Square Dance 2012

SQUARE DANCE 2012!

I'm a little tired and don't want to take a picture!!

Best Dressed Cowboy and Cowgirl!

The Kid Gang!

We had a great time last Saturday at our annual Square Dance. Like normal, Stephen and I cut up the dance floor, Stephen even getting voted the best kid cowboy dancer! (I think its his personality!) He lives up to being a Texan for sure! Scottie tried his hand at dancing and had a great time, being my partner for the first two squares. (Then he decided it would be funner to run around with the other kids...) Shaun had a great time being my partner (or me being his legs...) while being in the front pack. We did lots of square dances, some line dances and even the Virginia Reel. It was a great time and I love getting down with my friends, eating good food and cutting loose for an evening. I look forward to the Hoedown with the Elementary school coming up on November 10. Look for a post capturing that night! YEE- HAW!

Fall

I love fall... Maybe its my favorite time of year. The changing of colors, harvest, pumpkins.  I love getting snuggled in sweats, baking because its not hot, crock pot meals, comfort foods, and football~ all that goes on with football~ getting together with family, playing games, sharing a meal, time, love. And the Redskins... even though they stink as of late, we still cheer them on. 

This past weekend, we got together at my Uncle Chris and Aunt Helen's house. It was wonderful. I was able to see my grandparents (whom I am very close with) that I haven't seen in a couple of months due to illnesses, appointments, and time constraints. We were able to catch up with my cousin who goes to school at the University of Alabama, sharing what we've been learning in our walk with God and encouraging each other. The boys playing with their cousins. I love family. Until the next game... Go Redskins!!!

Square Dance!

One of the events we look forward to in October is our annual Square Dance with our church, Emmaus. We do this as an outreach and a fun event each year, having a pot luck, callers for 2 hours of dancing and some fun little prizes for best dressed. Stephen loves going every year, learning how to dance and playing with his friends. I love it too. Its fun doing all the line dancing, and learning the square dances. Stephen is usually my partner but I had a new one this year, Scottie! He even got into it a little. Shaun did a lot of sleeping but I did line dance with him in the front pack. (Picture taken by someone else and I am still waiting on it.) We had a great evening and hope that Peter will join us next year!

Square Dance 2010

So between the fun of the two farms our church, Emmaus, held a square dance and bbq. We used the fair grounds and I think a fun night was had by all. We had friends from Northern Virginia come and they stayed the night and watched Narnia with us. Stephen won best dressed for boys, and Peter and I got best dressed couple... Kinda fitting since Stephen was born in Texas! Line dancing, chicken dancing, learning to square dance, and doing the Hokey-Pokey were on the night's activity list. I sure look forward to next year's dance!

Check out my boy's moves!

Pumpkin Carving

We decided to carve pumpkins with some friends this year. Scottie of course wanted a Buzz pumpkin and Stephen wanted to do his own. I was so proud of him; before he wouldn't even touch the seeds or guts and this year he scooped them out almost all by himself! We had over Jenny, Gavin and Sully to carve, share a dinner, and some play time. The boys had a blast gutting the pumpkin then creating their own faces. The mom's helped some but for the most part they did it themselves. Thanks for the fun and the memories Holmes family! Enjoy our pumpkins!!

Memorial Day Camping Trip

We had our first family camping trip this  Memorial Day at Cunningham Falls, Maryland.  This was a fun experience that we think we are going to make a family tradition. From hiking to the falls to campfires at night to

 the Bobby Crocker cook off, it was a weekend of fun.

The first night we were there, we had a good time around the camp fire with our friends from

 the site over, Lisa, David and Julia.  We played some cards and then turned in for the night.  The next day we decided to try to hike to the falls.  We were told it wasn't that hard and that they were beautiful so we took off only to find out we had to go down steep paths, climb rocks and traverse the land.  It wasn't as easy as they said, especially when you can't see your feet because you are carrying a baby on your front or a 3 yr old on your shoulders.  (Can you guess which I had?) It was a site to see though, the falls were beautiful! We cooked marshmallows over the fire that night and had a great day!

Sunday, we had the Bobby Crocker Cook off... which Peter took 2ond place in! He used tortilla, home grown strawberries, and dark chocolate in the pie iron.  It was a fun ordeal and even better for me because I got to be one of the judges and sample all the pies!  Brian Cole and his buddy were the winners with their pancake, marshmallow, chocolate and syrup pie.  It was delicious.  Peter and his dad made a pineapple cobbler in the dutch oven also and decided to make it a challenge for next year.

We also got to play some games with the boys and by ourselves.  I never go anywhere without my cards so we taught Stephen to play go fish, played some cribbage, baseball, jump rope, and kick ball!  It was a blast.  Peter had a good time too, because he could hit the ball far and the kids thought it was great!

We had a blast and the boys did very well considering their ages.  So well in fact that Peter has decided that we will venture out to camp maybe once a month!  We are so excited for that!