Happy Halloween

Charli's first Halloween has been fun. There is not too much to do with a 10 month old (yes, Charli turned 10 months on the 29th!!!!) on Halloween, but we made the most of it! We started the day off with a flu shot (fun for her huh!) and then we visited Grandma and Papa Roden. Then we were off to get some photos taken of C in her costume. She is a spider in a web.

It is too cute! When I was a little girl my mother always made Halloween so fun! We always decorated the front porch all up scarey (even played scarey music) and my mom sometimes dressed up like a witch. When Charli gets a little older I will try and make things a bit more memorable for her. Halloween night here at our house is a lot of football and passing out candy to the little trick or treaters that stop by. Happy Halloween to all of you!!

Where has the time gone?

I can't believe Charli is just a week away from being 10 months old! Where has the time gone? It seems like just a month or two ago when we brought her home from the hospital. I can honestly say I have embraced every single minute of every day with her. Everyone told me how fast the time would fly and they were so right. It is so very bittersweet!!

This past weekend Darren and I took Charli to the State Fair of Texas for her first visit. When I was a kid, my parents brought me and my sisters to the fair every year during TX/OU weekend.

Darren and I have visited every year we have been together as well and we hope to keep this tradition going with Charli now. My parents and my sister Shelley and her two sons Shaddox and Shaden came and met us at the fair. We were very sad Shelbi and Travis couldn't make it. They already had plans to go to U2 in Oklahoma.

Shelley and I had a BLAST riding the old school rides at the fair!

MeMe had a GREAT time playing with Shaddox and Charli all day! She held Charli almost the entire time. She said Charli kept telling her she wanted to go home with MeMe and Pop, but I just wouldn't let her go! :)