First Meet of the Season....

Hello all, long time no blog....fall is always crazy for the Fab four and they keep me running! We are well in to the swing of school and for the first time ever...all four are in all day school! They are all loving it and doing great! Fall sports have kicked off their seasons as well. Scott is playing flag football again this year....weren't sure we were ready for tackle...and Holley's competitive season has started as well. Today was her first meet competing for her new gym. She did great and even finished with a first place finish on Balance Beam! Way to go Holley! Bars was STILL a major struggle. Scott's team (The Vikings) won their first game as well. He was chosen the MVP of the game after pulling several flags and disrupting numerous plays (of the other teams). Way to go Scotty! Macie is still tooting her flute and has region tryouts in November and is working hard on her music. Allie is still doing gymnastics but I decided to hold off on letting her be on the competitive team, mostly because the practices are on opposite days than Holley's and it meant being there 6 days a week. It's a long drive from Boerne into SA for practice. It just didn't work for us this year. She is still taking gymnastics though....maybe next year!

Wreck 'em Tech! Beat those Longhorns!! Wish I wasn't working tomorrow so I could see the first half!!!


update: big bummer, next year!

More Colorado Fun.....

Hello all....continuing the Colorado saga.....the last day we were in Crested Butte, we spent the day at the bottom of the ski mountain. The weather was bad in the morning so we did not ride the ski lifts and hike back down which had been the original plan. Instead, we played.....they had an ice rink (which was weird because it was not ice...it was a hard, smooth plastic surface), rock wall climbing and a bungee trampoline. The fab Four had a BLAST!!! Enjoy the pictures of ice skating. I put a few video clips at the end.....you had to be there in person to get the full effect of these warm weather Texans on ice skates for the first time! It was truly hilarious, I mean, tears rolling from laughing so hard, hilarious!

Allie getting ready to head on to the rink...

Allie thinking, "Mom, I thought you said this would be fun?"

Holley having fun....she was pretty good! She better stick with gymnastics though!

A hilarious moment.....

Macie did pretty well too!

She only fell a few (Ha!) times......

Having a ton of fun!

Scott spent alot of time in this particular position! (Ha!)

He did manage to stand up some....good job , son!

Macie showing off her skating skills.....

Allie learns to adapt....

The Fab Four off to the races.....

Next post.....rock climbing....stay tuned....Love, S

Two Weeks down.....

Two weeks of school are now officially DONE!! Yeah! We are off to a great start! The kids all seem to really like their teachers and their classes....whew....

And....I know that it is sooo sad that I am just now getting around to posting more pictures from our Colorado trip this summer! But....alas....I am just one tired Mama and there are not enough hours in the day some days! But here goes.....after the longest car ride in history.....leaving the house (Allie and Me) at 745 am....we arrived in Texline around 2am Sunday and stayed the (rest of) the night with Nana and Grandpa. We headed out on the rest of the way to Colorado around 11am. What a nightmare that drive was! It took us almost 4 hours to travel about 50 miles on the highway we needed to travel on in Colorado due to major road construction and later a truck that had been totally engulfed in flames and burned to the ground. Ugh! When we arrived in a small town (can't remember the name now.....oops) about an hour from Crested Butte...We stopped at Walmart because Holley had a headache and Allie was starting to complain of a runny nose. I bought a ton of medicine and decided to throw a thermometer in the mix "just in case". We got to the car and I decided to take Allie's temp because she was a bit "whiny"...and she was running 102! So I pumped her and Holley full of meds and we continued on our way. We arrived at the house around 9pm!!! Wow!! SUPER LONG DAY!! The rest of the family was there and dinner was just coming off the grill courtesy of my brother-in-law, John. It was sure yummy! But that was no surprise! He makes the yummiest meals all the time! The next day we headed out and got our fishing licenses for the week and we went to the Spring Creek Reservoir to fish.....Holley caught the very first fish of the trip!!!

Holley fishing!

Poppy and Rachel (my precious niece!) If you look closely you will see Macie in the blue in the background standing with my sister MA...she did not particularly like fishing so I did not get any pics of her actually fishing.

Aunt Perry taught Holley and Allie proper fly fishing techniques!

Perry teaching Holley to cast....

Poppy put together every rod and reel....

Scott fishing....

Scott and my nephew Stephen....Scott loved having another boy around!

The next day, the boys...errr...men....headed out for the boys trip leaving the girls to do what we do best....shop and have a night on the town. We went to a yummy pizza place in Crested Butte (shhhh.....don't tell my trainer!) and then we had ice cream!!! We did go fishing again every day too. On the last day we went to the base of Mt. Crested Butte and had a blast watching the kids rock climb, ice skate and jump on the bungee trampoline....more pics to come .....Stay tuned, S