Pictures of Pictures

Here are the pictures I said I would post once we got them.
The first is our family picture for the pictoral directory at our churh, then the kids' school pictures, and lastly Aaden's soccer picture. Enjoy!!!

Road Trip

Last weekend Aaron and I made the trek to Asheville North Carolina for my cousin's wedding. It was a beautiful mountain wedding with a fun reception after. (There are NO pictures. We had our camera and took no pictures...sorry!)
We decided to drive to eliminate some of the cost and stress that accompanies flying. We drove there on Thursday, getting up about 3:30am to leave by 4:30am. It took us about 14 hours...whew!! We enjoyed ourselves Friday and Saturday and then got up Sunday morning and drove the 14 hours home! We had a great time, and we are almost fully recovered. Our legs and backs are still sore. By tomorrow I figure we'll be fine.

While on the road we decided to do a science experiment...do different gas stations' gas get different gas mileage?? The answer is YES!!! Exxon gas got us (in the Jetta) about 2 miles more per gallon...doesn't seem like that much? Well, it got us 30 more miles per tank! That ain't bad! I am not an advocate for Exxon, but I thought I'd just share our findings. (These findings are compared to Murphy, Fina, and Chevron.)
**Remember this is also highway driving, and it may not be so significant in town.
**This experiment has no official authenticity.

Fall is Here!!!

First of all are a couple pictures of my little worker bees. After the hurricane came through we had a mess of branches in our yard both front and back. My sweet babies were ready to lend a hand in the time of need.



Saturday evening we went to Moore Farms (in a little town called Bullard right outside of Tyler). It is this wonderful little pumpkin patch. We all had a blast.

Aaron and Rylan checking out the scenery.

Aaden in his duck hat. Why was he wearing that? He just decided that it was the thing to do.

Aaden poking his head through the pumpkin.

Rylan poking her head through the pumpkin.

The scarecrow lost his glove so Aaden was happy to help out.

Now Rylan has to take a shot. (We never got the glove to stay on his hand.)

Aaden holding hands with the tin man...aka the robot.

(We realized our kids have never seen The Wizard of Oz.)

Aaden was showing Rylan how to hold his hand.

She figured it out!!!

My sweet kiddos on the hay ride.

There are both their smiling faces!!!

My sweet handsome loving husband!

And he's off!!!

There she goes right behind big brother. They had so much fun running around the red dirt.

Rylan wanted to pull her pumpkin to the car in the wagon, only her pumpkin weighed only a few ounces. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen! She is very good at making me laugh.

Pumping water by hand is very fun.

And lastly we had a wonderful surprise on Sunday. Our friends the Steele kids were in town visiting their aunt and grandparents. (They moved to Fort Worth at the end of the summer. It was a very sad occasion. Not only did they go to school and church together, but they only lived about a block away from us.) Garrison came and sat with us during church. The boys (who are best buddies) loved seeing eachother. It was a very sweet reunion.