Matthew Comer Agile Scrum Master Project Manager Unicorn from ATX Austin, Texas

Today Mommy took GMAC and Grace to meet Aunt B. and Cousin Cade at Barton Creek Square Mall to take pictures at Pictures People for EE's Birthday today. After that they all went to ride the North Pole Train several times and took some photos on Santa's lap.

Jenny took Grace to the Junior League Frosty the Snowman Luncheon at the Palmer Events Center on Friday with Aunt B. and Cade! Frosty is Grace's favorite person, book, song, TV show, everything right now. She runs around the house singing the theme song and repeating "Happy Birthday" as he does when we awakens in the cartoon. Grace will be having a Frosty themed Birthday party this year!!

Saturday and Sunday was mostly working around the house and doing little things gearing up for Daddy's 5 mandatory days off from work. Coinciding with Thanksgiving Holiday, this will be the longest time, even though not paid, that Daddy has been away from work in many years.

On Sunday, after Daddy returned from the lake we went bowling at Westgate Lanes for classmate Knox's Birthday! It was a great time by all of the many little kids. GMAC bowled all 10 frames, with an average of 3.5 mph. His slowest bowl was 1.7, wow, it almost stopped in front of the pins. Bust with the bumpers down it made the game much more enjoyable. Grace didn't fell much like bowling, but you could tell she was having fun with all of her classmates.

This weekend we took the kids to Touch a Truck at an elementary school on Highway 360. It was a surprise, GMAC and Grace didn't know what we had planned until we pulled up and saw all of the vehicles and of course, the firetruck!!

Touch a Truck is really neat. The children had full access to all types of cars that were put on display in the parking lot. Buses – school bus, party bus, city bus, VW bus, limo, taxi cab, army trucks, jeeps, Humvee, Hummer, police vehicles, fire department vehicles, ABIA mock airplane float, scissor lift, concrete mixer, trash truck, street sweeper, RV camper, ice cream truck, Hey Cupcake truck… Oh my, the only thing was that kids were honking the horn in these large vehicles, whew…

On Sunday we went down to San Antonio to see Mommy run a half marathon and hand off her baton to her teammate, Johnny. Mommy did really good running with her friends, doing 10 minute miles for her 8 mile portion. Afterwards, a concert was held, where Vince Neil of Motley Crue performed. This was the first rock and roll concert that GMAC and Grace have attended, they are now Crue heads!

We then went to a celebratory lunch at Restaurant La Hacienda de Los Barrios for Mexican food. A place where Jenny and I had gone with friends several years ago on New Years Eve. The food and puffy tacos were as good as we remembered. GMAC, Grace, and Uncle Tommy were on their best behavior.

Daddy and Uncle Cary left Saturday to go to NASCAR with GJ in Dallas/Ft. Worth. It was a big weekend for the guys!

Jenny stayed home with the kids. They went and spent the night Saturday night at Comerosa with EE, Aunt B., and Cade. And even all went to church together Sunday morning!

"Trick or Treat!!" The kids would mostly say, followed by "Thank you" to the hosts of their yummy candy!

Papaw Harry, Ellen, Goo Goo, Papa, Aunt B., Uncle Cary, Cousin Cade, and EE all assembled at the house for pictures and treats before we were off to terrorize the neighborhood. Joining other neighbors we went all the way to Nanny and Pop's, trick or treating the whole way! After visiting with Nanny and Pop, munching on candy, and staying up a little later than usual, we all made it home and got tucked in for the night. Except for Daddy, who stayed up and watched horror movies!

Friday night was Game 7 of the world series. We watched Game 6 the night of Boo Da Fest which was a great game, but the Rangers lost. Well they lost the series tonight, but it was still a good game to see.

Saturday we went to the Barton Creek Mall and took family photos at Picture People. We got some good shots of the kids out of them and look for them soon here =-). After some early Christmas shopping and a Food Court lunch at Chick-fil-A.

We all got dress up again, GMAC and Daddy both as Spider-Man!! Grace as Woody from Toy Story. And Jenny again as that sexy black kitty cat!! We went to Onion Creek for the 2nd Annual Halloween Party at Shona and Mike Nietzsche's. We had a great time, but GMAC was out of his costume within the first 15 minutes of the party, just running around in his underwear. Then we stopped by Cora Lee's for a quick trick or treat!

Daddy and some friends went to a concert featuring Anthrax and other bands, dressing up in wigs as rockers and having a great night!

After a lazy Sunday, we joined the families on the top of Redleaf Lane, at the Ball's with the Kimmel's to carve pumpkins. All of the pumpkins looked amazing! And Jenny did such a great job on our tall pumpkin, making the man in the moon!

Boo-Da Halloween – October 27, 2011 – Downtown Buda

Downtown Buda serves as a safe and fun opportunity for children to trick-or-treat for Halloween and includes Halloween stories, crafts, games and more Halloween fun at the Buda Public Library and at all of the shops. We took GMAC and Grace and joined Aunt B, Cade, Harry, Cary Ann, and EE to our first ever Boo-Da Halloween in downtown Buda, Texas.

GMAC dressed up a fireman, of course!! Grace dressed up as a "meow-meow' kitty cat! Jenny dressed up as a sexy black cat! And Daddy donned the an oldie but goodie costume, an air fan inflated big person suit! Cade was wearing a little skeleton costume, to me he looked like the guys in the Karate Kid, ha! It was a great time and we must do this again next year as our new tradition rather than going to the Hill Country Galleria.

EE and GP watched GMAC and Grace on Friday night so Jenny and I could prepare and setup for the big birthday party on Saturday. They were to watch Cade on Saturday, so GMAC and Grace joined them again that night.

This allowed Jenny and I to attend a Texas Book Festival Literary Pub Crawl. First we went to the Texas State Cemetery for a 'midnight' tour at 8:00. Armed with a flashlight we joined the mob through the moon lit tour of famous Texans. Following the tour, we went to the Scoot Inn to see Fight Club author, Chuck Palhunick, read from a story and bombard the crowd with his antics. We ran into some friends afterwards and went to East Side Pies for some very delicious pizza pie! This is the second time this week that I have been to East Side Pies, as James and I discovered it on Monday on our way to the Erwin Center for a Fire Relief Benefit concert for the families in Bastrop who lost everything in the fires a few weeks ago.

Sunday morning, we attended the early services at church, then went to Comerosa to pick up GMAC and Grace. Then we all went to the Yarosh's to visit Harry's Garden, one of the best little garden's and green thumbs that I have seen in the area. Papaw let the kids pick lot's of pumpkins to take home. Even a green one on GMAC's insistence. It was a great day and we are all looking forward to Halloween.