Sunday School Costume Party

For a solid year now we have been attending Houston Northwest, and we have made some amazing friends that live around us. Obedience to change churches was very hard for a long time, but God has blessed our faithfulness. (Not that I don't miss our HFBC family tremendously!) Our Sunday School class is relatively new and there incredible people that we get to share life with. So I guess you get to meet them now...but you might need to look past the costumes. He He! (I did not get a picture of the one couple that scored high reviews on their costume...so I will need to add that one later!)

Andy and Dana (He is some sort of Halo character...it got a great review from the guys...of course!)


Brian and Shawna


Billy and Lesly (He is our SS teacher and does an amazing job...God has gifted him!)


Walter and Crystal (She is the one that had to approach me about my "supposed" felonies. I am glad we can laugh about it now!)


Aaron and Kelly (They were so funny in those costumes!)


Chris and Katie


Brian and Stacy


Kurtis and Heather

Pumpkins and such...

I love October because it means 3 full months of fun coming up. I love seeing pumpkins out and especially the edible ones. I allow myself one bag of Brach's Mellowcreme Pumpkins, but now I have to share with Keegan. He of course, loves them and labels them "cake". We are headed to the pumpkin patch tomorrow to hopefully obtain a good sized one for our front porch. We have a puny and lonely one from HEB sitting our porch and he needs a friend.

Pumpkin Bread is a must for the season. My sweet friend, Kay, gave me a very easy recipe that makes fabulous bread. However, it did take some time for me to get it just right and it seems like something always seemed to go wrong the first couple of years. One Saturday afternoon while the boys were watching Aggie football, Kay, Christine and I decided to make some. We whipped it up and put it in the oven. Of course the smell of the bread was engulfing us and we could hardly wait to take it out and taste some. When we opened the oven door, our pumpkin bread was concave and not rising. We tried so hard to figure it out. So, I made another batch and it came out like that again. Later, I made the discovery that instead of using flour I had used powdered sugar on accident. Ooops. The powdered sugar is now labeled very clearly. :)So I finally made a good loaf and it was so tasty. The second year I put it in the oven, ran outside to check the mail, and when I came back I had locked myself out of the house. Luckily, Jonathan came home just in time to let me in and get it out of the oven. This year, I plan on enlisting Keegan's help for the pumpkin bread. Am I asking for it or what?

Baby Food Fight

He won! All carrots on self instead of in mouth. He thinks he is so funny. One day he will eat solid food....one day! Thanks to all who have given me advice on this. I think ultimately he has a texture aversion. Let's just say the apple does not fall very far from the tree. (referring to me!) We go to the doc next Friday, so hopefully we can get moving on this eating issue!

My Keegan

Today is Keegan's 27th mirthday! Sometimes I look at him and think..."You were just 5 pds. 11 oz. yesterday!" He is such a little grown up now, or at least he thinks he is.
Here are some of his stats...
*Keegan knows all his capital letters and a few numbers (1, 2, 4, 8, 9).
*He loves his monster trucks right now. (Mister Jackson, you know how to give good gifts!)
*He labels everything as "mine". When I kiss his cheek, he screams.."NO! My Cheek" When Jack is playing with anything, it is always "MINE!!!!". I am not sure Jack has anything that belongs to him at this point. One day, Jack is going to have some fighting words of his own.
*Keegan is obsessed with the movie Cars and says, "KA-CHOW" all the time.
*He is noticing all different things. He looked at his wrist today on our daily walk and says, "Mommy...Color...Draw." I could not figure out what he was saying for the longest time, until I noticed him tracing his veins with his finger.
*He knows exactly which direction "home" is. We were outside our neighborhood running errands and we passed the entrance off the highway that gets us home to run another errand. He screams from the backseat, "NO, Mommy...HOME!!!!"
*Keegs loves to crawl on the ground and yell for Jack to follow him. They both laugh so hard, it is good for my soul those few moments until....it back the the "M" word. (mine)
*It is never a good idea to watch the Elmo's world segment on "up and down" while he is sitting on my bed. (and at the same time his favorite book being "Five Little Monkeys") Some good things together make a bad combination.
*He loves to break dance to songs. (Thanks to Mister Billy!)
*Lately, his has been waking up at 5:30. Uggggh.
*He loves to watch people playing violin on TV. One day he came in (without zero prompting) with his guitar and plastic golf club for his musical debut.
*He never lets you back out of the driveway without your seat belt on.
*Keegan's favorite word right now is "almost". It cracks me up mainly because it is used in the right context.
*He is obsessed with going to McDonalds for fries. He is also in love with going to church. (which makes me happy!)
*He LOVES his daddy. (more than me) But that is okay.

What I Am Reading

I thought I would pass these two books along as some really good reads.

The first one, "David" by Chuck Swindoll has surprisingly been very captivating. His series of books on character studies have been on my shelf for the longest time and I decided to read it. He takes scripture verse by verse, pulling it apart and then relating it to your life. I just finished "Jonathan" by Francine Rivers which make me want to read more on King David. If you have not read her series on "The Sons of Encouragement" it is awesome.


"Bringing up Boys" by James Dobson has been on my list for a while to read. It is a slow read (at least for me) just because it has so much to think about. I seriously recommend this to anyone raising boys. It has given me more perspective especially into the life of Keegan right now.

Jack-9 months

My Jack is growing up so fast! I barely can remember the last 9 months! He is an amazing little man with an amazing smile. He warms my heart and I don't remember life with out him. Here are a few things about Jack...

*He has the best gummy smile....which means no teeth. But I am waiting any day for them to make their grand entrance.
*He is a great sleeper. He sleeps 12 1/2 hours every night, and I love waking him up in the morning because he is all snuggled up with his blanket.
*He started crawling around 7 1/2 months and now he is standing holding on to furniture.
*Jack still does not eat baby food or solid food. The only thing he tolerates "sometimes" are puffs. We have our appointment soon and hopefully they can give me ideas on how to get him to eat. (anyone have any more advice??)
*Jack loves any kind of strap can get his mouth on!
*He loves his mom, so much so, that he hates when other people besides me hold him. I love this...most of the time. :) (especially when daddy is Keegan's favorite)
*Jack loves his brother. Oh my goodness....he thinks that he is so funny even when Keegan takes all his toys from him. He doesn't really care, but I know he trying to figure out how to walk to keep up with Keegs.
*He loves to make noises with his mouth. Most of the time he is clicking his tongue but lately he has found that his arm makes some fun noise too.
*Jack's eyes can light up a room.
*He is looking more like his brother.
*Jack is just so much fun and has no fear. He is going to be one crazy kid!

Happy 9th Mirthday Jack!

"Hurrication" Highlights

After two weeks at my parents house, we rolled back to town last Friday afternoon. We had a great time in Mansfield despite Keegan throwing up every 48 hours. (exciting, huh?) I thought he would be over it and then it would happen again. We are really not sure what it was, but the good news is he is better! :) This made it to where we could not really visit anyone, but we were able to throw in some activities that made is fun. Jonathan was able to stay in Mansfield until our power was turned and it made for some much needed family time. In fact, our boys slept in until 7:30 every morning! (Yes, that is sleeping in and it felt great!) Thank you Ike.

The Highlights...
*The Zoo. It is starting to get more enjoyable taking Keegan to the zoo because now he knows what to look for and what they are called! We took mom and my neice Jacey with us. Look at Jacey's face in that picture! Priceless!




*My Cousin, Shana Banana, gave birth to her baby boy...Jordan Malachi. I am so proud of her and he is beautiful!


*We went to the farm with Mrs. Debbie (my mom's neighbor and mine growing up). She has her horse, Jackie, in a stable at the farm and the owners were nice enough to let us experience all the animals up close and personal. I am pretty sure he likes animals from a distance and only in books. Charlotte the pig and Delilah the Donkey were all up in his business. However, Jack was rather fond of Delilah, and the donkey followed him all around. I wanted to take her home with us but I am not sure Jonathan would appreciate that a donkey in our back yard!







*Dinner out with our family. We went to a restaurant on Joe Pool lake and had a nice armoma of cigarettes combined with the boats gas smell. Isn't that lethel? Anyhow, we had a fun time and fed the ducks afterwards.