Halloween 2009

Hello all....yes, we are still alive and well. I have been terrible about posting in a timely fashion. These pics are only several weeks late. So sorry....we are at the tail and of flag football season at the moment and Holley's gymnastics season has now ended so a little more time will open up now. I just hope I can tear myself away from my farm in Farmville and Farmtown long enough to post pics of our lives...lol. Seriously, whoever invented facebook should be hung...I'm a total addict, wasting way too much time on it!! Yet I can't seem to stay away from my farms and fish! Good grief! Anyway... these pictures are from Halloween. Macie spent the evening with friends. I guess the days of dressing up and hanging out with your younger siblings and family are over...but we had Sarah (Holley's bud and our neighbor) with us this year. She is the little girl in purple. Holley and Scott both decided they wanted to "create" their costumes again this year and both decided to be hobos and Allie was a ballerina. This was the first time I have ever put her hair in a bun. She loved it. She also loved the lipstick I put on her, but she kept smiling weirdly because she was afraid it would come off...haha.

Well all...we had a spooktacular Halloween. Hope you all did as well. At least I posted these before Thanksgiving...in a week and 2 days...it could be worse I guess....lol....stay tuned...next up 4A state marching contest and Friendswood High School Marching Band....~S

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the spunkiest, sassiest, sparkliest, sensationally sweet, silliest, sixteen year old I know. My precious niece Rachel is sweet sixteen today! People....stay off the roads in the Houston-Area...I'm just sayin.. ;) love you tons Rachel!! Where's your new car? :) be sure to ask your mom! LOL...

My precious Allie. This year has been such a wonderful year! You have learned so many new things like fly fishing in Colorado, ice skating (kinda) and rock climbing (kinda) , bungee tramp jumping, learning to swim, learned to read and sooo much more. It has been such a joy to watch you graduate from pre-school and start Kindergarten this fall. I love you to pieces and can't imagine a day without you. You have to live with Mommy forever ok? Just kidding my sweet girl. It is such a joy to watch you growing up and I'm so thankful that God decided to make me YOUR mommy. He knew we needed you! I love you .

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I will try to be better at posting the crazy happenings around here!

Happy Birthday to my FAVORITE 6 year old!!!!

Happy Birthday (yesterday :( ) my sweet Allie.....pics to come...I love you!!

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