Starting the fall in Texas

Well, as most of you know we are looking forward to the fall in Texas. Boy, it was a hot summer and we get really tired of the heat day after day for months. Mark works out in it and comes home and is just exhausted from the heat just sucking all of his energy out of him. We just celebrated Abigail's birthday on Sept 18th. We had a small little party on her actual birthday for her little neighbor friends and then we had a big celebration on the Friday night after. It was so much fun. We had it here in Weatherford and had 60+ people come. We have a lot of friends and wanted to have all of them there. We catered it from a mexican place here in town and it was a big hit. If any of you know who Dora the Explorer, well that is who the "theme" was. Abigail is in love with that show and that is all we have heard for months. So, now that we have heard nothing but Dora for so long, mommy and daddy are really tired of her. I think in the future, we will not do a theme and go with something a little more subtle. Our little man, Aidan is 7 1/2 months now and is just growing like a weed. I am so in love with him and he is just the best baby we have ever known. Both of our kids bring us so much joy. We don't know what life would be without them. I am loving being a mom. It keeps me busy and on my toes.

Our lives are always busy with church activities and spending time with family. Mark's sister was just here from Africa for 2 weeks. The time flew by so fast and as always, it was not near enough time. We tried to squeeze as much as we could with her and had a lot of fun times. She went home to her family and the entire family are planning a trip home for furlow in mid-November of next year. We are counting down the time already. We miss them.

Well, it is getting late and I must start getting my kids ready for bed. It is Sunday night and we are relaxing after a busy weekend. We have a pretty calm week and are planning to go out of town next weekend to visit friends. The next weekend we are having a neighborhood garage sale.... I can't hardly wait...NOT!! I hate doing them, but we are trying to get rid of so much junk.

Some of these pictures are a few we have taken over the past few weeks.

We love you all and I can't wait to hear back from you guys soon.