That was fun!

Since a few weeks after we moved the boys have mastered their bike riding ability. They can navigate them all over our tiny house. But their favorite part is to go outside and ride around the "big house."
Here is a little video of them riding. You can see the inside of our house at the beginning while they are talking and then see a shot of the big house we live behind. You will also get to hear some not so great singing at the end - by yours truly!!!

Miss me?!?

Well, it's been a while folks...I am sure you missed me.

And I know someone other than my mom has missed my blog...Kelcy...she even facebooked me to tell me!

Now that we have our own internet here at the "big house" as the boys call it, updates will be more regular...sigh a sigh of relief. You can see those two little munchkins whenever you like

So a few updates before pictures:

1.) We are still in temporary housing. We are waiting for our house to sell in Houston...come on house! We are hoping that we are getting near...no propositions just hoping that the timing will be right soon enough! There aren't a ton of options in Corsicana, so buying one wont be difficult...we are just waiting for our other home to sell!

2.) We are pregnant! I am 7 1/2 weeks along and due some time around the end of August/early September. I am feeling great other than starting to be so tired and not wanting to eat!

3.) We have settled on a church home. We are attending a small bible church called Believer's Bible Church. We arrived here in a very crazy, very obviously God, way. This summer we had one of our most favorite college girls, Lauren, babysit the boys for us one night. She had some friends in from DBU and they came along. When we got home we sat around and visited with her and her friends. One of her friends, Abbey, told us that her dad was a pastor in Corsicana. Two months later we found out we were moving to Corsicana. I got in touch with Abbey who got us in touch with her parents. They are awesome! They have become sweet friends to us. BBC is the church he pastors and the people are amazingly friendly and right away we felt at home. Finding a church is a huge part of feeling settled...we are so glad we have found a church home.

Okay, that is it for now. We really are doing great! Here are some pictures from the Holidays!

Nini and Pops got some chickens! That is part of the fun going to their house! Here are the boys at Thanksgiving feeding the chickens with Pops!

We also have a new found love for dogs...especially Beamer and Bubbles...here is Blake with Bubbles at Thanksgiving.

Grammy and Papa Ric helped us start the Christmas season by taking the boys to Canton, MS. Their town square is very decorated with fun rides! Here we are on the Merry-go-round!

An advantage of being closer to Dallas means closer to family. We met my sister in law, Whitney, and my nieces and nephew in downtown Dallas to ride the trolley to the art museum for a day of free fun! Here they are on the trolley!

The boys got to be ring bearers in another wedding. This was a special wedding since it was a Heston wedding. We love those Heston's! The flower girls were Payton and Katelyn! They were precious! Here is Owen and Payton!

and Blake and Katelyn

and Daddy and Blake

Christmas was really fun this year. The boys understood more and loved helping bake and doing other Christmassy things!

Here they are making cookies...and eating them!

On our way to the Christmas Eve service

Christmas Eve in our new PJ's with daddy...singing Jingle Bells!

Blake eating seven layer dip watching a Christmas Story

Christmas Day we headed to my parents. Here are the grandkids...

Thanks Uncle Pete for this one:

Then the day after we headed to Mississippi for a week. I think most of my pictures from that week are on my other camera! So here is one for now:

The boys with their great grandparents...Papa Joe and Ga

Catch up

So we have been gone for so long from the blog world! Mostly because we have officially moved! We got to Corsicana on October 30.

We are staying behind a bed and breakfast in a furnished former carriage house for this home built in 1898! It's two stores and is between 800-1000 square feet. We are so thankful to not be in a hotel with our sweet little guys! We even have a washer and dryer and a kitchen! It's tight, but quickly becoming home. The boys call it "the big house."

We have had a few good weeks. Nate is loving his new position. It has been a real eye opener to how hard it was on Conroe for the past 2 years. The boys and I are doing well. We have joined the YMCA and been to every park in town as well as story time at the library. We have even made a few friends, been out to lunch with people and had a few play dates! I think we are doing great!

We have visited two churches in town and like them both, we still want to visit one more and the hopefully we will pick one and dive right in!

That's enough for now...don't want to overload any one with our big comeback!

Get ready for some photos! These are out of order...but this has been our October!

This was our going away party that our sweet friends the Bates threw us before we left. This wasn't quite every one...but covered enough people. We had such a great time...we will surely miss these people dearly!!!

Here are the boys on Halloween! We had several fun filled days. with pumpkin carving, HAFBC fall festival, and we went trick or treating in a neighborhood we like to see if the neighbors were nice! Thanks Holly for a great idea!!! The boys were garden gnomes. Target had them! And if you didn't know, Nate is 50% Norwegian and gnomes are a big Norwegian deal! Their Santa looks like a gnome...so since the boys are 1/4 Norwegian we had to dress them like gnomes...plus it gives me the good embarrassing pictures to show their girlfriends one day!!!

Our home on Corsicana on our way to Trick or treat!

Fall Festival

See...embarrassing photo! Owen's outfit was too small, but I made him wear it anyway!!!

The carving kind of back fired on us. I thought it would be a good idea to tell them the inside of the pumpkin was gross and that might make them more likely to touch it, but instead they ran from it! But here is the family photo - taken with a timer...impressed?

Blakey's new favorite thing to say is "tada!" with his arms in the air. So here he is saying "TADA!" over his pumpkin.

We also had the whole Heston clan over one last time for dinner at our house. It was really fun to celebrate our time with them in Houston.
Erin snagged us in front of our house. It was a good house...

Here Blakey is with his ladies!

Happy Fall!

These are a few weeks late...but still in time!

This was after Auntie left, but before the trip to HPU and that was all two weeks ago! I went with a moms group from our church to a place called Old McDonald's Farm for a day at the Pumpkin Patch. The boys had fun of course!!! There was even a train - which I might mention was the second out of three that they rode in ONE week! It was train heaven!!!

They loved all of the pu-kins they were shaped like balls!

When your husband is a garbage man

A few weeks ago Nate had to work the National Night Out in Conroe and so the boys and I headed that way to be some support.

It was a fun night. There were trains, fire trucks, police cars and free hot dogs - it was a little boys dream! Here are some pictures from helping daddy!

TT

Our anniversary was on October 1st and we celebrated our 5th anniversary!!! For the past four we have managed to sneak away for a trip which we decided would be our "gifts" to each other. This year we planned MONTHS ago that we would take a walk down memory lane by heading back to Charlotte where it all began.

Then Nate got a new job. And we found out we are moving November 1st to Corsicana, TX (that is an hour south of Dallas). So our trip went out the window.

Yeah for a job...Boo for my trip.

So last minute Nate's Aunt, Jean, aka, Auntie (pronounced with a Brittish tone) for Blake, and TT for Owen came to save the day!

Last year she visited as "Nantie" - a combo of Nanny and Auntie for those of you who are slow at my nicknames - and we went out of town for a few days...this year she returned but we stayed at our house and utilized a free babysitter. BTW she really liked us going out...because she loves us but loves having her great nephews to herself!

One fun thing she and I did was take the boys to ride their first train at Hermann Park. This was just as big of a hit as I had hoped. They are obsessed with trains and were so excited to ride! They proudly told their daddy for the next few days "I ride train! It go FAST!" We also got to play in the fountains, chase ducks, eat a picnic, see a horse and because it was by the medical center we saw LOTS of helicopters. It was an A+ day in the life of Blake and Owen.

Here are some pictures of our time with TT!

On the train!

Our date on our anniversary!

What 5 years brings you!

I have a few other videos...but this one pretty much sums up how Blake felt about the train!

HHHH-PPPPPP-UUUUUU

This past weekend Holly and I took our four kiddos with out hubby's to our college homecoming! We had a lot of fun! It was a ton of work, but not nearly as bad as we had thought it would be. My group made it through the weekend with only one timeout and one melt down each! I thought that was pretty good!
It was fun taking the boys to such a special place and equally as fun seeing faces I hadn't seen in years. Howard Payne is a special place and I am proud to be a part of it!
Here are a few photo highlights!

Here we come! At 8:30am!!! We got to stay at some of the Heston's family friends...this was our view when we woke up!


Owen was very concerned with Booper (Cooper) all weekend...he was trying to get him to say "Cheese!"


At the parade - they really loved the band! I think it was a shout out to Uncle Pete and Aunt Whitney!


Holly and her crew!


The boys sliding at the "Little Jackets Nest" - a play area just for kids.


Payton was singing the Alma Matter and ready to say "Ahh Sting 'Em!"


Here the kids are in front of Old Main Tower.


Me and my crew! (they were very tired at this point!)


Me and Holly!