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Hey all! We've been running around crazy here for the last month so here's a re-cap of what's been happenin...

Cade finished his T-ball season and FINALLY got his trophy. He's been talkin about ALL SEASON long! At this age it's not a "best hitter" or "most catches" trophy. It's just a "good job playin in the dirt and lookin cute" trophy. He is so thrilled!


(Where do we store/display all those cheesy trophies...we're up to 6 already?!)

Jack and Eric finished up soccer, too! E was the coach and the team did really well. I'm sure he coached a little like he manages...all practices ran in 8 minute drills, with a short period of a fun activity at the end, "to build team relationships and keep it fun and interesting". He also knew everyone's strengths and weaknesses and every saturday talked (to me!) about how they could use them to benefit the whole team during the game. I really think he enjoyed it even though soccer's not really his thing! And he was really thrilled at the end of the season, one of our team players Dad gave him a mini keg as a present! Jack did great, too! Eric said he has the strongest leg on the team, but needs to work on ball control.



I just spent several days in New Orleans at my sisters house. I had a CEU convention there so I got to go get CEUs and hang out with her and her fam. Luckily my Mom went with me and watched Lila. The boys stayed home with Dad. It was really nice to hang out my sis and the convention rocked too! I think the boys had fun w/o me and E got a good dose of "motherhood"! I will say I missed them and they missed me!


My b-n-law Dan ordered this right after we said we were pickin up the tab!


My cute neices


Me My Mom and My Sis

One last picture of Lila Grace, b/c it is too cute! She's doing great...crawling everywhere. We had to put up a gate, b/c she was not only doing stairs, she had MASTERED stairs with a little help from her bro Cade. I came around the corner the other day and I see LG climbing the stairs with Cade at the top saying, "Come to Papa!"



We are headed out tomorrow to East TX to have Thanksgiving with the Fortners! Can't wait to see everyone and eat a lot of food! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Christmas wishes

My boys are addicted to the toy adds we've been getting. Especially the extra large Target Toy Book and the Toys R Us Toy Book!! They make me save them and when Dad goes on his cleaning rampages (like he does a lot!) he tosses it and we have two very upset little boys. We currently have 1 in each car, 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the living room and several in the bathroom! Any down time, they're looking at toys! I've heard a lot of different things they want, but the main ones are a Nintendo DS for Cade and a computer (of his own) for Jack. Only Cade changes his mind daily and I have to keep reminding him of what he wants...it gets really hard when you have to buy them what they actually ask Santa for!



Also, wanted to add Eric and I headed to CT last weekend and we had a blast! Lucky for us my parents came and watched the older 2 and we took Lila Grace with us. We got to hang out with all our old friends and kind of let loose for the weekend (1 feels like none, once you have 3!). We stayed with our good friends Megan and Rick! Thank you so much! Unfortunately, I didn't take near enough pictures but here are a couple. My other friend Meg had a baby right before me so it was really fun to visit and let the babies play.

Halloween 2009