Christmas 2013

Sadly, I did not take very many pictures this year for Christmas. 

My kids in typical fashion were easy to buy for! 

Chloe decided she wanted a Stuffie, and wanting to be like his

big Sister, Coleman decided he wanted one too.

Clay, who at the time just wanted a dinosaur, got one too!

Clay's Santa gift and stocking:

Chloe's stocking and Stuffie:

Coleman's stocking and Stuffie:

One of the best gifts Coleman received in his stocking was Chinese Checkers.

That game has provided a lot of fun entertainment for us!

Clay was very happy about getting Brobee!

After Christmas at our house, we spent Christmas in Texas with the

Grandparents. I will have to look on my phone to see if I have any pics, because

apparently I didn't take any with my camera.

Randomness

There have been some conversations lately that I don't want to forget. One just happened between Coleman and Clay. 

Clay just dumped out all of Coleman's baseball cards and ripped one. Coleman pretty much lost it and exclaimed, "my baseball cards, do you know how much those meant to me?". Poor Coleman!

Coleman sat by a classmate named Hannah. I asked if she was nice. He said,  "yes, aren't all girls nice?". I wish!

The next day he wanted to invite her over for a play date.

Clay has two main things he says a lot. One is "That hurt a little bit". He says that a lot. The other thing is "that's to much". He says that if it is to much or if it isn't enough. He can't understand the difference. 

Chloe wore her cross necklace to school the other day and witnessed to a kid. She said he didn't believe in God, but she was going to keep trying. Sweet Girl!

Build-a-bear

When Cole was on his mission trip I decided I would take the kids to ride the carousel at the mall. I was brilliant and didn't bring any cash. So, we wandered the mall in an attempt to get something to make up for my mistake. 

Chloe wanted to look in Build-a-bear. I in no way even thought about buying them bears, & she didn't even ask (at first).  I decided they could all get a cheap one. They each picked one out and we took them to get stuffed. Clay freaked out an did not want his stuffed. He opted for an already made mini stuffie-a turtle. I managed to walk out of there with only spending about 35$. That was money well spent-it had been a long week.

First Day of School

Where did summer go???? It went way to fast! We had our annual first day of school breakfast to usher in the new year!

This boy was super excited and didn't seem one bit nervous!

Chloe's teacher looped so the first day was less stressful!

           Clay is such a big helper!

   

    Coleman and his new teacher!

Coleman found his table and started right to work! He didn't need a long goodbye, he was ready to start the day!

We had lunch with the kids the first day, probably not the best idea. It was nice to know they were having such a great day!

     Coleman's class walking out.

    Thanks to Target we had some 

     yummy after school cupcakes!

Thankfully, this year has started off great!

Many prayers were prayed! Such a different start to kindergarten than Chloe's!

Drillers vs. Corpus Christi

   

We were able to go with our youth group last night to the Drillers game. I talked Coleman in to go sit on front row by third base, so we had very close seats. I knew with his cuteness factor that one of the third base coaches would give him a ball. He stood there with his glove out-so cute! A Corpus player gave him the first ball. Then a Drillers coach gave him a ball. We couldn't believe we were lucky enough to get 2 balls. 

We decided to go walk and get a treats. As we were deciding on what to eat we saw Mr. Jamie run and catch a ball, which he gave to Clay.  Wow, 3 balls! We sat down with our yummy ice cream and managed to get on the big screen with the hug cam. Then a Corpus Coach gave Coleman another ball! We had quite the night, Coleman was beyond excited! As we were leaving we got # 12 on the Corpus team to sign a ball. He was a catcher and I'll have to look up his name. Maybe he will be big time someday. This was by far the most exciting Drillers game we have been to!

Day 2 St Louis Trip

For our second day of our vacay we got up and headed to Grant's Farm. It was a fun place to take our kids. If you go get an Internet coupon for 5$ off parking. The park entrance is free. The first thing you do is take a tram ride around the park to see lots of animals. My kids loved this. When the tram ride is over you get dropped off at the park itself. We then headed over to the carousel.

 

The Farm is like a mini-zoo. We walked around and looked at the animals and then went to see the bird show. I'm so glad we went to the show. 

                 Parrot roller skating!

 They asked for volunteers and so Chloe shot her hand up. She was in a rat race where she and another girl let a rat race on their arms and back-eeekkk!!!

After Grant's Farm we went 

10 years!

Cole and I celebrated our ten year anniversary. We went to Mahogany's steak house and had a fun little date night. We are going on a trip in a couple if weeks to celebrate our decade of marriage.