Gingerbread Houses!

Trent and Landon each made their own Gingerbread Houses this year, although mommy helped with some of the icing. Thanks to our friends the Behelers' who invited us over for a Gingerbread decorating party! Landon insisted on eating the icing and candy so I had to encourage him to make his Gingerbread house pretty by putting the colorful candy on his house. Trent amazed me, I put icing on some of his house and he wanted to do all of the rest of the decorating. I gave him a picture that was on the gingerbread house box, some candy, and he started replicating the picture of the gumdrops on top. I was impressed. There were gumdrops on the top of the house and Trent figured out that he needed to put extra icing on top of them to help the little colorful balls stay in place. Look at their beautiful houses!

More Snow to See

My parents live in El Campo, TX and probably had around 5 inches of snow yesterday. Most of our snow here in Sugar Land had melted this morning so I called my parents to see if they had any snow left. They said the yard was still covered! I knew Trent and Landon would love to have another chance to play in the snow so we loaded up and made the 45 minute drive this morning. They had a blast throwing snow balls, making snow angels and building another snowman with Gampa and Gamma! Lucky, their Golden Retriever, loved playing with the boys in the snow. He was catching the snow balls and eating them. Lots of fun!

Our Texas Snowman

What a surprise to see snow in Sugar Land two years in a row! This year Trent and Landon were able to see the snow stick on the ground, we had one or two inches! We even built a snowman in on our street thanks to some help from the other neighborhood boys and mommies.

Trent and his friend Luke P with their Snowman

Town Square Christmas Tree Lighting

10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1..Lights ON! Tonight we counted down for the annual lighting of the Sugar Land Town Square Christmas Tree. The tree is 40 feet tall and sits in front of the court house, it is so beautiful! Our family had a great time visiting with friends of ours, Brian, Rebecca, Austin and Nolin Hussey. Rebecca and I first met in birthing class for our first child and we love getting together with our boys who are the same ages. We had a great time and I loved bundling up the little boys in their new coats and hats...well they decided they would NOT wear their gloves!

Choo Choo!

Our little Landon loves his Thomas the Train track set and loves to see trains, talk about trains, play with trains, and ride on trains! Jon and I decided that we would buy a remote control Christmas train that the boys could play with. Well we wanted it to go around the Christmas tree, but I did not want the boys crawling under the tree each time it fell off the track. This train was a huge hit for Landon and Trent. Of course Landon will sit and watch the train for hours if we let him! Landon loved the remote and even got close enough to see exactly how this train worked.

Fall Feast

Jon and I attended Trent's SLWCP class Fall Feast on Thursday, November 19. The class sang a cute Thanksgiving song and all of the mommies brought food to the feast. We enjoyed turkey, sweet potatoes, green beans, corn casserole, and a special treat for all the parents: "Pumpkin Fluff" made by all the children in class. Ms. Stacey and Ms. Karen did a wonderful job organizing all of this. I even made a centerpiece for the tables. The feast was so cute!

A Hunting We Will Go...

Jon decided Trent was ready to go on his first duck hunt since he is now 4 years old. The day started off at 4:30 am when Jon woke Trent up to get him ready for his first time in a duck blind. We questioned whether he would be ready to wake up that early in the morning since he usually sleeps until around 7:30 am. Well no problems here, he jumped out of bed, put on his camoflage gear, and loaded up in the truck to head to the farm in El Campo. Jon said he talked and asked questions the whole way there, which was a one hour drive from Sugar Land. He could not wait to sit in the blind with his Daddy! Joining Jon and Trent in the blind right next to them were Uncle Jess and cousin Drake. Although they got a little wet from the rain, they saw lots of ducks and Trent said he was ready to go back.

Trent Holding A Duck

Cousin Drake

Sunflowers

This weekend Daddy guided a duck hunt at the farm so Saturday evening Landon, Trent and I headed to visit my parents in El Campo for the night. The boys love to visit their grandparents and of course do not want to go to bed. They had a very late night playing with Gampa and Gamma, Aunt Katy, Uncle Neal and Uncle Jason. We headed to church this morning and then went to their favorite place to eat in El Campo, Mr. Gattis (it's all about the games and maybe a little pizza!) After that, we all headed out to visit Jon's family farm and see the biggest sunflowers we have ever seen. Jon and his brothers planted a huge field of sunflowers and they are SO pretty. I took a few pictures....

Last Soccer Game of the Season

Trent has really enjoyed this season in soccer and we have enjoyed watching him get better every week! He scored 3 goals at his last game! Even better...Gamma and Gampa, Mommy and Daddy, Landon, Uncle Neal, Aunt Stacey and cousin Drake were there to cheer him on! He really gets excited when family comes to watch the game, Aunt Katy and Aunt Jill even had a chance to watch him play earlier this season.

About to score a goal!

Gampa and Gamma come to watch

Landon watching while laying on the bench

Landon loves to run with the other players in the "tunnel" made by the fans at the end of the soccer games

Our Little Pumpkins

We decided that today would be our pumpkin carving day as the rest of the week gets a little crazy with soccer, family pictures :0, halloween parties and Halloween this Saturday! Landon decided he wanted a Happy Pumpkin and Trent wanted a ghost on his pumpkin, thank goodness for the pumpkin carving kits :) Trent and Landon were very anxious to put their "strobe" lights in their pumpkins so that they could see them glow. Lots of pumpkin seeds later, here they are: