A list

I am going to try to catch up on what has been going on around here by making a list.  I am a crazy list maker!  I love to get all my "to do's" out of my head and on to paper.  So here goes my list of recent happenings...

1.  Football season started. 

Actually, we are halfway through the regular season.  Don't I sound like a savvy coaches wife?  I only know this little fact because I overheard Ryan talking about it with another coach :/ Ha, at least I understood what he was talking about! The games have been a little busy with all the kiddos and pretty intense, but we still have fun! The key to enjoying the craziness of high school football is just embracing the craziness of high school football:)

Pre season game. The sweet little white outfits were ruined by week 3.

Week 2.  After taking all three kiddos to the game I vowed I would NEVER do it again.  My mom kept Riley-Anne during this game.  This was the first appearance of the "football man" t shirt.  Garrison insists on wearing the "football man" shirt to every game.  Pick.your.battles :)

Week 3.  This is the week the cute white dresses were ruined.  It rained at this game and was pretty  chilly, but we won so it was worth it!  Garrison did allow himself to wear his rain boots to this game instead of his light up shoes :)

Week 3.  Riley-Anne came to the game!  Where was Allie-Parker? Hm, I don't remember...  Anywho, we lost this game so it did not make for a very fun weekend.

Riley-Anne showing her "paw pride".

I do not have any pics from game 4.  I don't know what went wrong, but the babies took nuts to a new level.  We were excited to hear that Aunt Leste and Justin were coming to help watch the game so me and Gigi thought we were going to have things under control.  Um, we did not.  But we made it all the way to the end of the game and we WON!  Woop woop!

2. My BFF Crystal got engaged.

Yep, its true!  We are so, so, so excited for Crystal and Austin.  I got a call from her during the Foley game and I hung up on her because the kids were all over the place.  Well about an hour later I listened to her message, it said, "I can't believe you hung up on me when I just got engaged!"  I screamed sooooo loud and then cried!  I don't have a picture to document this occasion... Crystal, why have we not taken a pic?!?  But her ring is gorgeous!  Can't wait for March 16 to get here!

3.  Garrison went dove hunting.

Look at that cutie!  He posed himself for the pictures!  Garrison and Ryan went up to the country for the Moss's annual dove hunt earlier this month. Garrison had such a great time! He is still talking about it! He pretends to shoot birds EVERYWHERE we go (can be a little embarrassing at times;) and after he makes a boom sound he says, "See you in the soup". Ha!

4. Garrison has stopped taking naps and started making "artwork" out of our bedding. 

5. Allie-Parker likes school.

I was trying to get a picture of the smiley face on her thumb :)

6. We bought a van.

Yep, I drive a mini-van. Never in my life did I think I would say those words.  But, seriously, I love it!  We have so much room now and the big ol jogger stroller fits in the back without having to move any seats!  Sorry no pictures of the party van.

7.  We bought a boat.

Ryan is so stinkin' excited over this.  I must admit, I am too! 

8.  We share the van.

HA!  This story is funny now, it was not so funny while it was happening.  So we bought the van, a day later Ryan took his truck to pick the boat up.  Well, the driveway in our new house is VERY steep and awkward, so we had a hard time backing the boat in.  Well after about 15 tries of going up and down the drive Ryan pulls his truck in the middle of the street and says, "I think Im just going to walk it up" and takes the keys out.  In the same second we hear a loud BOOM and smoke starts coming out of his truck! Seriously, it was like a scene out of a bad movie!  It was ridiculous.  So there we were in the middle of the street, in our new neighborhood with our broken down vehicle.  Great way to meet the neighbors, right?!?!  Well, a man who was tired of waiting for the road to clear good Samaritan comes by and helps Ryan get his truck up the drive a bit so people can actually get to their houses.  Oh but what, the story gets worse... Later that night Ryan goes back out to make sure the truck hasn't blown up and our sweet neighbor across the street offers to help Ryan push the truck over so we can actually drive the new van we bought the day before! Well Ryan gets in, takes the brake off and the truck ROLLS DOWN THE DRIVE, ACROSS THE STREET, INTO THE SWEET NEIGHBORS YARD!  At this point I am literally dying.  Our across the street neighbors work in their yard every day, it is perfectly manicured and beautiful and now it has a broke truck right in the middle of the yard.  Great, pretty sure we wont be invited to the neighborhood Christmas party :/  

Well, that pretty much sums up the last week or so.  Ha!  Isn't life crazy?!?