Spring for Sports

Spring time is a busy time for us. With school, and science fair, and soccer, and T-ball, and soccer, and Scouts, and everything else... we're running almost every night now it seems. But the kids are having a blast, each doing their own thing. Here are just a few photos of the craziness...

I tried explaining to the swimming school that "Noland" is not a real name... but they still can't spell it right. Maybe that's a swimming name??

Goggles on. Ready for action. Dive! Dive!

Root, root for the home team... for this kid from Southern Maryland.

The Blue Lightning are back and ready to kick their way to the championship.

Got some color and played a little laser tag.

Set Sail!

And then there's just Nolan... always ready with a sharp smile!

You're Dog-gone right

We got a new puppy a couple of months ago. Just what we needed. I guess. So far he's a pretty chill dog and the kids love him - and thankfully he seems to love them as well. He's some kind of Australian Cattle Dog cross that they had at the pound and he prefers to go by the name Dexter. This is him:

Yep, looks like a puppy.

And we've still got Farrah... Dexter is fond of his big sister.

But she's still not as fond of the kids. Here she's contemplating throwing herself off the playset... having to play with kids like a normal dog is hard.

Why me? If I had just been born a cat I wouldn't have to deal with this...

Now he's hugging me again... I can't take this. Please, someone send help.

Kids and dogs and chaos... that's life anymore!

Went to the Zoo... a while ago...

We went up to San Antonio (quite a while ago) to go to the zoo, but I've really fallen behind on updating the blog with photos. The kids had been here before, but it was incredibly hot the last time, so the winter time is definitely the best time to do just about anything in Texas. It was definitely a really nice zoo, and having our aquarium pass cut the cost in half, so you can't beat that. We checked out the rhinos, the elephants, the giraffes, the monkeys, the snakes, and everything else you'd expect in a zoo. Fun fact - almost all flamingos in captivity in the United States are hatched right here! And flamingos aren't even from Texas. *The More You Know... Of course, neither are any of these three boys, but the Lone Star State isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's prefect weather like it is now!

This is how far behind I am... here's a picture of Adam dressed as an Indian for Thanksgiving.

And we had another family camp out for scouts. Great times!

It's the Holiday Season!

Happy Holidays from Texas! We don't have any snow and we don't even have any cold. It was in the 80's today... I know, it doesn't much feel like Christmas. But we're in the holiday spirit and the boys are ready for Christmas! Here's hoping everyone out there has a great holiday and a Happy New Year!!

Tricking and Treating 2015

Another year, another Halloween, another sugar high on candy! The boys had a great Halloween, though it was pretty quiet on our street. They got to go around the neighborhood with friends and got more candy than they needed (as usual). Plus we carved pumpkins, decorated the house, and got dressed up obviously. Here are the highlights:

Carving them up...

 The Clone Trooper...

 

The Zombie Football Player

And the Cleveland Brown

And even the Grandmother from Montana got to hang out for the fun again!

Fall-ing Behind Again...

We haven't been doing the best at keeping up with Blog posts, but I guess that happens when you're bogged down with T-Ball, Soccer, Scouts, school, homework, work, and whatnot and whatever. We have been enjoying the fall around here, and now that it's late November it's actually starting to cool down. Here's a few photos from back in October when it was still hot as all get out: 

Chewbacca PJ's... gotta love it.

Overlooking Lake Corpus Christi

That'd be him...

And that's pretty much the easiest way to raise boys... little bit of Duct Tape goes a long way.