Turkey Day 2012 Recap

Turkey Day has come and gone.  Seriously how fast did this year go by?  Sheesh. 

This year we went over to my sister's house in the Woodlands for some family and LOTS of food! It was my parents, my sister, her hubby and 2 kids, my Uncle and his 2 girls and my Memaw and of course the Parks family of 3.  So it was a nice group and we had plenty of laughs and stuffed ourselves. I even made a pumpkn roll, which I had NEVER done before and everyone commented on how tasty it was! We had a nice day just relaxing and talking, it was nice family time.  Everyone left that evening but we were staying until Saturday so I got some good quality time with my nephews! Hunter is getting so big and all he wanted to do was play Hangman and Candyland, but that was alright with me. And my sweet Hayden is a chubby bubby and just mostly wanted to be crawling around on the floor and getting into stuff.   The weekend was great (although myself and Bryan caught a nasty stomach bug....ugh.) Here are some pictures from the weekend, hope everyone had a great Turkey Day!

The Family! Thanksgiving 2012!

This was the best picture of the 3 of them!

Love my seester!

Paw Paw getting Hayden's toes!

Itsy Bitsy Spider with Grams!

Going shopping for the turkey!

Love my Daddy!

My Uncle JB and his girls, Sydney and Anne

MeMaw and her grand-daughters

Hunter-man and Logan (this one melts my heart!)

Hayden aka Chubb Chubb on his first turkey day!

Single Mom

...just for the weekend! And let me tell you after this weekend, BIG props to all the single moms out there.  Logan is in a very difficult stage so it is nice when Bryan comes home for me to have a "break".   Let's be real, the "break" is cooking, washing dishes or putting away clothes!

Bryan went to the A&M game in Mississippi on Friday with 2 of his very close friends.  He has not had a guys weekend probably since Logan was born, so I was excited for him.  And the Aggies won! Gig 'Em!

This weekend, Logan and I played lots outside, bubbles, bathtub paint, and watched a movie or two.  He was actually pretty good and VERY clingy...which he never is. 
Saturday night we ventured out with some friends to the carnival that was in town. Logan had never been to a carnival so I thought it would be fun to walk around and maybe ride a ride or two.  We got there and he seemed to be intrigued by all the lights and sounds.  I figured there was 2 rides we could go on, so I went and bought tickets.  We first went on the carousel.  He seemed pretty happy---until the ride actually started.  He cried the whole time, poor baby.  After the carnival, we decided to go to Chick Fil A and let the kiddos play in the play area.  Logan had lots more fun there than the carnival!
Guess he was not ready for the carnival--maybe next year. 

Before the ride started

Playing with Makenna at Chick Fil A.  Logan's hand placement and face cracks me up in this picture!

Bryan came home on Sunday evening and Logan was so happy to see him....as was I!

Halloween 2012 Recap

Last year Logan was a little small to partipate in all of the fun Halloween activities but I was so excited for this year! But I mean come on how freakin cute was he last year?! Omg.  I die. 

Well this year I had already planned (yes I am a planner!) that he was going to be a parrot! Bryan and I had some old pirate costumes from like 4 years ago (we are broke people, we aren't paying for new costumes.) We got them out of the attic and whooo hooo, it still fit me, boo-yah, go me.  My plan was to make him one so I would not spend a lot of money, but then I found a really cute one for $12 so I snatched it up!  I would have spent that much to make it and well let's be honest I am not too crafty.  I am the one that pins things on pinterest and thinks oh I could do that, and never actually do it. I am not sure if he liked it at first....

We first attended Logan's fall party at school.  I made rice krispy treat pumkins and all the kiddos had lots of sugar-y stuff so they were all hyped up by the time I got there.  It was open for parents to come but me and Bryan were the only ones (out of 4 other parents) that did.  Oh well, it was my baby's first party at school, I was there and being a mamarazzi!

We had some good friends over that night and we carved pumpkins.  Logan thought the insides were gross, but by the end, he was wanting to reach in and grab the seeds and put them in his mouth. Yuk.  He had fun and sat there while we carved for about 45 minutes!

We cooked ribs and I made a super yummy Pinterest dessert.  Cookie dough brownie peanut butter cup brownies....Wow.  They were great but really rich.  I did not take a picture because they were GONE as soon as I put them out!

Recipe:
I roll of cookie dough
12 individual wrapped Reeses peanut butter cups
Brownie mix

Place wax paper on 9 x 13 glass pan.  Spread the cookie dough on the bottom. 
Place rows of peanut butter cups (3 rows of 12) on top of the cookie dough
Mix up brownie mix and pour it over the top
Bake at 350 for 40 minutes
You can cut them into squares and each person gets their own peanut butter cup!

We went to our church fall festival the Sunday before Halloween.  There was so much stuff for the kiddos to do, but not too much for the little ones.  They had a petting zoo which Logan loved and a train to ride.  Some of the games I helped him play. He had fun (although he thought the train ride was a little fast, so did mommy!) He also played on the church playground and has some of Daddy's sno-cone. 

Trick or treating! I was so excited for him to actually go and walk up to the doors and put candy in his bag.  Who cares he can't say trick or treat? We met up with friends that we went with last year, I think it is tradition now.  Their little girl is 3 and she loves her "Yogan".  This was them last year. 

And this year....

This is the best picture you can get with a 19 month old a 3 year old!

Yes, after Makenna saw that Logan was a pumpkin last year that is all she talked about being was a pumpkin like "Yogan".  It was too cute.  I hope these 2 grow up to be great friends!

We headed out and Logan was pretty good for the first 5 houses or so.  We let him walk because he is Mr. Independent and I knew if we took the wagon he would be out of it in 2.5 seconds.  He saw Makenna walking by herself so he wanted to also.  But he wanted to RUN.  So he had a few meltdowns while Mommy tried to explain to him that we have to hold hands.  That worked for a little bit.  Logan had a candy bag, but as soon as the person would put the candy in his bag, he would have to take it out, look at it and HE wanted to put it in the bag. Sure, not worth the fight on that one. 
We got mixed reactions as to what Logan was.  Rio, Tucan Sam, an Angry Bird and a penguin...really??!! I thought our outfits totally made sense.  But most people said he was just an adorable little parrot and of course I would have to agree!
We trick or treated for about 30-45 minutes and by the end, he was done.  We let Makenna go to a few more houses but we held our little "angry bird".  We made it home around 9:30 and our parrot was tuckered out! What a great night and we can't wait until next year!

Notice the DEATH GRIP on the candy?!

End of the night!