Girl Time

Never thought i would say this but Justin Bieber Concert was so fun he is a really good singer and dancer.

New York My mom got into the NY Marathon so she gave us a girls trip before hand. Unfortually the Marathon got canceled which was crazy because NY was fine. I know some people lost everything but overall it was okay. It was a fun trip with a lot of stories. Dad and Hayli getting into the Marathon, Marathon being canceled, meeting Jack for the first time, Jack pooping on me, walking a ton, shopping, 3 Tylenol PM's during the day, Shows, leaving the show while sitting in the third row, Live with Kelly & Michael, being on TV, being picked to be the dancer then to find out you had to wear bikini's, and the list goes on. We had to much fun and didn't want to leave.

Nutcracker Market

Weekly/Daily Activities

Our fun weekly/daily activities: Aspen loves school. It's nice on Weds. because I drop Emmy off at my parents and then take Aspen to school. I love spending one on one time with her for about 15 min before school starts just talking. Emmy always into something just as I clean that up and turn around she's moved on the something else. Scripture study Walks to park, mail box or the lake. Bird/Squirrel watching. The girls love it. I think it was initially put up to help me with my squirrel fobia but it hasn't helped.

Open House

Aspen has been talking about open house at her school for awhile and it finally came. She actually had been saying her school was having a "Haunted House" I was a little confused but it was October. Emmy was just excited to go and explore her class room

Pecan Picking

We lived in Wharton for 3 years and one of our favorite things about living there were there was an unlimited about of pecans. Brady liked to pick and I like to eat so it was a win win deal. We decided it would be a fun family tradition to go every year and pick them and drive around to show our kids our first house. It was a lot of fun they were both big helpers until I turned around and the bag that Emmy was holding was blowing down the road. Luckly I found the pill of pecans that had fallen out so it wasn't a total waste.

Fall Fun

October is always filled with so many fun activities because usually the weather is amazing. Most of October was that way this year too. Here are some fun fall traditions we have and some other fun things as well. Pumpkin Patches Old McDondald's Farm Carving Pumpkins, this year we painted pumpkins too, and Aspen couldn't get enough of that Halloween Party's Zoo Boo Botanical Gardens Camping

Halloween

Celebrating Halloween with our family. Feel so blessed to live so close by so many! Aspen has been into witchs so she choose to be a witch and of course we had to have a theme so Emmy was her kitty. Aspen was so excited that Emmy was a kitty she wanted her to sit on her broomstick and fly away with her. There were a couple of drama days for Halloween parties because Aspen decided she wanted to me a kitty too. She was a witch with whiskers on that day, so we were all happy. She is already talking about what she wants to be next year. I love it.

Life as a single mom

Brady has been out of town vacationing, or if you want you can call it working, for two weeks in Japan. I'm not bitter at all ha ha. It is up on the list of places I want to go to hopefully someday we can go back together.
The girls have been pretty good until today. I'm counting down the hours until he gets home and then I'm off to get a pedicure and manicure all by myself with no one to talk to me or call me mama. I can't wait!
It's amazing what gets down and doesn't get down when your husbands gone for that long. I've accomplished a lot of crafts. To name a few, 3 wreaths, most of the friendie friday crafts, 15ish sewing outfits, conference board, felt scripture board, and all stop there.
I have a more appreciation for single moms and Brady. Raising kids is a two man show even if the husband or wife is gone to work.
Aspen and Emmy have learned how far they can push me and they sure do work it. In the last two weeks I've seen some characteristics that I'm scared of in the future. Hopefully I can learn to channel and they choose to use those for good. I'm glad today is over I wasn't a nice mom today at all. Time to sleep and restart tomorrow.

Branson

We went on a fun family trip to Branson with Brady's family this year. The last time the whole family has been together was our wedding which was 7 1/2 years ago, a crazy thought. We sure have grown since then! Here are some fun pictures of the trip

 Moonshine beach

 I've always wanted to do the Skyline

 Rollercoasters and the park. Aspen just wanted to go faster with her hands up. Emmy loved it too and of course loved to eat all day long.

 Tubbing and swimming

 Who says you can't ski or wakeboard behind a pantoon boat, We did it!

 Cousins

 Family Pictures I don't think they ever get easy no matter how old people are!

Ok City

These pictures are a little out of order. We stopped at OK City before we went to Bransen. It is always fun staying in a hotel for a couple of nights with the girls. We eat lots of good food, we to the science muesum which they loved. I wish I could say the next two pictures(the ones where they are sleeping) is what they did the whole way there but they didn't. I actually think those are pictures on the way home, a rare moment. Emmy did and wanted everything Aspen did or had. It was a long 10hr drive there. Emmy screamed the whole way, later we found out she was getting two teeth, I guess that is why. We won't be taking any road trips for awhile!

 

 This is really what the ride looked like!!