~September 4, 2011~

Happy September Ya'll!

It was a bit cooler today in the Lone Star State...in the 90's!

I consider September the start of the Fall/Autumn Season! So in honor of that...

I made some simple fall sugar cookies!

And the kids and I headed out to the park!
We played in the creek bed...




in the wooded areas, and at the playground. We had a fun time!





Oh...We had a Milestone in our house recently!...
Hunt lost his first tooth on July 23rd!!!


A visit from the tooth fairy left him a gold dollar coin, a Mexican coin, a tiny little note in a tiny little envelope and a wooded gnome doll.

She was so busy that night that there was fairy dust under Hunt's pillow and a trail to the window! Wow! How cool!
Well...He lost another tooth at school this past Thursday!


And again the fairy dust was flying so to speak! HA! More dust under his pillow and another trail to the window! This time she left Hunt another gold dollar, a coin from Spain, a rolled up spiral written message and a leather journal!

The journal was left on the window sill. Hunt commented that she probably needed help bringing that! HA! If he only knew! Hunt has really been into writing and drawing in notebooks and note pads lately, so I guess the tooth fairy thought he might like a nice journal!

The week before school started hubs took a vacation week so we could spend time as a family...before the extra chaos started. I say extra because we always have chaos! We didn't do too much, it's so stinking hot here in Texas! Too hot to do much outside, even inside for that fact. We did take a trip out to the deer lease. If you know us and our family, then you know that hunting is a very important thing to the males in the household! The kids had a blast!




{Daddy telling Em about the cactus}

{Running around like uncaged zoo animals}

{Messing with the big red ants}


{Collecting animal bones and a turtle carcass}



{Shooting BB guns...and play guns}



{Helping daddy with feed and treats for the wildlife}

{Bubba and Em's matching deer lease boots. Hunt's has an orange stripe on the side and Em's has pink}


{More BB gun action...target practice this time}


Someone thought he was way too cool getting to ride in the back of daddy's truck!




It was a fun, hot and dirty day...which the kids both LOVED!!!

Just before school started I set up a snack container in the fridge.I borrowed the idea from a friend Crystal Bond! It's been working out pretty good. The snacks that I add to it are healthy*semi-healthy*or close and in individual sizes and amounts, so it's super easy for the kiddos to grab and go. I change things out here and there to give them a variety. Maybe I'll start a little segment in the blog called...Our Snack Container This Week...and list the snack goodies for the week. Here's ours for this week...

::Our Snack Container This Week::
grapes
carrots (a container of ranch to go with the carrots if so desired)
granola bars
trail mix
clementines
cheerios
string cheese
fruit chewies
blueberry rice cakes
cheese crackers

Another segment I was thinking about adding is our weekly dinners. A list of our dinner time meals for the week, called...What's Cooking...I'll have some simple and quick, and some more time consumming. Fridays and Saturdays we usually go out.

::What's Cooking::
Sunday:breaded and oven baked pork chops
scalloped potatoes
glazed carrots
simple autumn sugar cookies
Monday: dinner out with friends
Tuesday: Cheese enchiladas with chili sauce
Wednesday: Froggy in the holes
bacon
Thursday: chicken stir fry with noodles and veggies
broccoli, snap peas, carrots, mini corn)
Friday: eating out
Saturday: eating out


I don't know who else may do this, but it's something that I started last year with Hunt. Every day that he brings a lunch to school(which is most, if not all the week)I put a little note in there for him.

Just a little have a good day, or you are awesome or loved type note. Sometimes I may included a sticker or a single little candy(not often). Some I bought as a set and wrote messages on the back. About 97% of the time Hunt kept the note, but other times he would give them away to friends, usually girls, in his class. SO anyhoo, this year I decided that I would make 2 notes, one to keep and one to give away.

I forgot to throw these pictures in last blog.




{notice sisiter's mini pony tail...LOL}
Just a few I snapped while we were school supply shopping!

We signed Hunt up for flag foortball again.

He played in the spring and enjoyed it. We are hoping to get the same coach that he had last year. We really liked him. We register through I9 Sports. It's a wonderful and fair group. Everyone gets a chance at playing no matter their skill level. They learn values each game and the one player that showed that value earns a metal. Hunt won one last year for team spirtit!

I have SO many photos to share! I'm so very far behind, so ya'll hang in there, ok!

Ya'll have a good night now...