Flipping for Friday!

I haven't recorded any videos in way too long so here is a quick one before we head out for the weekend!

Welcome to the world, Holden James!

Last Wednesday, the 14th, Pete's brother Zack and his sweet wife Amanda, welcomed their first baby! Holden James is just perfect. Peter is excited to have a new cousin! Here are a few sweet new baby pictures that I got to take just a little while after he was born.






Peter stayed with his Gran and Grandpa at the end of last week because we were interviewing a staff position for the church. He brought home some pumpkins that they had worked on over the weekend. He is so proud of them and I am too! :) Funny side note...yesterday I let Peter taste a strawberry Sour Belt that we had bought at the football game. He kept saying "YUM!" as he was licking all of the sour stuff off. We got out of the car and he ran over to that little pumpkin on our porch and was licking the glitter saying "YUM!" It kind of looks the same. I am pretty sure it doesn't taste the same.....then again maybe I should lick it too.


After another haircut on Friday.


This weekend Pete is speaking at T Bar M for an event that the Texas State BSM is doing there. As of today I heard that Peter and I are getting to go too so I am really looking forward to a short getaway from the house!

Thank you everyone who left such sweet comments on my last post! I appreciate it and will try to do better about commenting on yours because I do read and enjoy them! Have a good week!

Helloooooo out there!

Hey Everyone, I have been keeping up with everyone else's blogs but have been kind of through a drought here on my own. I have been going back and forth on just stopping it all together because I have been so bad at it lately but it's a good way to keep up with my own pictures and I know my mom reads it :)....so I am going to keep it up. First...Happy Birthday Mom! I hope your day was as wonderful as you always make ours! Sorry I wasn't around to celebrate. Second...Happy 17 months to Peter! Our wild little guy is growing up quickly. Besides the days full of temper tantrums you make me laugh so much! Peter has not ceased to impress me with all of the new words he is spouting out each day. He is such a happy kid most of the time, always humming a song lately. This week was not so fun because we were all stuck in the house sick. My husband had the flu so he was quarantined from Tuesday to Friday in our room upstairs. I was running this place like a hospital. You have never smelled so much Lysol or Germex. Peter and I both had a cold or something less severe than the flu but enough to stay away from everyone else anyway. My company brought us four bags of food from a local cafe one of the days we were locked up here at the house and it was such a huge blessing! Salads, watermelon, grapes, oranges, bananas, cantaloupe, taco soup, King Ranch casserole, and bread sticks....there was so much that I ended up freezing two of the casseroles for later. My dad is still in Methodist Hospital in San Antonio. I haven't been able to go visit this week since we were sick and I am going to stay out until we are all completely well. He has zero white blood cells and anything could turn into something big. Initially when he went into the hospital they were going to start a 24 hr chemo that patients who get it often do not make it through the week. When he went into the hospital though his Dr. decided to try a new type of chemo drug for 5 days that was much less severe. The leukemia responded to it and now he will get that every month as long as he can or until his body can handle a bone marrow transplant. The Dr. told him this week if he doesn't start trying to walk more around the hallway at the hospital he will not get to go home and he will end up in a nursing home instead. I am really grateful for the time I have gotten to spend with him in the hospital. I have had conversations that would have never happened and have never happened my whole life. I know he is going crazy in that hospital room and hoping to get a few days at home eventually. Well if anyone is still out there let me know! Happy Fall!