October At-A-Glance

October came in with a whimper (Aggies lose to Arkansas) and out with a BANG (Halloween!). As I decorated my house for the fall and for Halloween, we watched the Aggies squander another first half lead. UGH, is all I can say. Luckily, the Aggies were back to their winning ways by beating Tech in Lubbock and Baylor at home. (Wish I could say that about the rest of the games.)

Back in SL, we were busy with our own little football star as Jackson’s flag football team played on Sunday afternoons. He has really enjoyed playing this year. He got several tackles as a rusher and even made a completed pass for a touchdown as the quarterback this past weekend. We can’t be more proud.

We also attended a family wedding this month. Congratulations again Alison and Jason! It’s always fun to see our cousins and aunts and uncles that we don’t get to see all that often. We’re all looking forward to our family Christmas in December.

October at St. Laurence means the Church Bazaar. Luckily, we were only attendees this year. Kenny has been a Bazaar chairperson the past three years and has worked his tail off prior to and during the Bazaar. This year, we had the Baylor game on Saturday and Jackson had a football game Sunday afternoon, so we were able to attend the Bazaar Sunday morning for a little while. We rode some rides, played some games and had lunch there. Then it was on to the flag football game.

The fall also means “spring cleaning” at our house. And I teamed up with my sister, sister in law and mom to have a garage sale in EC. We made a good bit of money. Money I get to spend in Canton! WOOHOO!!!

After the garage sale, we made our way to Victoria to Candace and Shelby’s baby shower. They are so cute and so excited to be parents. It was great to see the other Priesmeyers. Here’s Jackson with his cousin Justin. The shower was in a barn turned trophy room. Needless to say Jordan was terrified the first hour we were there, but eventually got used to the animals. Jackson loved it, and even got to tame a bear.

And as I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been slammed at work. Luckily our deadline was postponed a bit (which is never good in the world of IT), but I’ve still got my head down and elbows up trying to get everything completed by the new deadline.

Kenny has been busy too. He had several successful projects go out the past few months. Owning your own business is a lot of work, but it’s very rewarding. He’s doing great and the business is growing. I’m so, so proud!

October ended the way it began in terms of Aggie football. The Aggies gave up another halftime lead to the Missouri Tigers to lose in Overtime. What a disappointment. UGH, again.

Halloween was great. Jordan and Kenny started the day on a field trip with Jordan’s school to Dewberry Farm. She was soooo excited! And Jackson was jealous of course. Then they both had Halloween parties in the afternoon. We went trick-or-treating with one of Jackson’s best buddies and his family. We had burgers and candy… LOTS OF CANDY!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Just a quick picture of the kiddos prior to trick-or-treating last night.

Eat More Chicken... on Halloween!

Wow! What a busy weekend. Saturday was spent in College Station where we tailgated and watched the Aggies beat Tech. I was nervous about the game, but happy we came out with a win. While we were tailgating, the Chick-fil-A folks came around and brought chicken sandwiches. A few minutes later, the Chick-fil-A cow came by so we just had to have a picture with him! Wait, it's a cow, so I guess it's a girl, right??? The baseball team was recognized for winning the Big 12 Tournament last year also. Way to go Brandon!

Sunday was a busy day too. Jackson had his last flag football game of the season. His team lost, but he showed lots of improvement. For his first season, I think he did great. I forgot my camera in the car, so no pics of him hiking the ball. Thanks to everyone that came and watched. I know Jackson felt special.

After the game, we rested a little then got dressed for Trick-or-Treating!

We went over to Aunt Carla's to go with Emmanouel, Nick, Kathryn and Julia. This is the only picture I have of Jackson because he was running to keep up with the big boys.


Jordan and Julia stayed together. They were a good pair.

What a fun night!

A Preview...

Just wanted to share a little Halloween preview. Today was the Halloween parade at Jordan's school. Jackson was out today for parent/teacher conferences, so he was able to join in too. All the kids were sooo cute!!! But I must say, we had the cutest Batgirl and BumbleBee for sure!

Before the parade. Batgirl cooking lunch. Ha!


The parade... The kids loved it!




Julia was in the parade too. How cute is that Minnie costume?!?!!?

This was the fun before the kids got all sugared up at the party in the afternoon! All the kids were so cute in their costumes.

Our Other Jacks...

Kenny carved our jack-o-lanterns tonight just in time for Halloween. He and Jackson went online and found some patterns. Jordan chose Minnie and Jackson chose the Autobot symbol. Good thing our Dremel tool does most of the work!

I also roasted the pumpkin seeds. They are really yummy! Way better than the ones I did last year.

Pumpkin Patch

While I spent a much-needed day with my girlfriends, Kenny took the kids to the Pumpkin Patch in EC. They picked up my nephew Reed on the way. This is always such a fun event for the kids. There's lots to do, and we really look forward to it every year.

They get their faces painted...


And jumped in the bounce house.


I think Jack would've stayed here all day.


The kids had another great time at the Pumpkin Patch!

Trick or Treat

The kids had a great Halloween weekend. It started on Friday with the costume parade at school. Jordan was Sleeping Beauty, but all she called herself was the Pink Princess. She could really care less exactly which princess she was, she just wanted to be pink! Jackson was the leader of the Transformers, Optimus Prime.

The students paraded up the sidewalk to the neighboring businesses and got candy. It was the first time Kenny and I were able to see the parade. There were more parent there than I thought. Good thing because we had a few "runaways" from time to time.

Here's Jordan leading her class out of the door.


Jackson's class was at the end since they're the "big kids".


I tried to get a good picture of them together, but there was too much going on, so somebody was always distracted.


And of course they weren't supposed to eat the candy they got, but Jordan tore right into her lollipop!


Halloween morning, we woke up early and headed to College Station for the A&M vs. Iowa State game. The Aggies won, so we were in a great mood to Trick-or-Treat in Shari's neighborhood.

Here are the Princess and Optimus Prime.

We pulled out the props for the princess for Trick or Treating. And she insisted on carrying her wand and wearing her crown the entire time.




They had a great time, but were ready to get back home after a while. It was a lot of walking.


A big thanks to Shari and Ashley for helping us wrangle the kids! Hope you had as good a time as we did!!!