A few pictures

I FINALLY put the pictures up from the lake and the pumpkin patch in Marble Falls. Scroll all the way down to see them.
Enjoy!

School Pictures

We got the kid's school pictures back last Thursday. They are so cute. Just see for yourself. (Scroll all the way down.)
Also I posted a couple other pictures. One is of my silly son finger painting. He is quite a character. The other picture is just a picture of Rylan looking cute.
(In Rylan's pictures I am sure that you will notice the bows. I LOVE HUGE bows. I put them in her hair as much as possible, but unlike her mommy, she does not care for them. She pulls them out like 30 seconds after I put them in her hair. So in these pictures I had just put the bow in. I am going to keep trying, but I'm sure when she gets older she is going to tell me to get real!)

Ok, one more thing. Why don't I put the pictures on the posts you ask? Because we have slow internet + slow computer and it won't let me add pictures to my posts. So you will just have to scroll down if you want to see the pictures. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm doing my best. I keep trying every now and again and like 3 hours later I still can't get the pictures on the posts. Oh well. It sets our blog apart from the rest.

We have fall fest tonight. It is a GIANT fundraiser for ACA. It's like a carnival type thing with rides and games and a silent auction. We are trying to raise money to get sunshades to cover the play ground. (As of right now there is NO shade, and it gets really really really HOT!!!) The kids are getting dressed up in their costumes, which are going to be so so so cute. What are they going to be? You'll have to wait and see. I will post pictures next week. Trust me it will be worth the wait. It's really cute!
Have a great weekend!

What's going on in the Thomas House?

School is still going really well for all of us. I am having so much fun teaching! The kids are all so funny and entertaining. Aaden and Rylan are both loving their classes. They are both learning so much. I realize we didn't sing very much in our house when Aaden was little (ok, he's still little, but when he was really little) because he is learning so many new songs that maybe I should have taught him before he was 3. He does have Happy Birthday down (he sang it to my mom 3 times), and a song that he made up called Baby Jesus. I am really trying to work with him on The ABC's. He's doing great! Rylan is just talking talking talking. She is saying so many words, and whew watch out because she is BOSSY! (I wonder where she gets that from.) If she wants you to do something she will walk right up to you and grab your hand and take you wherever she wants you to go. She however has not been feeling well this week. She's been running a high fever and the doctor said she had a very sore throat (but you wouldn't know it by how much she is still eating). She has stayed home from school this whole week, but I hope she will be well and can return tomorrow, Thursday...the day I work. This past Monday was a holiday for ACA (our school) and the kids and I don't have school on Friday so we took the long weekend and went to visit my parents. We had a great time and we got to see Aunt Sissy and Uncle Seth! (My sister Laila and her fiance Seth now live in Austin and are getting married in February. Yay!) We went paddle boating, and kayaking, and fishing, and on the motor boat, and we went swimming at the island in the middle of Lake Buchanan. It was great. We had a really fun weekend. Sunday afternoon Meme and Poppy took the kids to a little farm outside of Marble Falls where they had a pumkin patch and a hay ride and a tractor and cool crafts and such. There are lots of pictures from that, but I just don't have them yet (Dad, hint hint.) I will post them as soon as I get them. They all had a great time! What did I do during that time? I stayed at their house by myself! It is a rare occasion when I am by myself...it was GREAT!!! We came back Monday, and jumped right back into life in Longview.
Aaron had a great weekend too. He stayed in Longview by himself and got to hang out and be a guy (a rare occasion for him). He hung out with his cousins and watched football. He hung out with his dad and did bow and arrow stuff. He went to see his grandmother, and got to visit with her. So, no worries, he had a great weekend even though the love of his life was not with him. :)


Now some sad news. Tuesday we found out that a long time family friend, Linda Judd, died over the weekend. Her death is sudden and very tragic. Please be praying for her family and close friends. I believe her services will be early next week in Austin. I am sorry to end on such a sad note, but it is really weighing on my mind and my heart, and I know they need all the thoughts and prayers they can get. So please pray for them!

Paris, Home, Paris, and back home

Guess where I spent much of this week! That's right...Paris! (Texas that is) Tuesday I had to go to the dentist to get one of my teeth worked on (which still looks beautiful by the way) and he (Dr. Clint my dentist) put a temporary filling in the back of my tooth. Well, temporary is definitely the key word because by the next day I had already knocked much of the filling out of my tooth. So I called him, and he said that I needed to come back if at all possible. Of course it was possible so I went and got Aaron (because we were temporarily down to one car due to a broken water pump in my Yukon), then we went to get the kids, and then back to Paris we went (it's a 2 hour drive by the way). It was good though because the second trip we got to see Rachel and Roselyn (Dr. Clint's wife and little girl, oh and Clint is Jaymie Phillip's brother, so that's how it's all tied together, and Aaron knew all these guys from summer camp when they were all in college). Even though Roselyn wasn't feeling well she was still so so so cute! She is 11 months old, and walking (and falling too) and has the prettiest red curly hair anyone has ever seen. She is cute as a doll!
Needless to say my tooth is fixed (I will actually smile big again), my car is fixed, and hopefully this week won't be as crazy as last week, but hey, that's up to God. We do have a full week, but if all goes as planned then we will have atleast a little down time, something none of us have had since school started.
School is still going well. I am loving it more and more each day. The kids are all so wonderful and bright. I think I may walk away with more from them than them from me. My 2 kids are doing great, well except for Aaden's fever. He actually seems to be feeling fine, but keeps running fever of 101 to 102. We started antibiotics last night, so hopefully we will have a full week of school ahead of us. (We did skip church this morning though just to be sure no one else gets sick.)Aaden has a fieldtrip on Tuesday to this awesome place called Pump It Up. It is this giant warehouse with huge blow up things in it that the kids can jump on and slide down and crawl through. It's a blast (in fact I've already booked Aaden's 4th birthday to be there...yes you have to do it that far in advance.) Rylan and Aaden both have school pictures on Wed. Yay! Me and my anal self already have the kid's clothes picked out. Ok, not just for that day, but for the whole week too. I know I'm wierd, I don't care though. It will be a GREAT week!

School has begun

We had a great first couple days of school. The kids did well, and seem to really be having a great time. Rylan really loves school, and Aaden has fun once he gets there. Aaden has had a couple of problems, but I am optimistic that he will settle down and start behaving himself better...REALLY SOON!!! I loved my first day of teaching! I had a blast, and the kids seemed to really enjoy themselves too. We had music on Monday, and we are going to have Spanish tomorrow. I hope it goes as well as music.
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