Katers

Kate is just growing so unbelievable fast. I swear this year has just flown by. I look back and think where has all the time gone? Kate will be a year old in only ONE month, can you believe it? I sure can't. She has exploded developmentally just in the last few weeks. On October 13 she waved bye bye for the first time and now doesn't stop. She waves when you say hi, hello, and bye bye. She has really grown to love patty cake and thinks she is pretty cool when she joins in with you clapping her chubby little hands. She now says dada, dad, mama, mom, hi, hey, and the most cute one of all nanon which is "Kallon." How precious is that??? LOVE IT! I thought Kate would never crawl she was just so content on rolling around. She can get anywhere she wants just rolling on the ground. Yesterday morning she started army crawling, when I looked up she was heading straight for the food Kallon had dropped on the floor. A girl after my own heart, loves her food. Kallon and Kate had a blast playing fetch the sibling. Kallon would drive a few feet away from Kate on his bus and Kate would army crawl as fast as she could to get to him before he took off again. When she would get to him they would both start laughing so hard. It was so funny to watch. Then last night Cory was sitting on the couch and Kate was playing on the floor next to him. The next thing he knew Kate grabbed a hold of his shorts and pulled herself up standing next to the couch! Holy cow! All of this within a few weeks time. Maybe she'll be walking by next weekend. It is so much fun the watch them grow and hit these milestones. I especially love that Kallon and Kate love each other so much and have such a good time together.

Sewing: Take Two

I did it.....kind of. I sewed my first piece of clothing, a dress for Kater. It only took me two and a half months from start to finish and a lot of help from my mother-in-law. It looks pretty cute if you are standing at a distance:) If you look to closely you can definitely tell its beginner sewing work but oh well I am pretty excited about it. Sewing straight lines is still hard and who would have thought reading a pattern was so darn difficult? It might be a while before I start another project, hopefully my skills will improve:)

Fall Fun

Finally!!! A genuine smile

So much has happened the past few months and I have been avoiding blogging about all the fun we've been having. We had a fun Halloween this year. The weekend before Halloween we went with friends to a pumpkin patch in Hondo. There was a corn maze, hayrides, barrel rides, a corn cannon, and fun toys for the kids to play on. Kallon loved it. I loved it too, it reminded me of fall at home. I didn't think that living in such a big city and in hot, humid Texas that we would have the opportunity to go out and find a corn maze on a chilly night. It was so fun. For family home evening we carved our pumpkin and Kallon had nothing to do with the insides. He was so funny we tried everything to get him to stick his hand in the pumpkin but he would scrunch up his face and tell us it was gross. Friday afternoon our friends Jaqline and Tyson came over and helped my make Kallon's robot costume. Thank you so much you guys, I know if I would have done it on my own it would have looked pretty pathetic. Kallon really loved his costume. For about an month I would ask him what he wanted to be for Halloween and everytime he would say that he wanted to be a robot. I think he has been playing way to much Nintendo..oops. Oh and he would also add that he wanted a shoot gun. Friday night was our wards trunk or treat. We had a good time there talking with friends and watching Kallon play games. On Halloween we went to Sea World and let the kids see the animals while the adults rode some fun holla coasters, as Kallon likes to call them. We had a very Happy Halloween.


Kallon and Cannon












All bundled up



















Kallon kept his arms up the entire ride.















He's not too sure about that pumpkin
wouldn't want to get your hands dirty.


Kallon and his shoot gun







































My lame attempt at dressing up
complete with a goggle sunburn haha