Deer Season 2010

*Warning- This post contains pictures of dead animals.  If you do not like to see those kinds of images skip this post and go on to the next one!!



The Prewetts had a successful deer season this year (at least the ones with hunting licenses did)!  Trevor and Ruby have gone to his dad's lease in Cuero almost every weekend the past two months.  I've joined them a few times, but I am definitely not as hard core as those two!   Trevor has enjoyed taking my camera in the blind with him to be able to take pictures of the deer he saw each weekend and get a feel for the deer that were out there.

Finally last weekend he saw a deer that he hadn't seen yet and decided to pull the trigger.  Looks like we will be able to eat again this year :)

We went back again this past weekend with Trevor's dad, Logan, and Bethany.  We were talking Friday night about how this would be the last chance we all got to get something this year before deer season ended.  We ended up all getting something!

Here's the deer I shot... with my camera :).

Logan with his deer:

And Bethany with hers:

Logan, Bill, and Bethany with their deer Sunday morning.

Love this shot of the Prewett men!

It was a great season, we had a great time hanging out with everyone at the lease.  However, Ruby is looking forward to dove season which is a little more hands on for dogs :)

Ainslee's 3rd Birthday Party

Back in February I made Cara a rainbow birthday cake for birthday.  If you missed it you can check it out here.  Well, thats when she recruited me to make Ainslee's birthday cake for her 3rd birthday in December!  I decided to kick it up a notch and make cupcakes also, and make a few decorations for the party.  I made Cara choose a theme for the party pretty early in November to give me enough time to work on everything :)  She decided to go with black and white polka dots with hot pink accents.  My first project was this happy birthday banner which can be reused every year on her birthday.

I also made a few of these tissue paper pom poms and found balloons to match too.

Ainslee requested chocolate cupcakes.

And I wanted to make a white cake with colorful layers.

 So I made both! And we had tons of leftovers! 

Sticking with tradition Ainslee did not enjoy everyone singing happy birthday to her :)

 But she quickly cheered up and enjoyed eating her cupcake... with a fork because she hates to get messy.

However, I don't think her bff Cameron minded :)

Here's a shot of the inside of the cake.

 It was so funny to watch Ainslee open her presents, she is finally at the age where she gets really excited about opening gifts.  Here she is with her gift from Aunt Yo and Uncle Trevor.  I'm pretty sure she liked it, apparently she woke her parents up the next morning at 7:45 asking to play the ladybug game :) Your welcome.

I can't believe she is already 3 years old!

Love you party girl!

 

I Heart Faces {photo contest} Pets

The theme this week for I heart faces is pets, so here is one of my favorite pictures of Ruby.  I can't believe she is going to be one on Christmas eve!  She is just growing up too fast.

Go check out more pet photos at I heart faces by clicking on their logo above!

O Christmas Tree

We went and got our Christmas tree on the first Sunday of Advent.  We came in from spending Thanksgiving in Kerrville that afternoon, unloaded the car, and then headed to Home Depot to pick out our tree.  We got there just as they were closing, but they let us in to quickly find a tree.  In keeping with tradition we picked out a noble fur.  We loaded up the tree and picked up a pizza on the way home to eat while we set up the tree.  We set it up and got it all decorated in record time this year.  I put on my fireplace blue ray that has the image of a crackling fire and plays Christmas music as we decorated the house for Christmas.  Unfortunately it was a little too hot for hot chocolate this year :(

Ruby thinks we have lost our minds because we brought a real tree inside the living room and put lights on it and hung all of these round sparkly balls on the branches.   And her mom keeps getting this roll of paper and covering boxes with it and then tying them up with ribbon.  Then she puts them under the tree and expects her not to eat them.  She is very confused by it all!  She keeps gently taking the ornaments off the tree with her mouth and bringing them to us, its like a never ending game of fetch.

Speaking of Ruby, look how cute she looks wearing her new Christmas trapper hat sitting by the tree.  Notice there aren't too many ornaments left at the bottom of the tree :)

 

Thanksgiving 10

We spent Thanksgiving in Kerrville with my parents this year.  It is my sister's families first Thanksgiving in their new house so they had everyone over for the big Thanksgiving meal.

Ainslee loved having all of her grandparents, her great-grandparents, and her aunt and uncle all together over at her house. We didn't get a picture of the whole group, but we managed to get one after Jason's parents left.  Pictured are: Memaw and Putt (my mom's parents), my parents, Cara, Jason, Ainslee and Hattie, and Trevor and I.

It was fun to be able to spend some quality time with the nieces, we hadn't seen them in a while and they are both changing so much!  Ainslee is talking in full sentences now, actually run-ons most of the time.  You can't shut the kid up! She is so busy all the time, making up games and trying to convince someone to play them with her.  I love that she is not shy at all around us.  She will just run up and jump on her uncle Trevor or try to climb on his shoulders if he is sitting down.  She also thought it was funny to surprise me with kisses :)  Hattie is not a newborn anymore, she is all baby.  She will smile at anyone that makes eye contact with her.  She is also starting to laugh... but those are reserved for Mommy (although I swear I managed to make her laugh even if I was the only one to hear it!).  She is a very easy going baby, very content.  We only heard her cry a handful of times and each time she was easily made happy with a clean diaper or milk :)

Someone got a little too messy with their Thanksgiving dinner and had to have a bath after we ate.

And another little someone got jealous of all the pictures I was taking of her sister so she decided to strike her own pose for the camera. ha!

After we recovered from our turkey comas we got dressed in our finest maroon and white and went to Jason's parents house to cheer on the Aggies as they beat t.u.!. 

We spent the rest of the weekend pretty much shopping and eating.  My dad was working at Fredricksburg Trade Days all weekend so we went out there to do a little Christmas shopping and see him.  And of course I took more pictures of these cuties :)

We had a fun weekend in Kerrville with the family, and then topped off the weekend by coming home and getting our Christmas tree and decorating the house for Chirstmas! Pictures coming soon!

Charlie is here!

Austin and Kylie welcomed thier little bundle of joy, Charles Austin Adamson, into the world on Nov. 1st!  And he is the cutest little thing ever :)  Definitly the most handsome little man in Corpus!  Trevor and I went up to the hospital to see him when he was just under 24 hrs. old and he was a spitting image of his daddy.

I finally got a chance to take Kylie lunch today and see the little man again.  They are all settled at home now and doing so well.  He is such a good baby and Kylie looks like she never even had a baby!  I brought my camera along hoping to get a few shot of our newest little model.  (He better get used to the camera in his face :) )  He slept most of the time I was there...

but he finally woke up a little right before I left so I got to get a few pictures with his eyes open!

He has little forehead wrinkles just like his daddy :)

Precious little feet

Getting burped

Sitting on Mommy's lap

And he loves his Aunt Lauren and Aunt Johnna, which is good because he is going to be spending a lot of time with us for the next 18 years :)  We think he is pretty cool too :)

 

Desk Makeover

When Trevor and I got married and combined all of our stuff and ended up with a crazy mix of furniture, including two ugly desks.  The desk I brought into the marriage was a particle board beat up desk that my parents picked up for free from someone's garage, but I loved it :)  Trevor quickly made me trash that desk. However, his ikea desk wasn't much better, and it was in storage in Houston.  Our apartment had a built in desk so we didn't have a need for one while we were in Austin.

Once we moved into our house we brought his desk out of storage and set it up in the office.

It has remained there for the past year.  But I have always hated how it it blocks the front window.  We had been talking for a while about getting a new desk and where we would put it.  One day Trevor texted me out of the blue and said that he remembered an old desk his parents had that he thought might be in storage now.   He asked his parents about it and they said it was in storage out at the ranch and that we were welcome to take it!  So on our last trip to the ranch we picked it up and put it in our garage until we could work on it.

It was light wood which wouldn't really work with the rest of our furniture, so I wanted to either paint it white or stain it darker.  We decided to put it in the living room since it is smaller and so I figured we had enough white furniture in there already so we should stain it darker.

Here is the desk before:

We got to work sanding it down, prepping it for the stain.

Then someone came by wanting to help.

So we put her to work.

And here is the final product:

We were high for about a week after we brought it inside from all the fumes, but we love it!