A bat or a spider monkey

It would not be a strange occurrence  for us to walk into a room and find Carson upside down watching cartoons and or talking to himself.  I am not sure why but he loves to do a headstand and be upside down.  His favorite place is on the couch in the living room or at the foot of our bed like so...

However, the other day I picked him up from school and as we sat in line at the intermediate school waiting to get Christian, I looked back to find him like this.  What a goof ball!

Red Ribbon Week

The kids schools both celebrated Red Ribbon Week last week for drug prevention.  Each day was a different theme and the kids got to dress up accordingly.  I forgot to take a picture every morning but here are a couple throughout the week.

Monday was pajama day for Christian

At the elementary on Monday the kids wore red to kick off the week and bandanas.  Carson chose to wear his Ross is Here bandana.....sweet boy.

Here he is posing with his robot pumpkin we made for the contest at school

Thursday was crazy day at the elementary.  Carson spiked up his hair, sprayed it white, wore one of Chad's old ties and red baseball pants.

Thursday was camo day for Christian

Aren't they sweet?

The boys also had western, black and orange days.

Fall Festival

After many hours spent in preparation of the Fall Festival, I took some time to enjoy the evening with Carson and friends.  Here is Robin so excited to finally be in costume.

Carson and Ben, otherwise known as Batman and Robin 

(Carson has been anxiously planning their matching costumes for several months)

Christian decided to volunteer for Coach Howes the first half of the evening and work the football booth.  For an hour and a half, he and Jake collected tickets and gathered footballs for kids to throw.  I was very proud of him for wanting to help first and not complain about missing out on the fun and candy.

Superhero Moves

This picture is priceless

Carson decided to throw chickens instead of footballs (for extra points) and hit the target every time!  Christian was very impressed!

They found Batgirl!

Team Jenny

Earlier this year the sister of one our good friends was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 34.  She lives in Celina and with nephews Christian and Carson's age, she has been coming to the kids games for years.  Her husband is a fireman in Celina and she is a basketball coach at Wakeland.  Unfortunately with insurance changes, she did not have the coverage she needed to immediately begin the right chemotherapy treatments.  Her family and FD family began Team Jenny to support her fight against breast cancer and to help raise funds for medical expenses.

A few weeks ago we went to Cane's for dinner as they were donating a portion of sales all day to her cause and it was truly amazing to see the support.  The place was packed and lines of cars and people wrapped around the building several times.  On the day of our only pee wee game of the season our team and several others pee wee teams showed their support by wearing pink and Team Jenny shirts.

Here is a picture I snapped of Justin and Christian right before they ran on the field to start the game.

Christian and Coach Frank

Jenny we all stand in support of you and your family as you fight like a girl!

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Carson brought home a note one day that said he would be receiving an award at the six weeks assembly that coming Friday morning and inviting us to attend and to keep it a surprise. Upon reading this I could not help but feel pride for his school as this is something they had never done before, and then the obvious pride as a parent and wondering what award he would be receiving.  The year has gotten off to an incredible start and our new principal and assistant principal have done an amazing job thus far. 

Chad and I got to the kindergarten awards assembly and watched the kids pile in.  I always love to see my kids in this environment around their peers.  

First up they announced the perfect attendance awards.  We already blew that since he had been home one day with pink eye already.  Here is his friend Holt though receiving his attendance award.

Next they announced Bobcat Pride awards and explained the attributes of each.  Carson received the award for Most Respectful.

Carson, Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you!  That's our boy!

Cowboys Game

Rounding out Chad's birthday week...he was given 4 tickets from Owens Corning to the Cowboys Game that Sunday.    Knowing how much Christian loves the Cowboys too he wanted to take the boys for a fun daddy/son outing.  I had been planning on going to Canton for a month and didn't want to change my plans so they invited Wyatt to go along too!  Chad was sporting his new #8 Cowboys tee he got for his bday from Chad and Misti!  Luckily the wife of one of the OC guys took this picture and emailed it to him.  THANK YOU!  We now have a picture to remember Carson's first Cowboys game...not that he was very interested.

Inching closer to 40!

One month ago today Chad turned 38 years old.  I can't believe it considering I met him just a couple weeks before his 21st birthday.  Chad was not too thrilled with the idea of celebrating his birthday this year and when you throw in the fact that Christian had a 9 am football game the next morning in Tom Bean, that eliminated any possibility of going out for a big night on the town.  

I on the other hand have never heard of not celebrating a birthday and was not going to start now.  In fact Chad always gives me a hard time and says I drag birthdays out and turn them into multiple celebrations....well yeah! So in true fashion we got to have a couple wonderful birthday celebrations for Chad.  Wednesday night the four of us went to one of our favorite restaurants ever, Lefty's, for an incredible dinner with Josh, Lexi, Kaden and Hudson!  We had not been there in a while and oh how I had missed that place. We stuffed ourselves!  

On Friday, his birthday, we welcomed family and friends over to the house for a casual evening and catered Dodie's crawfish etoufee....yum!  We had a full house of family, friends and food.  I made kid friendly food for the kiddos, some appetizers and we all just hung out and celebrated until it came time to tuck the boys into bed for pee-wee football the next morning.

One of the best parts of the evening was that Jana Beth and Jason came in town to spend the night with us and go to Christian's game the next morning.  It had been entirely TOO long since we had seen them so it was WONDERFUL to spend much needed time with them.

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate!  WE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!

3G Construction Services

The theme of our 3rd grade football float was 3G Construction Services and it turned out so cute!  It was SO cute that it even won first place in the parade.  Unfortunately I don't have any pics of the sign or the finished float but this at least gives you an idea.  The boys had yellow hard hats with their numbers on the side as well as their big hammers. 

My sugar bear

The crew (27 working as 1)

Pouting

We had the coolest truck ever pulling the float!

4th Grade Float

3 Musketeers

Homecoming Day

WOW!  I can't tell you the last time I pulled up this blog.  Things have been crazy busy but good busy! Homecoming - I splurged a bit.  Earlier in the week Jenny Kenny texted to see if I would want to get the boys garters for homecoming because her sister was making them.  I decided why not and went ahead and texted her back yes.  The morning of homecoming, the boys were excited but also a little apprehensive about wearing their garters.  Christian kept asking me if any of his friends were going to have them too which I assured him they would!  Here are the pics I snapped before getting into the car that morning.  I thought they looked so cute and could picture this same pose coming in the high school years!  He was happy to wear his new boots and belt buckle today too!

Brothers

I thought the garters turned out so cute and were the perfect size for them!  Carson is dressed for his Boosterthon this morning.