"CATCH UP..CATCH UP..CATCH UP!!!"

We have had another amazing week & weekend and boy o' boy am I waaaayyyyyy behind on this blogging stuff .. hahahaha .. tomorrow's agenda - upload pictures and blog away!!! Cant wait to share all the fun stuff we have been up to!!!

"PUMPKIN PATCH #1"

Last Friday night we joined the Creel Family (thank you guys so much for the invite, we had a great time) at the MacDonald Ranch Pumpkin Patch and the kids had so much fun they are still talking about it!!! We had to take a wagon ride over to where the pumpkins were and on the way back Charlotte, Trey & Rhett got to drive the horses!! I had one rule when picking out pumpkins and that was "you can only have it if you can carry it to the truck" without daddy there to help I wasn't about to be luggin' 4 big ol' pumpkins back!!! Although Michael did inform me that Trey was getting the short end of the stick with that rule .. with his broken arm and all!! lol!! The next day I let the kids paint faces on their pumpkins since it was waaayyy to early to carve them and I was pretty impressed with the end result!!

Prop's to the artists:(left to right) Charlotte, Trey, Rhett & Rilyn(Momma)

Drivin' the wagon back from the pumpkin patch!!

Wagon ride to the pumpkins!!

"RILYN & the three B's"

Blanky, Binky & BearBear!! The girl loves her b's and drags them around with her everywhere she goes ... here she is caught in the action!!! Poor BearBear is in desperate need of a bath!!

"OUR PROUD KINDERGARTNER"

Last night we went to an Open House at Trey's school and he got to show us all around his classroom and show us what his day at school is like ... oh my goodness was he EXCITED and PROUD!!! It was way too cool he COULD HARDLY WAIT to introduce us to all his friends, show us his table, playground, cubby, and all the cool stuff around his class!! He even took me over to introduce me to his teacher, which was so funny because we have met & talked many of times, but of course I just played it off and let him do his thing!!! I am so so so happy that he is loving school and has made lots of friends!! Mrs. McMahon says that he is an awesome student and having no problems at all even with his broken arm!!

"ROCK GARDEN"

The kids love to find "cool" rocks and drag them home ... which leads to me finding them all over the house, in their rooms on their headboards, in the closets, etc.. A while back I ended up giving each of them a shoe box to keep all the things that they "collect" in!!! This week we decided to start a rock garden so the kids each picked out one of the rocks from their collections and we painted them (the boys insisted that I paint one for Rilyn because that would make her really happy). Then we found an area in the back yard to designate to the start of our rock garden!! Cant wait to see what the garden looks like in a few months!! If I know my kids at all ... I have no doubt it will grow quickly!!!

"FUN FILLED WEEKEND"

Building monster truck jumps in the sand box!! As you can see its time for another load of sand!!

Swingin' in her new swing that she cant get enough of!!

After a long day at the race track on Saturday we came home, unloaded the truck & trailer and piled into the ranger for a little evening ride (with everyone in their own seat..finally got it back from the shop having the back seat and new role bar put on)!! Rilyn LOVED it, rockin her goggles and a smile from ear to ear!! Sunday was all about football & playing in the yard with a little water hopscotch, monster trucks, etc ...!! Awesome weekend and now mom and dad want to know when we get our weekend from our weekend .. lol!!!

"RHETT'S 1ST RACE"

We are sooo proud of our lil man .. he did such an awesome job on his first race!! There were a couple times that he decided to just make his own track and got a little off course, lol, but it was a BIG track and a little confusing!! I was so nervous going into this race, but Rhett Man kicked butt and had so much fun! Looks like I might as well suck it up and get used to it because we now are officially going to have 2 racers on the track!! Trey was such a trooper and so supportive of his brother .. on the way to the race he told Rhett "I cant wait to watch you race, you are gonna do sooooo good"!! Melted my heart!!