Amelia Rose

We headed up to Ft. Worth recently to throw my sister-in-law, Jami, a baby shower.  She's due in late October with a little girl, Amelia Rose!  We can hardly wait!

Adler had a blast at the shower, helping me decorate and helping Aunt Jami opening gifts!

Adler and Grandma

The kids really enjoyed playing with their cousin, Noah!

We found a cool old-school metal slide that we kids thought was awesome!

There we are....The Langdon Clan

(missing 5 dogs though)!

Aggie Football

Micah received free tickets to the first home Aggie Football game, so we took Owen and checked out the renovated stadium!  There were over 104,000 people at this game.....CRAZY!        

Here are 2 new statues on display outside the stadium.  I especially love the one below!

Micah is one of the Landscape Architects working on the new stadium, designing the plaza and space around the outside of the field.  It was so awesome to see the space being used after all his hard work.

Right before kickoff a storm blew in and the game was delayed for 2 hours!  That gave us lots of time to wander around the stadium an check everything out.  Here we are at the top deck.

This is a cool new arch way with views of the storm.

Kai totally photo bombed our family photo!

Kai, Kira and Owen in the new South End Zone

We only stayed for the first half of the game, but found my sister in the student section before we left!

  We beat Lamar 73-3, which was a total blow out!

Brian's Dirty 30!

We recently helped my brother celebrate his 30th birthday in Houston!  We went to Pete's Piano Bar....I LOVE piano bars!  Such a fun night out!

The kiddos stayed in College Station for the night, thanks to the grandparents!  We certainly don't get out for an entire night without the kids very often, so this was a great treat for us.  Hooray for grandparents!

Sisters!

Brian's friends were a blast to party with!

Happy Birthday, my brother!

From Summer to School

I can't believe summer is over.

 This picture was taken on our last day of summer.  We did the same thing we did last year, which was swim and then eat snow cones!

Here's the kid's official first day of school photo.  This year Adler is going to Pre-K at the same school as Owen. She barely missed the cut-off for Kindergarten, but seems totally excited and ready.  Owen is now in the second grade.  Yeesh.

 Adler decided to try out gymnastics this fall (instead of dance or soccer).  On her first day she grinned the entire class! Owen chose to play soccer this fall and has already started practicing as well.

And here is Titus!  He is such a sweet dog we love him already.  I've been taking him on off leash hikes and he's doing great.  He enjoys hiking much more than walking around the neighborhood.  We are so lucky to have found such a loving and calm family dog!

Lake Tahoe - Part 2

Here's a continuation of our trip to Tahoe!  We spent the week staying at a house in South Lake Tahoe, which gave us easy access to beaches, hiking, and good food.  Ryder also stayed with us all week long and his parents joined us for the last few days.

On this day we chose to hike one of my favorite trails, up to Cascade Falls.  The waterfall was wasn't much at this time of year, but the views were spectacular!

Bootie shot!

Brenda & Kelly

Owen and Ryder were really interested in rock climbing....we had to stop them from climbing to the top of this cliff!

My kiddos relaxing in the sand!

Here we are at Pope Beach, where we spent a day relaxing with friends and paddle boarding.

Micah caught in mid-air!

This girl LOVES the water.  She just can't get enough.  And the colder, the better.

Our final beach day was spent at Nevada Beach.  Micah helped the kids build this huge mound, which quickly became the most popular spot on the beach!

On our last day in Nevada, we were pretty beached-out, so we headed to Virginia City to eat at one of our favorite restaurants.  Then we had some old-timey photos taken, just for fun!  Finally dinner with our closest friends that night.  It was difficult to say goodbye and I still miss them every day.  

Until next year, Nevada.....

Lake Tahoe - Part 1

We recently took a 10 day vacation back to NEVADA!!!  It was such a blast spending time with all of our awesome friends, whom we miss every single day in Texas.  We also spent loads of time at Lake Tahoe, hanging on the beach, paddle boarding, and hiking.  Micah had to work most of the week, but managed to have some down time with us too!

Our first stop???  Time with amazing friends!!!

We hit the Carson City farmers market twice while we there and couldn't get enough of these delicious strawberries!  We just can't find strawberries this delicious in Texas.

Ethan, Owen, and Kameron on our way to Tahoe.

 The first half of our week there we saw some really strange weather.  We got rained on for several days in a row and even hailed on twice in one day!  In the picture above Micah and Josh were paddle boarding in the rain......this made for an amazing photo!  But lightning soon followed and we booked it out of there.

Beya and Adler had such a blast together all week long!

Even Owen got in on the paddle board fun!

A very cool double rainbow we saw in South Lake Tahoe!

Owen, Ryder & Adler playing in Tahoe!

 This is one of my favorite beaches, Chimney Beach.  The kids and I had a nice hike down to the lake and then spent the afternoon playing and relaxing!

 It was so windy this day that the waves looked like the ocean.

Owen and Ryder picked back up right where they left off....such good friends!

We took so many pictures, I'll have a second Tahoe post in a few days.......