It's been a while.....

What can I say, we've been busy the last few months with school and with swim practice daily and now meets on Saturday, baseball practice and basketball practice with games on the weekend and Boy Scouts on Tuesdays. Here are some photos to catch you up to speed. (Plus some of my flowers from the garden.)

Meet Slow Poke Slimey

This past Sunday, the whole family went to William Pond Park. Shasta was in heaven. She got to fetch tennis balls out of the river until she finally couldn't keep up with the current and had to head back to shore and let the tennis ball float away. The boys got to catch and release tadpoles for several hours. Some parts of the water looked black with all the tiny tadpoles.

Aron discovered a shallow pond area where there were some that were 4 inches long. He showed off for the kids and I by catching one of them with his bare hands. All that practice catching turtles in Houston paid off. Now if we ever get lost he can catch our dinner for us. The kids named the giant beast of a tadpole "Slow Poke Slimey".

Here's what the boys caught.

Breaking News

It was a tough morning at our house....the boys were fighting. Jacob was sent to the kitchen and Jackson to his room until everyone was in a good mood. A little later......

Aron enters the boys room to find Jackson packing his suitecase.

"What are you doing?"
"Packing" (there's a grrr in his voice)
"What city are you going to?"
"I'm not going to a city, I'm going to a state."
" What state?"
" Portland"
" Uh, that's a city"
" No, it's not"
"Well, make sure you pack up everything. It all has to go with you....Hey, Jacob now you have your own room."

Mustang Basketball

This is Jacob's first year playing basketball. He's great at it, and I think he really enjoys it. He made two baskets last weekend. It's no longer a chore for him to go outside - he can go shoot some hoops which is a win-win for both of us. I just really enjoy seeing him out there trying so hard.

Day in the Snow

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Is he tanning?

Just another weekend gone by

Gobble, gobble, gobble. With all the rain and turkeys roaming around the neighborhood, I thought it was November.

Apparently, spring has not sprung at our house, turkeys in the front yard and snowmen pancakes for dinner. This was Jacob's idea, with some tweaking form mom, to make Aron a snowman pancake for dinner. The rest of us just got plain old pancakes with apples. Other than that things are the going as usual. We signed the boys up for swim team again this year. The kids are about to started baseball for Jackson and basketball for Jacob. Busy, busy.

Jackson's First "Girlfriend"

Meet Calina, Jackson's bestest friend in the whole world. They've been inseparable since last year and plan on getting married because they like the same games and books. Calina was just switched to another class so the two rarely see each other now except for sometimes at lunch. They were both heartbroken but have managed to continue on. She's really a sweet girl and the two together are funny. When I picked the kids up from school Friday, it was pouring rain and Jackson made sure he had his umbrella open to shield his woman and himself from the rain as they walked to the car. I'm not sure where he gets this from since Aron has never, well maybe, no definitely never done anything like that for me. I'm lucky if he opens doors for me (usually he just walks in ahead of me and I have scoot in quickly so the door doesn't hit me).