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.

I'm afraid I'll forget. . .

Coleman has taken to saying I'm head over heels. Unfortunately he uses it in the wrong scenarios, like when he's mad. It amuses me. Today in the car he kept saying something and I could not figure out what he was talking about??? He kept saying this is my latest hour, after a little figuring out I realized he was saying this is my finest hour.

St. Louis Day 1

Day one of our vacation to St. Louis consisted of the hard part-the driving! But thank the LORD, it wasn't that bad! About six hours later we pulled into the hotel.

  The hotel chain Cole loves to stay at is the Drury Inn. They have snacks, breakfast, and dinner. While I don't love the dinner, it is cheap and is full of kid friendly foods. What kid doesn't love a hotel pool? The pools at the Drury are half outside and half inside. The kids love to swim under the wall to get to the other part of the pool. 

After dinner and swimming we headed to the arch. I'm not going to lie-I hated the trip up the arch. It was claustrophobic and scared me, but it was worth it. Once I got up there it was fine, and the ride down was much easier. In about five years I'd love to bring my kids back to look through the museum again. I guess I didn't remember learning in school how much history 

there was in St. Louis.

  The most important view for my sports loving boy-the baseball field. There wasn't a game, but the Sandlot was playing on the jumbo tron and people were camped out in the outfield-how fun!

Cole felt like this was one of the key things for us to see in St. Louis! A Target with an escalator for people and one for carts-it was pretty fun!

Our last stop for the night was Ted Drewes! I think the custard place has been there for 75 years! It was yummy! I got the All Shook Up-banana, pb & chocolate. The kids all got Sundaes in baseball cups.  It was close to 10 by the time we got in bed and another awesome thing is that ALL the kids went straight to sleep. I know it's hard traveling with kids and there were times in the arch that I thought we shouldn't take another family vacation until Clay is 20, but we are making memories!