Texas/Ray Wedding

Here we are... on our way to Abilene. We stopped for supper and were able to eat outside. It was crazy to be eating outside, it short sleves, the day before Thanksgiving!!

We traveled to Texas with friends of ours, Sam and Laura Burleson. It was nice to have extra drivers and Judson entertainers!!! I do not know what we would have done with out thier portable DVD player!!

Playing with Grandma Dee and Grandpa Roger. My parnets were traveling the entire month of November and were in Abilene for the wedding too. Judson loved having them to play with. Nate and I loved that they were so great about watching Judson so we could spend time with friends!! Thank you again Mom and Dad!!

My paretns treated us to the zoo they day of the wedding. It was a great time for Judson. He loved the animals and running around!!

Judson got to feed the giraffes.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray!!!!

The four of us together, Mom and Dad had already taken Judson back to go to bed.

Our friends Cason and Ashley

Heading out!

Judson really did a good job of traveling. There was less crying then I thought there was going to be. But at the end he was just so sick of his car seat and wanted to be able to move around!

Judson loves the PBS show Word World, and this DVD made the trip so so so much better. We watched it SO MANY times! :)

California

Shasta Dam, second largest dam in the U.S.

Krisitn and I at the dam, don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful!! :)

At the sun dial bridge Friday before rehersal.

This was a pretty place and the bridge is an actual sundial, though only one day a year!!

The lovely rooster that lives next door to Kristin's parents house,

no we were not in the county!! And this lovely bird liked to start crowing at around 5:15 EVERY morning!! And then didn't stop all day long!! One on the many reasons i was so tired while I was there.

All five bridesmaids

Lesley, Keri, Saprina, Shelby and Me

The wedding cake. A eight inch round on top then cupcakes. This is how I spent a large amount of my time before the wedding, making, frosting and putting sprinkles on the cupckaes. We made around 300 of them, so we were busy. They did taste good, I was a little worried about that with our mass prodiction! :)

Kristin and Nate trying how to toast with being such different heights! :) She even had heals on!
Leaving, we all threw leaf confetti at them.

All the York girls

It was a great trip!! I left here at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday morning and got home Sunday at 11:30 p.m. Sunday was a very long day of traveling, but it was all worth it. I was so proud to be there to help with everything that needed to be done and stand up with Kristin!! I am so happy for her and the wonderful future that I know she and Nate will have!!!

Halloween

Grandma Dee painting Judson's face

Our little lion, he loved to ROAR!!!

Not that you can tell by this picture.
Getting the paint put on his face kind of relaxed him.

Trick or Treat!!
He loved running from house to house and was so excited that everyone kept giving him candy!! He would have gone to many many more houses if we would have let him, but we did not need that much candy!!

He loved when he got to pick his own candy.

We went up and down the block then came back to the house to hand out candy with Grandpa Roger and Grandma Dee. Judson enjoyed handing out the candy to other kids as much as he did trick or treating!

Not the greatest, but a family picture.

We did not actually did not hand out candy, we did fruit snacks. Judson liked coming back to hand them out because he was able to sneak a lot to eat! :)

Who was I trying to fool!! :)

I loved your opinions!! Thank you for your comments and sharing what you thought! It gave me a lot to think about and I loved the ideas of the other stores to shop at.

Well over the weekend when I bought the red purse I had seen this purse and really liked it but thought that I wanted something nicer. But after reflecting I just wanted something big for traveling to CA and for when I want to take some of Judson's things with also. I also decided that I am not in a season of life that I need/want a nicer purse. I am always in jeans or sweats and never felt like my purse went with what I had on. So this purse is way more my speed right now.

AND

The purse started out costing 14.99, was on clearance for 10.48 but rang up as 3.47. So it for sure is a purse for me!! And if I still want another purse I can still go shopping for one with all the money I saved!!!!

I NEED YOUR HELP!!

Okay so as many of you know it was my birthday on Tuesday. So I have, well had, some birthday money to spend! I have been wanting a new purse lately. This is kind of funny because I do not normally carry a purse because I already have the diaper bag and do not what to carry both. But as Judson needs less for us just going out for a bit I have wanted something more stylish. Something more me and less "hey I'm a Mama".
I also get to go to California for a few days the beginning of November for my friend Kristin's wedding!!! So I will not be in Mama mode then, so thought it would be fun to have a new purse.

But here is the thing... do you like this purse? I could not really decide. It was the one that I liked the most, but am not totally sold. Well I guess I should say that there were others that I liked more, but were at least double the price!! I like that it is big so that I could take things for Judson with if needed, or will have room to take lots of things with me when I travel. But it doesn't have pockets or any kind of organization inside. If you know me... I like me some organization! :) So I need your help! What do you think? I am not so stylish and do not keep up on trends but do not want to fall to far behind either!!

No Longer Safe!!!

Judson has figured out how to open doors so we had to put the safety nobs on some of our doors. BUT!! Judson has figured out how to open those too!! So our hallway closet that has the cleaning supplies and extra shampoo and things in it is no longer safe. The other day Judson got a bar of soap out ripped into the paper and was chewing on it when I found him. Judson can also open the door to down stairs!! This worries me a little because the stairs are open because it is an unfinished basement. So even though he knows how to do stairs he could easily fall and get hurt. He is so funny when he opens one of the doors though because he is so proud of himself! We already do but for sure will have our hands full with him!!

What a great Kid!

So we have been working with Judson on praying with us before meals. He is so cute when he folds his hands!! And he is so funny because now we have to pray before each meal and each snack. He even wants to pray multiple times through out the meal or snack. It is so cute and we have said many prayers lately. But it has been such a great reminder that God is always there for us and that we can talk to him and thank him for so many blessings at any point throughout the day!