October 2016

THE MAYBORN MUSEUM

One of our favorite things about living in Waco is the amazing Mayborn Museum on Baylor campus.  Here is Abby enjoying some flowers in the garden that is part of the historic village.  I love how pretty her red hair is in the sunlight.

Audrey found a flower she liked.

Her favorite part is the playroom where she can climb on the bus and sing her favorite song: "The Wheels on the Bus."

She likes driving the firetruck as well.

Maddy all dressed up to put on a play.

Audrey shopping for some food.

Nathan repairing a brick wall.

The kids love one of the new rooms that allows them to design and build all sorts of fun things.

Audrey mailing a letter.

AUDREY BEAR

It's been super hot this October, so the kids were excited when it finally rained and cooled off a bit.  When Audrey woke up she asked for her coat and wanted to go outside.  I thought she just wanted to watch the rain from our covered back porch.  Instead she went and stood out in it so she could feel it fall on her.  

I've started taking Audrey to storytime every week and she absolutely loves it.  The older kids love it too since they can go check out new books every week.

When Jared gets home he often takes his shoes off and puts his feet up since he is tired from being on his feet all day.  Audrey thinks this is great since she likes wearing "Daddy's BIG shoes!"

Audrey loves popcorn, so she was super excited to have a popcorn & movie night with cousins.

RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL 

In desperation to find a fun family outing in Texas, we drove down south to one of the biggest renaissance festivals in the country.  It wasn't quite what we expected (more the other festival goers rather than the craftspeople and performers--think the biggest gathering of weird, overweight, biker chick meets nerdy cosplay-types in super immodest chain mail underwear, and you get the idea) but we still managed to have some fun despite the 90 degree weather.

The kids had fun jumping super high on these bungee enhanced trampolines.

The best part of the festival was probably the jousting tournament in the big arena.

There were some musicians performing some traditional music, and we enjoyed watching glass blowing too.

HALLOWEEN

The kids were super cute in their matching skeleton PJs from Grandma.  The bones on their jammies glow in the dark, so they did a fun skeleton dance for us in the dark.

Jared helped Maddy carve this pretty mermaid pumpkin.

We did a homeschool field trip to the pumpkin patch.

Welcome y'all!

Picking out pumpkins to decorate.

Audrey enjoyed the hayride.

Probably the older kids' favorite part was jumping and climbing on the giant hay bales.

Bowling

Maddy with the pumpkin she decorated

Nathan with his pumpkin

We did family costumes for the first time.  We couldn't fine a cute Hedwig costume for Audrey, so Jared used his sewing and design skills to make this super cute one for Audrey.

Our friends invited us over for a super fun Halloween party.  The kids had fun making haunted gingerbread houses.

Harry Potter and the Pumpkin Pinata

Audrey loves her owl costume and insists on her owl hat everyday.

TRICK OR TREATING

Ready to go trick or treating with cousins.

The kids got tons of candy.  I was hoping that Audrey would forget about it after she went to sleep.  The next morning she woke up and the first thing she said was, "Audrey bucket, LOTS of candy!"