completely random pictures.....

So I don't really have anything exciting to blog about so I thought I'd share a few random pictures from my phone.

Here's Aydan with his BFF Hunter. Hunter is so good for putting up with Aydan :)

The Ballunar Festival was Halloween weekend so we didn't go but we still got to see some balloons out our window as they were headed over to Johnson Space Center. It was quite a sight. Danny and Kenzie counted almost 40 balloons in the air at one point.

Aydan at the park being goofy as usual. There's a dog park we've been going to (with the dog of course, lol) and next to the dog area is a playground that the kids like to play on.

This is so funny! I took the kids to dollar theater (yeah like the best thing EVER!) to see Despicable Me (great movie by the way.) They found these fake mustaches in the little quarter machines. Kenzie's looks more like a caterpillar on her face , lol! Nice!
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Other than that, we haven't really been up to much at all other than then normal stuff. I'm so ready to put up my Christmas tree but I'm forcing myself to wait until after Thanksgiving! I just love Christmas decorations so I can't wait! Plus I have a full size tree this year. Last year I just had a small 3 or 4 ft tree that we set up kinda last minute so I'm looking forward to this year. I even got a head start on my Christmas shopping-whoot whoot!

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Well thats all I can think of for now! Hope you all have a great week!

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Oh and just a side note, I'm thinking about changing the name of the blog to get rid of our last name-it just seems to be too personal. Any ideas please leave a comment. Thanks!!

Happy Halloween!!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!! Ours was pretty good. Our apartment building had a Halloween party with food and games for the kids on Wednesday night so we went to that. They also let the kids go trick-or-treating within the building. The pictures above of the kids were taken there. Aydan was Bumblebee the Transformer and Kenzie was a Witch.

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Then on Saturday night, we went to the Halloween festival at the park. Most adults and kids were all dressed up and they had music playing. There was lots of food and games and they even brought in a mobile home set up as a walk-through haunted house.
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We didn't go trick-or-treating this year. Some neighborhoods did theirs on Saturday and some on Sunday so it was kinda confusing. Plus, I really don't feel comofortable going to strangers' houses.
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Now that Halloween is over, I am getting very excited about Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up! I can't believe how fast time is going by! I've started a little bit of my Christmas shopping so I'm pretty proud of myself.
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Meet Hunter!!!!!!!!!!

This is our new little buddy, Hunter. We adopted him from a local shelter. Hunter is the name he's had his whole life so we thought it'd be best to just leave it so we didn't confuse him. He's a 2 year old pug/daschund (weiner dog) mix. We picked him up Tuesday night after waiting since Saturday to see if we were approved. He had 3 applications turned in on him and they decided to pick us since we had small children and they thought he would do best with a family our size. Woo Hoo!!

We couldn't have asked for a more well-behaved dog! He doesn't jump; he doesn't bark; he doesn't beg for food (much, lol). At first Aydan was a little leary of getting close to him because he'd never really been around dogs much and he gets scared when they bark at him. Eventually he warmed up to him and now he won't stay away. He wanted the dog to sleep with him in his bed. Kenzie loves him and didn't want to go to school today because she wanted to stay home and play with the dog.

He does great on a leash. They weren't sure if he was house-trained but he must be because he's been doing awesome at "going" outside, not inside.

When we sat at the table to eat supper, he layed by the doorway and didn't try jump up at the table or anything.

He loves his stuffed animals.
Kenzie and her new sidekick.

Now the big question---What can I dress him up as for Halloween??? LOL!!

Outdoor pics

Pictures from our museum tours....

Giant eyeball at the Health Museum.

Giant brain at the Health Museum.

Riding the metro on the way up to Museum District.

The rest of the pics are from the Natural Science museum......

time flies when you're having fun.....

I can't believe its been so long since my last post!! September is almost over and it seems like just yesterday it had just begun!

We've just been busy keeping up with life. Our days are not long enough! Danny goes to class 3 days a week, which didn't sound like much when he first signed up, but now that he's doing it, its a lot. Its going good though. He's in Math and Comp. 1 right now and needless to say, he's been busy with homework and studying. He's doing great, especially considering its been like 12 years since he was in high school :) I've thought about going back myself but there's no way we could both do it at the same time so we'll have to see what happens.

Kenzie's doing well in school so far. She had to memorize the Pre Amble to the US Constitution! Can you believe that! I don't remember having to do that in 3rd grade; I thought it was more like Jr. High? Yesterday, she came home and said that they moved her to a different classroom. I guess her school got a new 3rd grade teacher and they took 5 students from each of the other classes to fill up the new teacher's class and she happened to be one of the students. So hopefully she likes her new teacher as well as she liked her old teacher! I guess we'll find out today.

I had my Golden birthday on Monday; 27 on the 27th. Now I'm just one year closer to 30 :( I'm freaking out about that age!! On Saturday, the museum district had its annual free day for 17 different museums so thats what we decided to do. Well, I think everyone in Houston had the same idea because it was absolutely crazy! We went to Natural Science museum first. Aydan loved to see the big dinosaurs! There was just so many people that we couldn't really stop and take our time looking at things. After that I really wanted to take the kids to the Childrens Museum, which was a few blocks away from the Natural Science museum so we walked. Well, the line to get in wrapped around the corner so we didn't even try to wait in line. We went across the street to the Health museum. And again, it was so packed you really couldn't see much. It was pretty neat though because there was a tour of inside the human body which was cool. After we left that museum we decided to call it quits. The kids were tired, bored, and hungry by then so we went and had lunch.

This week we've finally enjoyed some fairly cooler weather. Its been in the low 80's during the day and around 65 at night so I can finally open the windows and let some fresh air in. Its been nice not have to run the A/C much anymore. Hopefully this cool trend continues because I'm so ready for it!! :)

I'm looking forward to Halloween coming up next month. I've been trying to think of some costume ideas for the kids. When I ask them what they want to be Kenzie says she wants to be a princess or a witch and all Aydan says is that he wants something with a mask.

Well, thats about all thats going on in our lives right now. Keep checking back for more updates :)

Labor Day Weekend Recap: Grillin', fishin' and relaxin'

We enjoyed our long Labor Day weekend but they always end too soon. We did a little fishing and on Sunday we went to the park to grill out.

This is just Aydan being silly.

Walking down the dock with his new fishin' pole. Now he's ready to catch some big fish!

After we ate our dinner we of course had to make s'mores. Yum Yum!!

Sorry, these pictures are not in any special order.

Danny and Kenzie went fishing one morning at our building and he caught a catfish, well actually he caught 3 catfish. This is a picture of one of them.

Aydan getting ready to cast his line out. The kids never did catch anything but they had a blast anyway.