Snow in Texas!?

One morning in the beginning of December, we awoke to a beautiful snow. It only snowed for about 45 minutes, but it was a pretty snowfall. The boys were glued to the window watching the flakes fall. I think this is the first time they remember seeing it snow. They had preschool that morning so I bundled them up and took a quick photo with the snow before they headed off to school.



Surprisingly, it snowed two more times in December (Christmas Eve and a couple of days before New Years)! Christmas Eve it even snowed enough for the boys to have a snowball fight with their daddy. They loved it, but unfortunately I didn't get any pics!

Photo shoot

November went by with a blink of an eye, and it looks like I didn't take many pictures! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our families. The day after Thanksgiving my sisters and I got together and took the boys to the park for a little photo shoot for Christmas cards.

Brendan in red, Collin in brown











And here's a picture that caught a glimpse of my growing baby belly (more on that soon)

Imagination at work

One afternoon Brendan decided to make a choo-choo train out of our ottomans and whatever else he could find. Collin joined in and they had an hour of fun just using their imagination. I love watching them be creative!

Please excuse the lack of pants..

Trick or Treating

Our superheroes had a great time trick-or-treating this year! They were really good about saying "trick or treat" at each door, and didn't want to stop! I didn't take too many pictures because I was so tired from working all day...but here are my superheroes.

In the Halloween spirit

We carved a pumpkin for the first year with the boys and they had a blast. Mike complained about how long it took to carve Cookie Monster though, so we only got one pumpkin carved!

Please excuse the clothes-less boys, but pumpkin carving is messy!

The final product, Cookie Monster:

And a pic of the boys in cute Halloween PJs that Aunt Mandy got them:

Flower Mound Pumpkin patch

We have started a yearly tradition of going to the Flower Mound pumpkin patch with our friends Amie & Andy and their kids Sam & Lyla. It is always a fun time, but again, this year was very muddy and cold. Hoping for better weather next year! I also need to remember to a group picture of everyone, since it's become a tradition!

Again, Brendan in blue and Collin in brown:

Here is the only picture I got of Sam with the boys






Collin on the bouncy house

Brendan on the bouncy house (he looks so small here!)

Pumpkin patch at the Arboretum

We met some friends at the Dallas Arboretum for fun at their pumpkin patch. Unfortunately it was cold and had been raining for days so it was really muddy. We still had a great time but I came home with two very muddy boys!!

Brendan in blue, Collin in brown



Boys with their friend Presley

Really cool pumpkin house

Group picture of all the (uncooperative) kids