Amazing Pictures

Aaron and I took Conner to have his picture taken last Saturday. The lady did an amazing job! I can't show all, as some will be used for christmas but here are a few.

Battle of the Hats

Conner is back home and we are getting back into the swing of things. From what I can tell, I don't think he was too traumitized by the battle of the hats. When Conner was with Monica and John he wore his oragne UT hat and worked on learning to say "hook em horns". Then while in Corpus he switched to his new "lil red raider" Texas Tech hat and worked on making his gun sign and saying "guns up". Now Conner will show us the gun sign and say "horns". We may have to wait until he's at least three to make a firm decision on which way he is pulling. Good luck to both sides!

We met my parents in San Marcos on Saturday. We had a great lunch at Mamacita's and caught up on all the grandparent/Conner activities for the week. They kept Conner really busy and entertained. One day they took Conner to the aquarium where he said "fish" about 500 times and had fun playing outside on the jungle gym. Conner went to Chuck E Cheeses for the first time, he didn't like that all so much - the noise was a little much and he didn't care too much for the Chuck E Cheese mascot walking around. Here are a few pictures from last week. My parents pulled out my old rocking horse and he really enjoyed bouncing around on that making horse noises.

Making History

I like most of you have been watching the election results this evening and we now have a new president. This day will be added to the history books for so many reasons and I'm looking forward to picking up the paper tommorrow to save and show Conner one day, so that he can see that America elected the first African American president in 2008.

Aaron and I had a very busy weekend with my annual Teddy Bear Ride for work. Saturday night we hosted a bike night party at Joe's Crab Shack and then Sunday morning 900 bikes with an estimated 1,500 participants helped to raise an estimated $35,000 and collect over 1,000 bears for the Center. Here is a link to some pictures from the event.

http://wallackandsmith.com/Gallery/2008_cccac_tbr

It's been very quiet since Friday at our house. Conner stayed with Monica and John Friday and Saturday night and then they met my mom and dad in Austin so Conner could go stay in Corpus for the week. All grandparents are enjoying their visits and have lots of fun stories to share. I know he's having fun and staying busy but I can't wait to hear him running around the house again, it sure has been strange.

Up, Up and Away

Today we went to a Halloween carnival at my gym and Conner was Superman! Conner will be staying with Granny B and Papa John next weekend and then Grandma and Grandpa Wilson's for the week so we decided to celebrate Halloween early. He was pretty scared when we got there and would not let go of Aaron. We took some time to sit and have some popcorn and cotton candy in the hopes that Conner would warm up to the carnival. Turns out Conner didn't like the looks of the cotton candy so Daddy stepped in to help out and ate it all. After some popcorn munching we decorated a pumpkin and played a few games. He didn't care to much for what was going on and it was a small carnival but I do have to say Conner was by far the best dressed!

After the carnival we went by Toys R Us to look at some things we are considering for Christmas and while there picked up a Hot Wheels ramp thing for him to play with. Conner wakes up and goes to bed saying "car" "truck" and doesn't play with anything else in his toy box. I just don't understand how some one can be so intrigued by cars and I'm wondering when the car obsession will end - oh yeah, he's a boy, so never. None the less I love watching Conner have fun playing and he played and played all day with his cars.

Red River Rivalry

If you don't know what the Red River Rivalry is then I'm guessing you're probably not from Texas. Texas hasn't had the best season and Aaron and I weren't sure if they were going to pull it off, but they did!

"Fifth-ranked Texas scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns and rallied for a 45-35 victory over top-ranked Oklahoma in a classic Red River Rivalry shootout at the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns overcame two 11-point deficits against the favored Sooners." - courtesy of the Dallas Morning News

State Fair Fun

We had a really fun time at the State Fair today. We didn't know if we'd make it since it was pouring rain when we woke this morning. The rain let up and we enjoyed a nice afternoon at the Fair. Conner saw lots of animals, touched a few, flew in a plane, ate some ice cream and of course a corny dog.

Anniversary Weekend

My friend Erin made a quick visit for work this weekend and we had the chance to visit Friday night. She enjoyed seeing Conner and he can now say "Erin" where as last time he was only able to say "E". She is about 20 months pregnant and this will probably be the last time we will see each other before the baby arrives. Aaron and I both think she's having a boy so we'll find out in a couple of weeks. Saturday she drove to Stacy's to spend the night so Aaron and I could have a anniversary celebration.

Aaron and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary at the W Hotel Saturday. The past Gala chair gave everyone gift cards to use for the spa, restaraunt and hotel last April. We checked in around 3 and headed to our massages at 4:30 then went to dinner at craft at 7:30. It was a very fancy place where we selected our dinner which included: buffalo tenderloin with blueberries, yukon gold puree, carmalized onion gruyere risotto and for dessert, chocolate terrine with banana fritters and hazelnut ice cream - yummy. After dinner we went to the very exclusive "ghost bar" on the 33rd floor that you can only go to if you are staying at the hotel or if you are "somebody". It has an amazing view of the city of Dallas - it has a neat little patio ledge you can go on and makes it feel like you are on top of the city. We hoped to see some famous people or at least maybe some Cowboy players, maybe if we had stayed past 10:30 but we had to turn it in early as we just don't have the stamina to stay out late like we have in the past.

Tommorrow is GISD Fair Day so I'm off work so we can go take in all the fair goodies. This will be Conner's first Corny Dog! If he truly shares the same DNA as me, then there's no doubt he'll need more than one.