Longhorn Baseball

Our family takes an annual spring trip to Austin each year to see a Longhorn baseball game. We haven't been able to go in years but since we're back, we made the trip and it was so much fun. We always go eat at Rudy's BBQ before the game.

Here's our family at the baseball game

Dilan and Drew with one of their cousins

Me and my mom and Drake in the stands 

   Drake and David (I have so much UT stuff for Drake but it's all in storage, poor kid)

 As we took the kids to walk around, we saw Bevo! Dilan wasn't really sure about taking a picture with him but the boys were all about it. Hook 'Em Horns!!!

 Me and my boys at the game - we actually got on tv during the seventh inning stretch. We were dancing to the cotton eyed joe and a cameraman liked what he saw I guess! 

A definite must at the game - Dipping Dots! The kids love them, especially Drake!

 The next day after staying in the hotel (which the kids think is the best thing about vacation), we all ate breakfast together and then went to Zilker park. There was a train to ride there and the kids loved it.

Us and the boys again

After the train ride, we got snow cones for the kids too. Drew picked watermelon flavor and Dilan chose pink bubble gum!

Drake enjoyed the snow cones too!

Drew and Popo after our special weekend in Austin

Drew's spring soccer picture

Drew is fortunate to have David as his soccer coach every year and as a benefit, they get a free picture together! I think it turned out well. :)

Spring Soccer 2012

David coached Drew's soccer team once again this year, and Drew's team was called the Rockets. They started off a little rocky but really improved through the season winning most of their games. Drew chose to be #15 because it's the day of his birthday in June. He even scored his first goal ever on the second-to-last game of the season! Instead of posting pictures for each week's game, I just waited until the end of the season to share the best ones.

our happy soccer player

Drew played goalie several times and loved it. He's very good at watching where the ball goes and paying attention.

GO DREW!!!

Drew cheering after his team scored a goal. The league technically does not keep score yet but the kids sure do!

Drew was more aggressive this year using his arms to bump a bit

our cute spectators

me and my oldest soccer player - I'm so proud of him

Dilan and her first flirting experience with another teammate's older brother on the sidelines. She was in awe of this kid as they threw the football back and forth.

Last huddle of the season

After trophies were dispersed, Drew took a picture with his Coach :) and of course, Dilan was an honorary team member

Easter 2012!

We didn't get to go to Houston for Easter this year because both Drew and Dilan had soccer games and Drew had his first flag football game on Saturday. It was just too hard to do both and because David is the coach of all 3 teams, we felt it was important to honor his responsibility to be here. And due to the very cute Easter baskets with names embroidered on them being in the storage unit, we went with some new Easter buckets this year. I like to do less candy and more little gifts so each of the kids got pajamas/clothes stuffed at the bottom of their bucket, a movie, books, and a toy of some kind along with candy that they each prefer.

Drew got the Encyclopedia Brown books which were David's favorites, a new Thomas movie, the train, Scruff, and the zoo train cars, 2 new pairs of pajamas, and only chocolate candy which he requested. Dilan got a new Strawberry Shortcake movie, a Strawberry shortcake book and a princess book, a new Barbie, a new outfit and a princess t-shirt, and gum which is her favorite thing ever along with some other candy. Drake got three new pairs of pajamas, a new Thomas movie, a new book, some rabbit ears and some new sippy cups (which again he will not drink out of but I had to try!) and some candy too. All in all, the kids enjoyed what the Easter bunny brought them.

David and his boys

Dressed in Sunday clothes and ready to hunt for the eggs! All of them did so well this year, even Drake, who completely got the hang of it once we showed him what to do.

All three of our kids at the end of our Easter egg hunt.

Found the last one on the window sill.

Easter Egg Dye 2012

Dying Easter eggs gets better and better as the kids get older. Dilan let David help her and she was able to use the egg dipper instead of her fingers!

Drew eyeing all of his color options, neon was new this year

me and the older kids having fun

Drew finishing his orange egg

Dilan with all of her eggs colored

Drew showing me his purple egg - this year he didn't want or make any pink eggs. :)

the shirt comes off and the stickers go on

David with the kids after the coloring of the eggs

Dallas Tornado

Tuesday was like any other day. I saw dark clouds in the sky in the morning and thought that it might rain. A friend came over and we worked on Relief Society stuff, ate lunch, and they left when it came to nap time. Then, I got a text from a friend saying there was a tornado watch in the area. I got on the phone and was chatting away, never heard any tornado sirens that apparently were going off all around me, and then I heard it. Loud thumping noise accompanied by massive rain. I looked outside to see big white things falling from the sky. I thought it was hail but had never seen it that big. I thought of my car and how it was parked underneath the cover outside but if there was any wind at all, my van would be toast. Here's where I feel sorry for myself that we don't have a house yet with a garage. Anyway, it last about 20 minutes and luckily the kids were asleep. I watched the storm from my window capturing a bit on video and when it passed, found this outside. Baseball-size hail had fallen everywhere. We were fortunate it didn't last longer and it wasn't stronger. But we did get the worst of the hail anywhere. The parking lot had massive damage to every car that was out there. A neighbor told me my back window was smashed and so when I went to look, sure enough, it was totally obliterated. I re-parked the car sideways so no more water could get in the car as there was already about 6 inches in the back. It was a mess, tree branches everywhere, holes in windows, and cars that were now undrivable. But we were okay. I know others were very traumatized by the whole event but maybe because I've been through hurricanes and tropical storm flooding in Houston, 20 minutes of a tornado didn't scare me too much. Now if the roof had blown off, I think it would have but I was never in fear of that. It did take some time to get Drew home from school but once he was home safe, I didn't worry. Now, it's time to get the van fixed.

Mimi's Visit

One of the advantages of going to our niece's baptism in Austin last weekend was getting to take David's mom back with us for a week. We had so much fun! Going to see the movie, Hunger Games, eating Tappy's frozen yogurt, walking several times at the YMCA, going to eat lunch with Drew at school, going to Drew and Dilan's soccer games and Dilan's storytime at the library. We fit a lot in and we didn't want her to leave! But she went to visit her other grand kids too that live here in Texas so we had to let her go.

Drake with Mimi

Mimi got to see David coach Drew's soccer team...

and seee Dilan's first soccer game too.