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Spooky date

Saturday night Mikey and I went out with one of his co-workers and his wife. They drove here from Laredo which is about two hours away from us. The guys bought tickets to a haunted house here in San Antonio weeks ago. I am such a chicken, so when Mikey first told me he bought the tickets I was so mad at him. The haunted house is called 13th floor, they have one back home in Colorado (Denver), I've heard back home it's so scary and if you finish all the floors you get your money back. Not sure if that is true but that alone had me scared to go to the 13th floor here. All day I was nervous, anxiously waiting for my mother to get to my house so we could leave.

We left the house at 6:30, because Pit Bull and Enrique Iglesias had a concert that same night and so we knew parking was going to be hard to find downtown. Which it was. Our tickets for the haunted house weren't until 8. So I am glad we left super early. Once we met up with Danny and his wife Rosie at their hotel downtown we started walking to the haunted house. As we got there you could hear people screaming from the inside and I'm pretty sure that scared me even more than I already was. I should probably add that this was my first haunted house and getting chase by monsters and creepy costumes is not my idea of a good time. In fact, I was almost positive I was going to have a nightmare that night. Haha! And so off we walked to the front of the line, I guess its a good thing we had reservations because if we had to stand in line I can almost guarantee I would have walked away. It was so hot once we got inside, within minutes we were all sweating like crazy. It was in a warehouse like building. As soon as we walked inside I felt like I was in a scene from Freddie Krueger. And that scared the shit out of me. My nerves built up the entire time until it was our time to go. My poor husband!! I'm pretty sure his hand is fractured in multiple areas. I have never been so scared in my life. As we waiting for our time to go all I could think about is knowing in about 30 minutes or so we would be out of here and off to dinner. Let me tell you, those minutes dragged and every minute felt like 5.

When you first walk in there is a video playing that you start to watch of course you are so scared by what's happening you forget you're in a haunted house. And then of course you start being chased and it's so dark inside you don't really know which direction to run. Once you make your way inside there is then a slide you have to go down and that totally freaked me out. This entire time I felt like I was in a horror movie. I repeatedly told Mikey NEVER AGAIN and I even threw in a bunch of I hate you's of course I didn't really mean, although I'm pretty sure I might have meant one or two.

There was a group of girls about 6 or 7 and thank goodness for them. They must have been just about as scared as I was because they sure did a whole lot of screaming. :) They screamed so much I knew when something scary was going to happen. And even knowing something scary was about to happen, I screamed just as loud as they did. I was terrified.

Geez, those costumes look so real. Every 'check point' we came to the workers would mention before we took off "please do not touch the monsters". I don't know about you, but being chased by monsters, I am not going to want to stop and touch them. I wanted to punch and kick them away from me. Haha

So after almost peeing on myself and 30 minutes of torture later we are finally almost out of this haunted house. I'd have to say my least favorite part (and scariest) was definitely being chased with a chain saw. Although there were so many scary parts it's hard to choose from, I was SO glad to be out of there!!

After the haunted house we had a little time to kill before part two of our date. So we walked downtown on the river walk (here in San Antone) and stopped to catch a bite at one of my favorite restaurants on the river walk. Rita's!! Let me just say, if you are EVER in the area or even live here and have not been, GO.NOW. Their margaritas are my favorite. But, make sure you get a big one! They are the best and it will leave you feeling gooood. ;)

Seriously, just after one of those bad boys you are feelin' it.

Look at how huge they are. I usually only have one, some times two.

So after some good Mexican food and cutting it pretty close (15 minutes) to our haunted carriage ride tour we were off to walk the Alamo. The good thing about living in San Antonio is there is so much to do and so much history.

A plus about double dating is there is always someone to take pictures of you ;)

This was actually our second tour. We went on our anniversary back in February but it wasn't a  haunted tour. They are so fun and it's so nice to tour downtown riding in a carriage. I wrote a lot of the information down so maybe we will have a spooky date part two and walk by all the haunted places we saw.

I had such a good time, mini heart attacks and all. By the end of the night my throat was so sore from all the screaming in the haunted house. We didn't get home until about 1:30 in the morning, only leaving us to get a couple of hours of sleep because of course both kiddos wake up early. But we had so much fun. Date nights are the best and it's such a plus that grandma only lives 15 minutes away. :)

Going to the Zoo

I can not believe it's almost the middle of October(late post). I feel like just a couple weeks ago it was January. Time flies when you're having fun. This weekend my mother in law was in town and the weather was so nice. We did get a little rain Saturday morning but it didn't stop us from leaving the house. I feel like every time she comes to visit we have her locked inside. It was nice to finally take her to do something with the kiddos. Giuliana and Jaxon are at such a fun age right now, Jaxon is just started walk in public (finally). For the longest time when Mikey or I would try and put him down to walk he would automatically start to cry. And as soon as you buckle him back in the stroller he was fine and all smiles again. Go figure, that's my cry baby!!

We had so much fun. Giuliana and Jaxon were all smiles. You could definitely tell that they both were just having so much fun with grandma. Giuliana has been obsessed with animals for the longest time and basically named every animal that we walked by. So proud of my smart girl. The weather was so nice and since it rained earlier this morning the zoo was so uncrowded. It was such a good day to be there. It took us a good 2 hours to walk the entire zoo. As you can see we took so many pictures, my kids are getting so big!! 

 She is the best big sister EVER.

I know, I know, so many pictures, but they are just too cute to leave out. I can't get over how adorable Jaxon looks on that lion. He lasted a good to rounds before he started crying. It actually surprised me how long it took him before he started crying. Regardless, he still looked adorable. After we left the Zoo we went to one of my favorite little Mexican restaurants by the house. They always satisfy my Mexican cravings!! I always get the same thing every time we eat or pick up from there. 

P.S. Halloween is less than two weeks away!! 

Jaxon at 1 1/2

H: W: Shoe size:7/8 Diapers: 5 Tops: 24 mos/2T Bottoms: 18/24 months

New words: no, go now, let's go, good job 

Favorite snacks/food: fruit snacks, pop corn, gold fish, chili, eggs.

You are the sweetest boy I've ever met.

Although he is not much of a talker, you sure are trying. I always say Jaxon will skip saying little words and start talking complete sentences. ( just liked he skipped baby steps, he went straight to walking and running.) Every time we talk to him, he always rambles and tries to say something back. I can't wait to hear his little voice. Jaxon is becoming quite the dancer, he loves to dance with Giuliana and follows her everywhere. It's so funny how she thinks she is the boss around here and will try to get after you. You are also starting to repeat a lot of the words she tells you. And it's hilarious to hear you tell her "NO" when she tells you something.

You are such a daddy's boy. And you love being outside with him while he works on his truck. You are all about messing with his tools and touching his tires. Speaking of tires you're still obsessed with tires (strollers tires, monster trucks, trains, and your CAT toys). Anything with a tire you love it. Which reminds me the other day we were at the mall you ran to go touch another stroller tire. Silly boy:)

You love being outside.

And you will finally walk when we are in public. Before you would scream and cry until you got buckled back in the stroller. I can't believe how big you are getting.

Bed time is 7:45/8 and he will usually wake up wound 7:45/8