can you believe this?

Can you believe this is what we did today at the end of September???

The girls and I headed to the local spray park after school. We met some of our friends there and hung out all afternoon!

wild wild west fest & beyond

So, we were supposed to head out of town this weekend for a little Rockwood adventure, but it turns out that will need to be pushed back until next weekend. No biggie - as today we hit up the local Wild Wild West Festival. What a hoot! The girls each competed in a rodeo. Kaitlyn and Addison were chosen to race the horse barrels...Addison went around with Daddy (who did OK - we need to cut him some slack he is getting up there in years) and then Kaitlyn won her age category with 11.08 seconds! They had bouncy houses and crafts, it was really nice.

On a complete side note, I need to make a shout out here to one amazing man who has been going above and beyond these last few weeks for my benefit. Brent I don't even know if you read this blog, but I want to and need to verbalize how much I appreciate and love everything you have done and continue to do not only for me personally but for our family. Even after, oh geese what is it now 10 almost 11 years together you still inspire and amaze me.

You hold your emotions in at times to allow me the opportunity to spill out all of mine (believe me there are tons of emotions in here). You constantly rearrange your schedule so you can be here to hold our hands in the challenges we each face. You take the bull by the horns (Texas analogy) and make stuff happen both at home and beyond. You simply love with all you have and whether we tell you everyday or not, we feel that. I want you to know how incredibly blessed Kaitlyn, Addison and I feel to have you by our sides.

We love you tons! - your three little penguins.....

princesses in action

Today we appear to want to be princesses all day long. I told the girls we need to head to the grocery store to pick up a few necessary items for dinner tonight and they both informed me that they will gladly follow me to the car in their full out princess costumes - Kaitlyn is Cinderella, Addison is Belle. Kaitlyn also reminded me that Halloween is coming up and they need practice walking around in their costumes. Maybe I need to get out of the house more, but I actually could see Kaitlyn's point this morning. So we headed to the grocery store all decked out. Albertson's loved it - where was my camera then....sorry guys!
We hosted a game night last night with our bible study group. Brent and I can't remember the last time we have laughed that hard. It was fabulous to spend quality time with individuals you truly respect, admire, and love being with. Some of the funniest moments were probably an interpretative dance of how Moses parted the Red Sea (Sarah thanks for that!), a new prophet by the name of Joseph Prophett (I meant Joseph Smith, but my Mommy brain was not working!), Mamma Mia & Missy Elliot (Tim we will leave all musical theatre to you), purple stars and silver moon with the Lucky Charms Leprechaun (Kevin, need I say more). I am sure there were a bunch more moments that I am forgetting and will add to later. We missed our friends the Brewers as they rocked at this game (curse the miles between us!) However, it was just fantastic for the soul - praise God for reminding us to not take ourselves so seriously and to laugh even when it rains!