It's a Super Hero Halloween!

It was another great Halloween!  We are a family of traditions and as we've done in past years we went to Uncle Jay & Aunt Jenny's to trick or treat with Blake & Layna.  It was the year of the super heros, and the strawberry.  We had a fun hay ride around the neighborhood before the trick or treating, and followed up trick or treating with a little bobbin for apples.  This was a first for the boys, and so cute to watch!  Then a yummy dinner courtesy of  Grammy, baths, jammies and CANDY!  So much fun, and we were all exhausted from the whirlwind of activities!  Love that the boys have sweet cousins to share in the fun with...lucky boys!

This was one other fun Halloween thing we did this year that started with the MECPTA group we're apart of.  We got Booed!  We actually were Booed twice, and one of them is still a mystery to me, but anyhow we had the best time creating our Boo baskets and passing on the fun to our friends in MECPTA, and to our cousins Maddie Cate & Peyton.

Creeping up on 11 months....

Hard to believe we will be planning a first birthday party very soon!  My sweet Payne is almost 11 months, and here are a few pictures from the day he discovered the boys red chairs...he thought he was so big!

This one reminds me of Jason...ugh love this boy!

My Little Pumpkin Head

Fall was in the air the morning we took these pictures...we decided to put out a few wreaths and decorations out front.  We could hear the church bells of St. Maria Goretti (my favorite sound in the whole world) as we were having our impromptu photo shoot. 

Lindsay and Miss Laine came over for a play date, so out came the camera :)  Payne loved her sweet little flower headband.

My sweet pumpkin, or bat boy

40 Years of Wedding Bliss

On September 24th we celebrated my grandparents 40th wedding anniversary at the Ventana Grill at Tierra Verde Golf Club.  It was a fun filled night complete with good friends and family, and some very interesting little known facts about them.  Meet 'Ed & Ginger', 'Mom & Dad', 'Gram & GP', 'Gigi & Pa-pa', or as I learned at the party 'Fast Eddy & Jittirbug'??  Whatever you call them they are the glue of the Spalding family.  Very fun, loving, and hip as grandparents come, but also very traditional.  They have taught me so much and have given me so much to aspire to.  Love you bunches Gram and Grandpa!  

Mom toasting the happy couple...

 

:Pictures by Lindsay Pierson Photography

Back to School

First day of PreK at Holy Cross!  Hard to believe I will be posting Kindergarten pictures next year!  :(  The boys have a new teacher this year Miss Jessica, and they adore her.  They had fun playing 'back to school' with Payne too.  I found him crawling down the hallway with his back pack on and knew it could only be the work of these 2!

 

Aquarium

Grant loves ocean animals these days so when our play group decided to go to the new aquarium in Grapevine there was no way we were missing out!  He was hoping to see sharks and orca whales :) 1 of the 2 isn't bad.

Summer Fun!

What a summer! This post is way over due, but better late than never.  We had such a fun summer full of activities. We kicked off the summer with a visit to Great Wolfe Lodge with our cousins Peyton, Maddie Cate, and Beckham. We had lots of play dates....swimming at Howard Moore Park, fun at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History with our friends Britton and Mauri. We took a road trip to Arkansas with Uncle Cody to see Pap and Nana Nik-Nik.  Lots of swimming at Grammy and Pops', a fun July 4th Celebration with cousins Blake and Layna. A visit to the Beach with Grammy, Pops, Gigi, and Pa-Pa. A weekend stay at Barton Creek in the hill country, VBS with Blakey, the circus with Nana....needless to say there was no shortage of fun!  Payne picked up a few new skills too.  At 7 months he learned how to sit up all by himself and started crawling all in the same day. It's been a very long time since I've had a summer off I forgot how nice it is, and I couldn't have asked for better company to spend it with...now for some nice fall weather!

Summer snapshots...