Thanksgiving Week part 1

Our Thanksgiving adventure began the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Josh's parents had flown to visit us in Wentzville the weekend before Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful weekend together while they were here. Must have been busy because some how I did not manage to get any pictures. We spent the time just visiting and enjoying them at our house. We went and shopped a little, went to the park, played in the backyard, watched the Aggies get a fun win over Nebraska. They watched the boys for us one evening while we got to go on a much needed date. We hadn't been on one since July when my mom was here to watch the boys. Josh recruited his dad to help him get the house ready for winter and get decorations ready for the outside of the house. Thank you Kevin and Ronda for the visit and the help around the house.


After our enjoyable weekend together the boys and I set out for the 13 hour trek to Texas with Josh's parent's. I was pleasantly suprised with how well the boys did on this drive. They were great! All the prayers worked! Brayden was very entertained by watching his DVD's, playing cars and stickers with me in the back, and playing what's in that truck as we drove down the road. Grandpa also taught him how to make trucks honk. Bransen slept quite a bit of the drive and enjoyed laughing at me and Brayden while he was awake along with eating whatever I could find to give him.


A funny story from our drive. We were all ready for our lunch stop at about 1 pm. Bransen was letting us know he was hungry so as we pulled into a town we saw a billboard for Braum's that said playground and food turn here. We were not sure if it was the exit we were on or the next. I quickly looked it up on our Garmin and followed it to the nearest Braum's. Our first clue that it was the wrong exit should have been the dirt road we turned on. But we were excited to eat at Braum's plus have a playground so we kept driving. Next we turned on a small rural road. Our curiosity then got the best of us so we kept trucking. We were led to Braum's Dairy! No food and the only playground was an open field with dairy cows. We got a quick picture and a good laugh and turned back around to the interstate knowing from then on it was best to not venture off the main road.

Happy Thanksgiving

This isn't just a turkey as you can plainly see

I made it with my hand which is a part of me

It comes with lots of love especially to say

I hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Fall Foliage

The fall foliage has been beautiful the past month here in STL, MO. Here are a few of the vibrant colors just within our subdivision.

Trees along the walking path to the pond.

Fall leaves along the walking path

The treen in our front yard

The tree in our backyard

The mums on the side of our house

Mums in our front flower bed

Biter Biscuit

Brayden thinks he has to try everything brother does and yes Bransen is gagging in this picture. Nothing new, happens most times he eats but it is getting better.

Bransen is wanting to eat any and everything he sees these days. Major Issue - He has no teeth. While I am preparing dinner each night is always his most fussy times and one thing I can do to decrease the fusy times is give him something while he sits in his high chair and watches me cook. Toys will work sometimes but lately I have been trying Ritz crackers, which he loves, and most times it works ok but he does occasionally get off a big piece in his mouth and will choke (he has a bad gag reflex which doesn't help anything). I found some Biter Biscuits in our pantry my sister had while she was here back in April. These things make a Huge Mess! But he loved it and I was able to get dinner cooked. So we might be eating Biter Biscuits as our appetizer until we get some teeth, maaybe next month.

Monkey See Monkey Do

Brayden Tim - 10 months

Bransen Ron - 6 months

Brayden Tim - 10 months

Bransen Ron - 6 months