Just updated the website with some older pictures.
- In February we took a trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. There is no way not to have fun during Mardi Gras.
- Caroline’s superhero birthday party.
- Pictures from Summer Swim Team.
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Picture Update
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to get caught up on all the pictures from 2012 that I have been meaning to get to. I think today I’m finally caught up and ready to start on 2013. There are a lot of updates so here it goes.
- Vacation to Florida – As it has been our tradition for the past couple of years we spend the first week of summer vacation in Florida. This year my my sisters family joined us and the cousins all got to hang out and have a great time.
- Summer Swim Team – Pictures from a couple of the swim meets the boys did this summer.
- Alex Triathlon – Alex had been asking to do another triathlon and this year we finally managed to sign him up for the same Dallas kids tri that he did a couple of years back.
- Trip to New Orleans – Before the kids started back after the summer break we took a trip to New Orleans to see the Grandparents. On this trip we also did some things that we haven’t ever done before like visit the Old Mint, the Pontalba buildings, and the Mardi Gras Museum.
- Caroline at the Gym – Caroline did an introduction to Gymnastics class.
- Caroline Ballet – She also took an introduction to ballet class.
- Halloween – Halloween pictures from this year.
- Christmas – To finish out the year some pictures from Christmas.
Now I have a couple hundred pictures of the recent Disney trip to sift through 🙂
Website Updates
I haven’t completely abandoned updating the website, it just seems like I have less and less time to do this stuff. If you have been following the home page there have been a couple of updates but I haven’t posted about them her so here’s the summary from the last time.
- Caroline’s Birthday – Back in February we had a Mary Poppins themed birthday party for Caroline. It started off with her listening to the movie soundtrack, then she saw the movie, and then it was the party.
- Alex and Andrew’s Birthday Party – The boys decided that they both wanted to have a bowling/laser tag party so we did a combined party.
- Andrew Spring Soccer – Couple of pictures from Andrew’s spring soccer season.
- Alex Spring Lacrosse – Couple of pictures from Alex’s spring lacrosse season.
- Caroline’s First Haircut – I think we actually held out a really time before we took her for her first haircut but it was starting to get out of control.
- Yearly Pictures – We did take our traditional yearly pictures again this year and we did do it right around their birthdays which was a small miracle. Here are Caroline, Alex, Andrew, and the Group pictures.
- Mammoth Caves and Ryan’s Graduation – In May Ryan graduation from Law school at IU and as part of the trip up there we also visited Mammoth Caves, a bit of Louisville, and the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.
Basketball Pictures
I haven’t posted pictures to the website for a while and part of reason is that our camera died a couple of months ago. We’ve had our small pocket camera but our SLR started getting flaky and then totally quit. The small camera is ok but it certainly doesn’t take pictures as nice as the SLR did.
So a week ago I ordered a brand spanking new camera and it arrived just in time for the last game of the boys basketball season. Of course I had to test it out at the game and capture some pictures.
We had originally only planned on Andrew playing basketball since he had such a good time with it last year but after going to one of Andrew’s practices Alex pleaded with us to play as well.
We gave in since it was the church league with the goal of coaching basketball fundamentals and having fun instead of high pressure competition and winning at all costs. They both had lots of fun and said that they wanted to play again next year.
Halloween Pictures
Andrew has helped me put together the Halloween pictures. And by help I mean he has been sitting beside me complaining the whole time wanted to do something else. He has actually contributed some art work for the banner and for this page but he he wasn’t happy that I had to take the staple out of the spider art work.
Here are the Halloween Pics.
Pumpkin Carving
Since tomorrow is Halloween we all went out to the garage this afternoon for a pumpkin carving extravaganza. This is the first year that Caroline could really help out with her pumpkin and she drove right in and had lots of fun.
The boys worked hard on their pumpkins as well but unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of the finished pumpkins. I’ll see if I can get any tomorrow night.
Fall Scout Campout
Just posted some pictures from the Fall Campout that Alex and I did with his Scout Troop. You can find them here.
Messing with my Son
Conversation that I had tonight with Alex through the bathroom door.
Alex: Dad!!!
10 seconds later.
Alex: Dad!!!!
Me: I’m coming hang on.
I get to the bathroom
Me: What?
Alex: Can you get me a new roll of toilet paper, we ran out.
Me: Ah, no, we don’t have any left.
Alex: But what am I supposed to do?
Me: Use your hand, just wash it off when you get out.
With absolute horror in his voice
Alex: But, but, ….. but, I’ve gone….
That’s when I let him off the hook and opened the door and threw him a new roll.
1st Day of School
Summer is over for another year and the boys returned to school this morning. I’m pretty sure if you asked them they would tell you that they had a great summer but it wasn’t long enough. When you were a kid was summer holiday ever long enough?
We all walked over to the school this morning and even Caroline insisted on having her own backpack. It’s hard to believe it’s already the start of another school year.
Website Update
Once again I’ve been pretty lax in keeping the website updated. There has been all kinds of stuff going on but I’ve just been falling behind.
We kept our tradition of taking yearly pictures of the kids but with all the bad weather we had around Caroline’s birthday we ended up taking her pictures a little late. In fact we didn’t get around to it until May so we just did everyone’s pictures on the same day. This worked out really well since we were able to take a bunch of group pictures that we’ve never done before.I think the group shots turned our really nice and we’ll probably try and do those every year.
Here are the links to the individual picture pages.
Right after the kids got out of school Jen drove with them to Watercolor Florida like we did last year to vacation with her family. Unfortunately I had a conference I needed to attend for work during that same week so I was only able to join them on the last day. Even though it was only for the day it was still fun and on the way back we stopped in to visit the USS Alabama battleship in Mobile Bay.
Then last weekend we surprised the kids with a trip to Sea World San Antonio. Over the summer Jen has been doing a “theme of the week” activity with the kids. The week they started piano lessons they had a music themed activity they did each day. The week before Sea World they were doing water animal themed activities. On Thursday I came home from work early and we surprised them with the trip. I wish I had a picture of Andrew’s face when he made the connection that we were going to be leaving right now, not in a couple of days, he looked like he was going to explode with excitement. Unfortunately we’ve now set the bar really high on surprises and I’m not sure we can top it.