Thanksgiving Feast - K & G

I think I was so caught up having fun that I barely took any pics of Kadon and Garner's Thanksgiving feasts at school.....I know I tried to get pics of Garner, but he would not be still long enough, they were all too blurry. We had fun though and it was a crazy busy day. Each kid had their feast at lunch time, the book fair was going on and 3rd grade had their campaign speeches. Kadon was running for city council in his class and made it! Woot woot!!! We are so proud of him. He worked so hard writing and memorizing his speech, it was 1 1/2 pages long and he had it memorized in 2 days. He rocked the speech in front of the his class and all of the parents....even I would have been a nervous wreck, but he did amazing! His slogan was "Don't be lousy, vote for Krause"....he is just like his daddy ;)

B & Kiki....future daughter in law ;) they already get along so well!

Porter was very excited to see Clifford at the book fair!

Vote for Krause!

Enchanted Rock

Our lil family took a short weekend trip to Fredricksburg and climbed Enchanted Rock! We had a great time...the boys did so great climbing, even Porter. He did most of the climbing himself, Brandon didn't carry him as much as we thought. We went to dinner one night and we walked the strip so I could shop my little heart out...Brandon seriously loves me and I know it ;)

Everything my world revolves around!

Silly boys!

Our pups love to camp too!

How do you resist this face?!

Happy Halloween

This year for Halloween we went to one of our most favorite neighbor's house {well they aren't actually neighbors, but in the hood anyway} and had a BLAST!!! Everyone brought food, we ate, the kids ran around and played in the yard, then off for trick or treating!

The Hulk

Our UT football player, which is what my doc said he would be when he was born!

"You won't like me when I am angry!"

Miss Lainey Lu....one of my future daughter in law's!!!

Porter with his future Mrs......Kinley!

Little Luigi! {or as Porter says it "Wedgie"} LOL

Wagon-o-kids and a wagon-o-beverages!

Minnesota!

Getting to be in Minnesota with Rachel and Adrian is one of my absolute favorite things! This is the second year in a row we have been there and we LOVE it. It is beautiful and the weather is great....well the summers at least ;). They want us to visit during the winter, we are considering it haha.  They just moved to a small little town right outside of the cities and it is a little piece of heaven, I am sad that I didn't take any pics of the town or their house/neighborhood because it is awesome! I want to move the whole town to Texas because it is exactly what Brandon and I love and want. 

They are such wonderful sister and brother in law & aunt and uncle...the Krause's are beyond blessed to have them and very grateful. Our boys LOVE spending time with them and had so much fun for 5 days. They missed us, but there were no tears or sadness. They even informed us it would be cool to move to Minnesota to live by Aunt Frach and Uncle A...oh boy.

Rachel and Adrian informed us that they want to have the boys more often for B and me to take trips....ummmmm......it's a deal! =) Getting to take a trip with the Hubs and know that my kids are beyond taken care of is pure bliss. We are fully prepared to return the favor one day too!!!

Our last full day in Minnesota we went on a special tour of Target Field, where the Twins obviously play and it was amazing! Later in the afternoon we went to a Twins game of course...and they won! Woot woot!

The Great Bambino!

2 girls crushing on Joe Mauer...yum!

BFF's!!!

Gorgeous!

The Target pup....his tail wags during the game ~ the louder the noise the faster he wags :)

In the "Fancy" part where you spend around $24,000 a season for ONE ticket...sure why not!?

Getting autographs before the game!

Sisters!

We were so close to the players!

We had amazing seats...with great views! ;) {what girl doesn't love a baseball butt?!}

A very happy family!!!

 For my birthday weekend we went to Krause Springs to go camping in our new camper trailer! It was an absolute blast!!! We have been wanting one for a very long time...since Kadon was a baby and finally decided now was the perfect time to get one. There are many great memories to be had using the camper.

Krause Springs was great, we had heard lots of good things about it but hadn't ever been. We get asked all of the time if we are related to them and always said no, but after Brandon talking to the owners we found out both familes are from the very same small town, so odds are we are related. We didn't get a family discount though ;)

Frigid water!!!

Apparently the pool is even colder than the springs...I didn't get in the pool...brrrrr.

Norm was officially put in charge of tending the fire

Great game of hide and seek...even met a new friend :)