" oh well we know what he means! :)
Just because we are in Longhorn country doesn't mean that we don't still support the Tide. Check out the shoes!

And they squeak too!

Mom comes in tomorrow for the week, I'm super glad! Adam's got to teach me how to drive in that 92 lane traffic on the way to the airport! UGHHHHH!!! Hopefully it will get above 60 while she's here! Or maybe not...I love it!

Stick in the mud

Today it was a whooping 54 degrees for our high!! We truly enjoyed this nice change of temperature. We had a great day just hanging around, and I didn't even take a shower. That, I classify as a pretty nice day!Anderson LOVES to go outside and is so super happy when he is outside, but when you bring him inside, he pitches a fit and says "bye" like you are torturing him. It's pretty hilarious because he will go to the door and say "bees" which means please! How can you tell him no(most of the time)? It really rained this morning and so we had puddles all over the place, and of course Anderson found a stick and was digging in the mud with it. And finally got mud in his mouth, ewww yuck! See the mud on his face...nice!
Check out Anderson's new kicks, we got him some little Converse shoes that match his daddy's!
We have a little balcony but had no furniture on it and that bothers me. So we went in search of furniture and finally found some. It is considered "out of season" now and was on MAJOR SALE!!

OUR NEW PATIO FURNITURE!!

Two quick questions for you guys:

1. What do/did you feed your kiddos for lunch? I know Anderson is so tired of turkey and mac and cheese or spaghetti o's and grapes. ICK!

2. What type of church do you go to and why do you like it? We are going to start church hunting this weekend and need some opinions on different religions.

Happy Fall!!