Audrey Soccer

Audrey had her first soccer game yesterday.  She is number 7 on the Falcons (red team).  I am an assistant coach for her team.  She did pretty good for only having one practice.  Clark practiced the next day doing his best Audrey impression.

Audrey’s Party

We finally had Audrey’s birthday party today.  It was the perfect weather and we had a ton of kids over.  Shan, Fer-fer, Brigid, and Gigi made some fantastic decorations for it.  We had an athletic team party, where everyone was encouraged to wear something from their favorite sports teams.  So our main theme happened to be Baylor. 

  I’ll save everyone from the emo-dad post.  Yes, there have been some tears today as we watched the annual slideshow from the past year.  I can’t believe this is the same little girl that we had five years ago.  We actually have conversations with her, she can read, she is “besties” with her brudder. 

T-Ball Debate

The Temple little league said they would take a 3 year old (Clark will be three by the start of the season) for pre T-ball.  Apparently the difference between pre T-ball and T-ball is that T-ball is competitive.  That’s just what 5 and 6 year olds need, but that’s besides the point.  We’d like viewer input on if Clark is ready for pre T-ball.  Please post your responses. 

Snow Angel

Snowy day

Disney World

Audrey has looked forward to her 5th birthday for the past three years.  When she was two, her grandparents told her that when she turned 5 she would get to go to Disney World.  She talked about that almost every day for the past three years.  So with the one of the best birthday presents ever, Bebe and Pop took Audrey to Disney World two days after her birthday.  She had an amazing time! 

Baylor Game

After beating Texas Tech, we stayed around after the game to meet some of the players. This is Audrey and Clark in Coach Drew's seat waiting to get in the game. Clark got to meet his favorite player, Quincy Acy aka The Cookie Monster. Clark shoots and then runs to the rim to hang on it. Then he says, "I dunk, I cookie monster." He also got his picture with AJ Walton, a freshman guard. He said, "There's AJ. He's my friend."

happy birthday

Christmas Day

Christmas Eve

Pictures from our annual Christmas eve dinner with friends. Better late than never.

Welcome Baby Charlie!

Fun at the Train Museum

 

The Temple Train Museum always has a Christmas event. This was by far Clark's favorite visit to Santa because he handed out fruit snacks to the children. Clark devoured about 4 packs in 2-3 minutes.

San Antonio Trip

I don't like sitting around the house for more than two consecutive days when I'm off work, so we took a quick trip down to San Antonio. It was one of those times where I was completely and perfectly happy. I have every reason in the world to have these moments every day with what the Lord has blessed me with. However for some reason, I very rarely get overwhelmed with joy. This was one of those times though. The kids were perfect all day. While Shannon was at the outlet mall, we went to Wonder World in San Marcos. The kids liked seeing the cave and feeding the deer. From there we took our last visit to Fiesta Texas for the year. They even had a sledding hill with snow (or Sonic type ice). Audrey is a getting big! She rode the Road Runner Express ride twice. Apparently Shannon screamed the whole time, while Audrey laughed. From there we went to our hotel on the Riverwalk. We walked around, went to the Alamo and saw all of the lights. We almost went to The Lion King as it was being performed right two blocks from our hotel, but didn't want to pay $125 a ticket. We then topped the night off with some Hagen-Daaz ice cream. It was some flavor Shannon found a couple years ago in Boston but has been unable to find since. Audrey summed up the whole day perfectly when she yelled at the top of her lungs on the Riverwalk, "I love my family."

Christmas Program

Audrey performed very well in her Christmas program at school.

Fashion

Two different senses of fashion.

In Which Clark Challenges Joel to a Duel

Open Gym

We took the kids to local gymnastics place for open time. The kids loved it! I don't think Clark stopped running for 2 hours. He routinely cut in front of kids. We couldn't believe they would let Clark on this harness but he loved it. Audrey and her friend Emily had a blast jumping on the trampolines.

Snow Princess

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Audrey went to a great birthday party today for her friend. The party favor was this cape which I'm sure will be worn daily for many months.