11.14.2008
More of Ethan
More Football!
I can't remember what team he was playing but he was doing great. Here he is in their cool purple jerseys with his stripped socks. He's # 67!
Here are warm-ups before the game. The guy left of Samuel, #78, is pumping his legs really high, and then there's Samuel, basically just shifting weight from one foot to the next. :) Good thing they did warm-ups to get them moving! :)
Going to the line.
At the line.
Covering the tail back.
It looks like he's blocking two guys here.
Heading off the field.

And here he is afterward, all tuckered out. The coaches work them pretty hard, and he loves it.
And here he is afterward, all tuckered out. The coaches work them pretty hard, and he loves it.
Pretzels!
One Sunday night I was craving Mall pretzels and found a great recipe on allrecipies.com. I love that website! If you don't know what to make for dinner you can put in some ingredients you have in the pantry and it will come up with stuff you can make. These turned out great.



Funny picture, but it shows the pretzel dogs we made. You just make a thin long snake of the pretzel dough and wrap it around the hot dog. Tasty stuff.
Funny picture, but it shows the pretzel dogs we made. You just make a thin long snake of the pretzel dough and wrap it around the hot dog. Tasty stuff.
Birthday Cake
I made my own cake this year. Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting! Samuel got me the game Life which we played. It was fun, but as we played it more we realized how ridiculous it is. They require you to go into debt for school, you can trade salaries with people and you don't see the blessings of things like children and marriage. It could be alot worse but we are going to make our own board I think. Our own version of life!
11.13.2008
Family Pictures
I still have alot of blogging to catch up on, but I thought I'd put up the contact info for a great photographer in the area who is working half price through the end of the year because she just moved here from Louisianna. And she doesn't copyright, so you get all your photos to do whatever you want with!! yay!! You can check out her website at http://www.donnagustin.blogspot.com/and here is a sample of what she did for us.

She came to our home, that's our garden in the background. She was efficient, didn't waste time and had a lot of great ideas for posing.
She's all about making you look good.
I'd recommend her to anyone here in San Antonio or the surrounding areas.
Christmas cards here we come!

She came to our home, that's our garden in the background. She was efficient, didn't waste time and had a lot of great ideas for posing.
She's all about making you look good.
I'd recommend her to anyone here in San Antonio or the surrounding areas.
Christmas cards here we come!
11.11.2008
Lydia tagged me
* Write six random things/unspectacular quirks about yourself
Lydia did this tag the other day on her blog. The sad thing about Lydia is that I haven't seen her in years. We were inseparable growing up, like sisters. I was over at her house every weekend for sleep overs. Her mom taught me a lot about make-up, cooking, laundry, manners, etc. At one point I even had a crush on her brother.
In all sense of the word, she was my person.
Then she moved out of state during high school, I went to college and she got married, then she had kids and I graduated from college. Our lives went in different directions. I finally got married and now have kids. We haven't seen each other in so long that I thought we must have grown apart and out of touch...till I read her answers to this tag:
Lydia did this tag the other day on her blog. The sad thing about Lydia is that I haven't seen her in years. We were inseparable growing up, like sisters. I was over at her house every weekend for sleep overs. Her mom taught me a lot about make-up, cooking, laundry, manners, etc. At one point I even had a crush on her brother.
In all sense of the word, she was my person.
Then she moved out of state during high school, I went to college and she got married, then she had kids and I graduated from college. Our lives went in different directions. I finally got married and now have kids. We haven't seen each other in so long that I thought we must have grown apart and out of touch...till I read her answers to this tag:
1. I obsess over naming; I have kept my husband up many nights checking off names. I literally have 6 children already named even though I only have two and am not expecting.
- I do this exact same thing! Jonah Michael for the next boy and Matrona Jean for the next girl.
- Daniel will tell you that mail is a huge thing for me. He used to write me letters and put them in our box on the way to work in the morning so that when I'd check it in the afternoon I'd have mail.
- Daniel is basically my go-go-gadget arms. I'll usually ask him to get me stuff and do things for me when I know I could do it myself. And he does them. I'm spoiled too.
- I do the same thing to Daniel. If I wake up in the middle of the night or can't go to sleep after he's already snoozing I have to really control myself not to wake him. Most of the time I can't control myself. Luckily Daniel goes in and out of sleep very easily. :)
- That is so me. I hate too much frosting on cakes, I end up giving it to Daniel, but when I know we have a can of frosting in the freezer, it doesn't last long.
- Surprises don't last long for me either. Daniel has to hide all my presents and can't even tell me that they exist till the actual holiday cuz I'll run around the house with a huge grin on my face and I won't stop till I find it. He found that out the hard way.
Lydia, I love it that we haven't changed that much after all.
To me fair friend you never can be old,
for as you were when first your eye I eyed,
such seems your beauty still.
~Shakespeare~
Your friend forever.
To me fair friend you never can be old,
for as you were when first your eye I eyed,
such seems your beauty still.
~Shakespeare~
Your friend forever.
11.03.2008
Rain or Shine
This is one of Samuel's away games. We were there for only 15 min. when is started to pour. It literally felt like monsoon amounts of rain. Most people fled, Daniel took Ethan to the car, and I looked around to see who was left and there were only a dozen people staying put as the game continued. I was drenched to the bone, wondering if it was all worth it when I looked across the field and saw Samuel jumping up and down a little to stay warm. He saw me standing in the rain and waved. I smiled and waved, and in that moment it was all worth it. The rain eventually cleared and he had a few good tackles.
He's number 67. We bought those baseball socks to protect his legs and wrote his number on the back. It was easy to see him on the field, I just looked for the socks.
After the rain stopped I went to get Daniel and baby from the car and we ended up watching from outside of the fence because of a few hyper middle school girls who's vocal cords never wavered. There was a brief moment there when I told Daniel that I didn't want to have any girls,if that's what they were going to be like. :)
I love this look between Father and son. You can also see the clouds clearing
Samuel is trying to think of nick-names he might get. Like "The Wall" or "The Bulldozer". He's a good blocker but he's waiting for someone else to give him a nickname so that he can write it on his helmet.
Look for the striped socks. There he is standing over that kid on the ground in black.
Getting instructions from Coach.
He's blockin the kid out
Going up to the line
Getting ready
At the line
Going to blocking
Going in to help tackle.
You can see Samuel running hard after the kid with the ball at the far left. Can you tell I don't know all the positions yet. :) I'm getting there.
Another Grandma post
Hey Grandma! Here are some more pictures for you, taken at about 8 and a half months.
Look at this chunker. So cute!! With his seventh little tooth coming in.
His hair is slowly growing in.
He's such a cute kneeler
He went up and down, standing to kneeling for a while. Just up and down, right there, looking at the lamp (which is on a stool until we get our new set of end tables. :)
Blowing some raspberries.
Bringing Momma a diaper to change his doody.
Just sittin'
Squishy eyes.
Sorry Meredith!
Meredith tagged me back in July, before she had her baby and I've been slacking, but I want to catch up so here you go.
You have to list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions, 3 random surprising facts about yourself and then tag 5 people that have to complete this too.
3 Joys
You have to list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions, 3 random surprising facts about yourself and then tag 5 people that have to complete this too.
3 Joys
- I love seeing my husband and my boys smiles, I love smiles!
- It brings me joy when I connect with Samuel, I love that he trusts me enough to listen.
- Ethan's joy is my joy, I love it when he is happy.
3 Goals
- I want sell a few things on craigslist over the next few weeks to have extra money for our Thanksgiving vacation to Arizona
- Finish sewing three stockings in time for Christmas
- Create a huge historical time line and add historical information to it as I read through my bookcase full of books.
3 Current Obsessions
- Since moving into the house I am an avid waterer. I have to water the lawn and garden regularly, by hand if I have to. It just makes everything pretty.
- Ethan's sleep schedule is like an obsession. Kids learn more in the first three years of their life than at any other time and it's important that he's well rested for it, so I'm home between 9 - 11 am and 12 - 2 pm every day so that he can sleep.
- Communicating with my husband. We talk stuff out all the time and we have to be on the same page or we can't do anything else.
3 Random surprising Facts
- I love texture, in my food, in my clothes, in artwork. Daniel and I go to get ice cream and I have to have at least two toppings to add texture
- I used to bite my nails when I was young and still do it during suspenseful movies
- I have pretty good hand-eye coordination and motor skills. In fact I want to take mechanic classes at the local college because I like working with my hands and because I hate being so ignorant when I take the car to our mechanic.
If you have never been tagged before, I tag you. You have to do this. :)
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