Oh Ike...

Yes Mr. Ike is on its way to the Texas Gulf Coast. Seems to be headed right at Houston. We are not in a mandatory evacuation zone so we are going to 'Hunker Down' and ride out the storm. Unfortunately our peaceful river house may get hit pretty hard, but we are praying it makes it through the Storm with minimal damage...

During the prparation for Ike, I I have made some observations....I have always known that people are very interesting creatures but when you add some excitement, it is even more interesting to see how people behave. For example, why is it that when disaster is upon us we grab as many cans of beans, rice, and chili as we can? Who said we have to eat beans when a natural disaster hits? And why is it that we sit in a trance and watch the news for two days straight, listening to them repeat the same information over and over again...SO you can find us glued to the tv, eating beans, and 'hunkering down' (as they like to say). I hope that all of you who are in the Houston area are safe and sound...and we will see you after the storm.

Schlitterbahn

This past weekend we had some plans canceled so we made a last minute trip to Galveston's Schlitterbahn....and we are talking last minute...I was very proud of myself, I was so spontaneous! We are talking about decided to go at around 9:00am and being in the car headed that way around 10:15am .


We ended up having a great day! We loved it and were rather impressed with the park. So it's not the biggest park we have ever been too, but it met all of our needs. Parking was FREE, tubes were FREE, you could bring in your own food and drinks, and surprisingly the food we did end up buying there was fairly reasonable.


Little man was fearless (surprise, surprise) and went on ever ride there except the tallest one (which as a mother I was secretly glad he didn't). Not only did he ride all the rides, but he never hesitated. I of course sat on the side lines and watched most of them. I rode a few mild tube rides and floated the lazy river. I didn't think I should take any chances.


The first ride the rode was the boogie board. Its the only ride I got pictures of since I was still dry.

After the long, fun day in the sun, we finished up the day with a nice dinner with Vim's grandparents. We ate at a quaint Italian place that tossed its pizza crust, and if you were young enough, and smiled just right, they would throw you some pizza dough to play with. Little Man was very disappointed when we made him leave the dough at the table. For some reason, I didn't want a pound of dough in the car for the hour, ride home.

Practicar Futbol...

Little Man had his first soccer practice tonight. He has been waiting for soccer to start for over a month now, and its finally here! When he got home from school, he went straight up to his room to put his soccer stuff on...I had to explain to him that soccer practice didn't start for 3 more hours and to please take off his cleats in the house. It was like waiting for Christmas for him...every 15 mins, how much longer till practice??? He loved it and can't wait to have practice again. Don't you love the head band and wrist band accessories?? He picked those out himself!

Our Relaxing Labor Day Weekend

For the Heads, we had a very low key Labor Day weekend, at least for us it was low key... which was extremely nice and much needed. We started it off by sleeping in on Saturday morning till after 9! Then we headed to a park (or swamp turned into nature park) by our house that supposedly has alligators (sadly we didn't see any). Then we took off for College Station for the Aggies opening game. Little Man had a great time, we took him last year to a game and right after half time he lost interest. This year he made it to about the middle of the 4th quarter before getting squirmy...which I thought was pretty good. When I asked him what he thought of the game, he responded saying 'I'm pretty impressed! The Aggies made it to 14 before the other team.' Unfortunately, the rules of the game are not who can make it to 14 first and the Aggies had an extremely disappointing loss. His favorite yell is of course 'Beat the h*ll out of....' and we had to discuss that he may only say it at Aggie football games, when the Yell Leaders tell him to, and that is the only time it is acceptable!

On Sunday we left after church for the river house. Some much needed time was spent with just the 3 of us, relaxing, tracking the hurricane, and of course spending time on the water. Little Man has really taken to the wake board. He got up with out Vim having to be out in the water to help and stayed up for quite some time. His blessing and his curse is that he is over ambitious. He can not wait to start doing 'tricks' like jumping and going over the wake (hence the video). It is good because he is not scared to wipe out, but bad because we want him to perfect the basics first. Hope your Labor Day was as relaxing and enjoyable!

First Day of Kindergarten

Well, the day finally came when my baby headed off to Kindergarten. I remember making my post this time last year, speculating on how 'This Day...' would be for me. And just about all I said was true. Minus the fact that I didn't get to hold his hand since he insisted on riding his bike. I told him that I would try not to cry in front of him, and I kept my promise. The moments that I had to hold back the strongest were when I asked him to hug me good bye outside the door of the school...he kissed me, hugged me and then kissed and rubbed my belly to tell the baby good bye...oh how hard it was not to let the tears start flowing. He was so grown up, not a fear in the world, he needed no direction on where to go or what to do. He walked in to the school very confidently, found his seat, and sat down like a pro. I kept the good bye very short, I don't even think I went in the class room, just poked my head in, waved and left. I didn't want to be one of those parents who were swarming the class, intruding on the teacher's territory...God Bless those teachers...they sure put up with a lot from us parents. Vim snapped a couple of shots of him walking in, I was trying my hardest to hold it together and couldn't man the camera.

My good friend Jill was so very awesome. Knowing it would be a sad day for me, she took me out to lunch so I didn't have to sit at home in a funk. She also gave me a little book, that I think every mother should own....called "Let Me Hold You Longer"....its a great book that every mom should own. Last night, I made us all sit down at bed time and read it. I grabbed my tissue, and had Vim read it out loud to us. During the story, William said 'Mommy, you can still hold me.' which just caused more tears.

So, you might be wondering how his day went and what he thought about kindergarten?? I picked William up at the bike racks, his first words were 'I LOVED IT!!' He said he saw a few of his friends from Pre-K and that it was better than his old school. And to top it off, when we got back to the house, we sat on the couch for a good 10 mins, and I got to hold him while he told me all about his day...

Celebration Part 2

This past weekend my husband continued on with my week long birthday celebration and we had several good friends down to our river house for festivities. Our age definetly showed this weekend, on Friday night we were all in bed by 11:30 and on Saturday night, the girls went to bed around 12 and the guys weren't too far behind, coming to bed at 1am. Overall the weekend was very relaxing the enjoyable. The girls had breakfast cooked for them on Saturday morning by the men, and then we were off to town to get pedi/manis. Tons of snacking went on...but that is to be expected with 3 pregnant ladies. Thanks everyone who came out to celebrate, I hope you had as good of a time as I did!

Sist'as

The group cooling off

The Pregos

A major highlight of the weekend was that Little Man got up on his wake board for the first time! I am so proud of him, Vim expects he will be doing flips next summer...I think he might be expecting a little too much but hey, its a goal!

The Bestest Celebration

Yesterday was my birthday and a day full of celebration. It started out with a family breakfast at Denny's (because breakfast is my favorite meal to eat out), and then my hubby brought me Pei Wei for lunch (Mongolian Beef, fried rice and crab puffs-- yum yum!). I recieved flowers in the mail from my dad, and on Monday my mom and I spent the whole day shopping...and I got some new Maternity clothes (yippee!! If your going to be big, might as well be stylish). So I guess technically it is kind of like a birthday week (which is the best way to go)!

For dinner we had a nice family dinner out to the Aquarium downtown. We didn't tell Little Man where we were going, we only told him that we were going out to celebrate my birthday and his last week of Pre-K (yes very sad-- don't remind me). He looooved all the fish and the restaurant. I had been before but never been inside to eat. It was a great atmosphere. I loved getting to sit down with my whole family and enjoy a nice, fun meal. Honestly, I didn't expect the food to be great, since usually at 'theme' restaurants you are paying for the atmosphere and not the food. But I will say that it was better then what I expected. And I would soooo go back for the dessert! It was really good! When you cut into the cake, it oozed chocolate fudge like a volcano. While we were eating it, Little Man pronounced this was the bestest celebration ever! I would have to agree. It was a perfect birthday, quality time spent with the two most important men in my life. Thank you boys for making it so special.

'Hey little fellow, whats your name?'

The amazing dessert!