Super A's B-Day

We celebrated another birthday this week - Angelette turned 6. We joined them at DQ for food and ice cream, we had a good time, and the kids LOVED the ice cream part.

Conner & Debbie's Birthday

Today was Debbie & Conner's birthday (yes she had her baby on her birthday). We celebrated at Granny & PawPaw's house, all but Cody, Brooke & Adam were there. The kids had a lot of fun playing together, especially when the water balloons came out. As a special treat, Uncle Jerry brought his accordion, the little ones danced around, and the more mature ones (or old farts) loved it too.

And She's Off

Brooke left to college today. I'll admit, I got a little misty eyed when I saw her drive by my office, but we're so proud of her and know she will do great!

The kids always watch Hannah Montana, and while watching with them, I heard Billy Ray Cyrus' new song, and it's perfect for this - -

It's the startin line of the rest of her life as she's ready she's ever been, got the hunger in and the stars in her eyes; prize is hers to win, she's waitin on my blessings before she hits that open road, Baby get ready, Get set, Don't go . . .

The pictures are from last night we went out to eat for her farewell.

First Day of School

Today was the first day of school - Noah started the 3rd grade, and Kade is going to "Granny's School" (he could go to 3-K, but we decided to keep him at my mom's).

Noah said his day was good, not much elaboration. . . .

At 'meet the teachers' on Thursday, we saw that one of his best friends sits right behind him, we laughed that that wouldn't last very long, so he was so proud to tell us that they were still in the same spot, and they didn't talk - - we'll see how long that lasts. As for homework, well, the spelling words came home already.

Kade was so excited to take his backpack this morning. Aunt Net bought him some colors and a writing tablet, and we sent an ABC coloring book, he had to bring the coloring book home so we could do homework.

Movie Night

We missed the premiere of High School Musical 2 last night, so this evening we invited some of the cousins over for the second showing of it. We all had a lot of fun - the little ones played in Kade's room, while the older ones were glued to the TV - with their hands in the popcorn & pickles (don't knock it till you try it) .

Check out my Slide Show!

Demolition

Last weekend we started tearing down the garage at my parents. They decided to put up a metal building for their vehicles and added storage. So we all had a hand in removing the 30 + year old building, and as of today, there's not much of a trace of it left. Now we're just waiting on the materials to start the new one.

Meet the Cardinals

The 2007/2008 school year is right around the corner. This evening we had "meet the Cardinals", this is basically introducing the coaches & athletes. . . and Beau being a senior, we were there.

These four amigos (Kurt, Thom, Beau, Kevin) have been together since elementary school, and now they are seniors - wow!

There will be a lot of St Paul Cardinal Football posts coming soon - we have 7 home games, so we won't be making too many of the Brahmas games.

Update

Kade's leg is doing great. I was getting a little worried because he had a bad night. But he was sleeping good when I took him to Granny's this morning - he slept till 9. So I called to check on him and she said he was fine. He told her that his leg was good, and that he could even run, and proved it. So yes, he's one tough little guy.

Tough Guys

Our little guys are a couple of tough guys who have had one heck of a week, and have the bandages to prove it.

Sunday - Noah stepped on a broken jar at Granny & PaPa's. The mouth of the jar was broken and when he stepped down on some of it, the other part came up and poked and cut his foot pretty good. He freaked out when he saw all the blood, but then he was okay. Later in the afternoon when Aunt Debbie (our RN) came, she looked at it and said that we should have taken him in for stitches. But, by that time it was too late, so we've just been keeping it clean and bandaged up.

Monday - Kade slammed his finger in the car door and it was stuck, Juliette had to open the door to get it out. But it wasn't anything that a little ice and a SpongeBob band-aid couldn't cure.

Then, this evening, Kade was playing with Beau, and wanted to ride on the bike with him, so they did, and somehow when the handle bars were turned Kade fell off and his leg ended up between the tire and the tire bar. It took 3 of us to get his foot/leg out. He screamed and cried for a while, but we went home and he was fine. We didn't know if we should take him in for x-rays or not, but Brian did all the checks he does on his football players, and Kade said it hurt, but didn't cringe or scream to any of them, and he's been walking on it, and moving it around quite a bit.

We're thanking God and counting our blessings that we've made it this far without having had to make Any trips to the ER - this was our first real scare and thoughts of taking them there. Funny thing, the boys cried more about not wanting to go to the ER than they did for their actual injury.

2 Years

It's hard to believe, but it's been 2 years since we moved here. We do miss all of our friends in Victoria, but being here with (almost) all of our family has been great.

Here's a couple of pictures of the four of us - first one is in 2005, when we moved here, and now in 2007 - isn't it amazing how much the boys have grown.

The bottom pictures isn't the greatest - my sister took it for us after church, yes it was early mass, that's why the 'guys' have such happy faces, and the camera lens kept fogging over, so the quality isn't too good - but with happy faces like these, we weren't spending too much time waiting for the lens to defog.