Ice Skating

We took the kids ice skating for the first time today. They were excited and took right to it. Each time around the rink they would get a little braver and eventually were letting go of the rail and skating on there own. Ethan and Caleb were all about going from point A to point B, while Abigail managed to get in a couple of spins.

You're So Funny

Rachel is picking up the kids at their school yesterday when one of the girls in Abigail's class tells Rachel, "Abigail makes me laugh so much that I need new underwear."

Soccer - Caleb's Rules

Yesterday, Caleb wanted to play some soccer in the back yard. Of course, he has his own set of rules, which seem to change each time we play. The first 5 minutes of the game consist of me just standing there listening to all the rules that I will need to respect. These rules do not necessarily apply to him though and these rules can change at any point while we are playing to be more advantageous to Caleb scoring.

Caleb: "Dad, my goal is the fence." (What he means by the fence is the entire back yard fence. Should be easy enough for me to defend, right?)

Me: "So, where is my goal?" (Caleb proceeds to show me a section of the fence no wider than his body that would take pinpoint accuracy to get by him and score).

Caleb starts the game. I make my move towards the ball. Caleb calls a timeout.

Caleb: "No, no, no, no, dad. You don't move yet."

He then calls time in, gets to within a foot of the fence, announces that I can now move and then scores. Caleb 1, Dad 0.

Me: "Nice goal, Caleb. So my turn."

Caleb: "Not yet, dad. I get to go again."

Why do I feel like he is in for a rude awakening when he actually trys "organized" soccer.

Favorite Things

Abigail - Princesses (Aurora, Jasmine), pink, her shakey bear, listening to music cd's, shoes, barbie dolls, dancing

Caleb - Thomas the Train, trains in general, Hot Wheels, computer games, frogs (especially his "froggie" webkinz), cereal, sports played by his rules, saying "Awesome, Dude"

Ethan - TV shows / movies, soccer, doggie stuffed animals, superheroes, shrimp, singing, playing make believe

That Was Then......This Is Now

Abigail, Caleb, Ethan - 2 months old

Ethan, Abigail, Caleb - 5 years and 2 months old

My dad reminded me of the baby picture above after seeing our recent Longhorn family pictures. Yes, as you can see, my attempt to establish Longhorn Pride in our children started right away.

Some Recent Pics

We went to our friend's, Lana Harrison's, birthday party recently. Thanks to Allie Melbert for the pics.


Ethan and Abigail with Lana


Ride 'em Caleb

Ethan - Cake, Yum!

Hang Time

Wow, that was sour!

Hi Mom!

Everybody is doing it, why aren't you?

We're bloggin now. So after keeping up with our friends via blogs, I have given in and started a blog too. Hope we can handle the pressures ;) of keeping up with it as I am sure everyone will be checking in on it on daily basis. What else do you have to do with your live's? Well, we hope to be able to keep you up on some of the happenings with our family and up to date pictures. Thanks for visiting.