Tanner's 3rd Halloween

We had a GREAT Halloween weekend! Well, if you don't count the fact that Tanner and I have been sick for over a week now. Tanner has strep throat and I don't know what I have. I was treated for the flu and now I am on an antibiotic. I still don't feel 100% better, and Tanner doesn't either. She had 103 degree fever last night. It is down to 101.8 this morning, but still going and this is her 4th day on her antibiotic. Who knows what is going on. Either way, we had a great weekend. Friday night, we decorated cookies and lit a fire in the fireplace. The next morning, we got up and Clinton made sausage gravy and biscuits for breakfast. We got ready to go to San Antonio to The Little Gym, who was having a Halloween party for the kids. We met Paxton and Tawny and the kids there to play. I didn't think Tanner was contagious at this point because she hadn't had any fever all along and she had been on her antibiotics for over 24 hours. Who knows, looking back, if she was or not. I really hope not! Anyway, we played there for awhile then hit Chick-fil-A, Tanner's favorite, on the way home. When we got home, we put Tanner in her cat costume. Tanner had a black leotard and I sewed black boas on it to make it fluffy. I added a tail, tights, and cat ears and the look was complete! It was kind of funny, though, because she looked like a bird at first. I had to go and snip off the feathers so that it was just the fluffy stuff left so she didn't look like a black bird! We have boa all over our house still, even after three vacuuming jobs! She looked adorable in her costume, though, and she had a blast acting like a cat. She would meow and everything. It was too cute! We went trick-or-treating at a few of our neighbors' houses and then came home to hand out candy. Tanner had a good time looking at all of the costumes and saying "Happy Halloween!". She even helped me give candy to the kids. We ran out of candy around 7:30 because there were SO MANY trick-or-treaters! We were in bed by 9:30. It was a good night!


Getting ready to decorate cookies on Friday

We gave her a mustache. It was hard to get a picture before the sprinkles started falling off, though!

Tanner's masterpiece
Some other creative works of hers
A few, less artistic, cookies that Clinton and I did.
She dumped the entire thing of brown sprinkles on this one cookie
Enjoying the fruits of her laborThese are Tanner's "baby pumpins"
Tanner was "cleaning" the table with a baby wipe while Clinton made breakfast.
All ready to go to The Little Gym. Her costume was still having feathers plucked off of it so we went in Halloween attire instead of full costume.

The kids got to lay on the bouncy platform while they were blowing it up. She loved it!She was a bouncy hog! She wouldn't get off to let other kids have a turn!

Tanner and Channing swinging on the bar.
They were clapping to the song that was playing. Channing and Jaxson were Raggedy Ann and Andy, but they didn't want to wear their wigs. They were so cute!
I thought this was funny. It looks like he is wearing a Tanner bonnet!
Posing for the camera
Us outside The Little Gym.Our precious kitty cat!






Tanner's trick-or-treat bag was soooooo cute! Erin got it for her and sent it. Her friend, Amy, made it and we absolutely LOVE it!

I though her expression was cute in this picture.
We went trick-or-treating at our friends David and Alma's house. This is their baby, Addison, who is about to be one. Clinton and David carpool to work together, and they just moved into our neighborhood. We are so excited to have them as neighbors!
Tanner was checking out what she got.
She liked shaking the boxed candy.She sat in the bumbo chair to hand out candy. She can hardly get out of it once she is in!
Alma and Addison came trick-or-treating at our house while David stayed to hand out candy.

Checking out some costumes!

Sofia's First Birthday Party

We recently celebrated Sofia's 1st birthday! She had a "wish upon a star" themed party, and it was a lot of fun!


Tanner in her party hat and ready to party!

They were being unicorns


This is the cake that Haley made. It turned out really good!

Digging in!



Sofi and Tanner LOVE playing in this tunnel that the Hubert's bought Sofi for her birthday

Feeding the ducks at the park after the party

I love this face!

Tanner's Birthday Present and Fall Celebration

For Tanner's 2nd birthday, we decided to get her a "playscape" for the back yard. It is basically a swing set with a few bells and whistles. Clinton and Jason spent about 12 hours putting it together, and it was actually missing a few parts! The "rocks" that are supposed to go on the rock wall, which is the wooden slats that she is climbing on in the first picture, are supposed to be in next week. We are also missing a bolt for the see saw swing, which should be coming in with the rocks. Tanner LOVES this play set, though. We have been outside almost every day since she got it. She loves to swing and she says "bigger" when she wants to go higher. Then she tells us not to swing her at all once she gets going. She tells us, "go clean pool!". She wants us out of her hair, and cleaning the pool is what Clinton is usually doing outside if he isn't playing with her. It is pretty funny!

On a different note, the Mitschke's came to stay with us the night that Clinton and Jason started working on the play set. I made a pot of chili and we watched football and had a fire in the fireplace. It was a really good night. The night before, we had a fire with just us and Tanner was very intrigued. She couldn't stop looking at it, and she brought all of the pumpkins that we bought her and her Mr. Potatohead to look at the fire with her. It was really cute.









She loves her Uncle Jason and wants to be just like him!
Eating chili
Our first fire of the season, the night before Haley and Jason came.
Tanner and friends watching the fire.



Funny random picture that was taken the same weekend.