Love, Laughter and Bobbies

Tee Ball 2012

Well we participated in our first organized team sport this spring...Little League Tee Ball!  It was a BLAST!!

We have been BLESSED with the best kids, parents and with the BEST, most patient, loving, caring COACHES ever!! 

The first practice...

The first game...

Some action shots...

WHERE EVER the ball went Boy was there, but he gave it HIS ALL until the last minute of every game.

Our team always seemed to have the most parents, grandparents, etc. there to support the kids!

The "post game snack" was ALWAYS a highlight as well...

Several of the families from the team all went to a Ranger game one night!  It was so fun!

Chase played on the Little League All Star Team this year as a season ending activity!

Each player got a special medal after the game!

The Gold All Star Team!

End of the season Rangers party with a surprise special visitor!

First "earned" trophy!

What a fun first season of tee ball!

-Mommy

MawMaw's Graduation

MawMaw has spent her retirement thus far earning her Master's degree from TCU. 

And on Sunday all of that work paid off with a walk across the stage!

3 hour long graduations are not 4-year-old friendly, but we came prepared!

PS...when I graduated from TCU, we had to wear black caps and gowns...now they wear purple!  Outrage!  I want a redo!

-Mommy

May Randomness

It's time for our quarterly cell phone photo dump!

A while back we visited an indoor trampoline park!  It was soooo fun!

Playing at Cabela's... (it's funny because we are not a hunting family....but you'd never know it by seeing this picture...

Cousins riding the train on a less than warm day!

Boy's first bike...(yes, it's a little late, but he has had NO INTEREST(until now) in riding something he had to peddle himself!)...

Boy and C....getting so big!!

Self-portraits thanks to the iPhone forward facing camera!

A home-made scuba tank!

"Mom, look!  There is a giant worm swimming with me in the pool!"

*upon further investigation

"Boy!  That is NOT a worm.  Please quickly get out of the pool!"

Operation Clean Out The Attic Garge Sale!

Best salesman around...

The oldest and youngest cousin...

Muscle Man...

The clones again...

Ready to see Marvel's The Avengers...

Until next time...

-Mommy

Easter 2012

I don't have any pictures of the what the Easter Bunny brought :( but he was good to us!  He even hid some eggs in the pool this year!!  We also planted "magic jelly beans" that grew into a HUGE lollipop overnight!!

Boy before we left for brunch Mr. Joe Cool pose!

Family Easter photo...

The Boy!

The CLONES...

-Mommy

Orange Stripe Belt

Boy already had another belt test!  He moved up from the gold stripe to the orange stripe and continues to LOVE every minute of karate!

Hanging out with friends before the test.

Getting some Daddy snuggles.

Warming up with one handed push-ups!

Testing...

Presentation of the orange stripe belt by Master Mitchell...

Photos with friends after...

LOVE K's face in this picture (looking at Boy) and all their cute colorful Crocs!

And look at the reflection in the window...the number of people trying to take their picture....poor kids!

Boy and the "hugging monsters"!!

Until the next belt...

-Mommy

 

Instagram

So I finally downloaded the Instagram app on my phone and I love it!  Here is my collection so far!

Super Fun App!!

-Mommy

Gold-Stripe Belt

Boy has been taking Tae Kwon Do since just after Thanksgiving and a while back he was able to take his first belt test!  He was sooooo excited!!  Here are some pics from the big event.

A little pre-test nervous energy...

Visiting with friends...

Last picture with the white belt...

Testing...

Presentation of the gold-stripe belt...

With his new belt (best picture I got)...

And by far the BEST Tae Kwon Do teachers there are...

So proud!

-Mommy

Christmas 2011

What a fun and magical Christmas we had!!!

We had decorations...

We had a visit from Elfie every day...

Even at Disney World...

We had Christmas Eve church service (Ha!)...

We had reindeer food...

We had a quiet Christmas Eve...

We had rides Christmas morning in our new car...

We had time with family and friends...

We had beautiful weather...

And we had to find new places for all the new stuff!...

And someone is already making his Santa list for next year!

-Mommy

 

 

Disney World 2011

Daddy and I had been waiting for just the right time, age, etc. to do the Disney World trip.  We wanted it to be perfect and it was!!!

There were scary rides (at least scary for some!)...

 

There were fireworks and light shows...

There were cool playgrounds...

There was Cinderella's Castle...

There were awesome views...

There was swimming in December...

There was Star Wars...

There were cool things to create and play with...

There were cool places to eat...

There was even a pirate transformation...

And there were so many very important people to meet...

Lastly, there was a cool autographed thank you card that arrived a couple weeks later that someone was sooooo excited about...

See ya soon Mickey!

-Mommy

 

Last Random of 2011

Here is the last group of randomness for the year!

We recently spent a day at the local botanical gardens and found this bug.  We thought it was dead, but shortly after this, we realized it was in fact NOT dead!

Boy is really in to booby traps recently...can you tell??

Cute Mommy and Boy pic!

Daddy had a motorcycle JUST like this YEARS ago, add this to the list of ways they are ALIKE!

When Boy isn't making booby traps, he's in a tree!  Did I mention he is ALL BOY!!!

Oh, and I guess when he isn't making booby traps or in a tree, he is doing science experiments!

We've started karate!! (this was the first class before he got his uniform)

Some cute pics from a recent impromptu photo shoot.

Until next year!

-Mommy