Happy Halloween!

Trevor and I are heading off to Utah, Colorado, and Idaho this week, so we got our Halloween festivities in a little early thanks to our fun little ward party.

The Scarecrow Tried to get a picture of us together, but Trevor was all about the candy.

All aboard! for some fall fun at the Pumpkin Patch

Saturday we went to the Pumpkin Patch with the Straws. A plot of dirty grass with piles of pumpkins, a few bales of hay, and a train and hay ride can really excite an almost two year old! Trevor and Evan had lots of fun on their little outing. Trevor is very expressive these days, as you will see in the video. He gets really excited about what's going on around him. He's also getting into the phase where he likes to throw little tantrums. So I'm glad for times like these where it's fun to see the world through the eyes of a two year old little guy.



The Choo choo!



The Straw Fam




Trev and Ev on the big turkey made of hay.

Evan just being his smiley, sweet little self!

Bringing out the kid in David (I knew it was in there somewhere....)

Evan and Danelle dominating Trev and me in the duck races.

The choo choo ride!

Dozin'

Trevor plays hard all morning and a couple of times at lunch has fallen asleep while eating.

City Slickers

We headed up to Fort Worth on Thursday afternoon for a quick weekend trip and to catch the Alumni tailgate and the big TCU/BYU game. I felt much pride in seeing Trevor get such a thrill over seeing our Cougars out on the field, but the actual football game was horrible! I felt so bad for David having to sit through such a sad defeat. We stunk!

But moving on to the fun parts of the trip.....




This is Trev cheering on the Cougs with the BYU faithful at the tailgate. See how much he loves those cougs?? When we entered the stadium, we walked over to where he could see onto the field - his wide eyes could not get enough of that field and the "boo-ball" players. He chanted B-Y-U all the way to our seats. Of course, after a quarter or two he had completely lost interest and I chased/wrestled him all around the stadium. My arms were literally shaking with exhaustion by the end of the night. But at least it kept me from having to watch our breakdown play for play. After the game we got to the hotel and put Trevor into his pack-n-play. He wiggled around for a good 5-10 minutes trying to fall asleep. We sat there in the dark waiting for him to finally doze off. From his little crib came one last BYU, BYU and a few wiggles later, he was sound asleep. I'm sure he was just revelling in the excitement and fun that he had seeing the game. I love that boy!


Raising up the next generation of COUGAR.



Friday morning we headed out to the Stockyards in Fort Worth. Each day they have a cattle drive down the main street where the Live Stock Exchange building, Cowboy Hall of Fame and other little shops and historic buildings are located.

A longhorn up close and personal.

The Fort Worth Stock Exchange. Where the first indoor rodeo was held, and the first radio broadcast of a rodeo was made. The building was really pretty in it's western way and had a little museum with plenty of old west historical artifacts and information about Fort Worth. Almost made me want to pick up a western novel and get lost in the stories of characters like the Sundance Kid and the wild west.... Almost. :0)

Yee-haw!
City Girl meet Big Jake.

We finished off our little trip with a stop in Waxahachie at The Chisholm Grill in their little town square. It was amazingly delicious - piping hot peach cobbler with ice cream. I'm already trying to think of an excuse to get back to Waxahachie again.....

Singing and such

LOOK AT THOSE LEGS!



I took this the other day to try and get Trevor to talk to his cute cousin Mia. :-) So hope she sees this... I was persistent but couldn't get him to sing the whole song. How about that face/eyebrows at the end? Too funny.

Here we are...

In October, more than six months since we moved to Houston. Wow! I've put up my meager Halloween decor, and though it is not much, it still makes me so happy that this most wonderful time of the year is already upon us. Most of the little decorations that I have are kinda cheesy and maybe tacky, but in my mind that's the best kind of Halloween. I mean, this is a holiday where people let their kids dress in any crazy outfit they want and then go knock on all their friends' and strangers' doors begging for candy, right? So I figure tacky is just part of the whole experience.

But I really do love this time of year and enjoy the fact that there are actually people out and about in the neighborhood now that it's not so unbearable. In fact, just yesterday a lady from down the street was saying how much she enjoys this time of year because it's the one month between the "hot, hot and the cold, cold." Cold, cold? If I ever complain about cold weather while I'm here, someone please reach out and give me a good, hard slap!

My life is living proof that a whole lot of nothing really adds up to something because I have no idea where the last few weeks have gone! I've just been keeping up with Trevor and laughing at all the stuff he's been up to. Oh yes, and we can't forget the bazillions of shows and football gams that I'm now watching since they are back on. How great is this time of year? We're heading up to Fort Worth for the BYU/TCU game and just hoping that we can pull out a win! We'll be at the tailgate party to see cosmo and do all the fun pregame stuff. Trevor is working on the fight song and can at least give a mean Rah! Rah! Goooo Cougars! Any football game that he sees on TV is "BYU" or "Rah!Rah!" So we're training him up right.

Trevor is keeping me fully entertained and usualy in a good way. He's busy learning a lot of new words and running the carpet bare where he races back and forth. I ask him each night if he wants to sing I Am a Child of God or I Love to See the Temple, and he loves them both. He'll ask to sing "Chy Gog" or put his hands together to make a steeple for "Pemple." He has little actions that he does with this, and he sings some of the words (mostly the endings, you know?). He loves to listen to primary songs in the car and is learning some of them. If he hears a song he likes he will ask to hear it over and over again. I am still debating whether this is better than listening to him cry or throw a tantrum in the car.....

When he gets really excited about doing something he will just start saying all the names he knows starting with mama, dada. Then he launches into the names of whoever he thinks might be involved. He can almost say all his cousins' names (we're still working on Jaben, it's tough!) :-)

His obsession with trucks, trains, helicopters, airplanes, cars, etc is still going strong. I tried to teach him that he was driving his train on a choo-choo track. Now he insists that all trucks and trains are a "choo-choo truck." We also get a lot of planes flying over and he loves to go on walks to the park and watch for airplanes and helicopters. The bulk of my day is spent stalling another walk or going bye-bye in the car. He is always on the go, go, go.

The other day Trevor was playing with the ads in the newspaper and found a Toys R Us ad. As he browsed through, he found a Thomas train just like the one he has. He ran and got the train, then came and found me in the kitchen and dragged me over to see what he had found. Thomas! You can see in the picture he looks pretty proud.

The following pictures are after one crazy nap when he woke up with a serious mohawk. The pictures don't do it justice, but the smiley face is a good example of how Trevor wakes up about 99% of the time. He's a good sleeper and such a sweet boy when he wakes up. He goes 0-60 in about 10 seconds. Once he's up hes ready to go.

Move over Thomas... notice Trevor's new best friend Lightning McQueen, or as he would say "A-Queen."