Possible ER visit in my future

WWE............plus 2 boys...............equals possible ER visit in my future!

Oldest son now strong enough to lift brother almost over his head.  Younger brother thinks this is awesome!  They watch then practice the moves.  They also think it is funny that it scares their sweet mom!

This is on at my house at all times if the oldest son is in charge of TV.

Santa brought these awesome guys.  I am hoping they will try some moves with these figures and not on each other.  A mom can hope!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!  We have had a great, relaxing day-perfect way to start 2013. We slept in, went to Matt's parents for lunch, Matt and Cal went hunting and Brady had a friend over.

Last night we had 5 other couples over with children for a fun Mexican bar dinner, drinks and some fireworks.  The children actually made it until 11:30 and Matt actually made it to midnight with me this year!

By the way, fireworks are totally NOT legal in our backyard!

We had 12 kids along with the 12 adults and I can not thank the Lord enough for the weather.  They did not come in the house all night except to fix a plate and go back out and eat around the fire.  I had told the parents to bring flashlight and between the fire and flashlights we did not hear a word from them.  Happy New Year to us!!!!!

Cheers from Matt and I! 

Praying everyone has a wonderful 2013!

Fa La La La Flu

I have to be honest, I stole that from a friends FB post.  Flu is out of control around our parts.  Thank the Lord that the 8 year old was the only one to get it.  Here are the boys decorating our tree.  Little did I know that Cal would go to bed right after decorating and wake up at 4:30 blazing hot with fever!

Normally I do our big tree and the boys do a smaller tree with their ornaments.  I was not wanting to go over the top this year and the boys wanted their ornaments on the real tree.  I seriously did not do a thing to our tree this year other than move a few around to the sides and take a few off the branches that were bogged down with 5 ornaments in a row. 

They were both so cute and LOVED decorating.  I just sat at the table and stuffed Christmas cards. 

I still love these "little" and now stinky feet

 

Thankfully Cal's flu seemed to be a mild case and he only missed Thursday and Friday from school.  I did not give Cal the Tamaflu because he would not ever eat enough to take it.  Brady started Christmas play practice the Monday after Cal came down with flu and started a stomach ache (I checked him out and started the Tamaflu) only to figure out that he had a good ole fashion case of stage fright.  Needless to say I gave him the Tamaflu for 5 days because the sweet Kindergartners were dropping like flies as well as most of school.

My sweet little Shepard

The Shepard's finishing up their Shepard Song.  The Shepard Song is always a hit.  Cal was a Shepard and all Brady wanted to be was a Shepard.  They do not "reveal" the children's parts until the day they go home for Thanksgiving.  He was so happy until he realized they sit at the front of the stage until their song then sing and walk up by the stable. 

This is him on the first day(they do the play 3 times).  Basically as far off the stage as possible.  He is pretty much behind a Christmas Tree and almost back behind the pianist. 

This is only the center section, but they take a Christmas Card picture each year to send out the following year.  Always precious and will bring a tear to your eye.  The sweet dove (in between sheep and camel) was one that went down with flu and only got to preform once.  Now we had a soloist who came with fever the last day.  To each their own.

Here are the boys (minus 1) in Brady's class after the last performance.

He just told me to name them. Shepard, narrator, Shepard, Joseph and narrator. The one missing was a wise man.

 

The boys had their class parties today. They get out tomorrow at 11:30.

I can't believe Christmas is in 5 days!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Christmas Fun

Happy December.  Our elf is back (a few days earlier than I had intended because our neighbors elf had come back and they plus my boys were starting to freak out that our elf was not coming this year).

Jolly is back and Brady is just staring at him

 

Wynlakes does a Christmas Open House and they give each child who builds a Gingerbread House a prize.  Cal has been asking since last year to build one, of course when it came time to build it he just wanted to tell mommy how he wanted it to look.

 

Here are the boys with the Wynlakes Gingerbread House

Boys with Santa

Matt and I

 

HAPPY DECEMBER!

Fall Sports Review

Who doesn't love fall sports?  We not only love it for college football in our house, but for soccer and baseball too.

Cal wanted to play fallball/baseball again this year, which is more than fine with Matt and I.  Honestly, we want him to play agian next fall(it will be practice for kid pitch) and that would then put him in forth grade before he starts football........we will see.....a lot of his friends started football this year.  His friend Harrison got bumped up to kid pitch this fall due to his birthday, so that left the catching position open and Cal volunteered.  We were not sure we wanted him catching, but he absolutely loved it! 

Catching

Getting ready to hit

Headed to 2nd from 1st

a last minute/last game pic....several boys had left

Cal and Wesley

 

And this is what my car looked like on soccer and baseball days

(school socks, sport socks, school shoes, sport shoes.....)

 

Brady really enjoyed soccer this fall.  We let him play mini soccer one more year.  Most of his friends were playing in the 6-8 year old league, but he ended up loving his team.  He was by far the biggest kid and loved playing goalie.  He always vounteered to be goalie first and play in the field 2nd. 

 

 

Brady was on a team where the little girls stole the show in scoring

This face is so "him"

Just another so "him".  After he got his trophey, we needed to go to Cal's last game.  He refused to wear his soccer jersey to Cal's game so I had to take him home to change into something more suitable for the ballfield.  Really...5 year old boy crazy! 

Stopping a goal! 

He may try on session of indoor soccer before baseball starts in the spring.

Pumpkin Patch

I feel a little sad and excited all at the same time when I say that this might be the last year that I will have to go on a Pumpkin Patch field trip. 

During Homecoming Week, the Kindergarten went to the Dream Field Farms Pumpkin Patch.  The weather was perfect and we had a great time.

Brady, Bo, Persson and McClain

His new buddies:

He brought home what he is Thankful for on Friday and it was these 3 boys

How cute are they?  This is Persson and he is like a little blond version of Brady.  I think they are precious together.

A rare photo moment in the tire swing

His most prized pumpkin that he gave to his daddy to put on his desk

In line for this awesome hay tunnel slide-his favorite part

 

WHAT A FUN DAY!!!!!

 

Happy Birthday Cal

Cal turned 8 back in Oct.  We originally gave him the option of having a party or taking a trip to Atlanta or the beach.  He picked taking a friend to Atlanta to go to Six Flags.  So a week or so before his birthday we went over on a Saturday morning (after Brady's soccer game) and headed to Six Flags.  We went as long and hard as the boys could then headed to the hotel.  Cal, his friend and Brady had a connecting room to Matt and I.  They went right to bed.  We ate breakfast and let them swim before getting ready to go to lunch and pick up Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory.  I did not take a single picture :(

Here is the part where I have to explain that I ended up having him a party also.  I love my husband soooooo much :) See his birthday ended up being on the Friday of Homecoming. They get out of school at noon after the parade.  The boys are always wanting people to come over and play (especially when they get out of school early), so I started thinking it would be good to just have the boys in his class over to play after school for a couple of hours.  I picked up cupcakes and the boys played Dodge ball, Kickball and a little Football.  Really for everyone but my sweet husband it was fun and easy.  Again, honey, I really love you! 

Kickball

Dodge ball

Here they are after a little football(missing a few from pic)

Wal Mart cupcakes- For Real- Cute huh?

He could not decide between pumpkins or footballs

 

Happy Birthday to the sweetest and cutest 8 year old I know(that is why his mama caved and had to have a little party) :)

Mom and Dad love you and Brady adores you!