Update

Things down here have been pretty busy. But as I am writing this, I have no husband and the kids are in bed. So I decided to update my blog. I know bad blogger :(

We have done so much in the last few weeks, its been so busy.

The weekend after Ciarrah's b-day party we went to the pumpkin patch. That was a lot of fun. I loved this pumpkin patch. It was just what I wanted to go to. It was a locally owned farm. They had a kiddie train ride, a hayride, pony rides, duck races (they used ducks and tunnel things and the old fashioned water spouts to push water down and race the ducks), bean-bag toss, and a maze. The kids loved it. Although we only bought small pumpkins, as the big pumpkins were pretty pricey so we went to walmart on our way home and got a couple to carve.

Kiddie Train

The next day we carved pumpkins, We carved a silly happy pumpkin and a kinda scary happy pumpkin. Michael did most of the work as neither kid wanted to touch the insides of the pumpkin.

Lit pumpkins and kiddos

The following weekend was my birthday weekend. My b-day was on Wednesday. I got some beautiful flowers and some Bath & Body Works candles. Then on Saturday we had a babysitter for the night, so Michael and I went to Austin. We went to Salt Lick, I LOVE that place. The food was awesome and the winery was cool. I tasted some great wines (I've not really been introduced much to wine, but I have found some I like, especially white wines). I even bought a bottle of some local wine :) After dinner we went to IKEA. I love that store, this was my first time in the store, but I've been online a lot. I found some awesome stuff that I plan on buying after the holidays.

This weekend was a hard weekend. Ciarrah and Cooper had a sleep-over with Haidyn and Rileigh, their mom watched my kids last week, so this week I watched them :) We had a lot of fun. We watched How to Train Your Dragon. This was a great movie, even Ciarrah liked it. On Saturday we had a b-day party for Ciarrah's friend from school. That was a lot of fun. Sunday we had to get up at 4am to take Michael to drop-off for California (He is at Fort Irwin, at the National Training Center) so they can get ready to go back to Iraq in January :( Michael will be gone for about 30 days. This means he'll be home a few days before Thanksgiving and HOPEFULLY, fingers crossed, he'll be home for Cooper's birthday on the 20th of November.

This Thursday the kids and I are hitting the road to go to Nebraska for a week. Its been since Christmas that we were there and we are not going home this year, so unfortunately Michael won't get to go home. But we are hoping everyone can come visit him before he deploys in January, cause the army isn't giving us leave before they deploy :(

Just wanted to update everyone, I hope everyone has a great week.