Just a bunch of pictures

He loves this chair...best money spent yet

Unwrapping his car from Grammie

Unwrapping his gift from mommy

It's a VACUUM!! He loves it because he loves to be a big helper and now mommy doesn't have to slow down to share her vacuum with him

Helping mommy make pumpkin muffins for his friends the day before his birthday party

We decorated after he went to bed the night before so when he woke up on the day of his party he was shocked to find all this hanging from the ceiling

Pumpkins for his friends to paint at the party

We spent his birthday together as a family. In the morning we had to get some stuff at Home Depot so we did the kids workshop. Him and daddy built a firestation bank. He's pretty coordinated, he would hit the nail 90% of the time with the hammer

Taking a break to eat my sausage roll daddy got me

His birthday was Sat, Oct 3, it was a rainy day Ft Worth and Travis's company family picnic was the same day, so we headed out to a huge ballpark complex in Mansfield where it was. Here's our kid running around like a hippy. Not a fan of shoes lately

There were 8 ball fields total. Just this one was covered in bounce houses of all shapes, sizes and interests. I would have been a ball for JT but because of the rain they were all slippery and soaked. He kept slipping and landing in puddles inside the bounce houses. Such a bummer it rained

Another ball field was set up for the food. As you can see they had little turn out due to the weather. These picnics are usually so fun and XTO goes to great lengths to make them unique and different each year. This year was a circus theme "the Greatest Family Picnic on Earth". They provide food, bingo with some BIG prizes (were talking i-pods, trips to HI, 57" Sony Flat screens) and tons of free fun for the kids. A ton of food was wasted that night because it was outside in the rain :-(

Enjoying some food under our umberella

They had free elephant rides for the kids and this was part of there interactive show. We didn't get a chance to ride one of them because of the rain

Headed home wrapped up in his new XTO picnic blanket. We got to see flying trapeeze people too under the Big Top tent. I didn't get any pics though.

The big baseball statues out front of the complex. He wanted to pick one up and take it home

Following daddy. It looks colder in the pic than it really was.

The next week at the zoo again. One of our favorite past times thanks to Grandma (Teresa), she gets JT his yearly zoo pass for his birthday each year. This elephant was scratching his rear on the pole .....so funny

Daddy taking a whack at JT's new Better Batter Baseball contraption he got for his birthday. He likes to hit balls inside the house, when we take it outside, he's more interested in pretending to mow and weed eat the lawn.

Dr Worsley did the "potty training ready" check list with us at our check up and said that if he's that he's more than likely ready to be potty trained. Mommy bought him some unders with Cars characters on em he's been putting them on over his diapers. Mommy is the reason we haven't started yet....to be honest, I'm a little scared to start potty training. The boy is all about control. Like his shoes?

One of the many perks of working at XTO is Travis can usually fly on one of their planes to his meetings at the field office in Midland in the morning and then be back in time for dinner. Travis likes it because he doesn't have to get to the airport 2 hrs early, go thru security, wait for delays....he just gets in and goes. JT is recently obsessed with airplanes so I was super excited to take him on Friday evening to pick up daddy at XTO Hanger at Mecham Airport. Daddy's plane right after it landed. I couldn't get a picture of JT's face because every time I would step in front of him and the runway he would say "move please mommy"

The plane daddy was on pulling into the hanger. This was the 1st time I'd been inside the hanger (I'm usually just waiting in the lounge part) and was shocked how clean everything was. Seriously, you could eat off the floor!

I love this picture! Running to daddy....so cute!