College football fun!

When I was a little girl I was a huge Texas Longhorn fan.  I wanted to go to The University of Texas at Austin my whole life.  I don't even really know why, but I was a little girl and thought that was the school for me.   

My daddy is a Texas Tech fan and I knew I'd never move that far away from my family. Ha!  I never considered Baylor because it was so expensive and Waco was too close to home.  Oh the thoughts of a teenager.  

All that to say:  I met Gary while he was attending Baylor and I became a Baylor fan to support him.  So, since approximately 1997 when Gary and I started dating I transformed into a Baylor Bear fan.  It took years and lots of rivalry, but since I never attended UT it wasn't ingrained in me to stick with loving that team.

The kids are now Baylor fans obviously because we are.  Hayden thinks it's pretty cool that his daddy was on the Baylor football team, even if it was for a short time.  This year Baylor football is having an amazing year and it is so fun to watch the games with our buddies here in Ohio.

Every week when the rankings are posted we all look forward to seeing how our teams are doing.  We have some really great friends who cheer for Ohio State.  We also have some friends who cheer for the West Virginia Mountaineers.  It has been a fun football season to say the least. 

We're all looking forward to the weeks to come!!

Sic 'em Bears!

Our first snow of the season

We woke up to fresh snow this morning! I can't believe it snowed.

The kids were thrilled. They were a tad upset they couldn't play it in because school was not cancelled.





Hayden wanted to throw snowballs and Layla wanted to make snow angels. I reminded them that we aren't in Texas any longer and that it will snow again I'm sure! Yay for more snow!


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Chili times two

Temps are swooping down getting cooler and that means time for the first batch of chili for the season!

Hope you've had a great three day weekend! We have!

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My two cents for today

Do you ever get sucked into pinterest?

I love pinterest quotes.  They make me happy.  When I find myself in a stressful situation I turn to reading, even if that reading is as silly as pinterest.  It makes me feel refreshed and revived.  
I won't post a ton about my personal feelings for now, but I will say moving from a big city to a small town is very different socially, as you can imagine.  It is exactly the town in which I want to raise my kids, but it is most certainly different than Fort Worth in the drama department ... if you know what I mean.  
All the experiences we encounter make us stronger.  They also make my children stronger because we all learn how to deal with personalities different from ours.  In closing, even if we as individuals feel scared or week or bullied at school, we come home to our safe place and bond as a family.  Our family unit is all that matters in the end.  
{All that being said, we are fine, just learning and growing and that is the best and most important part of life!  My job as a parent is to give my children "Roots and Wings."  They will see how I choose to deal with social situations and they will grow and learn by example.}

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leaves are for leaping {silent Sunday}

[Thanks dad for blowing and raking the leaves into fun piles!]
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Fall on Friday

We are obsessed with fall.   I hate to keep saying it, but I'm loving the beauty of the fall leaves.   I wish they would stay on the trees longer   ....  It's simply gorgeous!

And some of the leaves are ginormous!  
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