OOOOOoooohhh Dominic!

Here is my nieces baby Dominic hitting the Halloween loot.. such a cutie!

And celebrating a big 40

Cathy hit the big 40 first, so we celebrated on Saturday. I have only known Cathy a few years but I feel like we have been friends a lifetime, look how sweet we all look!

Me and Funk

Here I am with my best friend Patty ... a.k.a. Funk... we have been friends since 6th grade, man that is a long time... since we were 11 and now we are about to hit the big 40... OMG... she is the baby of the group so she won't turn 40 til July 2011... this is the count down to say goodbye to my 30's.... sniff sniff

And the Saints came marching in...

Here are my kiddos at the 5K mass, all the little Saints, notice my little St. Jude... too cute and they did awesome! so proud of them...

Mass

Here we are on Crazy Hair Day!!!

Crazy hair day

Trick or treats....

Just for today

Okay, I have a ton of stuff I SHOULD be doing but I have been wanting to write something that has been on my heart and I just need to sit down and do it. I have been really having a hard time lately with the fact that I feel like I am not contributing to my family, financially that is... Especially because i keep hearing the 'must be nice to not work' comments over and over, but I know, I am working harder now than I ever have... I guess it has been difficult because I have always worked, I have never not worked and it was a HUGE leap of faith to decide to leave my job. So I was going through a bit of a feeling worthless slump... and I am struggling in my prayer life to move past that because I knew the minute I decided to do this that God had placed it on my heart, the doubt of the Devil has wreaked havoc on my confidence but I know I will get past it. Johnny keeps telling me that it is really no one else's business that I decided to stay home because we aren't relying on anyone else but God, I know that, and I do trust in him and somedays are still hard because I do get frustrated but I love my life... I just feel guilty I guess, for placing so much of the burden to care for our family on my husband. I heard a song on the radio the other day that really tugged at my heart strings and made me think so much of my husband whom I worry about so much. It is called Lead Me by Sanctus Real, google it, it is an awesome song. Nothing is guaranteed in life, jobs...health....happiness, but one thing I know for sure is that my son is learning every day by watching us, and we must lead eachother, make the right choices and show him the right way... We don't always make the right decisions, but I know that putting our family first has been one of the best ones of my life....

I gotta sign off for now, I have a St. Jude costume to finish for mass on Friday and treatbags and a haunted house to paint for our Halloween Carnival at school this weekend... Kindergarten is great...

Team player day... And we are still practicing for mass

Birthday Girl

All my sister wanted for her birthday was her baby and here he is with her!

Happy 47th birthday sista

Aren't they cute

Here is the whole PJ gang in church....

Getting Ready

This week is red ribbon week at school, say no to drugs so every day has a different dress theme, today was PJ day... and Noah's class has mass on Friday so we will be practicing all week... gonna be a looonnnggg week.

Practicing for mass on pajama day!

Invitations

Johnny's cousin's daughter is having her Quincenera next montha and they called because the person that was supposed to do their invitations didn't work out so I whipped these out in a day, pretty cute huh?!

Liz's invitations

I LOVE MY FRIEND CATHY... 40 LOOKS GREAT

What? I can't be that old!

Watching his football hero!

FW:

Thought you might want this

Yummy spooky treatbags.....

A gathering of ghouls - white chocolate covered marshmallow ghosts! BOO!

Witch finger cookies!

Graveyard cupcakes

wooooooo...

It's Halloween, what do we do?
We don't say Hi... we say BOOOO!
Say Boo, to you, to you we say
BBBBOOOOOOOOOO!

I can't believe it is almost that time of the year again, I am really excited because Noahs school is doing the Halloween Carnival again for all the students, they stopped having it when Noah started there and that was one of the perks I was looking forward to! They will be having trunk or treating and games inside the gym... but best of all my monkey will have fun with his friends and will be safe. He decided to be a football player so whew! he can wear his steeler uniform and we got him pads to put in it so he is set to go...
We are home today because i think we caught a little stomach bug, he is doing better today but last night was not too good, yuck... then my neighbor decided to have a concert in her backyard last night so i didn't sleep too good... jeez, they were out there til almost four this morning! good grief... I am working on organizing my messy house... no fun... if you don't hear from me soon I am probably trapped under a pile somewhere...

Corn Maze bound

Noah's had a field trip to the corn maze in Moulton... Last year we went to the one in Hondo but we really liked the one in Moulton too but is sure was a drive, once we got off the highway it was really pretty country road scenery. I miss our little weekend roadtrips, just take off and drive, so much pretty country around here... sounds like the Sauceda's need to get back on the road!

Awwwe...

Look at my pumpkin in the Pumpkin Patch! isn't he gorgeous! I am not prejudice or anything... really! We snuck over there after school to get some photos to give his grandmas in their fall card. love this boy...

Proud to be an American!

I sure am, and even more proud of our 5K as they do their performance to the Pledge of Allegiance, there will be an encore performance for veterans day!

One nation, under God....

Noah's first roller coaster

Things I am learning in Kindergarten...

**3K is now considered 'the babies' according to the big Kindergartners...
**Pizza day has now taken first place in popularity...
**Bad hair days don't matter in Kindergarten
**Never give one child a tic tac in view of another because word spreads fast in 5K
** When you are 5 tic tacs are considered a candy, when you are almost 40 they don't even come close....

Awe.... Pumpkin

Stopped in Luling to roam around their pumpkin patch and couldn't resist taking a picture of my cutie here... so loving him!

Look out Matadors... we got a young gun in training...

Seguin Steelers tore up Cedar Creek Eagles 26-7... Let's keep it rolling all day Steelers!

Yup, I turn into this mad woman I am not sure I recognize on Saturdays... My baby got 2 flags and cleared the way for his quarterbacks and runningbacks... That's right sports fans, you better move out of the way when you see this Steeler on the front line!

It's County Fair time...

There's a new sheriff in town! We had western dress day at school on Friday, isn't my cowboy handsome... we had plenty of guns fights at the OK Corral (playground) all day...

Looky here....

Noah's first spelling test! He is so proud.

FIRE!

Some of Seguin's AWESOME firefighters stopped by and gave a really good fire safety presentation to the kiddos and then they got the red carpet tour of the fire trucks. It was really cute and the kids were so excited when they saw all the fire trucks and ambulances drive up! I got a little nervouse because I didn't know they were coming and I wasn't sure what was going on... LOL This is Noah posing with our friend Fernando who is an awesome guy and firefighter...

Proud!

Noah's kindergarten class will be singing the Pledge of Allegiance at the PTC meeting this Wednesday... they are soooo cute!

Practice

5K practicing for the PTC performance...

Things I've learned in Kindergarten...

...Even the best kids have bad days
...Hamburger day in the cafeteria is second only to Pizza Friday!
...Sometimes coloring isn't fun
...grown-ups need nap times more than the kids do
...sometimes even grown-ups can forget their manners
...a group hug from your kiddos can make even a bad day better

It's here!

My beloved Pumpkin Patch....

This is a quick snapshot from the street and you can't really see all the really cool stuff in the back, I love the small town feel of things like this in Seguin... I plan on taking and posting many pictures from here this season... Hope everyone gets a chance to visit!

So very many....

This is the simple wreath I made for the den door entrance to my house, I love love loved this sign when I saw it and had to get it and just hung it in front... Many many blessings held in these doors, that is for certain...

Sunday...

We went for our Sunday drive and Noah knocked out with Bella on his lap....

I tried posting earlier but it got zapped into never never land I guess.. I haven't been very good about posting anything other than pictures (sorry) but heck, Kindergarten is a lot of work! LOL I can't believe it is already going to be two months since I quit work, and already I am wondering how I ever worked in the first place! It has been a roller coaster ride but I think that our lives generally are anyway. I would like to thank all my wonderful friends for their prayers for my family during JJ's passing. I keep imagining that sweet boy running in the fields of heaven and laughing thinking that he is probably wearing my Dad and his Uncle Ernie out. Miss them all so very very much but I know that God is taking great care of them.

I love being at home with my boys, now even more so all the moments and memories are so precious, they mean the world to me and I feel so lucky to have this time with them. I am really looking forward to the holidays, we passed by the Pumpkin Patch and they were getting it ready, one of my favorite parts of October, Noah has a ton of stuff going on at school this month, they are putting on a program for the PTC meeting and Kindergarten is doing Mass this month and I have to make him a St. Jude costume, we are headed to the Corn Maze in Moulten for a field trip and of course there is Halloween and I need to figure out how to make a Pteradactyl costume... so keep those prayers coming. I know most of us are dreading Monday, but not this Momma, Monday is library day and I LOVE library day... can't wait to check out some new books and listen to Mrs. Matalik read to us!

God Bless...

Just Relax

My BFF is gonna kill me for posting this pic, it's awful but we took it last night she had a birthday party for her son Darren, It was really the first night we just kinda hung out in a long time and it was very relaxing... we sure needed it!

My Girl

My latest addition to my hair accessories ... colored ties, love doing my girlies hair so they can go home nice and pretty... and I always have to show them a pic so they can see how pretty they look....

ZZZZzzz

You know you are tired when you fall asleep during Friday movie, and this is now my picture that will get him to stop sucking that thumb... LOL

Stand your ground...

We were going into the gym and this little fella would not budge from in front of the door, stubborn guy, I even got right on top for this picture!