Ra-Ra-TCU and Thanksgiving Crafts

I went to my first TCU football game in 2 years and it was super fun! It was the Utah/TCU game and was great because TCU won big!
This is a pic Tim took from the ESPN gameday show which he woke up at 4 am to attend!

Halftime show at the game...

Bates family at the game...

Tim, Blake, Brian, Walt, Brad, Austen, and Jennifer the night before the big game...

Mommy and Chooch at Ms. Louanne's for thanksgiving craft day. The boys colored these cute little faces (well sort of colored!)

Caleb and Momma....he really liked to color, but also likes to eat the crayons...

Halloween Pics, Grauntie Sharon, and More...!

Timily as Hogwarts' Students on Halloween night
Pops and Mere-Mere with the boys Halloween Night...

Twins & Thessalie Stuntz at the TCU Halloween/Homecoming Parade

Cousin Tyler taking it all in! The boys all loved the candy thrown out by the college students on the floats!

Caleb hanging out before the parade..

Chooch in his costume..

When Grauntie Sharon was here, we took the boys to the park and they loved to SLIDE!

Mimi helped feed Chooch at Luby's after church...Btw, I LOVE Luby's...it is one of my favorite places to eat and I get so much grief over it from my husband and friends!

Grauntie Sharon with the boys at the park!

Caleb and Grauntie...

Caleb trying to tickle Papa's face...

This was at Luby's...the boys LOVED the balloons and now say "boon" everytime they see them! See, another great reason to go to Luby's---they give kids FREE balloons...

More pumpkin pics...

Oscar the Grouch H-A-T-E-D wearing this pumpkin outfit...so, it only stayed on long enough to get a picture!
Mr. Chooch did not care if he was wearing a pumpkin as long as he could continue to play "ball" with it on!

Sweet Matthew in his camou shirt...

Ready, Aim, Fire!!! (Chooch LOVES playing with balls...notice our lemon is the ball of choice in this picture)!

Caleb is finally smiling at the camera!

That ornery grin...melts my heart!

Cold Weather and Hot Cocoa...

I L-O-V-E chocolate pudding!!!


Practicing with my own spoon...



Daddy's helpers...putting away the firewood...

This was the first cold night in Fort Worth and we celebrated on the back porch with hot chocolate for ALL!

Cabers loved his hot chocolate...he is definitely his father's child!

Showin' off all my "teefers..."

Playin in the basket together...Chooch is definitely on the brink of a meltdown here!

The night-night paci makes everything better!

Girl Time...

Well, I'm learning that one of the perks of being a "boy" mama is that my husband recognizes how important girl time is! I kind of decided on a whim to go to Arkansas to an annual craft fair weekend. It was really fun and relaxing to go and enjoy everything...shopping, good food (roasted corn, kettle corn, corn dogs, funnel cake, chocolate dipped cheesecake, burgers, taters--it was a pregnant ladies' dream world!), girl time (+cousin Nick---love you, too!), beautiful fall weather, even if only for a day and a half! Thank you Daddy, Mere-Mere and Pops for making it happen and taking good care of those sweet boys....Here's to many more girl trips in the future... with all this testosterone in my house, I AM GONNA NEED THEM!!! Caroline (my cousin,Nick's wife), Liz (my cousin), Mom/Georgetta, Aunt Donna, Me, Debbie (caroline's mom) and Aunt Kaye...this was at dinner at a wonderful Italian mom and pop shop restaurant in the Rogers, ARK area. We were about 5 minutes away from TLC's reality show family "The Duggars" house...and yes, we did go spy and see it!!! It's HUGE...but, they do have 19 kids so what do you expect!


This Italian place had the best homemade rolls, which are my absolute favorite...so I snuck some out to go!


This is at the actual craft fair, War Eagle...it's beautiful! We added one more person in this pic, Lauren, who is Caroline's sister.

Sweet Caroline and me!

Adding Another Pumpkin To The Patch...

Give brother a kiss...

This is a sweet video from a month ago of the boys. For those of you who have been asking/wondering, we are 19 weeks pregnant and due March 29th. Everything has been going really well with the pregnancy so far...after carrying twins, hopefully this will be a "breeze!" I will say--this pregnancy is a little harder in terms of chasing twins around whilst carrying another child! But, we are so thankful for this little blessing....we find out very SOON boy or girl...be checking the blog because I imagine one of the twinkers will have an announcement to make!!!