School Parade

Today, all the kids at Cadynce's school got to dress up as their favorite storybook character.  Cadynce dressed up as Pinkalicious.  After signing her in at school, we waited outside at the pumpkin patch for the kids to come out and parade around, and to show off their costumes.  The kids were so cute, and Cadynce was all smiles.  She was so excited to walk around with her friends and wave to Mommy, Daddy, and Donnie.  View Album for more pictures.

Pumpkin Fun

This weekend was our weekend to get a pumpkin and visit the apple orchard that has all kinds of fun things for kids to do.  We call it a pumpkin patch, but really the pumpkins are brought here from New Mexico.  It's a beautiful 45 minutes drive, and it's the same place we visited last year.  View Album for more pictures.

Our Little Vacation

We had our first solo vacation since Cadynce was born.  Don's parents were so kind and SO brave to spend the weekend with Cadynce and Donnie while we went camping.  That's right, we decided to skip flying to some resort or a more "popular" vacation site.  We drove to the Hill Country about an hour and a half away and set up our tent.  We brought our bikes along, and we went exploring before it got dark.  We decided to check out the biking/hiking trails this place is so proud of.  I would call it more of a hike your bike kind of trail.  I started to get a little nervous as it was getting darker, and we were not familiar with the trails or the life that was surrounding us.  Don told me he saw a wolf and I was kicking myself for not bringing my mace.  We made it out alive and with a little daylight left.

Saturday morning we went for another hike your bike, but we decided to try a different area that was supposed to be easier...WHATEVER!!!  I think it was actually harder, but at least we knew what to expect this time.  It was like a roller coaster of rocks that we had to either push our bikes up or try to keep them from sliding down.  It was actually a fun adventure and we loved the challenge.  We left the campgrounds to have lunch at a cool place that overlooked the lake, and then we visited a winery.  I've never been to a winery and it was not what I expected at all.  I was bummed that they didn't have tours of the place on weekends, but it was a very relaxing enjoyable place to hang out.  That night we went for one more bike ride around the park this time.  We stayed on the road that took us all the way around the park.  We saw a fox and lots of deer along the way.  We spent the rest of our evening sitting by the fire listening to music and talking.  Our trip was awesome and we can't wait to take the kids camping with us next time.  View Album for more pictures.


Grandpa and Mimi kept pretty busy while we were gone.  They went to Chuck E. Cheese, the park, Toys R Us, and the mall.  Donnie scored a new train that he can ride on or he can sit and play with the alphabet blocks.  It sings, plays music, and teaches the alphabet.  He is really loving his new train.  Cadynce actually wants to go outside to ride her new four wheeler.  She had no trouble learning to maneuver her four wheeler so I think we'll start teaching her to parallel park next:)  View Album for more pictures.

Stitches Are Out!!

Today was the day Cadynce has been dreading since getting her stitches put in.  The whole way there she was about in tears about getting them out and saying she didn't want it to hurt.  She kept asking me if it was going to hurt.  I told her it I wasn't sure and it might hurt a little, but we were going to take her sheep in so she could hug him if it did hurt.  The crying started before the nurse even touched her, and it continued as she cut each one out.  He poor sheep about lost his head.  In the middle of her crying she requested that I sing Jesus Loves Me...that poor nurse had to listen to me sing!!!  It didn't take long, but it was long enough!!  We got out of there as fast as we could.