Trick or Treat!

My Aggie football player and cheerleader

That's his "tough" look

Sweet girl

We had such a great Halloween. We went to our friends, The Garrisons, for some trick or treating around their neighborhood. They have twin girls, Hailey and Syndey, who will be 3 in december. Ezra loves playing with them, and I don't think they mind him either ;). After our buckets were full of candy, we headed across the alley to the church that is behind their house. Cross Mountain church puts on a GREAT fall carnival. They had a lot of rides, bouncy houses, hay rides, train rides, pony rides, food/drinks and more. We went last year too. Last year, Ezra was just a little over 1, so he was not excited about it like he was this year. He wanted to go in the bouncy house, ride the ponies, fish for candy and eat good food! Emersyn enjoyed herself also.
Ezra was a Texas Aggie Football player (WHOOP!) and Emersyn was a Texas Aggie Cheerleader! Brent and I were Aggie Fans! Oh ya.. Hailey and Sydney were Texas Longhorn Cheerleaders..we weren't judging ;)
All in all, it was a great time!

Hailey, Ezra and Sydney

Already diggin into the candy

Pro trick or treaters!

Family op

Also included are some pictures from when we went to the St. Mary's Turkey Dinner and Carnival the weekend before in Fredericksburg. We got to play with all the Eilers cousins, see Oma, Opa and Gamma, and eat such yummy Turkey dinner. It was a really good time.

Gamma at the bouncy house

Ezra in the bouncy house

Diggin for treasures

Ring toss

Emersyn taking it all in

Pumpkins!

Carving the Pumpkin

I am loving this weather! It is so fun to be outside and playing with the kids. We went to the United Methodist Pumpkin Patch to take some pictures and buy a pumpkin to carve. We had a lot of fun. Ezra enjoyed carving the pumpkin for about the first 5-10 minutes, then he was done and I had to finish the pumpkin. I think he will enjoy the pumpkin tonight when we put the candle in it and it lights up.

Some cute pictures

Here are some cute pictures of Ezra that I thought I would share. We have been crazy busy this month, so I will post more of our adventures when I get more organized.

Ezra and Maria playing on an old tractor at brent's parents house

They had so much fun "driving"

Posing for pictures

In a tux at my mom's wedding this weekend

More photos to come of my mom's wedding!

Dach's Lakehouse

This past weekend, the whole Eilers family loaded up and headed to Trinity, TX. We were invited by the Dach's to come spend the weekend at thier lakehouse. Brent's sister Melanie is married to Kevin Dach and it is his parent's lakehouse.
We had so much fun with the whole Eilers family there. Oma, Opa, Uncle Bradley and Wife Susana, Aunt Michelle and Husband Daniel, Aunt Melanie and Husband Kevin, Uncle Fr. Brian, Mr. and Mrs. Dach, and all the kiddos (9 total). There were about 20 of us! It was great! Everyone got a long great!
We spent friday driving up to Trinity and then the boys headed out right away to go fishing. Saturday, we got up made some breakfast and the boys took all the kiddos (except the little ones) on the boat. The girls headed into town and went to a second blessings clothes store. We had so much fun trying on clothes. It was a whole HOUR of "here, this will look good on you", "hey, you need to try this on too!" When we got back to the house, after the boys called to see where we were, we ate some lunch. It was an afternoon of naps for some, while some headed to the Dach's property to go fishing at the stocked tank and ride 4-wheelers. That evening was celebrated with Mass by Fr. Brian and some family photos! Sunday was filled with more fishing and cleaning of the fish. The boys caught 40 lbs of fish! We had such a great weekend. with family.

Relaxing on the porch

Ezra checking out the sceneary

 All the cousins


Family photo op

Pictures of our growing Babies!!

At the Marriot Resort

Emersyn 4 1/2 months

Ezra 26 months


Love her big smiles!


Our handsome man!

Ezra and Emersyn are growing like weeds! Ezra is such a big boy now. He is talking so much and becoming more and more independent with activities and different things. He is so full of laughter and joy. He is such a boy! He loves to throw the ball, kick the ball, hit the ball, run, ride his bicycle (which he is starting to be able to pedal on his own!), blow bubbles, chase jager and do "work" around the yard with Brent. He is so much fun and developing his own little personality and quirks! He is sweet and so full of life. He has been such sweet sweet boy to his little sister. I can't wait until they are really able to interact with each other.

Oh my sweet sweet Emersyn!! She is now 4 1/2 months old. She is growing up so fast and doing new and different things everyday. She smiles, laughs, talks, rolls over and grabs everything to put in her mouth. We started eating rice cereal this month. She is not the biggeset fan of it, but we are trying some every day (well, when I remember :) ). She is holding her head up so well and almost sitting up on her own. She is my little/big girl. She weighed in at 13 lbs (under 50%) and was about 26 inches long (75%), so she is long and skinny. GO figure! She has such a sweet sweet spirit. She is so full of laughter, smiles, joy and LOVE. She is the calmest, sweetest, most laid back little girl who talks and talks and talks. She loves giving out smiles and kisses. She also LOVES her sleeping. She started sleeping through the night at 2 1/2 months and has been consistent with it ever since. Her bed time is about 7:30 or 8 and wakes up around 8 or later. Such a difference from Ezra who never wants to stop :)

We have been completely blessed with our little ones and look forward and cherish each and every day with them!

Catching Up

I haven't seemed to have a moment where I can just sit and blog lately so I am a little behind.

This is my attempt to try and catch up.

I feel like September has been so full of events throughout the week and the weekends.

Ezra feeding a zebra

Ezra and Brent fishing

On Labor Day, we loaded up the car and followed our good friends the Garrisons to their family lake house in Marble Falls off of Horseshoe Bay. We left friday afternoon and arrived in Marble Falls. We unloaded the car and went into town to get some pizza. That evening we planned for a pretty uneventful night with movie watching and heading to bed early. HOWEVER, the kids decided to have a "party" and stayed up to till midnight. They were having so much fun with each other. The Garrisons have two twin girls, Hailey and Sydney that will be 3 in december. They have so much fun together. Saturday morning we woke up, ate breakfast and took the kiddos for a walk around the Marriot resort, that is close to the lake house, while the boys fished. We had a relaxing day and went to bed a little earlier that night. Sunday I woke up and went for my 4 mile run (training for a 1/2 marathon), we got ready and loaded up the cars to head to the Exotic Zoo. We had so much fun there. They had everything from deer, to buffalo, to goats, to camels and zebras. The kids LOVED it! On the way home from the zoo, I started to not feel good. I got the STOMACH BUG! I was throwing up all afternoon and ended up in bed for the rest of the night. Emersyn got it a little bit too. I woke up Monday feeling better and went into the main house to learn that Lisa now how the Stomach Bug. She had been sick early Monday morning. On the way home from the lake, Ezra started throwing up! Then wednesday, Brent started throwing up! It was not a fun week!

The following weekend, Brent and Ezra went to the Farm to get the feeders ready for Hunting Season while Emersyn and I headed to Austin for my friends wedding!

That following Tuesday we got such sad news. We lost Grandma Eilers to the Lord. She lived such a great life and impacted all of our lives with her joy and love for the Lord. She would have turned 94 in October. She made it home just in time to celebrate Grandpa Eilers 100th birthday. He passed away 40 years earlier. On Thursday we celebrated her life with a Rosary and Mass conducted by Fr. Brian. Saturday we headed to Hallettesville for her funeral. It was such a nice funeral. That afternoon was so neat because we got to go to Grandma and Grandpa Eilers old hosue and dairy farm that Grandpa Eilers built and ran. It was a blessing for the siblings to be able to see the house they lived in and the old dairy. Grandma was smiling down on us! We will miss her but are so very thankful for God's promise that we will be together again one day! What a Glorious day that will be!!

The automatic milking machine

The house Grandpa Eilers built

The dairy farm

Our final weekend in September we will head to Lake Livingston to the Dach's lakehouse (brent's sisters in-laws) for a weekend with the Eilers. We are looking forward to all being together. Such a blessing that family is to us!

More pictures to come.

FBG fair parade and Butterflies

At the parade

Allison, Hudson and Harper

Ezra and Harper waving to the horses

Being attacked by butterflies

This past friday was the Fredericksburg Gillespie county fair! It is a main event in fredericksburg and brings back lots of memories. (like, when I was a cheerleader cheering on the floats thinking I was pretty cool!) So, we loaded up the car with kids, literally. My good friend Allison and her two kids came along for the ride.
The parade lasted an hour and 10 minutes!! Lots of horses, tractors and every form of fair queen from every county and event! Ezra really liked the horses, fire trucks and seeing some of his cousins on a float. After seeing so many fair queen floats, he started imitating the fair queen "wave". It was classic!
After the parade, we loaded up the car and headed out to the Wildseed Farm for some lunch and butterflies. Ezra, Harper and Hudson were so funny to watch in the Butterfly House. They were really excited about it until on got close to ezra and one almost landed on Harper's head! But, they quickly got past it, and really enjoyed it!
It all came to an end with peach and vanilla ice cream swirl! Delicious!! Thanks grammy!

We had such a good time. Next year, we will have to go to the actual fair and ride the rides!