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Picture Update

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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 🙂

Pumpkin Carving

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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.

Thanksgiving Pictures

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Christmas is quickly approaching and before it’s too late I thought I had better get the pictures posted of our Thanksgiving trip to New Orleans up.

I’ve got pictures of horse camp, the Saints game, a couple from down in the French Quarter, and from opening night at Celebration in the Oaks. You can find them all here.

Horse Camp

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While in New Orleans we were looking for things for the kids to do and Jen’s Dad called the house at 8:40 in the morning with news that at the Equest Farm in City Park they were having a Thanksgiving horse camp….starting at 9:00. Alex had just got out of bed so we had to do the flight of the bumble bee to get the kids dressed for horse riding, a lunch packed, and out the door to the stables in time.

Andrew was really excited and jumping up and down about being able to go but Alex wasn’t as excited but we didn’t give him the chance to argue about it and zoomed him out the door before he could object too much.

Amazingly we got there in time and while I was signing all the waivers and other papers Alex leaned over and whispered to me,

“Dad, Dad, I think this is the wrong camp.”

“What, no, this is the only horse camp at City Park, we’re in the right spot.”

“No, I don’t think we are, you need to ask, this isn’t the right camp.”

“Why do you think we are at the wrong camp?”

“We’re the only guys! It’s all girls!”

After I looked at the ten or so other campers who were gathered I noticed they were in fact all girls.

Bob called shortly after I left them to check to see they got to camp ok and I said Alex was a little uneasy about it being all  girls he said “Oh, he should look at this as his great opportunity.” I’m not sure he saw it like that.

When I picked them up in the afternoon they were both very excited and had a great time so apparently they got along well with all the other girls.

Halloween Party

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Andrew really wanted to have a Halloween party this year and with a couple of weeks of planning Jen was able to put together a pretty cool shin-ding. Alex invited a bunch of his friends and Andrew had friends from his school and soccer team over, and even Caroline had a friend over from music class. In the end it felt like we had about 700 kids running around the house and thank god the rain held out so they could play outside otherwise it would have been chaos.

For the weeks leading up to the party Jen worked hard at decorating the house with Halloween themed things and the night before the party and into the next day we both spent lots of time baking all kinds of Halloween themed goodies.

One of the funniest things was the morning after the party. We had cleaned up fairly well after the party but we ended up leaving some chocolate cookies on the counter. Andrew thought that he was going to be sneaky and eat one of the cookies for breakfast without telling anyone. When I walked into the kitchen and he was standing there making his broccoli face and looking generally like he was going to be sick.

“What’s wrong?” I asked him. With a his mouth full of half eaten chocolate cookie he managed to mumble while drooling on himself,

“I took a bite of cookie and it’s not good.”

He he, well that totally backfired on you didn’t it.

Here’s the Halloween pictures.