My sweet THREE year old boy!

Today, Tripp turns 3!  It has been such a pleasure being his mommy and watching him grown!  Love you Tripp!!!!

And there's our streaker!!!

During our Community Life Groups, Tripp & Adalyn, my friend April's almost 1 1/2 year old, got into the sunscreen and painted Tripp.  She was crying because it was on her feet and she was slipping.  Hope this isn't a sign of things to come!!!

And she did it again!!!

Yep, Sadie cut her hair again!!!  And her babysitter, Bailey, told us that she told her she wants scissors to cut more!

 The cut

The fixed hairstyle, thanks to the fabulous Amanda!

Breakfast with Santa

Can you Believe Santa and Mrs. Claus came to our church to eat breakfast with us?!?!  And I forgot the camera!!!

Thanksgiving and a kick off to Christmas

Thanksgiving was spent this year at Chicher's and Uncle Steve's in Keller.  And the food was exactly as expected... FABULOUS!  We spent the day with them and the kids had a blast!  That night we stayed at Mimi & Poppy's house, while they were enjoying the gorgeous Hawaii!!  The next morning we woke up, got ready and headed to the Gaylord in Grapevine.  We have made it a tradition to go every year around Thanksgiving for the past 3 years.  Before we would drive to San Antonio, but decided The Gaylord was better and closer.  And what's even better.... the Marriot bought it and that means we get our 2nd night free in Nov. since it's Jeff birthday.  We got to meet up with The Hurst family and visit with them... plus eat at a new pizza place, The Mellow Mushroom!  Definitely a new favorite!  That night Nana and Don came by to say hi and happy birthday to Jeff (his birthday was Sunday).  We sat on Santa's lap, enjoyed our gorgeous view, met all the Dreamorks team (Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, The Penguins, & Gingy).  The kids got to decorate gingerbread people too.  It was a really fun time!!

Tripp's 3rd birthday party, early!

We decided to do Tripp's birthday a whole month early this year.  It seems that once Thanksgiving comes, things a a bit too crazy and busy, so lets have a great party before the crazy starts.  We had awesome weather and so many great friends come, plus Mimi and Nana!  Couldn't have asked for anything better!

I wish I got more pictures during the party.  I'm awful about remembering to use my camera!

Uh oh... I've done it again!

I keep falling behind on posting... Oops! Well here's a few pics from my phone to fill you in on what we've been up to.

We took the kids to Culen's Market and let them pick out the PERFECT pumpkin!  And that they did!  Then we took it home and cut it out.  The kids named him "Happy Pumpkin."  We also got a smaller pumpkin and did a kit that is like Mr. Potato Head and made him "Super hero Pumpkin."  I'm so upset with myself!  I completely forgot to take a picture of the finished products!

Sadie had a project at school.  She had to take the little pumpkin pictured home with her over the weekend.  They had to take pictures with him doing different things.  Then they went back to school and "wrote" stories about the pictures.  Here is "Stanky Franky" eating homemade donuts.

This is me and some very special friends of mine!  April's company hosted "A Nite at the Races" and she was in charge of prepping this fun night! Jeff sponsored a race so it was very fun to get a little competitive.  It was a very COLD night outside, but still worth it!

Here are the kids at April's company's booth at the Chamber's Trick or Treating.  Farm Bureau had a Fishin' for Candy booth.  Obviously, you can see the NASTY bruise on Tripp's face.  The night of Nite at the Races Tripp fell off the barstool in our kitchen and hit the tile.  He had a big goose egg, which turned into a nasty black eye the next morning.  Poor little guy!

Here's "Stanky Franky" again at Sadie's soccer game.  It was SO cold that morning.  I think the temp was 43!

"Stanky Franky" roasting marshmallows with Me and Sadie.  We roasted hot dogs that night too!  We've used our fire pit quite a bit this season.  We love it!

Sadie and Tripp before Brown County's Annual Convention!  It was the first year that it has been at the Coliseum.  They had just under 600 attend!  I'm so proud of the work Jeff has done in the 3 years we have lived here!  I'm also quite proud of how well his office works together!  Great agents, great secretaries!  They have come a long ways!

Jeff and and his Minnie Me before convention.  Tripp's favorite thing is to look like daddy.  He asks Jeff often, "I'm a boy like you, daddy?"  What used to be my mamma's boy has completely become his father's son!

Tonight we met some sweet friends at the park for a picnic.  The kids had such a great time and I enjoyed catching up with my sweet friend.  Sadie and Anslee have been friends since Sadie was about 16 mo. old and Anslee was about 8 mo. old.  Its so sweet to watch them play together!