Happy Thanksgiving

Today we are celebrating Thanksgiving with NeMa and PopBob. The turkey is in the oven and man am I missing my double oven that I had for less than a year.:( I was soooo happy to get it, and it was so nice, and then we moved, and now I want it back sooo badly! Maybe my dear husband will buy me one for Christmas this year although if he does I might feel a little jipped because that was my Christmas present last year.LOL
Ok, it is Thanksgiving so I would like to just put a few things in here that we are thankful for.
First and foremost we are so incredibly thankful for the gift of Jesus Christ. His sacrifice for us is so great that I will forever be joyful the opportunity to spend my eternity with my Savior!
Secondly I am so grateful for my sweet family. I could have never asked for a better husband or children. Its funny, because I wished so much that Parker was a girl when I was pregnant with him, and now I am so so so happy he is the boy that he is! What precious boys I get the opportunity to raise. My biggest prayer though is that they are both destined to know our Lord and Savior. I hope that they will know him greatly and deeply, for the majority of their lives.
I am thankful for our church that we feel growth almost daily by being a part of it. Our pastor has a true gift from God of speaking truth to us, apologetically in a way that helps us desire to please God.
There are many more things I am thankful for such as the rest of our family, our friends, Darin's job, our dogs, our home, the food we will enjoy today, and tomorrow, and the next day. God has truly blessed our lives, and for all that He's done, we are so grateful. I just hope that through anything we will be thankful and constantly giving Him praise. Desiring His will to be done in EVERY circumstance.
I love Thanksgiving! What a great reminder to give thanks... the thanks that we should be giving daily.
Something else I am incredibly grateful for are my boys personalities. They say the funniest things. A couple of which I will share...
A few weeks ago or maybe even a couple months ago Parker saw a golf course and he said "golf, me." And I said well, you are too little to play golf right now and he said "dada?" And I said, "Yes, Daddy is big, so he can play golf. When you get big you can play golf too." So, lately anytime the words big, small, young, old... anything having to do with age or size Parker says "big-golf-me." And gives us this look that is so matter-of-fact. As I am writing this I am imaging it and it is hilarious! Everytime Darin or I hear this we laugh so hard. But I am thinking that you really have to see him do it. He's also been singing a lot. "Bado bado bado bado Badobado."
This morning we had to run to the store for french fried onions. You know, green bean casserole. I had forgotten them, and Thanksgiving isn't the same without them. Well, Darin took the car to work, so we were driving in the truck. In Darin's truck there is a picture of me. Conner asked "Mommy what are you doing in that picture?" I told him "I was flying an airplane." He said "Whats Daddy doing?" And I said "he was flying the airplane too. Daddy taught Mommy how to fly an airplane on our first date." He said "Who was babysitting us?" And I said "No one, you weren't born yet." and he said, "Oh, so we were just by ourselves then."
LOL, he knows that when we go on a date, they have a babysitter. He just has no concept of a time when he was not.
These boys are so cute. Just love them so much!
Thank you God for precious family!

Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday dear Conner...

Today was Conner's 4th birthday! We had a great day! We started out with the breakfast of champions. A big bowl of captain crunch!
Then Conner had to get ready for school... To which he brought these yummy cookies that we made last night for his class. They turned out really cute! And we had SOOOO much fun making and decorating them! Here's some pictures. NeMa and PaBob are here visiting so NeMa helped us make and decorate the cookies! We just LOVE having them to visit!
This is us making the cookies...

and here's the final product that went to school with Conner today!

After school Daddy picked Conner up from school and took everyone out to lunch at McDonald's in honor of Conner. We had lots of fun! Then we came home and played cars and took naps (and opened some more presents). Ate dinner another of Conner's requests.... Fish, macaroni and cheese and corn. Well balanced little guy!:)

And then the boys got to ride with Darin to go and pick up his mom from the airport for a last minute visit! What fun we will have with our VERY full house. Now the boys are sleeping in our bedroom on mattresses on the floor, NeMa and PaBob are in the office on the guest bed, Grandma Wilson is in the boys room (which in normal times is the guest bedroom), and Mark and Kelly are in Conner's room and Corey in Parkers room! Wow, there are a lot of people and a lot of dogs here. 10 people and 4 dogs. Lucky for us we love each one of them soooo much! Especially the ones in our room!:)

Conner is having his birthday party on Saturday and he couldn't be more excited. We are getting a bounce house and he has invited all of his favorite friends. So we will have a load of fun... and one of his friends is actually having his birthday party the same day as Conner just a couple of hours later... SO that will be a really fun day!

A few weeks ago I wrote a list of 50 things I love about Conner. I am having trouble with my computer (so I am posting from Darins and can't cut and paste) so instead of retyping them all I will just put a few of them in here. Really I could come up with 50 million things I love about Conner, but I didn't think he or anyone really would be interested in reading a list that long:)... So I kept it somewhat short. Here are a few:

I love Conner's sweet and sensitive personality.

I love Conner's intense interests in whatever he is interested in at that moment. Enthusiasm!

I love Conner's typical answer for why things are the way they are, even when it doesn't really make sense- "because God made it that way." Like, why can't Buzz Lightyear really fly?

I love that Conner is very inviting to other kids. He may be shy, but I've not ever seen him leave another kid out.

I love that Conner loves his little brother and his daddy soooo much! And still has a special place in his heart for his mommy.

These are just a few things that I LOVE about Conner. But really God couldn't have blessed me with children that I could possibly love more than these two. They are both so precious, and my heart is melted everytime I kiss their sweet faces. Thank you God for two beautiful gifts!

Happy Birthday Conner, my big big 4 year old!

WinKids...

WinKids is a little gym for kids in Flower Mound. It is really close to our house, and we knew it was cool, because we had been to a birthday party there. They have trampoline things... They are surrounded by padding and they are kind of in a strip (I know that is hard to imagine, sorry!) and they have a pit full of foam cubes. They have a little obstacle course and tons of balls. Really it is a ton of fun for parents and kids.
The only problem is... They are SOOOO super expensive.
When Conner was a baby I used to take him to gymboree. I thought that was expensive, but we went anyway. Well, now that Conner is in school I thought it would be a great time for me to take a class with Parker. So I signed us up for the free trial gym-tots class at WinKids. We went and we both LOVED it! However... It is $130 for 6 classes! Does that sound outrageous or is it me?
I looked at Gymboree and they are a little bit cheaper... but not nearly as fun... and unfortunatly there aren't any classes for Parkers age during the time that Conner is in school:(. So, we're thinking about it... but as far as this week goes, we had a blast!!! Even though the class was full of girls (with one boy- besides Parker).

Halloween and stuff....

I have been soooo lazy lately. I feel bad, because when I started this blog I was planning on updating it often... Well, the newness has faded, and I am just kind of struggling to update a couple times a month now. So sorry.... That being said, here are a few pictures to tell the story of our October 2008...


LOL...I bet you are wondering why I took a picture of a bunch of junk in our trailer?! Well, this is just some documentation for our tax purposes... Conner got his 1st allowance. He helped me load up this whole trailer full of concrete and wood and such debree that the previous owners left. Yes, it is sad that we are just getting around to cleaning that up... But hey, Conner has just recently grown the muscles to do it. hehehe... I helped him.:) We did this on Saturday, and today we took him to WalMart and he got to buy a car he's been asking for for a few months now. So needless to say he is sleeping easy with "No Stall" resting on his nightstand.

Are these not the sweetest little Buzz and Hulk you've ever seen? This is at the Pumpkin Patch on our second trip. Parker insisted on being Buzz for our trip to the Pumpkin Patch on Halloween morning. Even though on Halloween night he was "Baddatt" (Batman- Parker language).

Our family at the Pumpkin Patch 2008

" Baddatt" and "Hulk" on Halloween night 2008.

Woody and Buzz. What a team!

Daddy had two little super heros on the

hay ride at the Pumpkin Patch.

"We love Bounce Houses!"

I don't know why but I just love seeing those

little legs dangling from the sink!

Its even cuter (although I haven't gotten a picture) when Parker's

just finished going PeePee and he's got a naked little booty

hanging from the sink.

The boys and I taking a photo op while wrestling an aligator at the zoo.

The boys and I at the zoo. Unfortunatly daddy didn't get to

come because he was on a trip.
It seemed like the perfect day to go to the zoo

(except that in the morning it was a little bit overcast so we

thought it might rain) until about 20 minutes after we got

there... the temp jumped like 20 degrees! How does that even happen?

We were sooooo hot and just about ready to die! We finally

found a water vending machine and I was SOOO happy,

maybe more than ever before in my life... Then the machine ATE MY $3!

Can you believe that?!

There are a few funny things about this picture! I don't

know if you can see it or not, but Conner's underwear are on backwards.

He insists on this. With these underwear and actually many others it

doesn't matter for the orignal reason (that he wanted the character in the front-

usually they are on the back of the underwear). Well, being backward he

almost always has a wedgee... and yet does not care!

Another funny thing about this picture is that both of our boys think

it is hilarious to put this little Thomas couch on top of our couch and ride

it while they fall off of the couch.

And the last thing... which isn't really that funny just kind of constant

in our house is that Conner is once again in his underwear. He loves being

footloose and fancy free!

All in all we had a wonderful October. I hope that you enjoyed the picture as much as we enjoyed real time. Hoping November will hold just as many fun times as October!