Hole In One

A Hole In One is a very rare feat...just ask my brother who plays golf several times a week (and is very good) and has yet to have one. Imagine my screaming-Mom mouth when Will had one last week during his weekly golf league. It.was.awesome.

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY BROOKE!!

On a Sunday morning, much like today, I was planning on my baby girl arriving the next morning. Little did we know she was ready to meet us early. She has been full of spunk ever since!

We love your sassy personality, helpful disposition in EVERYTHING and how you can be a tomboy one second and a girly-girl the next. We look forward to many more years of watching you grow.

We love you Baby Girl!

Blessed Day for Will

At the beginning of May Will made his First Holy Communion. It was a great day. We are blessed!

Run, Run, Run

All 3 kids - plus Mom, Dad and many relatives - started a new sport this spring - TRACK!
The kids loved it and I think it will become a spring tradition for this family. Lots of running, ribbons and pushing themselves. It really was a great experience and a fun season!

Spring Has Sprung

Now that I think the cold temps are finally behind us, Easter has come and we have celebrated the Lord's rising once again and spring break is over, Spring has FINALLY Sprung!

Easter 2014

Spring Break trip to STL

World's Largest Golf Tee - Cool!

Jack pitching

Our 1st Communicant

All the cousins

Proud family

What We Are Up To....

Besides FREEZING like most of America, we are doing well. Full swing into basketball for all 3 kiddos!

First year of CYO for Jack. Dad is Head Coach. The season is going really well. We are 8 -3 right now with a great 1st round tourney win tonight. Jack is really stepping up as a team leader and doing his best. His teacher stopped me in the copy room the other day and said "Jack is working really hard!" I told her "HE BETTER BE!!" We continue to proud of him in the classroom and on the court.

Will's basketball team had their first ever tourney away from our Nothin But Net Home and walked away with the Championship! This was a fun 3 days of basketball for the boys and they received lots of compliments on how good they are. It is fun to watch this group of 7 boys play together and continue to improve. Dad is an assistant with this team and we continue to love how Will smiles every time he makes a basket. Can't burn out that happy fire inside this kid!

Brooke is on to Session 2 of Little Dribblers, playing a league up this year. She is on a new team for this session and is really improving with the help of great coaches. Only 2 girls on this team of 9 and she is not intimidated in the least bit. Her reading continues to improve every day. She is such a joy!

Catholic Schools Week this week - I loved this as a kid so I know it will be a fun week with my Kindergarteners in pjs, wacky day, Spirit Day, etc. I have threatened to come into school with rollers on pj day!

Love to all!

Pic from our trip to FL after Christmas. This weather makes us wanna go back!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY JACK!

Jack had a great 9th birthday, including Outback and Orange Leaf - 2 of his faves! He was just so happy on his birthday - I loved seeing the joy on his face with the new Clowney Jersey his Dad got him in South Carolina and the excitement of his new IHM socks. He is growing up before our eyes - he is starting to look much more tween and less little boy. Where has 9 years gone?

Jack - we love your honesty, inquisitive nature, your NON-STOP SINGING, sports-loving, stat-knowing, Type-A personality. We love your drive to always do your best and your loyalty to friends and family. We know how happy you are at IHM, playing your sports and being around your friends and family. We love you so much!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY MORE!!

HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY WILL!

This is a day late, but we have been too busy celebrating! Someone was very excited for his birthday this year and counted down the days all week until the 12th! And now he is super excited to be the same age as his brother for 18 days!

Jack - not so much.

Bless Will's heart - all he wanted for his birthday was socks.

Yes - socks.

Now they are the Elite or Jordan socks (which are pricey at $16 a pair) but socks nonetheless. Gotta love this kid. LET THERE BE SOCKS!!

We love Will for his enthusiasm, kind heart, gentle soul, millions of kisses and hugs - even in the cafeteria, where he makes it cool to kiss The Lunch Lady - and of course his ability to be so naive and oblivious. I actually envy that about him and PRAY he keeps his unassuming, positive, "fly under the radar" disposition.

FOREVER.

We love you Wilbur-Dilbur. Happy 8th Birthday and MANY MORE!!

Back to School

We are full force into our school schedule now and everyone is doing great! Jack and Will both love their teachers and after a staggered start Brooke starts full time Kindergarten tomorrow. All 3 in the same place all day long. Mom shed some tears on the first day of school!

Here's to a great 2013-2014 school year to all!

Big Girl

Got her ears pierced!!

This Girl....

Has some BIG NEWS coming soon!

Where Has The Time Gone?

Jack (8.5) Brooke (5) and Will (7.5)

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY BROOKE!!

To our Baby Girl - Where has 5 years gone? Some of the millions of things we love about you:
your sass, pizazz and precocious attitude; your love of your brothers; your love of your friends; your excitement about Kindergarten; how you try to mother everyone; your polite and well-mannered disposition; how you try to act 13 when you are only 5; your constant dancing, singing and performing; your love for being outside and "one of the boys"; your love of sports, Hello Kitty, dresses and pink ALL.AT.THE.SAME.TIME. You are a tom-boy through and through. And WE.LOVE.YOU!!!!!

We love you Brooke!

Bathing Beauty

I know I am biased but really.....is she so stinkin' cute or what?

Mommy's choice of bathing suit.

New one from Grandma Jenny. After this she looked at the picture and said "I need a new pose. I only have one." Good enough for me!

Little of This, Little of That....

We have been up to a little of this and a little of that...waiting for school to be complete for another year. THIS mom will be happy to have all my kiddos in the same place starting next year!!

End of Year Field Trips

A little bowling fun - Brooke beat Jack in the last frame!

Learning the ropes of kid-pitch baseball...stealing bases included!

Good form!

Finishing up basketball - 7 months and finally done!

Looking forward to a fun Memorial Day Weekend!! Only 2 more weeks for boys - Brooke is done Thursday!

Jack's First Holy Communion

Jack celebrated First Holy Communion on Saturday May 4th. What a beautiful day to celebrate the wonderful young man Jack is becoming in God's eyes!

The weather was great and we had most of our family here to celebrate!

The proud 1st Communicant - he looked like a million in his suit!

Proud Grandparents Goshorn

And Grandparents Sorg

Uncle Jon and Aunt Molly came from Dallas!

Of course the Austin clan was there!

Proud Parents and Siblings

And Jack's favorite part - CAKE!

Thank you to all who remembered Jack on his day and prayed for him. We are so blessed indeed!

Easter 2013

We had a great visit with Aunt Stacy, Uncle Robbie, Cade and Reid for Easter weekend. Basketball, egg decorating, playing outside and lots of fun.

A little too early for Reid to cooperate with pictures...

But then he found out there was candy to be had...all smiles!

After the hunt - goodies galore!

He is Risen - Alleluia!!

Those Were The Days...

A while back we took a road trip to HC to watch the Panthers and Coach Miller play ball. Before we left we snuck into Lynn Gym, as it is going to be renovated into a residence hall soon.

The sounds and the smells were the same. It is just the way you remember, except no fans cheering loudly as the Panthers upset Manchester (or the other way around). This place is home in many ways to Andy and I - where I first tried out for cheerleading when I was a senior in high school and met the "other" Julie; where Andy met some of his dearest friends on the basketball court and in life; where I had my first job on campus, working for the volleyball coach; where I first cheered for #40; where he first saw me in a cheerleading skirt...ahhh, the memories!

Here's to ole' Lynn Gym. May her new residents be as good to her as we were.

One last pose...

One last dunk.

It's Been Too Long....

And I know it. I am sorry. I have been living. And been busy....

Watching games on my "home court" (Yes - Andy's idea).

At our "home away from home" Nothin' But Net for these undefeated boys...

and this Lil Hoopstar too!

Playin in the snow...

and wishing for spring!

We are hangin' in there! And enjoying Spring Break! More to follow...