Kindergarten Fun

Jack continues to have such a great year in Kinder. He loves is teacher and is making some great friends. I got to help his class make vases for Valentines Days, Jack gave his first book report for his class and today the school celebrated the 100th day of school!

Competition Season Begins

Dance fever is in the air... after a weeks of extra weekend practices and a week of extra nightly practices, the Majestics Petite Novelty team is ready for their first competition.  This Saturday morning at 5 am Katie and I will be picking up a teammate and her mom and heading for Magnolia High School!  Katie is so excited, she told the boys tonight she would be going to be earlier than them Friday night.  The girls have been working so hard on this dance and the moms have been working hard on the props... lots of pictures to come!  First preview, I did Katie's hair for a practice run and it was deemed the official hair for the competition...

Personalized Desktop Plaque (5x7)

Halloween in December!

A big huge thank you to our friend Szalan for dropping off Zane's old costumes.  It was a big sack of fun for today and probably for the rest of the year.  Luke has just discovered Mario & Luigi and could not have been more excited to uncover the Mario hat and we have now added Superman to our super hero dress up collection.  My favorite by far was the Bullseye costume... Oh how I wish we still had our Woody & Buzz to go with them!

Fall Soccer

Well Andy took on one of his toughest challenges yet... he coached the boys back to back soccer teams for the fall season!  He had one team of budding new 3 year old players who lets face it were more interested in smiling for pictures and picking flowers than running after the ball!  Then there was the 4-5 year-old's who were just learning about how it feels to win and were very excited and enthusiastic about scoring goals.  Coach Andy had a great time and on our first free Saturday morning with no soccer was a little sad... Winter ball starts in January.. here we come!

 

Luke was very proud to receive his own trophy to put next to his brothers from the Spring season, we might need to get an extra bookshelf for all of these, I think this will be the first of many!

Better Late Than Never!

Well it has been about 18 months since my last post, I hope to go back in and fill in some gaps, but for now we will just live in the present!

We had a fantastic Thanksgiving Break.  For the first year, Katie had the entire week off from school and she loved every minute of it.  On Monday we caught up with the Ferrara Family and used up some energy at Stomping Grounds, then unfortunately on Tuesday it was apparent that Jack was once again sick for the holiday!  Apart from cancelling one night at The Great Wolf Lodge in Dallas we pushed ahead with our plans and headed for Mansfield Wednesday morning.  We had a great time with a combination of lounging around in pjs & running like monkeys playing soccer on the golf course!

The kids were very excited to help set the table for our Thanksgiving Dinner and were even more excited to see macaroni & cheese as a side item!  Each one of them took a turn to say their favorite blessing and everyone took their turn saying what they were thankful for.  I was thankful that none of the kids were thankful for our Wii game and that most of their thankfulness was centered around our family!

Katie's 8th Birthday Party

Happy Birthday sweet Katie Grace!  She wanted an ice skating party and that is what she got.  What we didn't realize when we booked the party that we would be doing three private skating lessons to get her ready, but they paid off.  She had a great time and was very confident on the ice!

 

The best present Katie could have gotten was that her friend Sidney came to the party, she misses her 1st grade friend a lot and was so happy to have her there!

All the girls had a great time and looked adorable in their matching scarfs!