Over the weekend...

We had quite an eventful weekend this weekend. Actually, it was an eventful 12 hours. On Saturday, we headed over to Austin. R's compay was participating in an event called "CANstruction" where they use cans to build anything they want and when the even it over they donate all of the cans used. It was a really cool thing to see. R's company did "The Very Hungry CANapillar." I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it was sooooo cool. And much larger than I thought it would be. I was very impressed!

Here is R and the kids in front of the "Very Hungry CANipillar".

"The Very Hungry CANipillar"

The really cool thing about it is, these cans are not wrapped in any extra paper. It is only the labels from the cans. There is also nothing holding the cans in place. Where there is a hole, they taped the bottom of the cans and there are a few thin peaces of board to provide support. But that's all! Very cool!!!

Here is a boot that we saw. It was really neat, because up close and in person it just looked like the cans were all stacked. But when I went to take the picture, I saw the pattern in the boot!

This is a "SMART" car.

What's really cool is that they parked a real SMART car next to it so you can compare. What they built is almost life size and looks a lot like the real car.

So, after we saw the CANstruction we headed over to a buddy of R's house for a football party. There were about 25 to 30 people there and we had a blast! It was so nice for me to socailize with some old friends and some new friends. I think that I really needed that to lift my spirits. Anyway, we were headed home at about 11pm and were loading the kids into the car when all of the sudden we see this car fly through the end of the street and head right for the house at the end of the road. R went racing to the car to make sure the driver was ok and I headed back to our friends house to have them call the cops and come out to help. While R was at the car, the driver slammed into reverse and fled the scene. Luckly, he headed the opposite direction from us, but he was headed for another dead-end (right by a VERY busy road). He turned and went down the sidewalk and R chased after him along with the guys from the party. Thank heavens a cop was driving by right as the guy was coming to a stop. Unbelievably, he did not hit the house (like I thought he did from the sound), he just hit the fence and a tree right by the house. The lady that lived there said that her son was sitting in the front room and if the guy had gone to the right about 10 feet, he'd have hit the house and probably the son in the room. It was a scary night.

This is the second car wreck that we've wittesed in the past 7 months from someone who was either drunk or high. I feel blessed that R and I were there since we were able to help. But more than that, I'm so glad that noone was seriously hurt in either accident.

Well, I said that it's been an eventful 12 hours for us. This is what happened this morning. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I do know that C was getting on the couch (probably jumping a little) and somehow catipulted himself right off it and into the glass coffee table. His little eye was the first thing to hit it.

We got ice on it right away, and he's been on Tylenol all day. The swelling has gone down and thank the Lord, he did not cut it too deep so there was no need for stitches or and Emergency room visit. But he is very sad that he now has a black eye and keeps saying that he's upset because "having a black eye is boring." As you can see though, he is still a happy little guy and will be just fine come Thanksgiving.

Never a dull moment at our house!

Put a stick in it and call it dinner...

The city that we moved to is such a cute little town. It's small enough that when you go somewhere, as long as you know people, you'll probably see someone you know. But large enough to be anonymous if you'd like to be. We were told when we moved here that the town has something going on almost every weekend and that they find a reason to have a celebration whenever they can. We are finding that to be very true. We've already experienced the largest county fair in Texas and the largest festival in Texas that's devoted entirely to sausage and beer! We were both able to really tap into our German heritage. So, here are some of the fun things that we've done in our 2 months here.

I just loved this picture of the kids. Miss M's legs look so long here! They look so big in this picture. I can't believe that Mr. Man is 5 and Miss M is almost 4!

There is an old train at the old train station in the town. Mr. Man being the conductor.

Miss M on the red caboose. She loved the train. It was really neat to see. The caboose is made out of wood. Really cool!

This was a really neat old car. Miss M enjoyed sitting on it and pretneding to drive it.

Mr. Man was having a bad day at this moment, so please disreguard him off to the side. Miss M enjoyed sitting on the front of the train engine. She looks so small on such a big train. The engine's a coal engine so we got to see where the coal was stored and put into the engine. Mr. Man can't wait to go back, and be in a good mood this time:)

This is one of the water things around the town. I'm not sure what it's called. But it was putting out a TON of water very quickly. We were at the sausage and beer festival during this pictre.

Here is Miss M riding the carosule at the festival.

And what blog post about beer and sausage would be complete without a picture of your "men" eating 5 different types of sausage on a stick?! They were all really pretty good. Just so you know, EVERYTHING was on a stick. They had sausage on a stick, shrimp on a stick, bread on a stick, you name it and it was on a stick. WOW What an experiance!

A little old, a little new

OH MY GOSH!!! So, I totally didn't realize that I had these pictures! I came across them when I was looking through my computer pics. I'm not even sure how they got on here. They are from our old babysitter house. This was our last day there. She was such a sweetie. She knew that we were moving to Texas and what Texan doesn't have a cowboy hat. So she got the kids cowboy hats. They still have them and wear them and LOVE them. These bring back so many happy memories!

Miss M wearing her new hat. She had just turned 1 that month and I was hardly walking. Now I can't stop her!

Mr. Man in his hat. Look at those chubby cheeks! Wow, how time does fly!

3 of the 4 kids playing.

Mr. Man & his best buddy playing. Oh I miss ya'll! These two sweet little boys now have a younger brother that I've not even met yet. We despartly need to get back to FL to visit our friends to catch up!

Halloween

So, I just realized that I never posted Halloween pictures. IKES! Well, here they are. We had a wonderful Halloween. We got the kids all dressed up and met up with our neighbors and new friends. R stayed home to watch the ND football game that was being played in San Antonio "pass out" candy while I and all of the other mom's headed out with all of the kids. We ended up with, I think, 12 kids in all. It was so much fun to watch them all go up to the doors and run from house to house. I could not believe all of the houses that ended up turning off their lights after we left. I guess we were wiping out all of the candy with  our incredibly large group.

Here is our Tinkerbell and "Hot" Bumblebee. I'm not sure why it's Hot Bumblebee, but if you ever ask him about the transformer Bumblebee...it's ALWAYS HOT Bumblebee.

I'm sure you can't guess why she was Tinkerbell this year. I just could NOT resist. I'm not sure I'll ever have another year where she'll look just like her. She looks so innocent in this picture. I love it!

Here is our Hot Bumblebee. I think he's showing off his muscles. I was sure that the mask would be off within 5 minutes, but amazingly enough it lasted the entire trick-or-treating!

Here he is again, striking a pose.

Tink doing her dance.

This is the wonderful group of ladies that we went trick-or-treating with. I was told that I had to dress up. I'm not all about dressing up, so I went with my new "old stand-by." I was a Harley momma. It was easier to use what I had around the house. On a side note, this was the first time I wore my new leathers and they fit great, not to mention, they kept me warm while we were out. I'm sure the drinks that we were carring around with us didn't hurt either...ha! In our group we had an AC/DC fan, the Devil, Mother Nature, a witch, Harley momma, Pippy Longstocking, and Daph was waiting to get into her costume for later (she was a Referee). It was a great night. After trick-or-treating, we went next door to Pippy's house and sat around the fire pit (in the driveway) and drank socalized a while.