Halloween 2023

It’s that time of year! When Halloween kicks off the holiday season with yummy treats and spooky ghouls.

Book character parade at school!

Logan has really gotten into Anime so his costume this year is from one of his favorite books Demon Slayer. Giyu.

It’s weird having only one kid to cheer for this year.

Halloween night. My two boys that will still go trick or treating.

Tanner with his creepy clown costume 🤡 

And Logan

Tanner and his friend Matthew. Hardly saw Tanner at all that night! He was off having too much fun.

Logan had a friend pick him up to go trick or treating by themselves. I burst into tears after I shut the door watching all my kids go off on their own.  They are getting too big/old they no longer need me.

Brad and I did go out for a little to watch Logan go trick or treating. It’s not fun just staying inside and passing out the candy. We did stay a good distance behind so he could be on his own. And then at the end of night Logan ran off with Carson and his friends while they roomed the neighborhood, feeling like such a big kid. My baby is not a baby anymore.

 It was a great night! I’m trying so hard to cherish these last years of childhood while also giving them space to grow. I’m already missing them. It’s hard.

Birthday in Dallas

We have a 12 year old in da house! To celebrate we went to Dallas for the weekend because Brad’ brother Rich was in town so we had a little family reunion to party with.

Birthday Dinner!

Watching the Astros play the Texas Rangers in the ALCS playoff while eating dinner on the patio. My kindof night.

🎂 🎶 

The next day we went to the Fort Worth Stockyards

Logan came away with his very own pocket knife.

The Clark boys!! Just missing Mason.

The Longhorn cattle drive

After the Stockyards we went and saw Ryan and Sasha's lot that they are going to build on.  Then it was time for more dinner!

I mean you have to eat outside in October in Texas every chance you get.  Especially when there's live music.

Love being a boy mom.

Such a fun weekend with a great group!

 

2023 school year pics

 My handsome boys!

Freshman-9th grade

6th grade

3rd grade

 

Fall Happenings Part 2

Fall updates ain’t over yet!

Free day off from school calls for using gift cards from my uncle Andy to grab Starbucks.

Learning how to use a pocketknife at scouts. Cutting soap bars!

Next up it’s a girls night with my girls to a rock concert! All American Rejects!

Isn’t it fun that music can literally make it feel like you can time travel? I traveled back 20 years ago to my senior year in high school. All American Rejects was one of the first real concert I ever went to (Weezer Green CD was #1 still proud of that) when I was a nanny in Vegas. I ended up losing a toenail from being in the mosh pit that night. Sorry tmi, but it’s a fun way to remember. So it was amazing to be back listening to my old hits with my good friend. Even more awesome was that I no longer had to pay for the cheap mosh pit tickets and we got our own little private booth in the balcony. I could sit or stand and much as I wanted.

And we did. We danced and sang the night away to Motion City, New Found Glory, and All American Rejects like I was young and 18 and without a care in the world. Best night ever! 

Was on such a high the next few days after this! Such a memorable night.

One of my favorite concerts of the year! The Jr High & High School Masquerade! It would have been an awesome night if both Tanner and Carson would have been in it together, but since Tanner is only in first year orchestra he doesn’t perform in this one. Oh well, next year for sure!

This years theme: Star Wars! 

They even had legit cosplay Star Wars characters come and greet everyone. And during the intermission helped pass out the candy to all the kids in the character parade.

I mean they even had this amazing droid!

 And the songs Carson’s orchestra played were pretty fun and amazing. Love that he’s in high school orchestra!

So proud.

Fall happenings

Fall update on the boys!

Logan went to Cub Scout camp for the day and loved it.

His favorite was the BB guns.

I think practicing at the cabin paid off! 

I spy a couple bullseyes 🎯 

I mean compared to the other boys in his den, he killed it.

We also started fall soccer! Or as Logan calls it, football. Logan hasn’t ever really been interested in soccer, he played when he was really young, but he doesn't remember. In fact the last time he tried to play he went to one practice before the world shut down for Covid, but recently he's been playing "football" at recess with his friends and so has been dying to play with a team.

 Logan got the MVP the very first game! His coach said that during practice Logan told the coach he wasn’t so sure about this soccer thing, but during the game he kept attacking the ball all with a huge smile on his face.

And his team won first place in his age division! Logan was so happy he got an actual trophy! (Here you only get trophies if you win, otherwise you get a participation medal)

And he also moved up in Taekwondo! Logan broke his first big board! And is now a people belt.

I promise I have other kids! Tanner went on a scout campout to Dino Valley. It’s a state park that has Dino footprint fossils in the riverbed. And since Texas is in a drought and the riverbed practically non existent, they got to see lots of footprints! It was pretty cool!

Next up, Fall Orchestra concerts! So handsome in his tux🤵🏼

And it was Tanners first one too! Since its the first years first one, they played a couple simple songs and then also taught 1 person how to play. Tanner taught his friend who came along to support.

So proud!

 Phew fall is a busy time of year, with the start of school and all the things! I wish I could say I hope it’ll slow down soon, but the holidays are right around the corner so we all know that ain’t gonna happen!