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It was such a pleasure to have my parents be able to join us for the Halloween festivities. We don't do a lot around here to celebrate...but we do take the girls (well, okay only one girl now cause Shayna is getting to old to want to trick or treat with us anymore ;()) to trick or treat around the neighborhood and then we stay at the house to pass out candy to all of the neighborhood kids. It's a good time (and it allows me to get rid of all the candy we don't want from the previous trick or treating since we go a little on the early side haha) we regift some of our candies. ;) This year was Addison's first year to trick or treat - I figure it seemed silly to take her last year since she wasn't allowed to eat any of it and couldn't really ask for it nor give a thank you when receiving it. This year she was all kinds of into it though! She said trick or treat at every door and happily took whatever and however much candy they would allow her to have! Then she s...

Addison cracks us up DAILY! She is always dancing around and saying things funny - like wrinkling her nose and wiggling while she says stuff. For instance...when she would really like for you to give her a pack of "fruit snacks" she will come up to you with a gleam in her eye and say "Do you like fruit snacks?" in her own little cute lispy way and with a wrinkled nose doing a little jig and head tilted just a bit. It's really hard not to just laugh at her. Most of the time we respond that YES..we love fruit snacks...does she? and she will respond back... YAY! Let's get them! haha such a character. Well for the last 6 months or so I have been trying to get her in her natural element saying this, just so we can have it for when she grows up...maybe to play it at her wedding or something..haha...who knows ;) She is pretty much always uncooperative once the camera comes out and will not repeat her question/request. So this time...I told her I would give h...

Addison and I had a great visit to the Arboretum with Ashely and her kids Grayson and Presley. I think we did more picture taking than we did playing this time...but it was a fun day and the weather was beautiful! I am looking forward to going again soon!

It has become something of a tradition to go to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch during the month of October....at least once...typically 2-3 times. We love it out there! They have pumpkins a plenty, tons of character cut outs put up for the younger crowd, a "hay maze" with a slide at the end, a HUGE turtle, couple of pigs, and a horse. They even have a hay ride pulled by a tractor and a pumpkin house, as well as several bounce houses. All of this is FREE! There are picnic tables set up so that you can bring a lunch with you and enjoy sitting down to eat with your kiddos. Then there is my personal favorite part. If you knock on the door of the house and request jelly's they will sell you homemade jelly's and jams that are out of this world! I was very sad that I did not get any this year. I will have to go back for their Christmas tree set up and buy some then. :D Anyway, we had a great, but short visit there this year and unfortunately never made it back. :( ...