Road Trip to Texas

We got back from our trip to Texas last night. We had a good time and got to see Uncle Robert and Aunt Becca and Aiden and Ethan and also Uncle Shawn and Aunt Khristy and Caitlin, J.D. and Quinn. We also got to see Mema and Aunt Janice, Uncle Norman and Aunt Dorothy and some of Daddy's cousins.
We stayed in the Holiday Inn Express and Nathan did so good about sleeping. We took his little mattress from his bed and he slept very well. Saturday we all got together at Golden Corral and we were all in a room by ourselves which was very nice. I took some pictures of different people that were there. After we ate we all went back to the hotel and the kids put on their bathing suits. There was an indoor pool. Everyone went swimming except for Me, Aunt Becca and Aunt Khristy. Aunt Khristy stayed in our room because Quinn was taking a nap. They all had a lot of fun.
Sunday we went to church with Mema and Nathan went to Children's Worship and did not fuss at all about it. We went to lunch after church and started home after lunch. It was a fast short visit but we all had a good time and it was good to see and visit with everyone. Enjoy all the pictures I posted from our trip.
One more thing I need to mention is that we have a DVD player in the van and there are headphones so the person can watch a movie and the people in the front don't have to listen to it. Well this is the first trip that Nathan wore the headphones to watch his movie and we got to listen to our CD.

Happy Monday

Happy Monday to everyone. I hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather is starting to feel more like Fall. It is cool in the mornings and gets warmer in the afternoons and cool at night.

On October 1 Donald pinned on Lieutenant Colonel. There was no ceremony he just went to work that morning with Lt. Col leaves on his shoulder instead on Major. So it is official now he is a Lt. Col.

Today is Rachel's 8th birthday. We are going over to Meemaw and Granddad's tonight to have cake and open presents. She is having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's on Sat. and inviting her friends. But tonight is just for family and she will open her presents from us. We have also lived in this house for 8 years, we moved in the day Rachel was born.

Donald is taking leave on Wed. and Thurs. and we are planning on painting Nathan's room on Wed. We bought some Marvel Superheroes to stick on the wall and he has a Spider man poster, Fantastic 4 poster and a Marvel Superheroes poster. He really likes Spider man and always wants to wear his Spider man T-shirts so he really likes his Spider man poster.

We are going to go to Texas on Friday and come home on Sunday. Uncle Robert and Aunt Becca and Aiden and Ethan will be there so we will be able to see them. And hopefully we will get to see Uncle Shawn and Aunt Khristy and Caitlin, J.D. and Quinn sometime over the weekend. I am sure I will take pictures and will probably post them next week so keep checking.

I hope everyone has a great week and weekend.
















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Donald did it again

Yeah! Donald rode the 100 mile bike ride again this year and he rode it in a little over 6 hours. He was a little tired but feels fine and he had a better time this year than last year. He will probably ride in it again next year. This is two years in a row that he has ridden the 100 miles.

I talked to Nathan's Occupational Therapist last week and she does therapy with him using headphones and music. It is some sort of therapeutic music and she asked me if we would try to do it at home with him. So I did it with him today and he looked so adorable with the headphones on that of course I had to take some pictures.

Happy Fall Y'all

Today is the first day of Fall even though it doesn't really feel like Fall weather. This week it is going to be in the upper 80s. Last week we had a few days that felt fallish. I am ready for cooler weather. I posted a few pictures of Nathan. His hair was so wild yesterday that I had to take a few pictures. He was good about letting us wet his hair down before we went to church.
Donald is going to ride in the 100 mile bike ride on Saturday so I will let everyone know how it goes Saturday. I hope everyone has a great week.

Nathan's 5 year check up

Just thought I would let everybody know about Nathan's check up. We went to the Dr. today and he had his 5 year check up. He is doing good. He is 45 1/2" tall and weighs 41.6 pounds. He has grown exactly 3 inches since his 4 year check up. He did good about letting the Dr. look in his ears and listen to his heart and lungs and looking at him. But he was not so good about letting him look in his mouth. He really does not like people to look in his mouth. That is one reason that we have never taken him to the dentist. But we are going to start looking at trying to get an appointment for him to go to the dentist. I know it is past time for his first appointment. We have all recovered from the party and Nathan has been playing with his new toys. I hope everyone has a good week.

Happy Birthday Nathan

Yeah! Today is Nathan's birthday. We have had a great day and a blast at his birthday party. We had his party at the Jump Zone and it was a lot of fun. Of course he did not want to eat cake so I made sure I had rice krispie treats for him. And the funny thing is his friend Gavin from school does not like to eat cake either so he also ate rice krispie treats. He was leaning into his cake to blow the candles out and got icing on his shirt. He was not too interested in opening presents(which did not surprise us at all, maybe one day he will like to open presents). I opened the first one and it had lights and made sound and had buttons so he really liked that one then the next one was a big number book so he also liked that one. So he did not pay much attention to the other presents when I opened them. So when he left he was holding those two presents. When we got home I took all the presents out and he started playing will all of them. So we had a blast and I posted some pictures of the party. The only bummer of the whole day was that Mema and Granddad could not be at the party. Granddad is in the hospital so Mema was with him. But Mema from Texas was here. But other than that is was a great day.

Just some cute pictures of Nathan

Donald was gone to water survival this past weekend so I took a few cute pictures of Nathan. He cracks me up because he drinks his milk out of a plastic cup with a lid and straw and he still manages to get a milk mustache. I took a picture of him and if you look real close you might be able to see the mustache. He was also having so much fun in the bathtub so of course I had to take a picture. His big birthday party is Saturday so we are all looking forward to that. I ordered a big cookie to take to school on Friday for his class and then of course we will have the birthday cake on Saturday. He is having an Iron Man birthday this year and of course Donald and Nathan will have Iron Man shirts on. I don't figure Nathan will eat any cake so I plan of taking some rice krispie treats(his favorite)for him. I will add birthday pictures and tell all about the party this weekend.