Boys Hunting Weekend

Immediately following the superbowl game, Chad loaded Christian with Chad K and Tyler in the truck to head to the deer lease for opening weekend.  Christian could hardly wait to get there and the thought of them having a big boy weekend made it even more special.  Here the boys are in the driveway before they got on the road.  

On the way they stopped to pick up their hunting license and while they were waiting Christian found a camo hat with two built in little headlights he just had to have.  

With the big boys away, Carson and I made time to play.  We went to the Balloon Festival where we stayed for hours. Initially, Carson was a nervous wreck and he really did not want to ride much so he ran around with his friends, jumped on the bounce house, went down the slide and hung out in the petting zoo. On our way out we ran in to Lisa and Jennifer with the kids so turned back around and did it all again before heading down to Chili's for a late dinner.  

Sunday Carson spent the day on the farm with Grammy before we all met for Ta Ta's birthday dinner.  The boys had a great time at the deer lease and can't wait to go back for another weekend! Here are a few pics Chad sent me from the weekend.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

The boys did it!  They finished their 3rd grade football season undefeated with a 6-0 win over Sherman to win the Superbowl for the second year in a row.  It has been an incredible season as they finished up the season scoring 286 points and only giving up 6.

In preparation for the big game on Saturday, we spent Thursday night at practice making noisemakers to shake in the stands and painted up all of our cars.  Christian loved that I painted the burb and it was fun to see the reaction of he and his friends as they walked off the field.

Saturday morning we got to the stadium in Gunter and I finished watching the second grade superbowl game while Chad and Christian went over to warm-ups.  By the start of our game the stands were full and Christian pretty well had the whole family there in his cheering section.  Grammy and David, Grandma and Ta Ta, Aunt Leslie and Uncle Patrick, Yai Yai, Paw Paw, Aunt Tawnie, Shea Shea and Jay!  Unfortunately, I could not relax.  It was the only close game we have had all season and after a fumble late in the fourth quarter it was stressful to say the least.  Like we knew they would, the defense stopped them in their tracks and the final seconds counted off the clock.

 Carson and Monkey, his class pet, before the game

Boys running through victory line before game

Jake's touchdown!!

Kneeling for injured player

Let the celebration begin!! I love this pic I snapped of Chad the moment the game was over!

Being presented with the trophy

Christian, Leslie and Patrick (in orange :))

Celina 3rd Grade Football Team

Proud dad and coach

With Shea Shea and Jay

Brock and Christian

Individual Trophy Shots

Proud Grammy

The fam....minus a few

Skin and Bones

Celina 3rd Grade wins the SUPERBOWL!!!!!

Taj Mahal

Well, the hubby has gotten back into deer hunting full boar and as of last week had checked everything off the list except for the deer blind.  After scouring Craigslist day in and day out and not wanting to spend the money that most people were asking (eye roll), he finally decided to head to Home Depot Wednesday night to purchase the material needed to build his blind.

I pretty well left him in the garage all night (it was freezing) to do his thing and occasionally when he absolutely needed me he would call me out to hold something straight while he nailed in the initial structure.  Seeing him take a pile of lumber and turn it into something like this was pretty impressive but not enough to sit out there and freeze with him all night.  Sorry honey.

Christian snuck out of bed and some point in the night and went to help dad.

On Friday night the boys and I came home from the football game to find the somewhat finished masterpiece.  I call it the Taj Mahal because when Chad was MIA building this thing during the week and someone would ask where Chad was, my response would be "oh, he's home building the Taj Mahal of deer blinds."  

Trick or Treat

The crew all gathered for trick-or-treating at the Kennemers this year.  The boys are always very eager to trick or treat with their friends so this was sure to be a great night!  

GG's in the house

I took mummy dogs (minus eyes) for the kids and they were a huge hit!  I started dabbing on some mustard but quickly gave up knowing the kids would never know the difference.

After dinner we all gathered in the front yard to take pictures

and off we went.  Can you imagine opening your door to find this?

Jedd, Carson and Christian

Christian and Carson aka Bones and Robin

I asked and asked and asked Christian what he wanted to be for Halloween and every time he said he wanted to be a bobcat football player.  At first I was a little surprised and thought he was just being difficult but nope, he really wanted to be a bobcat football player just like he is every Saturday.  I told myself not to worry with the idea of people thinking I wouldn't get my son a costume and go with the fact that his costume cost me an additional zero dollars and zero cents.  When we got the 7:00 am call from the Ubes that morning confirming football jerseys, Christian was even happier and I have to admit so was I.

Merritt and Carson

The kids had a spooktacular night that ended with a hay ride on the polaris.

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.