party time.

we threw a little party for some of cole's friends over the weekend and we had a really good time.  

i hardly took any photos because between the guests, cole and the girls, i could barely keep up. 

we didn't have a theme because a) i couldn't decide on one, b) cole didn't care and c) this way i could do whatever a want and be lazy about what i threw together.  this was a very low maintenence party which was just the way i wanted it.  all i wanted, and cole too for that matter, was some cake, ice cream, candles and playtime with friends.  the kids decorated pumpkins with glitter glue and stickers, there was a lightening mcqueen piñata, and some homemade cupcakes complete with ice cream and toppings bar.   

i made a few decorations, bought a few other snacks and called it a day.  

awesome.

i'm telling ya, people, these are basically the only pictures i got.  

sorry.  

but the whole thing was a success.  

cole woke up sunday morning and the first thing he said was, 'let's have another party today!'

Wedding weekend.

This past weekend, we traveled to d.c. and then onto pennsylvania for my cousin's wedding. It was a crazy 5 days as 4 of them included travel of some sort. people tell us all the time that we are brave to travel so much with small children. 

 we prefer crazy. thankyouverymuch. 

 but fortunately this was the last of our travels for quite a while. we had a great trip but it was wild and crazy for sure.  seven of my family members came down with the stomach bug and it was not pretty. seriously, they were dropping like flies. 

fortunately it was after the wedding but we had to change up travel plans and since brenner was one of the 7 sickies, it was hard to not have him around to help. but he is better now and we are sooooo thankful that neither the girls nor i caught the bug.

other than the sickness, the weekend was filled with cold weather, fall leaves, colorful mountains, good family time, celebrating, wedding dancing, Panera, lots of coffee, and of course the happy couple.

oh yeah, and elise decided this would be the best weekend to set a record in outfit changes.  

the child blew through ( and i mean that literally) 11 outfits in 3 days.  

11.  

let me tell ya, this was really fun while in the car, at the wedding, and in a hotel (in which we may or may not have had to get 2 new comforters).

and of course nothing says fun like changing a diaper in the airplane bathroom...4 times.  

fun times.  

did i mention that i am glad we are done traveling for a while?

but the girls once again amazed us at their flexibility and good traveling and we are sooooo grateful to have children who travel well!  

i was horrible bout taking pictures over the weekend, but here are a few from my phone.  

(the pictures of the girls in the empty house are from my parents' rental house.  they are moving in this weekend and knocking theirs down soon!!  we stayed there while in dc)

pumpkin patch.

here are a few pictures from our stop at the pumpkin patch over the weekend. the plan was to go to a farm where they have rides and animals and pumpkins. but our plans changed and it worked out as we got a few cute pictures and a few cute pumpkins. I took more pictures with my real camera that i have yet to go through but here are the ones from my phone.

h.o.t. fair and rodeo.

the heart of texas fair and rodeo was in town this past week so we loaded up the crew and headed out for an evening of animals, people watching and overpriced rides. woo hoo!

we had not been in years and never taken cole before but my parents took cole to a county fair in maryland a month ago so he was very excited to go to this one. he rode tractors, petted lots of animals, watched quite a bit of the rodeo and the highlight of the night was riding the ferris wheel. at first he was a little scared about doing it but he insisted that he wanted to do it any way and he ended up loving it!