An A-MAZE-ing Weekend!

I'm combining 2 weekends into one blog so I can play catch up on my blog habit (that I'm having a hard time finding time to do sometimes!). Yet again, we had some more action packed weekend fun! On Friday evening, we all 3 went to the Fall Festival at our church. Mom and Dad met us there and got to see the new children's building that our church has - it is SOOOO colorful, and I can already picture all of the fun that T.J. will have in that building. Some of my best memories are of times at church and friends that I met there, I can't wait to see T.J. on that journey!! You will notice that there are no pictures of T.J. in his costume. That would be because Mommy did not take pictures the first 4 minutes we were there, and that was the length of time that our costume was on. However, T.J. was a very cute Thomas the Train (yes, he picked out his own costume, that definitely would not have been Mommy's first choice!)

On Saturday, we had a relaxing weekend at home. It's been a long time since we got to do that!! Then, on Sunday we went to church and then met some of our friends at the Corn Maze here in Lubbock. They had hay rides, a little cow train, a petting zoo, and then we went through a big corn maze. Every time you came to a fork in the road, there was a numbered sign and you had to look on a little card to answer the questions to know which way to go. It was REALLY fun, and T.J. has a pretty good little sense of direction (he must have learned that from his mom - ha, ha!!) The maze was in the shape of Raider Red (shown on the picture). What a fun day with good friends!!



The following weekend, we went to San Angelo for Halloween. When we first got there, we went over to meet my sweet little niece, Sophie, for the first time. She is almost a year old, and this was the first time I've seen her in person - she's TOO cute!! T.J. didn't really know what to think of her at first, but he warmed up after a little while. It was really nice to get to see everyone. We actually went for my grandfather's birthday, and he loved having all "his girls" there to visit. It was a good time!



We went to "Trunk or Treat" at Southland and saw some good old friends. Then we went with Shelly, Drew, Riley, and Kaylin to go trick-or-treating. Some of their friends had a little trailer that we took a TON of kids on to go to houses. Jeff and I got the good end of that deal - we stayed with T.J. and Kaylin (and they are not the fastest kids ever!) while the other parents were trying to manage about 15 five-year-olds - Sounds fun huh? All in all, it was a great Halloween.

What a Ride!!

During the week, we do not get to do a lot of extra activities, but on the weekends we try to cram in as much fun as possible. Boy, did we ever last weekend!! So much so, that I haven't even had time to get caught up to blog about it until just now (the weekend after, so be on the lookout for 2 blog entries today). On Friday, Jeff called to say that he and his old college roommate, Joel, were going to go out hunting. So, Joel's wife and my good friend, Sara, called to see if T.J. and I wanted to go on a mother/son date night with she and her boys, Mason (who is just a few weeks younger than T.J. and that he LOVES to play with) and Miles (who is not even a year old yet, but will soon be getting into all kinds of trouble with his brother and T.J.) T.J. has never been to Chuck E. Cheese so we decided to go there. He LOVED it!! We had such a great time. We have been to Mr.Daddy's (Mr.Gatti's for those of you that don't speak T.J.) but that is really geared more towards older kids. Not Chuck E., he's all about the younger kids. T.J. was fascinated with Chuck E. and LOVED all of the games. They had one ride that was a simulated roller coaster for the little guys, but it was pretty intense. I thought T.J. and Mason would get scared, but they ended up riding it more than once because they loved it so much. What fun!!

Then, Saturday morning T.J. and I got up and headed up to Home Depot for a building project. We had never been before, but on the first Saturday of every month, they have a free kid's project. We built a bank that looks like a firehouse. They also had some firemen and a real fire truck up there for kids to get in and explore. You know that's right up T.J.'s alley, so that was a great time!



From there, we went back home to get ready for the Texas Tech vs. New Mexico football game. Martin Miller (the Edward Jones agent Jeff works with) and his wife, Patti, were out of town and let us have their tickets. We went early to go to Raider Alley and hear some live music and get a picture with the masked rider. That part was fun, but I was concerned about how T.J. would do at the football game because it was a pretty chilly day and that's an awfully long time for a two-year-old to sit still. However, he really outdid himself. Luckily, there were some people that usually sit by my parents that weren't there so T.J. got his own chair instead of having to sit in one of our laps. I have a feeling we would not have stayed long if we hadn't had that open seat. We stayed until the 3rd quarter, and then it started to rain so we headed on home.


The next day we got up and went to church. Then, we went out to lunch with some friends from Sunday School. Then, Jeff and T.J. went home and I went back up to the church to help with a baby shower. On Monday after school, T.J. and I met Sara, Mason, and Miles at the pumpkin patch. We really did it to get some cute pictures, but that was not happening. Mason and T.J. were really neither in the mood to take pictures so we just stayed and played for a little while and then left. It was quite an action packed weekend!!