Fall Pictures

Mommy put together a photo collage of some recent photos from this fall. The kids are enjoying the fall weather. We are all adjusting to being back in Texas and are starting to feel settled.

Today was a parent-teacher conference day (no school) so Mommy took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. We played for awhile, had lunch, and then went to a park. The fun never ends. The kids didn't want to leave the park. All the kids were cranky by later in the afternoon because of all the activities. Mommy has made a mental note to herself that there is such a thing as too much fun and it makes for a long afternoon and evening. It was nice to spend time with all 3 kids doing fun things though. Mommy misses Joseph when he is in school all day long. The girls miss him too.

Surfside Wedding

Daddy's co-worker got married this last Sunday in Surfide at the Stahlman Park and Reception Center. The kids were really pretty well-behaved all things considered. When the wedding and reception were finally over hours later, Mommy and Daddy let them play on the beach for a little while. This is the first time we ever stayed til the sun went down. The weather was absolutely perfect! Watching a sunset on the beach while the kids played was the perfect end to a fabulous day!








Good times at the beach!

Soccer

Mommy and Daddy signed Joseph up to play soccer this fall. He said that he wanted to try it. Daddy is Joseph's coach for his Fun, Fair, Positive Soccer Team. The kids voted on the name 'The Dragons' for their team name. Their colors are navy and yellow...mostly yellow.

Today was the first game of the season. Joseph was really looking forward to the soccer game all week. Every day he asked if it was game day. Mommy wasn't able to go because it was naptime for Katelyn and Katelyn was extremely crabby. Audrey also ended up taking a nap. Daddy said Joseph did very well. He stole the ball a couple of times. He also made the only goal for his team. In Joseph's words, "The other team kicked our butts!" He told Mommy he had alot of fun.

We are all looking foward to a fun soccer season!


Exhausted after a great game!


The Dragons getting ready for the game.


Go Dragons!


Joseph and Coach 'Daddy'


Joseph in his soccer uniform

First Day of School

Mommy has been dreading today for a long time. She wasn't sure she was ready to see her little man off to school. So far so good though. Joseph actually slept in late of all days so Mommy had to get him up about 20 minutes before the bus was scheduled to arrive. He got dressed quickly and ate a simple breakfast. Since they have lunch at 10:30am in kindergarten, Mommy thought he better not eat too much.

Joseph picked out new shoes this last weekend and he specified what he would like to take for lunch. Mommy hopes he has a great day at school. Last week we saw the school and met his teacher, Miss Rasberry. Joseph said it looked like it would be a fun place. He was also very positive this morning. He told Audrey he would not be around much anymore since he would be going to school.

Mommy, Audrey, and Katelyn saw Joseph off at the bus stop this morning. He got on the bus with no problems. It will be a long day for Joseph since he will not get home til about 4:15pm. Mommy needs to go buy Joseph a few more things for school and then we are headed to a "boo-hoo" lunch commemorating the first day of school.

Summer Pics

Mommy put together a few recent pictures of the kids from this summer.

More Taiwan Pics

Mommy has been spending alot of time trying to sort through all the pictures from the trip to Taiwan. She has been working on making memory albums and dvds to preserve the photos and videos from the trip. It has been alot harder than Mommy anticipated since there are so many pictures and videos to sort through. For this blog, Mommy decided to make a few photo collages to condense the amount of pictures she would have to upload.

We are all so glad we went on the trip. The kids still talk about going to Taiwan. Mommy and Daddy hope that Joseph and Audrey will remember that they went. Katelyn of course is too young to remember, but hopefully she will appreciate the photos and videos when she is older.

Surfside

The kids have been asking to go to the beach since we moved back to Texas. We weren't really able to squeeze in a beach day in Taiwan so we took the kids this last weekend. We went down to Surfside. The beaches were crowded, but we still had alot of fun.

Daddy missed a few spots on Katelyn's legs when he applied suncreen so she got a little bit sunburned. Katelyn was also afraid of the water, but she really enjoyed playing in the sand. Joseph got in the water some, but he wasn't too anxious to go too far out. Audrey, our little miss daring, went out pretty far with Daddy.

After we left Surfside, we headed up to Clearlake to visit our friends. They have a little boat they bought that they are renovating. It was a nice little boat-house. It looks like they have done alot of work on it. We ate dinner at a restaurant with a lakeview before heading home. All 3 kids were exhausted by the time we got home. 2 out of 3 were asleep before we even got home. It was a full day.

Katelyn and her friend Zoe at the boat dock in Clearlake.

Fun at Surfside!