Weekend

We had a great weekend here in town with not a lot planned. Toby and Cash headed out to the farm on Saturday, to move cows from one pasture to another. They also went out to build a hog trap. Toby has been wanting to catch hogs for as long as I can remember out there. Palin and I spent the day at the house, cleaning and getting her room organized. I took her to lunch and to get fingernail polish. We have been working on potty training and I told her that morning that if she went in the potty she could go get some and some flip flops to show off her painted toes.

Here is her room. On the other side that you can not see is her kitchen and her other baby bed and closet. But at least its clean now.

She was so excited to get to paint her toes and get flip flops. I love that she is getting so girly and fun. We had a great day together just me and her. She was in a super good mood and we played all day. That night once the boys returned we all got ready and went to the Roller Derby. It was an experience. We all had a really good time and ran into Toby's friend Erin and her girls when we were there.

 Sunday morning we headed to church and Palin spent the hour while we were getting ready saying, I want to go to church, over and over again. This is huge progress from the first couple of days when she would run out of the sunday school class screaming. After Sunday school and Church we went to lunch with Whit and Mandy and thier girls. We went home and changed clothes and Toby wanted to go and check his hog trap that they had built to see if anything was there. As we pulled up on it, to our surprise there were two big pigs and about 18 piglets in his trap. Needless to say this lead to me shooting my first hog! Small time life on a Sunday afternoon! LOL! Toby had to clean it and then we dropped it off at the butcher. Guess we are going to have lots of sausage and bacon!

 These pictures of Cash and Palin were taken while we were at the farm on Sunday afternoon. It was a pretty day and the weather was great! Sidenote: We close on our lot next door to our house today! Yea! So glad once again that everything sold quick!

And he's out!

Cash had his first baseball game last night with his new team since we moved to Stephenville. He is back playing first base and loving it. He probaly got about 10 kids out last night at first. He kept catching the ball and taggin them out at first! He was so excited.

 You can see him in the below picture waiting to catch the ball from the kid across the field that just threw it to tag the runner out.

He is supposed to have a game tonight, but since it's May and 40 degrees and windy. The game was cancelled due to the cold weather! Who knew in May it would be this cold. There are 3 camps this summer that we are going to be sending him to, football, basketball and baseball.

Our House!

Today we close on our house, it makes me a little sad. We moved in 2007, it was brand new and Cash was just 4 months old. He grew up in the house, and then in 2010 Palin came along. We have a lot of memories in the house with the kids and just starting our life together. But I know that we will make just as many memories in the next one.

 We are very lucky that the first people that looked at the house made an offer which was our asking price, before we even listed it with a realtor. We are thankful for that, and getting it sold quick instead of trying for months to sell it.

 We took some pictures the other day when we were there getting our last things, so that we could remember it, and so that the kids would have pictures to look at later. We did get some with all of us in them with the timer on the camera, I just dont have that camera with me to post them right now.

The barn was Tobys pride and joy! I know that he is going to miss it, because we now have ALOT of stuff in storage now that we used to have in the barn.

 But we are on to better things now. We are finally feeling settled in our new town.  We are both home by 545 each night, and able to eat dinner as a family and we have been going on walks with the dog and the kids. We are making it to church every Sunday, and its nice to not be running around like a chicken with our heads chopped off or trying to figure out who is going to pick up the kids. I used to feel like I was always late, now I am the first one at work in the mornings, its nice not to be rushed anymore, and I think the kids are enjoying it too.  We have our first baseball game tonight for Cash. He is getting to play 1st base, so more to come on that....

Fishing

My one and only nephew is in town this week. He is staying with Tobys parents for the week. We went out to the farm last night, so the kids could play with him and cookout. Toby took them all down to the tank (pond) to go fishing. It was chilly and the wind was blowing. We did not think that we were going to catch anything. Within 5 minutes both boys caught fish, at the excat same time! Palin just watched them. She thought that the worms were snakes, and kept talking about the snakes in the bowl.

Love them!

Last Sunday we had famliy pictures taken. I finally got some good ones. Palin I think has finally passed her phase where she went running from the camera screaming. From when she turned 1 to now, I have limited pictures of her because she ran the other way when I would take her picture. Here is the one of the two of them that they took.

 They are both growing up so much. Cash is about to finish up his year in Kindergarten, and we started potty training Palin yesterday. No accidents at school, just when she got home! Hopefully this will only take a day or two for her to catch on. I talked to Julie today and she is trying to break Blake of his pacifier, and its going a little rough, we laughed that these kids are going to be the death of us! But then you look at a sweet picture of them like the one above and you can't believe that they are growing up so fast, you just want to stop it and keep them small a little while longer.

A Night with the Weem's

Saturday afternoon and evening we got a chance to hang out with some of our friends. We went hung out with the Weem's. It was Mandy's birthday so Whit cooked outand we had cake and ice cream to celebrate her big 30! Toby and Whit have been friends for years ever since they were little bitty. Whit was a groomsmen in our wedding and sang during the wedding. 

 Cash and Palin had a blast getting to play out side at the ranch. They went and fed the horses and got to ride around the property on the mule.

 We had yummy hamburgers that Whit cooked out. It was really windy so we ate inside so our plates would not blow away.

 Cash and Whitney have became fast friends. They are both in Kindergarten and in the same Sunday school class. They get along great, its like they have grown up together... they dont argue or fight... its pretty amazing!

 The three of them (Palin included) spent a good hour playing in the sand box, till the wind started blowing the sand everywhere.

We look foward to many more Saturday nights hanging out with the Weem's!

Field Day

Today Cash had field day at school. It was from 9am to 11am. My new boss is awesome and made sure that I was there to be able to watch. They did an assortment of activities from long jump, to hurdles, to running dashes to carrying water in buckets on their head. Cash had a blast, and I got a lot of fun pictures of him in the events. The weather was great. It was sunny but not too hot yet. I am so thankful for my new job that made me able to go and particpate in it with him. We have only been here a month but it was so nice to see Cash playing with his friends already and having fun! He really has adapted well and has jumped into making new friends, at school, at church and at baseball. We are starting to get in a routine, and get busy. Baseball practice started last week and games start this week.