Ranchin'

We love fall weather!

.................is so much fun with friends! We headed up to the ranch last weekend with some good friends. We had 4 kiddos under 3, we were in close quarters! We roasted marshmellows, had a bonfire, looked at the "moo cows," rode around on the ranger, caught a few fish, and the guys hunted. We enjoyed our weekend, a little country is good for the soul! It was so nice to be outside in the fresh air....Harper spends most of his days inside, but not at the ranch!

Gentry..aka baby Moses....just couldn't resist the pond!

The girls....Kristen, Amber, Lisa, Angela, and me

Harper Walking

Harper started walking a couple of weeks ago and I am finally posting a video. My sister emailed me today requesting a video. So here you go!

Please excuse his outfit and my dirty kitchen:)

I love NKOTB

(we had to throw our posters away :(....no posters aloud!)

Last night I attended the NKOTB concert! It was awesome! A group of seven NKOTB groupies and I hired Montgomery Country Limousine Service to drive us down to the Toyota Center for the concert. We have been preparing for this event all week! We made shirts, posters, and dug up lots of NKOTB flare in honor of the night. I felt like it was 1988. A couple of the girls even went to the Toyota Center in the morning with "Let Us Back Stage" posters hoping to win back stage passes. No luck....so they went and got coffee at the Four Seasons and ended up seeing Lady Gaga!

When we arrived at the concert it was quite hilarious to see to see ALL the groupies! We thought we might stick out with all of our gear, but we blended right in. I would say at least 50% of the people there were wearing vintage NKOTB gear! It was greatness! I even saw a girl with stirrup pants! The majority of the people were 25-35 year old woman (probably moms, like us!) and the 5% of guys that were there had to be gay!

The guys sang for 2 hours straight...and danced the entire time! It was so cool because you knew every word to every song! Our row stood up through the concerts entirety. After the 2nd song my friend Ashley leaned over and said she had already sweat ed out her deodorant! One too many overhead claps! Best concert ever! I love NKOTB!

Harper & Poppy

This morning I had a dentist appointment so my mom was going to come over and babysit Harper. Well as it turns out my mom has been sick in bed for 2 days with the chills and a fever. So she sent my dad over. This was great and more than fine with me, except that my dad has only babysat Harper once!

Well let me just tell you.......they had the best time! Harper took a short nap, which I can guarantee was because he "sensed" that Poppy was in the house. He then proceed to cuddle for 45 minutes with him on the couch, something that he NEVER does with his own mama! They played the rest of the morning, ate lunch, and then rode around in Harper's car. When I came home Poppy was pushing "little buddy" around in his car on the driveway. It was too cute! I wish I had a nanny cam, I would have loved to spy on the two of them while I was away!

Say Cheese!

Harper turned ONE on August 14th and we finally had his one year pictures made...just 2 months late! We actually tried to get these taken many times, but Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike both interrupted our photo dates! Apparently I can bring on the rain! Jamie Kutter took Harper's pictures and once AGAIN, did a bang up job!! Her camera is magic! We had 2 photo sessions the first one Harper screamed the entire time. He threw his head back and showed us that he is indeed a spirited child :) We had never seen this side of him, so we were so glad to share this experience with our photographer! Thank goodness she is a friend!!Here are the rest of the pics Photo Session #1 Look how much he has changed in one month!

Race for the Cure

Cam and I got up early Saturday morning to run in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. My Aunt Kay is a breast cancer survivor so that was our motivation behind the race. It was a 5k (3.2 miles) that took place in Houston, off of Allen Parkway. There were 26,000 participants, which is truly amazing! There was pink everywhere! Next year, we will definitely get a team together and maybe even bring Harper along! A huge thanks to my parents for watching Harper so we could run, it was such a fun morning.

I love books!

Harper loves books! He finds them all over the house and so do his buddies!! I start to worry when it gets quiet, thinking he's getting into trouble. I love to walk in on him reading, I guess that's the reading specialist in me!