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Ren Fest

Big Medieval Man (my shoulder smelled funny the rest of the day...)

Aiden pooped out.

Blair is OUT. It was hard work screaming when mommy was getting hugged by a big scary medieval man!

Scott got the big Turkey Leg!

I didn't take a whole lots of photos, mostly just quick snipets I could grab all the while juggling Blair. We got up to the Ren Fest by 130pm I think. We wanted to get there at noon, yeah, the traffic was INCREDIBLE and I don't mean in a good way. It took us 2.5 hours to get there. Then, the ride home was awful, taking me a little over 2 hours to get home. Crazy. The Texas Renaissance Festival is about 5x the size of the one in Ohio, so we totally didn't see it all, matter of fact, I am pretty sure we were mostly lost during our visit. It really was a lot of fun though, even if my shoulder smelled like big man pit the rest of the day, lol.

Screaming

Stop Screaming from Alexa & Chris Ramby on Vimeo.

Blair has this new thing where he thinks it is funny to scream when he is SUPER excited. Here is some video of me trying to stop that. He is so sweet and means well, but has somehow picked up this bad habit. We are doing fairly good at getting him to express his happiness by NOT screaming but rather by laughing. Last night I wish I would have had video because he was giggling up a storm. So cute.

Anyhow, thanks so much for the kind comment Kelli, yes, I got very lucky with the hubby and I think he got lucky (although he would define 'lucky' in different terms, lol). Chris is just on his way to San Jose now. He'll be there until Sunday sometime. It is just south of San Fransisco. We'll miss him, but look forward to our reunion on Sunday. The following three weekends should be wonderful, all of us together! As for Blair and I, we will be attending the Texas Ren Fest with our great friends Nikki and Travis with baby Aiden, and Rachel and Scott! Yeah! I'll try to take a few photos. Sunday, I think we are going to church! I have been meaning to get into a local church and start a church family and it looks like I may be on the path to it. Our wonderful neighbor Angie is going to attend with us.

Have a great weekend! We are finally getting fall weather here in Texas and we intend to fully take advantage of it!

I love my pilot!

I read a great post on a fellow pilot's wife site here: It's a Pilot's Life for Me.

She talks about how she does not really want to hear anyone complain about their husband's that are home every night, even if they are home late, take their family for granted, etc.

I don't really think about it when I have friends that complain about their husband's. I don't think about myself or anything like that. I don't think my life is harder because he is a pilot. Quite the opposite actually. I do think my marriage is quite strong because of how much harder we have to work at communication and knowing each others schedules, etc. because he is a pilot. I feel so lucky to have him. I feel like I have a man who sacrificed so much for his goals. He didn't settle for something less. He makes me so proud for achieving the goals he set out to get. He is an amazing man and I won't ever take that for granted. He struggles on a daily basis with the career he choose. At the same time, his life is so enriched due to what he does! He enriches our child's life due to his job. Chris will get to show our children so many wonder's of the world because he has had those experiences!

Just like her, I choose to see the positive that we have due to him being a pilot. But, at the same time, I don't mind it when I hear about other's having issues with their husbands. Everyone has variables in their marriage. Chris and I may be better connected because we HAVE to be. He is not there every night, so we enjoy our experiences together SO MUCH MORE when we are together! We take in our weekend when we have them whole heartedly. We enjoy every single moment. And we never take it for granted.

It is all a trade off. I love my life with my pilot. I couldn't be more proud of him. I see his sacrifice, and ours, I wouldn't trade our life together for anything.

I love my pilot.

Halloween Wrap-Up

Blair's Daycare Halloween Party. I am sad to report my camera battery was dead during the morning Trick or Treating. The kids were SO CUTE! Blair freaked out and got a bit of seperation anxiety, so I went with the kids around to each room, it was so fun 'herding' them.

The kids had everything 'orange' on their plates for the party. It was truely fun watching them eat and get messy, this little guy was just the cutest.

They all enjoyed the day and we played after they all got cleaned up. They were all so sweet and I had a blast played with them!

On Halloween Night Travis, Nikki and Baby 'Hoot Owl' Aiden came over. He was so cute in his costume!!!

Our neighbor Reiko easily won the pumpkin contest with her 'hazard' pumkins. AWESOME.

The other 'Hazard' Pumpkin.

I could barely get a photo of wild man Blair. He was running all over and was SO EXCITED every time a trick or treater would come up. He managed to go to about 12-14 houses and did great! I couldn't get him to say trick or treat, he was a bit shy. Our neighborhood is awesome at Halloween, so many people really deck their houses out and it seems the whole neighborhood is outside having a grand time. They were all incredibly nice to Blair, he never got scared.

At the end of the evening, Nikki and I partook in a bit of VAMPIRE BLOOD! It was really good actually....

I CAN'T DECIDE!!!

A few days in photos

This weekend I took Blair to Discovery Green Park with a friend of ours' daughter, he had a BLAST playing in the fountains!
We took down our 'redneck' pool for the winter and Blair had a great time playing in the sand that was uncovered as a result.

Yesterday evening we carved pumpkins! Blair did really well helping out! We all had so much fun. Mommy and Blair did the scooping while Daddy did the carving!

The finished product! A happy baby ready for Halloween!!!!