Fair pictures

I have a few fair pictures from our trip a couple of weeks ago. AEH loved it! She is already talking about going next year. She rode rides and ate a corn dog, cotton candy and a funnel cake. I had my favorites, grilled corn on the cob, a gyro and a funnel cake. SLH had some kind of steak sandwich and a cinnamon roll. EMH rode a couple of rides but he mostly enjoyed all the bright lights. His little finger didn't stop pointing the whole time we were there. We had great time and it was fun watching the kids enjoy themselves.

Mom and Dad met up with us and Granddad even rode a couple of rides. He went down the big yellow slide with AEH. He said the landing was a little rough. :)

And here is EMH and Juju. He is just a pointing!!

Riding the Merry Go Round.

This is SLH and EMH coming down the slide. EMH wasn't sure about this. He didn't have much expression. He looked like he was thinking "what in the world was that?"

AEH sliding down on a ride.

My girls trip.

Just as I had thought our girls trip was so much fun!!! We ate, shopped, played games, shopped some more and enjoyed catching up and talking about anything and everything. We stayed up late and as the nights went on getting in the bed got later and later. I think the last night it was around 3:00 in the morning. :) I am just now catching up on my sleep. We made a lot of new memories that we will never forget...from milk in a wine glass, backwards spelling in a game, misreading a name in a game and many more. I am already ready for next year. I think I am going to propose one during the spring. A year is just too long to wait.
Other than a wasp sting on EMH, everything went great here on the home front. I am very comforted and don't every have to worry,thanks to my wonderful husband and the grandparents. Actually one of the grandparents told me they didn't even want me to come home because they were having so much fun here. I don't take that any other way than a compliment to what fun children I have. :)
I did get some cute pictures.

We definitely did our part in helping out the economy. :) I think when we added up about how much we all spent, it was around 3,000 dollars all together. WOO HOOO! I bought a little of everything from clothes for all of us, a new purse :), shoes for the kids and I, sunglasses and jewelry and a Christmas present for SLH. I had been saving up because I knew I would find a lot of GOOD DEALS! :)

Eating at Desoto's.

I had me a feast on crab legs. They were GOOD!!!

All ready for our first shopping adventure.

Eating at The Original Oyster House. Oh, and by the way I lost a couple of pounds on the trip. I really tried to do portion control...or I guess it could have been all the walking from shopping. :) I have gained them back while being back home. :(


I will try to update later this week on our fun trip to the fair this past weekend.

I'm a big kid now!

EMH graduated to the tub this week. We have been bathing him in a little ducky float thingy, because he was scared of the big tub. After a couple of times, he decided he liked it.

He and sister playing together.

He can now stand alone and when he does, he wants us to clap for him. He even claps for himself. Also, he is cutting 2 teeth and drooling buckets. So you will notice the drool on his clothes. He leaves drool all over the floors and I've given up on trying to keep it wiped up. I was walking on the wood floor the other day and I slipped on it. Who knew drool could be dangerous.

And, one for good measure. The tigers play Florida this weekend. YIKES!!! SLH is going to Baton Rouge to the game. Man did he pick a tough one to go too. EMH wore his LSU outfit last Sunday because we are not sure this next Sunday will be appropriate.

I am going to Gulf Shores with some of my girl friends this weekend. I'll try to take lots of pictures in between all the fun!!!! YEA!!!!

Soccer and Sweet Moments

AEH had her first soccer game today. I have two words to describe her first game...NOT INTERESTED. She never did make contact with the ball. On the way home SLH and I decided that she was probably the worst on the team but we would never let her think that. We are fine if this is not her thing. We plan on trying whatever she wants to and this year we decided on soccer and gymnastics. She is just not showing any interest in this sport. Let me just put it this way... On the way to the field we saw her teacher from last year and she jokingly said "Is she going to get sweaty?". We laughed and said "we will see". She did have her coach laughing during the game because as she was lagging behind most of the game she was talking to him. He told us after the game how funny she was and that she was saying stuff like this... Molly (his daughter) and she were friends and that they were going to have a sleep over. SO not interested in soccer. She would cheer for the girls that scored and try to comfort the ones who got hurt. At least she was a good team mate. :) When leaving she actually said "I had fun playing soccer". We just laughed and said I guess that's all that matters. Our team actually has about 3 girls on it that are really good. They don't keep score so there is not a winner and the rules are not really followed. The rest of the season should be interesting for AEH and soccer.

This was the best family picture that we got.


AEH talking to her friend Molly.
She is actually in the middle of this run, you just have to look real close.

Off by herself. Where's the team???

She loved the water breaks. :)

EMH hanging out.


I have a couple of pictures of some sweet moments. Now that EMH is standing up and can stand alone, he will stand up holding AEH's hands and then hug her. It is just so sweet and she LOVES it. She always wants me to see and says "Awww, mommy look how sweet". We were in Kroger this past week and they were riding together in the car that's in front of the buggy and he leaned over on his on and put his head on her shoulder. It was so sweet.

Notice AEH's attire...a gown, red slippers that don't match and a Halloween headband.

Then, when we were coming home from the infamous soccer game. AEH said "look he's holding my hand."

They stayed like this for a while.

So thankful that God brought this brother and sister together. It is just more than we can comprehend at times and nothing short of amazing at how our family has been brought together. God is so good, and thankfully he is SO in control!