Trunk-or-Treat

Our church had a Trunk-or-Treat event tonight. The idea is everyone parks in the parking lot, trunks facing out and the kids trick-or-treat out of the back of people's trunks. Some people went all out decorating their trunks, call me unspirited if you must, but mine was decorated so-so. At least I had some pumpkins!

We practiced saying "trick-or-treat," so Landon was ready to roll in his costume. I believe it's a dinosaur, but he preferred to call it a dragon! rrrroooaarrr :) I was just glad that the costume was warm, because it was chilly outside.

Some of the kiddos lined up and and ready to get candy.

Landon getting candy. I was such a proud mama, he said thank you to everyone he got candy from :)

This car should have gotten the prize for most spirited! They had fog, a zombie giving out candy from underneath the car, and a vampire sitting inside the trunk.

More "candies" (as Landon calls it).

Can't just collect the candy, gotta sample it!! We had a great time celebrating Halloween, lots of good friends and lots of candy!

Go Horned Frogs!

Being a TCU student, we've gotten frog fever! Neither Scott nor I went to a college that had a big football team, so we've been excited about the fact that TCU has a pretty good team and excellent school spirit. TCU was playing BYU at Texas Stadium, I really wanted to go to the game, but tickets were expensive. At school, the day of the game, a fellow student gave Scott 2 free tickets!!

I quickly called a babysitter and got ready for date night!! I was thrilled to see TCU play, but to also have the opportunity to see Jerry Jones' Texas Stadium. It was amazing. The place had the biggest jumbo-tron screen I'd ever seen! I watched the screen more than I watched the field.

We sat in the TCU student section, right next to the TCU band. These guys and gals were jammin!!

We had a pretty good view of the field as well. TCU in black, BYU in white.

Our seats were right in front of the TCU cheerleaders.

Toward the middle of the game, I noticed this gentleman sitting in front of us. It's hard to tell in the picture because he's wearing a hat...but he had purple hair!!! Now that's a die-hard Frog fan! Of course TCU won, it was a great night!

Pre-Halloween

Halloween is usually all about the kids, so I was very excited that our friends threw an adults only Halloween party! Taking advantage of the fact that I'm "with child," we decided to go as a naughty priest and pregnant nun :)

So angelic!

I was so impressed with everyone's costumes: Batwoman, escapee from a psych ward, witch, me and a totally 80's girl. It got my wheels turning for next year's costumes!

Dallas Arboretum

Grammy and Grampy have been in town visiting us ( Landon :) Last weekend, they took Landon to the Dallas Arboretum. The entire place was decorated for Fall and had more pumpkins displayed that I've ever seen in my life!

Landon had a blast climbing all over the pumpkins....

.....and Grammy and Grampy enjoyed every moment as a superb photo op!

He's got the perfect pose here: hand on his lap, one foot up, staring into the distance. Maybe there's a future in modeling for him :)

Grammy definitely knows how to get a good smile out of him.

She must have really gotten his funny bone here! Boy, it's gotta be nice being the first grand kid - all the attention :)

Texas State Fair

Wow, what an experience! I'd never been to the Texas State Fair, but I'm sure glad we went! They had so many cool things to see...for instance this super, cool, 2012, cherry, red Camaro! Landon was in heaven :)

There was a kids section for rides and games. Although we blew $50 in probably 7.3 minutes flat on 3 rides, it was worth it to see Landon laugh and smile. The rides were expensive, but more expensive because he was too little to go alone, therefore, each ride was times two because I had to go as well.

On the way out, we did find one motorcycle ride he could do alone. He thought he was the bees knees!

I wish I had taken more pictures, we also stopped in an adorable petting zoo with tons of animals. There's always next year!

Long Lost Friends

Since we've moved to Dallas, we have not seen any of our Austin friends. It's been a long 10 months, so we were so excited to hear that our good friends were coming up to visit us! This couple has two adorable kids, Cayden (5) and Madison (2), who happens to be 12 days older than Landon.

I can definitely say the Mommy's and Daddy's had a great time catching up, but I think the kids had more fun that we did!

The kids laughed and played all weekend! It was awesome for Landon to have a friend around. Their personalities are very similar (stubborn and strong headed), so there were a few minor issues about sharing. But, for the most part they loved every minute of it! Thanks for visiting Vaughn's, we loved having you!!

I wanna be just like Daddy

We finally got some rain, which thankfully turned our grass (hay) green again. So, it was time to break out the mower. The mower has wheels, so of course it's a vehicle Landon loves! He just had to help Daddy!

Grammy and Grampy got Landon his own mower for his birthday, so he did a little of his own mowing as well.

a few pics

The other morning during breakfast, Landon just needed a little mommy love. I adore these moments.

We went to dinner last weekend at our new favorite Italian joint, Prima's in Fort Worth. Excellent food, suburb service! Landon gobbled up his ziti and meatballs!

The super nice waitress even gave him a ball of pizza dough to play with! Totally kept him occupied while Scott and I finished our dinner.