Kevin's Birthday Party

What a fun day. We celebrated Kevin's birthday a few days early. It was either do it early or try and do a birthday party on Easter weekend. Don't think my job exactly meshes with the last idea. So...

We had grandma, grandpa, nona, grumpy, Uncle Bubba and Uncle Gardy all come over for a celebration. I bar-b-qued chicken thighs for fajitas, made a pot of refried beans, guacamole, and all the other fixins. Must have been good because there weren't much leftovers.

Kevin didn't seem to want too much of his cake. I think he was pretty full from eating chicken, beans, and fruit. Oh well, there will be plenty of time for the sweet tooth to kick in!

Birthday cake. Dawna outdid herself.

Uncle Bubba and his girls.

New John Deere wagon.

We're In Trouble Now

Sorry it's sideways, but the program won't rotate it.

Bluebonnets 2009

We drove to Brenham today to take pictures of the kids in a bluebonnet patch. Believe it or not, right behind Wal-Mart, there was a giant field filled with the flowers. Several families were out and about snapping their kids. Luckily, we managed to get some pretty good shots of the kids.



Kiera.



Kaylee.



Kevin.



The girls together.

And now, time to get a good picture of all three kids together:











Aw, hell. There's always next year.

It's Started Already

The video speaks for itself:

A Few Pics

Daddy's back didn't feel too good for a couple of days after this one, but it was worth it.



The girls playing with some Christmas gifts. They enjoy dress up.



Junior obviously didn't realize how the Cowboys did this year. He's too happy.

Just Haven't Felt Like It

I know that many family and friends out there have been wondering what's up with the blog. "Do you know it's been early January since you've updated?" "It's been a while since you've updated the blog."

I know.

Just haven't felt up to it for some reason.

Got involved in playing a particular video game, which was a little more mindless than blogging.

Kids have been wearing me out.

Have had to travel down to Houston at least a couple of times a week, one for teachign a Bible study at First Presbyterian.

By the time things are done. I'm tired, and between that and household responsibilities: I just want to sit and veg.

So, I'm throwing everyone a bone. Don't know when I'll get back around to blogging again. Here's a couple of pics to tide you over as well.



10 Month Old Picture



Christmas Angels?



Surprise Birthday Party at Church

Dance Recital

"It was an unmitigated disaster."

That's how I described the rehearsal the night before Kiera's dance recital on December 12th. The description was very, very accurate.

The dance studio asked us to have our kids there at 6:30 p.m. for the rehearsal. They were supposed to be done by 7:30. Yeah right!

I had Kiera there on time, but they got started very late. They still told the parents to return at 7:30, which I did. I got there just in time to witness Kiera and her class run through their routine--and that was only half way through the rehearsal! It wasn't pretty.

Imagine 10 three and four year olds who are nearing or past their bedtimes. Not good. Not good at all. Kiera was one of the worst. She left her place in line twice, running to her teacher once and trying to grab the microphone the second time. "Oh my God!" I thought to myself. "Tomorrow's going to be a fun day."

Well, it was a fun day. Dawna got Kiera's make up and everything on her early.



I got her to the auditorium and waited for everyone else to arrive. Grandma, Grandpa, Nona, Uncle Bubba, Dawna, Kaylee, Kevin, Jr., and I took up nearly a whole row of seats. The show started, and Kaylee was absolutely enraptured by the whole ordeal. Finally, it came time for the pre-K ballet class. Things started off a little rocky. Kiera took some time to try and locate everyone.



She settled down though, and toward the end, she was actually doing some ballet moves when she was supposed to be doing them.



The recital itself was far from the unmitigated disaster of the night before. In fact, all things considering, they did a great job.



The neat part of the whole ordeal is that after the recital, things finally clicked for Kiera. Up until that point, she had been very reluctant to do any of her ballet moves around the house. After the recital, she knew what it was all about, and she was only too happy to dance around the house. We'll be enrolling her again next summer for more dance, and we look forward to see what surprises are in store later.