Monday, October 28, 2013

Spooktacular Fun

I know it's been a while since I last wrote a blog post and to tell you the truth I've been kind of down in the dumps about all our terrible luck with selling our house. We had a buyer and we lost a buyer and that was a pretty tough pill to swallow, just when we were getting excited and looking at houses poof our buyer was gone and it was back to square one. I miss Stroller Strides, my friends, our old routine, having our own space and most of all Adam not having to commute a total of 3 hours a day leaving us with little time together during the week and a very worn out Adam. To say it's been a tough couple months would be a huge understatement!

Not long ago a turning point came for me, after losing our last buyer I realized I had to toughen up and stay strong for Jackson and that I needed to look at all the blessings that I do have in my life! I think our biggest blessing is Jackson, he brings so much joy to our life and makes every day worth living to the fullest, I can't thank God enough for giving us the privilege of being his parents! We also have a lot of other blessings like Adam's job, he seems to be really enjoying it and we are blessed to have such wonderful family that has taken us in and done everything they can to help make this time a little easier. 

It wasn't long ago Adam told me something his great grandpa, Pop told him, your hardships sure are a blessing for the rest of us. Which is true all this extra time Jackson is getting to spend with his grandparents and great grandparents has been wonderful and he is forming such a wonderful bond with each of them! The whole reason Adam & I uprooted our perfectly wonderful and happy life in Fort Worth was because of them, family. When Adam and I set down at the beginning of the year and talked about what was most important to us the answer was without a doubt family. We knew that what was best for all of us was being close to our families and letting them be a big part of Jackson's life. So here we are achieving our goals and I know with time God's plan will unfold for us and all these hard times will be a distance memory. So if you want to send a couple prayers our way we would be thankful!

Here are some of the wonderful moments we might have missed if we weren't in this situation and we are sure glad we didn't...

Getting a chance to help Pop blow out his candles on his 80th Birthday!

Getting a chance to be in the parade with his Pawpaw at the demolition derby

and watching his Pawpaw on pens and needles in the derby with his Pop and Aunt Joyce

I've never seen anything like it he was so intently watching the whole time and when I put him in bed that night he said car, pawpaw, tractor, it was adorable 

Having us all together for Pop's 80th birthday Party!

Going to the Pumpkin Patch with Aunt Abi and Uncle David

Jackson picking out his pumpkin 

Tractor ride at the pumpkin patch with Grammy

Painting a Hay Barrel for Halloween, that is definitely not something city boys do!

Painting his pumpkin

He had a ton of fun!

He got the paint all over himself too!

helping Mom and Dad carve their pumpkins

Spending lots of fun time with his cousin Walker

His great love of beep beep

Getting to hang out at Happy Hour, he fits right in 

Tractor rides with Dad, he can't stop talking about "a big tractor"

Working on making friends with the cows by feeding them hay from my pumpkin, he says "here you go cows" and throws them the hay, melt my heart

Attending the Halloween Carnival at Honey and Hobby's church with his cousins

He turned into some brave little toddler whole excitedly climbed up the "dump truck" and slid down without one once of hesitation, what happen to my little baby!

We love our little cow, it was absolutely the most fitting costume for our little cow obsessed boy!

cousin cheetah Katy was always there by his side to lend a hand if he needed one

Hobby giving the cow a lift

Daddy helping lead the way for his cow

So you see all the hardship has come with a lot of wonderful times that have filled our hearts with so much love and joy. I'm pretty sure both our boys (Jackson and Trigger) are really going to miss the country when our time living here ends but luckily we will only be an hour and fifteen minutes away so we will be back to visit often! We have already had so much fun celebrating Halloween it's hard to believe it's not till this Thursday, we will be going to the church carnival here in Brenham since it's pretty hard to trick or treat in the country. Have a great week!




 
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