Cruisin' the Hood

Marin and our neighbor boy love to play together in the afternoons.  Despite their age difference (he's 7), they typically play very nicely together.   

Marin got these pink glasses for her 'treasure' at school.  

She wore them all day and looked cute as a button!

 Even though Alexander could barely fit in Marin's Jeep, she insisted that he go for a drive with her!
These two are hilarious together and we are grateful to have a friend to play with everyday!

The quote that followed this picture:
"Boys are silly, Mama!" 

While Sister's Away….

While Sister was away at school, Baby Brother nibbled on her candy!

Sloan had the best time digging through Marin's Halloween candy and trying to eat it!
He giggled and played like this for about 30 minutes! 

Never underestimate the power of candy!  :)

"Will my sister be gone again tomorrow?"

He was so proud…

 

CC & Jaybo

Chris and Jason were roomies all through college and continue to be best buds.  Chris recently got engaged and we had the pleasure of meeting his beautiful soon-to-be-bride, Katie.  Marin always loves it when we have company, but she especially adored Katie!  

Chris and Katie's last day before heading to a wedding in San Antonio.

Jason & Chris used to love playing frisbee golf in college, so they thought it would be fun to play in Austin.  Originally, the girls were going to stay home and hang out, but Katie decided at the last minute to go.  Marin of course had to tag along.  As it turned out, Marin had a blast playing but one of the last throws of the game she chucked the frisbee right into Katie's Ray Ban sunglasses and shattered them.  UGH.  Fortunately, Katie only suffered a small scratch on her face, but her sunglasses were not as lucky.  Marin still talks about her 'wild' frisbee throw.

Thanks for making the trip to Austin!  We'll bring this wild crew to you next time!

 

Happy Halloween

Marin wanted to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween, so that meant baby brother would be Mickey Mouse.  She came out for breakfast on Halloween morning dressed as a ladybug and fluttered around most of the day! 

 The last 3 years we have gone trick-or-treating with the Pzynskis in our neighborhood.  It's always great fun! This year they went ALL out and as a family (grandma & grandpa too!) dressed up as the Scooby Doo clan.  It was hilarious.  Our neighbor, Beth (i.e. The Wolf) has a little party each year so we always start and end our Halloween there.  Marin loves Beth, but is terrified of the wolf costume.

 In front of Beth's house getting ready to go!

 Our sweet neighbor, Morgan with Marin.

 Sweet boys...Sloan was such a good sport.  Fortunately, we had beautiful weather all night.

 We love the Pzynskis...er, I mean Daphne and Shaggy.

 Jason's best buddy, Chris and his wife-to-be Katie were in town to help us celebrate as well! 

This house was decorated so spooky! 

 Marin and Katie checking out her goodies! 

 Sloan left his Mickey ears on for about 2 seconds all night and that was it!  These two little loves had such a fun night.

 Minnie and Scooby hit every house in our neighborhood!  They were exhausted.

 Everybody got to eat a sweet treat before bedtime.

 

Even Sloan!

 Happy Halloween!

Fall Fest

The past couple of years, I've taken Marin to the Fall Fest in Round Rock.  The theme this year was centered around Dr. Seuss.  Marin has been in love with the Cat in the Hat for some time now, so I knew she'd love it and we didn't want to miss it!

 

As they say in Texas, "Happy Fall, Y'all!"

If you follow our blog (Hi Mom!!), you may want to glaze over all of my 'catch up' posts.  I have been terrible about updating regularly.  It seems that my lack of blogging coincided with Sloan learning to walk and the holidays and….and….  Things are settling down a bit, so I'm dedicating a little time to writing our story.

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I look forward to Fall all year long!  I love the cooler weather (although it's not *that* cool in Texas in October) and all of the fun family activities that go with it

Marin had a little party at preschool where they painted a tshirt (Batty about YOU!) and had lots of fun activities.

This was a fun sensory activity where the kids had to dig through the noodles to find spooky spiders.

 They decorated cookies...

 with LOTS of frosting and sprinkles.  Of course, Little Miss Sweet Tooth loved this activity!

 Mrs. Benge read everyone a cute story.

 Marin adores her teacher.

 Look at these adorable kids.  It's such a sweet age! 

Happy Fall, Wild Things Class!