Wesley's Limo Ride to McDonalds

What happens when your dad works with a bunch of people who have kids that are out of school and grandparents that always order something. Lots of unexpected fund raiser orders! Wesley had just enough orders to go on a Hummer Limo ride to lunch at McDonald's.  As a side note, today was western day at school.  These country kids do not always dress in their western finest.  Usually you will see a superhero t-shirt! 

Kindergarten Music Program

Wesley had his first music program concert at Springtown Elementary this past week.  I was expecting it to be pretty good from all of the wonderful things I had heard about the music teacher at the school.  She met and exceeded my expectations for a little kindergarten program.  Love the last two songs where the kids got to run around and just have fun.  You can tell they enjoyed it.

Here are some pictures and videos: 

 In case you missed the facebook post.  Wesley cut Cassie's hair and just a tiny bit of her ear!  She has fully recovered, but her hair is another story.  I did the best I could to even it out. 

If you click on the title of the video:  SES Kinder Oct 2013...  it will take you to Youtube where the quality in full screen mode is much better.  All of these videos are unlisted which means you will not be able to find them by searching on Youtube, you have to have the link to view them. 

Christmas in Cowtown and Random Kid Pictures

So a little over a month since my last post isn't too bad considering we had an awesome craft fair to prep for.  The Junior League of Fort Worth had their Christmas in Cowtown gift market fund raiser the first weekend in October.  We had a great booth location and did very well.  I hope to be selected again next year. And, I need to do a shout out to my Aunt Anne!   Thank you so much for watching the kids during the 4 day event. Here are a few pictures of our booth. 

 

Thank you for sitting through my awesome booth pictures - here is what you are really interested in.  The Kids.   Wesley was being extra nice this day.  You can tell in Cassie and Marcus's faces.  

Elvis comes to Weatherford

An Elvis impersonator came to a restaurant in Weatherford.  The food was ok.  I was not impressed with the owner.  But Elvis did a great job hitting all the hits from the 50s-70s ending with Larry's favorite song, American Trilogy. 

Here are some of the pictures:

First Days of School

Here are a few pictures from the first days of school for Wesley and Cassie.  Wesley is five and starting Kindergarten and Cassie is 2 and starting the Rainbow Kids Toucan Twos class.

Memphis Here We Come!

We canceled our trip to MD for our [cough] 10 year college reunion so Larry could visit his aunt in Ohio.  Sadly, she passed away just before his scheduled trip.  We then started to think about a long weekend trip that was within 1 easy days drive.  Austin, San Antonio, the beach, even Lawton was on the list, but nothing was reaching out and grabbing us.  

In June, we took a normal outing to our Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the temporary exhibit was Elvis at 21 photographs by Alfred Wertheimer.  Wesley got to experience Elvis and from then on we constantly watched you tube videos of Elvis.  How far away is Memphis from Springtown?  Not quite an easy days drive, but 1 days drive nonetheless....Graceland here we come.

Here are the rest of the pictures in order of our visit:
Friday we drove from Hope, Arkansas, the birth place of President Clinton, to Memphis.  Our first stop was Sun Studio where lots of famous people recorded their first records.  We got to step inside to the soda fountain and gift shop.  No tours for under 5 years, so maybe next time.  At least we knew this ahead of time and planned accordingly.

Smile Cassie.  This is how she smiles.

 Next stop, the Peabody hotel.  If you have young kids, this is a neat stop to watch the ducks parade through the lobby. 

The bathroom at Huey's Restaurant.

Walking to Beale street

Beale street

Elvis statue on Beale street

Wesley looking at the Elvis statue

Beale street

 Saturday morning we headed over to Graceland! 

Fabric!  on the walls and ceiling.  Folds and folds of fabric!

Jungle room with green shag carpet on the floor some of the walls and ceiling.

Love this picture

One of Wesley's favorite songs,  In the Ghetto.

Wedding clothes with a paisley tux.

Looking at the grave marker

Gold plated seat belts

Smile Cassie

 Back at the hotel

Mississippi Bridge

Train!

Memphis

 Overall it was a great very short trip!