A few pics from last Saturday

These are from last Saturday during the rain/wind we got from Hurricane Ike. The kids had fun playing in the rain!!!

This was across the field at the park. There were kids out there playing football all day!!!!

The wind in the afternoon was crazy!!! I can't even imagine what it was like on the coast!! SCARY!!

The letter R

Erika is talking a TON lately, but she doesn't quite get the R sound right, and most of the time just skips it all together. Because of this you would think our daughter swears! I assure you she doesn't! A few nights ago we were in the car going to meet Uncle Nate for dinner and she said "I see a bridge"....take out the R and say it like a two year old, and, well, you get a cuss word! David and I were laughing so hard!!!!

Today we went to walmart (yes, we are crazy, but I assure you the store was packed so we were not the only crazy ones!). It was raining a little when we went into the store, but not too bad. When were done getting groceries, it was POURING and the wind was crazy too! We were soaked! When we got home I figured the kids could play in the rain for a few minutes since they would have to change anyways. When we got in the house I said to Erika "let's get this shirt off of you" to which she replied "yeah, get this shirt off me"....again, take out the letter R. Of course she doesn't know what she's saying or why it's funny, so I try not to laugh....otherwise it's repeated MANY MANY times!

A few highlights from our trip home!

I have a TON of pictures so it's hard to choose which ones to share! Here are a few of our favorites!
Here's Erika at the start of our trip...she's ready to go!

This is at the MN State Fair!Me & David at the State Fair
Cookies with Allie during our shopping trip to Albertville
Playland fun with Jonathan, Allie & Jackson
Playing horseshoes with Auntie Teri

Me & my cousin Katie

Our second trip to the state fair! This is on the sky ride! A favorite tradition that we normally do with Daddy (and I am usually squeezing his arm during the whole trip!) Of course corn from the corn roast!
Uncle Lee & Auntie Teri with the kids
Me & Erika
Caleb & Erika got to go on a few rides!
My little farm hands!
Hanging out with cousin Courtney up at the lake
Erika & her mUncle (as she calls him!)

We had an awesome time! We got to see a lot of family & friends! We missed Daddy quite a bit, so even though it was hard to leave MN again, we were excited to come home to Daddy! We will be back in MN at Thanksgiving! Hopefully there will be some snow by then! That is one thing we will all miss!

The logic of a 4 year old.....

Right now we have a bag of licorice in the car left over from our trip back from MN. Today we ran a couple of errands and I gave the kids some while we were in the car. When we got to the store I made the kids leave the candy in the car. As we were walking into the store this is the conversation I had with Caleb:

Caleb: Mom, I hope no one steals our car.

Me: I'm sure no one will steal our car, and I locked the doors so it should be fine. Why are you worried about the car being stolen?

Caleb: Because then they would get our candy.

So there you have it, the logic of a 4 year old!!! (and no, our car didn't get stolen and he was ecstatic to see the candy when we got back to the car!)

We are back in Texas!

We made it back safely last night! We crammed A LOT into nine days! It was so nice to see everyone though! It was a good trip! I have a bunch of pictures to upload and post, but first I MUST go grocery shopping! We have nothing to eat! And thanks to Gustav it's windy and rainy here today! What a yucky day to have to go out.

Another Sunday, Another Adventure.....

Yesterday we found this park! It's pretty close to our house and the kids had a blast there!!! This first picture is just one side of it, it was huge! We didn't stay long enough to play with everything! There is still so much more to explore the next time we go.

Caleb found this train and I think that was his favorite part!

I love this action shot I got of Erika! Pure joy on her face!

One week.....

In one week I will be in Minnesota!!!! YAY!!!! I am very excited! I'm going just because I miss home, but the timing is working out good so far. Next Saturday I will be going to a friends wedding and I will also get to go to the state fair while I am there! :) Cheese curds, here I come! Most of all we are looking forward to seeing all the family and friends that we have missed so much!

A trip to Dallas

Yesterday afternoon David and I decided to take the kids into downtown Dallas. David is down there just about everyday, but the kids and I hadn't been there. We didn't really have a plan to do anything down there, just drive around and look at everything. We found a place called Pioneer Plaza, so we stopped. Then across the street was a fountain. Nothing too exciting really, but it was just perfect! We had fun with the kids and we were only gone for a couple of hours!

The stampede of statues :)



The fountain.....

Of course we had to stop at Mickey D's for a treat afterwards! :)

Erika trying to be sneaky with my pop!

A look at the outside...

of our apartment! :) In the first picture, Caleb is standing by our door. The first window to the left is our kitchen window, and then the second window (covered by a tree) is Caleb's bedroom window. The second picture is the view from where Caleb is standing in the first pic! I'll get some pictures of the other side of the apartment sometime this week!


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Dad's day off....

Daddy was home on Thursday! We already had plans to head to Chuck E Cheese with the playgroup that I'm a part of, so Daddy joined us! :) We had a great time!

Cooling off with a fudgsicle!!

What better way to cool off on a hot Texas day than with a good ol messy fudgsicle!! :)

Thanks to Edouard......

We get a little relief from the original forecast!!! Right now it's only 84 out!! Time to go play I think!! :)

YUCK!!!!!

Check out our seven day forecast.....I'm ready to go home now!