Painting Pumpkins

I have not been doing a good job of keeping up with the blog since we've moved, so instead of going back and blogging everything we've done over the summer, I'm just going to pick up at Halloween. This year we didn't carve pumpkins, but we did paint them. We went to the Dallas Arboretum and Ava and Max both picked out pumpkins from the pumpkin patch. They had a great time painting them and they've been sitting on our mantle. Yesterday, I finally decided the pumpkins had to go, so we went down to the pond and threw them in. That was the only way I could get Ava to part with hers!

We're Still Here...Kinda

I haven't blogged in a while, mainly because we moved. Micah got a new job on somewhat short notice, and this summer we packed up and moved. We've been busy moving and readjusting and trying to get into a routine which hasn't really happened yet, making things somewhat difficult for me and Max and Ava. Also we haven't had the internet! We are living kinda far from town and any service we could get was expensive. We finally figured out we could get mobile service through Tri-Con, so we just recently got internet. We miss Corsicana and all of our friends there a lot, but hopefully once we get more settled in here things will be better. We are living in a house temporarily right now while our house in Corsicana sells (should happen the end of the month). As soon as that is done we can hopefully find a permanent home! So, I'm going to try and catch up on blogging. Here's just some random pics from our summer!

Sweet kids

On the scissor lift at Micah's old school

At the spray park in Corsicana with Colton

Playing in the gym at Westhill

Max rockin the 'stache

Ava decided to try on her baby lobster costume

Playing in the Water

Summer has begun, we were able to play in the water for the first time this year. What started as four girls playing in the backyard quickly turned into a waterhose fight thanks to Papa Jack and Uncle Jake. Luckily the girls all had their swimsuits on hand. Ava and Zoey fought over who had control of the water most of the time, and everyone got a turn to spray each other.


Ava trying to spray Jake, but he stopped the water.

Ava and Zoey

All the girls playing in the water

Max chillin watching the spectacle.

Pictures

I have not been doing a very good job lately keeping up my blog. We've been very busy, my computer broke, I got a new one, the internet hasn't been working, and I haven't been taking many pictures because my camera is acting weird. So here are just a few pictures from the past several weeks that I did take.

Ava fixed Max's hair with a pretty purple clip.

Max spilled a whole box of cheerios. He and Ava thought it was great.

Ava wearing shades on the playground at school.

Easter 2011

This year for Easter was spent at Papa Jack and Grammy's house. The kids had lots of fun hanging out and playing with their "friend cousins" as Ava calls them (i.e. Zoey, Maddie, Emma Claire, and Sawyer).

Ava and Max before the Easter Egg hunt

Coloring eggs with crayons.

Roasting marshmallows at the barn with daddy

Ava and Vanessa watching cartoons

All the great grandkids

Hunting Easter Eggs. Ava did good, Max didn't care.

The Boyd and Fry kids all dressed up for church.

Our House

Because of all the storms we've had over the past year, we were able to get a new roof. We were really excited about this, because we didn't really care for the red roof.

Our house when we bought it. Red roof and old plants and all.

Our house now. Much, much better!!

Happenings

We have been very busy around here this past month. We've had events going on such as the Navarro County Youth Expo, which kept Micah working pretty much every day until 8:00 or later-something we are just not crazy about. The Expo went well and is now over and we are all glad to have Micah back as part of our family! Ava and Max loved the Expo, we were there almost every day. Here's a few pics of them watching the goat show.

Meanwhile, Ava was having some regression issues with potty training. I finally bribed her with a new purse. She was very happy to get this Hello Kitty purse, complete with sunglasses and lipgloss.

I also ran my first long race. Page and I ran in the Dallas Rock n Roll Half Marathon. We ran the half marathon relay, so I only had to run 6 miles. But for me, that's a big deal. Page's half was mostly uphill, and my half was mostly downhill, which I was ok with. Sorry Page! Page ran with Jake and their pace was just under a 10 minute mile...really good. I ran with one of Jake and Amber's friends, and our pace was just under a 12 minute mile...which is really good for me. I'm super slow. My knees hurt the next week, but that was about it.

I've also been busy baking. I made a cake for a friend of mines sister's lingerie shower. It turned out alright, there were a few things I wanted to fix, but the more I tried to fix it, the more I messed it up.

This past weekend we went went to Paris for one of Micah's friend's wedding. Micah performed the ceremony and did a great job. I directed everyone and told everyone where to go and what to do. I was very glad that we had family around to watch our kids the whole weekend!

After the ceremony, Micah helped trash Chad's truck.