Christmas with Matt's family

We had Christmas with Matt's family last Saturday and the boys had a blast. Kathy got the three older boys a sled thingy each for them to take to New Mexico this next week. They are SOOO excited to try them out!! She got me some pj's and a book (yay!), and got Matt some snow boots. She also got BB some snow boots and ski pants/bib. Too cute on him too!!! :-) I can't wait to see what he does with all the snow! :-)

Anyway, here are a few pictures of the boys at Kathy's house.

Blayden playing with Matt's step-brother, Travis:


Me and Matt: (I know I looked horrible and was SOOO tired! Ugg!)


Ready to open presents!!


Blayden helped out passing out presents- he brought this one over to me to hold for him so he could open it.


Matt's little sister, Sarah, and her boyfriend, Josh:

Holiday parties, sing a longs, etc.... crazy life!

Well, the big boys only have two days left of school before their Christmas break. Yippee!!! I can't WAIT to sleep late!! LOL

BB had his last day of school on Tuesday and had his little Christmas party. He's just so darned cute!! Of course, I forgot my camera so I didn't get any pictures of him there, but I'll get plenty over the next few weeks. The other boys have their Christmas parties tomorrow, but they have a Christmas sing-a-long this afternoon. Daylon has been asked to help "lead" the school in the sing-a-long so I'll be taking pictures of that too and I'll post them this afternoon.

Anyway, I've been cleaning house like a crazy person, trying to get everything done before the boys are home for the week. I'm doing baseboards, fans, etc, so I've been pretty busy. I'm getting the house cleaned normally tomorrow morning and then getting the carpets and the slate tile floor steamed tomorrow afternoon so I'm really excited about that. And then Matt and I get a date night tomorrow night- I can't wait!!! :-)

I'll post pictures as soon as I can though... hope everyone is having a wonderful week!!

Disney World Pictures

I also have a few pictures of Daylon playing football that Matt bought from Pop Warner that are really cool. I'll have to scan them though, so I don't have them on here just yet. Enjoy these though!! (They were taken from Matt's phone so not the best pictures in the world!)

Daylon standing in front of a huge tree!


Just some of the Christmas lights at Disney


Beating on the drums with his friend Peyton


Right before his first time driving a race car


Thinking of their Queen Mommy at home...

Football- our life for the last 3 months!!

Since we've spent SOO much time with Daylon's football, I took a lot of pictures of the boys at the games- inlcuding Daylon of course! Here are a few:

Blayden and Reagan watching their brothers play!


Handsome Blayden


"Coach Matt" being serious and watching the boys play... I just had to take a picture of him!


Daylon waiting on the sideline for his turn to go in and beat some football booty


Matt and Daylon after they won the Division Championship


Daylon- waiting for his game in Dallas to start (for the Regional Championship)


Matt and Daylon after they won the Regional Championship game in Dallas


That's all of the football pictures I have. The last game, which was in Tyler, I videotaped for the coaches to watch, so I didn't take pictures. They won that game though, and made it to Florida after that. Matt and Daylon took pictures and videos at Disney World so I'll post those next. :-)

Halloween pictures

Yeah, these are really late, but here are some pictures of the boys from Halloween!

These are from a Halloween party we went to at Miramont Country Club.

Blayden- my little rock n roll star!


Jace- scary ghost!


Kelton after getting his face painting done. He was a ninja this year!


Daylon- he just wanted to be something weird and scary so we put "blood" on him. He WAS weird but not too scary! ;-)


All of the boys and my mom and nephews on a hay ride at the party


This is from Halloween night- Trick Or Treating around the neighborhood. Jace's eyes glowed from some glasses he got, but he only wore them long enough so I could take a picture! ;-)

Busy, busy, and more busy!!

I honestly thought I would be better about keeping this thing up, but I guess not. Things have been SOOO busy this semester! I haven't had time to do anything that I wanted to get done!

Daylon has had football practice every other night for 2 hours each night (at least). And Matt is one of the assistant coaches so he's been going to help every night. What a pain! However, it worked out really well because Daylon's team made it to the "Super Bowl" of Pop Warner football. That means that they got to go to Disney World in Florida for a week! They left last Thursday morning, and then Matt and Daylon flew back yesterday and I picked them up in Austin. They had a blast though, and ended up 5th in the nation out of 8500 Jr. Pee Wee teams! The boys worked their butts off though and really deserved everything that they got! Matt and Daylon were the only ones in our family to go though- I just had so much stuff to do here, and we would have had to take Jace and Kelton out of school for the week as well and it was just too much for all of us for that long of a time period. I think Matt and Daylon enjoyed going by themselves though- and they brought back presents for all of us! :-)

Jace has been doing really well in school. Matt and I met with his teacher last month for a conference and she told us that she thinks Jace may be GT- Gifted and Talented. She's keeping an eye out of it though! I'm not completely sure that he doesn't have dyslexia like Daylon though. Spelling comes easy to him- as does most stuff- but he will constantly write and read his letters backwards (w's and m's and b's and d's, etc). If he keeps it up, I'm sure we will have to get him tested this summer so he can get extra help for it next year- they start getting help in 2nd grade.

Kelton is doing great in school too. He's the one that will get into trouble though- pushing other kids, talking when he's not supposed to, etc. What a stinker! He's doing good academically though, so if we can just get him to behave, we'll be doing great. I think it'll come in time- he's just a little toot! He's the same way at home- the instigator in almost everything- so I'm not surprised he's like that at school. He's not as whiney as he used to be here though, so hopefully he's getting over that. I can't STAND the whining!! It makes my jaws clench and just causes a lot of stress in our house. It's annoying!! But he's the sweet one who loves to cuddle as much as he can. And he's all about doing and getting everything that Jace and Daylon get and do. He wants to be older so bad!!

Blayden is a little stinker!! He's stubborn and all of 2 years old! But he has found out that if he makes funny faces and noises that he'll get his older brothers to laugh at him. He's such a clown!! He LOVES to make everyone laugh! He's talking up a storm and says some hilarious things! I'll have to make sure I post next time he says something! My mom bought him a train table for Christmas and already gave it to him since it was too big for her to keep at her house. So it's already in his room and he LOVES it! He's been really into trains lately so the table is just a hit. Jace and Kelton have enjoyed playing with it as well, and it's even fun for me to set up the track for him. I met with his teacher at school yesterday and she says he's doing great! He's sweet, gets along with all the other students, and loves to play with everyone. And he loves singing songs (I've noticed that!)

Matt and I have both been busy lately. I've had school every Monday and Wednesday. I was taking 18 hours so I could order my Aggie ring this month (I'll get it in April). So I've been crazy lately. I still have one assignment that I have to finish for my classes and two finals- one next Monday and one on Tuesday. After that I'm done for the semester and I'm THRILLED!! Hopefully I'll get a 4.0 again, but I'm not sure yet. We'll see! :-) I have also been an intern in Navasota this semester, working with 4th graders in a reading/social studies classroom. It was a LOT of work and I would come home exhausteed. But the kids were awesome (when they weren't being lazy and telling me something was "too hard" that I knew they could do!!) and I already miss them. I'll have to go back and visit soon- they loved me and I loved them!

I think that's a good updated on us though. I'll try to get a few pictures uploaded from things that have been going on. We'll see! It's just me and Blayden home today, and I am working on potty training him so I'm spending a lot of my time taking him back and forth to the bathroom. Fun for me! ;-)