Easter Update

It's been a full month!  We have enjoyed Easter Egg hunts, a trip to Blue Baker with the Tiger Cub Den (they let us bake bread), clearing cactus at my sister's farm, a field trip to McKinney Roughs (Timmy when tubing and learned about water conservation while I took the younger two hiking), STEM day at the Scout center (lots of math, science, technology, and engineering activities), and a camping trip to Guadalupe River State Park.  I'm ready for a nap!  Next weekend is Lucas' musical, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  He's been working hard on it for months, so come support him!

Happy Easter!

He is risen!  We took a drive yesterday to Marble Falls to eat at the Bluebonnet Cafe, pick strawberries, and take pictures in the flowers.  Enjoy!

First quarter update

How is it March already?  Time is flying by and we've been busy.  Since the new year began, we took a fun vacation in January, our youngest started walking, and we decided to enroll our oldest in school (finally).  I retired (or surrendered) from teaching him the same day Pope Benedict announced his resignation from being Pope.  And I think we're both much happier now.  I'm enjoying having more time with the little ones and taking more field trips.

Besides school, Lucas is working hard getting ready for the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory musical which runs May 4-6.  See here for more information or to buy tickets.  Here are a few pictures of what we've been up to.  They have captions for more details.

I love enjoying time at home over the Christmas vacation.  (I keep trying to go shopping, but no one wants to go with me.  I live in a house full of boys!)

Christmas vacation

Christmas 2012

One the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

Christmas 2012

Joshua's first birthday

Hard to believe that Joshua is already a one year old!  We had fun celebrating with family today.  We love you Joshua!

Josh's First birthday

December adventures

We have had a busy month, but I forgot to take pictures for most of it.  Here are the few things I did catch on film.

December 2012

overdue update: Thanksgiving visit

Doug's mom and nieces spent about 2 weeks with us around Thanksgiving.  We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner at my mom's house and spent a lot of time watching the kids play.  We took them to the Oasis near the end of their visit and took pictures with the statues.  It was a fun visit.

Thanksgiving

overdue update... baseball

Timmy has had last baseball game just before Thanksgiving.  He had a great season, it was fun watching him play!  But I noticed in the pictures that he closes his eyes when swinging the bat.  That might explain his batting average.

last baseball game

Train Ride

Timmy's den took a ride on the train on Sunday.

train

Halloween pictures

Fall fun

I love October.  The weather is just starting to turn cool and it's nice to be outside again.  We spent a day at my sister's farm spreading compost and burning brush before heading to Inks Lake for our annual Regina Mater camp out.  Good times.  I especially enjoyed the evening sing-along.  Pack 89 also had its fall family camp out, with a great flag retirement ceremony.  

October break

Catching up

With the new school year beginning, I have fallen behind on pictures.  Here are the pictures I've taken from the end of August until now.  They include hair cuts, field trips to the cave and park, Timmy's baseball and Cub Scout activities, and today's visit to the pumpkin festival in Elgin.
   

new school year

A visit to the mountains

Just back from a two-week vacation to New Mexico and Colorado.  It was an adventure!  Highlights included hiking, chuck wagon barbeque, train rides, zip lines, random movie filming going on by our campground, more hiking, hail storm, chilly mornings, baby bear and more beautiful scenery than I could catch on film.  I love the mountains.  Enjoy the pictures!
  

Visit to the Mountains

summer fun

I am way behind on pictures (1112 to sort through).  Here's the first installment of some of the fun things we did before our epic vacation.  It's been a great summer.

Random summer fun

I am surrounded by cuteness!

I think Zachary wishes he lived in Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse.

Cub Scout Day Camp

This is Lucas' sixth year at day camp, he started attending when he was three and Timmy was only 4 months old.  Now Timmy is a Tiger!  I was in the tot lot with the younger two, so I didn't get many pictures of my Cub Scouts.  It wasn't as hot this year and thanks to the water backpacks my kids were well hydrated!

Day Camp 2012

sequence of events

playing at the park

group shot

not often can I get all four boys in the picture at once...