pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins

Pumpkin Patch

After our experience this past sunday I don't think we will ever beat last years picture when it comes to the annual pumpkin patch visits. We ventured out to give david an official farm/ pumpkin patch experience this year with miniature horses, pony rides, petting zoo, face painting, and of course pumpkins! Lets just say it was not a big hit.....for David or mommy! He was fussy, we were hot, he was hot, and the girlie-girl side of me came out-mommy and farms don't go well together..ugh! Oh and let's not forget to mention the horrible haircut he got last week...I am seriously going on a haircut strike, but that's a whole other post! Oh well, at least we gave it a shot and we did have a good time with our friends Katie, Mike and their daughter Lachlann...who was also fussy! We are glad we didn't pay the money and wait in line at Dewberry Farms because these kids lasted about 30minutes! Here are some pictures from our adventure.

Note-we are not giving up on the pumpkin picture just yet; we have a fall festival and a visit to the church pumpkin patch next week and are hoping to have better luck!

VEGAS!!

Just got back yesterday from our weekend trip to Vegas. It was much needed mommy and daddy time!! We had a blast, but are definitely exhausted. We flew in Thursday evening and stayed a The Paris Hotel; it had the best deal for the weekend and a great location on the strip. We enjoyed having a little extra time this go around, but had to keep ourselves out of the casino on Saturday night so we ended up seeing Cirque Du Soleil Love at The Mirage. It was amazing!!

Here are just a few pictures from our trip....I did not do a great job of getting out the camera.Thank you Grandma and Tracy for watching our little nugget so that mommy and daddy could have a weekend out to play!

Drinks at Mandalay Bay before we ate lunch at the Burger Bar and hit the tables. Yummy food and the only place we actually walked away with a decent amount of winnings!

The fountains at the Bellagio; our hotel was right across the street and in the three years that we have been to Vegas it was my first time to see them dance to the music. I loved it; could of stayed and watched them all night!



Dinner at Sushi Roku, Caesars Forum Shops. Dave again was a trooper and went out to eat sushi with me. This place had a great view of the strip and excellent sushi.

week in review...

pick up toys.....laundry....pick up more toys....dishes....pick up more toys.....

okay, so it has been my first week in my new role and whew....can you say exhausting. this toddler boy sure knows how to make messes and keep his mommy on her toes! i feel like most of my days are spent two steps behind him picking up after whatever he is into at the moment, which is EVERYTHING! so really, it was not that bad we had a great time enjoying toddler library hour, shopping, little gym, and a play date with my friend katie and her daughter lachlann. i will say that it has been more of an adjustment than i thought it would be. i feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulder, but that there is something about me missing. i'm sure it is going to take some time to settle into this role and get a routine that works well for both david and i. one thing is for sure....i just love spending this time with my little man.

here are some pictures from last weekend. we had some friends over to watch football and celebrate daddy's birthday. he made his best brisket yet!

happy birthday, daddy!

watching football with the guys

david and lachlann ready for some football

first slumber party; they were so cute sleeping in the same room and did so well. if you look close you can see that they have positioned themselves to be as close to each other as possible!

It's Official....

I started my new job today as a stay at home mommy! After a long debate (a whole year) we have decided it is best for our family. I am so excited to have the opportunity to watch our son grow up; I feel like I have already missed so much. Thank you daddy for working hard and letting mommy stay home and play. We love you very much!!

we heart atx

Friends......Family......Longhorn Football.....Yummy Food......you can't beat it! We enjoyed a nice long eventful weekend in austin over labor day. We were fortunate to spend time with friends and family and watch the longhorns start off their winning season ;) Thanks Kelly and Colby for coming to see us Friday night! I am so bummed that I did not get a picture of the two of you and david.

Game Day

Zilker Park

{he loved the soundplay area}

{first snow cone}

it's that time of year.....

.....and our favorite time at that! We are super excited about going into this years football season. David has been diligently working on "texas-fight" and "where my horns at-whoo whoo" in preparation for this weeks game. He has pretty much mastered them both, but will again not perform on cue for mommy to get on video....which explains the lack of blogging lately, goodness is this little man getting difficult to photograph. He is constantly on the go and his mommy and daddy cannot seem to keep up! Here are a few other tidbits to what has been going on at the roser household as our little man turned 17 months last week.....

• His vocabulary is definitely growing. He can now say; apple, elmo, bye-bye, pool, texas, airplane, all done, and others that I am sure I am forgeting.

• We are beginning to learn what seperation anxiety is around here. He gets extremely upset when one of us leaves. We tried to leave him in the church nursery in Indiana and were paged to get him within 10 minutes after drop off.

• As the weather gets cooler (okay, not cooler but it is amazing what a mere 5 degrees will do around here!) we are noticing that he is becoming very fond of playtime at the park. He even attempts to go down the slide alone and proceeds to say "weee" when on the swings!

• He had his second haircut last weekend. We decided to try a different establishment that definitely did a better job than the first. He did really well throughout the whole thing and looks so handsome.

• He loves him some elmo. It's the only thing he will sit still and watch, but it HAS to be elmo's world. It does not matter if elmo is on sesame street for the day, he will not sit to see what goes on until he hears the elmo's world song. This is the only thing that I really approve of him watching and he only gets to watch in the mornings and sometimes one episode before our nightime routine. We purchased a few elmo's world dvd's that we are hoping will get us through the car ride to austin this weekend.

• And in true longhorn spirit, which comes by him naturally...he loves the Texas Fight song! We downloaded it last year to his iPod and have been playing and dancing to it all week. He has learned to start the song himself and we have caught him running around the house dancing to it...it really is pretty cute; even you aggies out there would get a kick out of it!

So let it begin.....Hook 'em Horns!!