CaRVIN' our very FIRST Pumpkins together, AS A FAMILY!

now, I'm pretty sure I've thought of this day before.

YOu know, the day when I would have the perfect family and we would do perfect family things while I, behind my camera say (and I did) "I've waited so long for this", that feel good moment that you know you've dreamt or thought of at least 11 times. It's the way I see, in my head, your supposed to live these moments.

 Holidays are so special and I am beyond excited about the next few months.

October 24th 2010, we carved pumpkins.

And Graham really enjoyed it.

Adam, of course, thought he wouldn't care and have no interest but...

see for yourself.

ewwwwah!

filthy and fun!

---->tell'n his Daddy how to do it.

partners in crimE

Next day photo shoot!

couldn't choose just one...

my pretty leaves are turning and i LOVE it!

Pate Cody and Graham Gonzenbach...

we fear will be a dynamic duo in a couple years.

Graham and Pate love each other...

as soon as we got over there for our cookout/pumpkin carvin' Pate had him on his horse with his hat..

I'd say it looks good on him?

this one goes out to my Pot.... look Pot!

great job Pate.

...best weekend in awhile...

ahhhhh!

wwWhat a relaxing weekend. I will say it helped that it rained. It gave us GOnzenbach's some great family time.

I had a date with my two boys Friday night. We went to Nocona, Tx and ate at Times Forgotten steak house. So delicious! If you haven't been there, go! It's such an awesome atmosphere and everyone is so nice. Graham had the whole places' attention.

Once lady behind us said she "hadn't been flirt with in awhile" and that "he made her day!" Finally we got his attention back to finish some of his dinner and then a group of older ladies start blowing him kisses, so we lost his train of thought once again. These ladies were crazy about him. They talked to him and he thought "their kisses' were HILARIOUS.

They couldn't get enough of him and understood the idea to which we are so proud.

The place was FULL because it was Nocona's homecoming... oops! We had no idea.

But they got us right in and we didn't have to wait hardly at all.

On our way home we stopped at the DQ and shared a blizzard. Graham LOVES blizzards.

Who doesn't?

Then the next morning, very rainy. it seemed like a good idea to go into town and eat breakfast. So we went to the Cracker Barrel and ate EVERY bit of the Old Timer. Again, Graham loves big people food. I'd say his best times are at the table. The kid loves food! WHateVEr does NOT matter. He wants it.

That was fun.

Very fun, I don't get to hang with both of my boys this often so I feel super blessed.

We ran errands, got Adam some new jeans (he can put a hole in jeans quicker than anyone I KNOW), took back some shoes and headed home to watch Mary Grace.

Yvette and George came over right about the time we almost had them to sleep and added some serious energy to little MG! She loves George.

So Yvette took Mary Grace why we tried to get little Graham down and then I followed Mary Grace over and she played and played and played.

I left my camera for all of it. Sorry.

so since no pictures, I'll leave you with 'life's little instructions'... i love this and pull stuff from it all the time.

enjoy and enjoy your week to come!



Over the last few GONzenBacH days.

Daddy's been home for a good week and we've had some much needed family time.

One this day we went out and feed the cows with him and counted 21 babies! They were so sweet runnin' behind they're Momma's.

It's silly, I know, but seeing them with they're Momma's and watching them nurse and pair up to protect them from us made so much more sense in my head this time around.

Here is Graham getting his first encounter with a baby cow.

...this one made me laugh, it had a funky-curly do, like he'd been doing his hair..

now, Graham constantly talks, here we were trying to get a picture but he was just talking away and telling us all about it.

The next day, or maybe the day before, I took him to the Bearcat Pep rally. Here he is with some of his buddies. They all love "baby Graham" and want him included in all their pictures. Later, we followed the Pep rally with ice cream at the Dairy Queen.

At 4oclock in the evening, the Henrietta Dairy Queen, goes like this: The 70-80 year olds, women on one side men on the other and in the middle... S.A.H. Mom's with rowdy kids filling the place with noise and their table with smeared ice cream. The ladies just stare at us, I'm sure with many opinions under the breath. They probably did it a little better in their day.

However, Graham enjoyed every second of it and I wish I had brought my camera in to show their table.

Priceless.

Below: (left to right) George Slagle (the birthday boy), Landrie Parker, Sara Kline, Dally Parker, Graham Gonzenbach, Presltey Silvertooth and Piersen Silvertooth.

Watch out Clay County!

I had a dentist appointment Thursday morning and Adam was going to watch "the boy". Before I had even left Graham was on his second (of his life) Oreo! Adam hollars' at me to get the camera and I walk into the living room to this!

He loved some OREO's!

Earlier this week (i guess, I'm kinda going backwards) I took (tried to take) some pictures of my sweet Mary Grace. She is turning 2 on November 2nd. Can ya'll believe this?

I can't!

This is all I got, thank GOODness it was enough to make something cute.

(could be one of my favorites)

 Here is another one I thought was pretty. I can't believe how big she is getting.

Makes me sad.



Next: we had little George Slagle's 3rd birthday. It was A BLAST! I had a little too much fun I guess at a 3 year old's birthday party. Maybe because I helped out so much is why I thought it was such a hit, jk. Seriously, though everything was beautiful and delicious. That Yvette, I hope she's able to make my last supper! That girl can cook! YUM!