BOYS WILL BE BOYS!

Austin tooted right before I took the video. I had him laughing for a bit before I thought to turn the video camera on, so his laughs are already winding down, but it's still funny.

REGULAR COW TO MAD COW!

This is during Thanksgiving when my family was here. If you look closely Austin's face gets red every time he makes his noises, but it doesn't show as well on video as well as it was in real life.

DANCING BABY!

Austin LOVES to dance

Oops!

As I finished blogging my ginormous posts to catch up on what I did during Thanksgiving I forgot to post the BEST picture of all of when my family was here. Here's grandpa and Austin enjoying their fries at Whataburger.

FAMILY IS ON THE WAY!

Here is Austin helping me clean up his room so everything is perfect for when my family came for Thanksgiving. It was an awesome week and we had a lot of fun showing off Texas and enjoying entertainment from Austin. We had Thanksgiving the Monday before Thanksgiving and found out that my Grandpa Gilbert passed away unexpectedly. He was 92 so he had definitely lived a full and happy life and now gets to be re-joined with his wife. I ended up buying a last minute plane ticket to Washington and flew home with my family on Thanksgiving day, leaving poor Tyler behind! It was a great trip and I got to see lots of family.

Too bad I forgot my camera so I don't have any pictures of the actual funeral. There were 41 of the 46 grandkids present and found out there are 108 great grandchildren and 4 great-great grandkids. All 10 of his kids were present as well. Austin's middle name is Glen which is my Grandpa Gilbert's name. I'm so glad I can always remember him this way. He always made me feel so special even though I know he had a ton of grandkids to give attention to.

And now on to what we did when my family was in Texas.

Botanical Gardens

The Botanical Gardens are a great way to enjoy nature and flowers for FREE!

Austin loved playing in the leaves

Austin loved the waterfall and the fish in the water

Austin and the girls

Oh how he loves his kisses!

Mom and Dad in front of the beautiful pond. Don't they look great?

Austin and his rock.

Here's the crew enjoying our yummy apples

Historic Downtown Fort Worth

I really wanted to take my family to the Stockyards while they were here and it turned out to be a fun day.

Here's me and Lori stuck in jail
Here's Austin having a great time!

Here we are at the famous cattle drive that happens twice a day. Austin was captured by this experience


Mom, Dad, Lori, and Kara. We were so excited they came!

Grandma with Austin. He sure did get a lot of attention.

My dad is a HUGE Walker Texas Ranger fan and this is the bar where they filmed some of the show.

This is my dad in front of the Casey Tibbs manhole. He was a famous rodeo Bronc rider. My dad was named after him and he just happened to look down and see it right in time as we were walking by it.

Christmas is here!

We FINALLY put up our christmas tree on Sunday. It's pretty simple but it has brought the Christmas Spirit for me! Since the weather has been warm it did NOT feel like Christmas especially since I just got back from Washington and Utah which had tons of snow. But I am feeling much better now since we put up the decorations! I'm very excited now!
While putting up decorations we found this short dowel that has turned into Austin's favorite toy

Here's my little drummer boy!

Here is just a fun picture of him upside down.