May 26

Memorial Day on Lake Austin. What a great time to spend with good friends. JC seriously spent hours playing in the water with the kids. I am so thankful for what an incredible dad he is. Our kids are SO blessed.



I think the best part for the kids was being thrown by dad off the super high dock into the water.

May 24

We were lucky enough to be invited by some friends out to their lake house on Lake Buchanan to start the Memorial Day weekend. It was SO beautiful and the water was just right.
Everyone loved the boat rides! The faster the better.



Somehow our oldest has to make every activity into an extreme sport! :)

My first time to wear my new swimsuit that JC bought me for Mother's Day.

May 22

JC is outta town in California for 4 days. We sure do miss him when he is gone (especially me) and we always seem to make it and have a great time together. I am so happy that our kids still want to spend time with us and with each other. (And no - I did not bribe them to take this photo.)

May 21

On a morning walk around the capitol I got these two pictures.

The first is of M running through the lawn - what I am hoping you can see is the large trees down in the background. I read that the capitol lost 7 trees that were over 100 years old during the storm last week. Most of them were roped off so far away from the damaged tree site that I wasn't able to get a close enough picture for you to really see the destruction. It is really kind of sad. The capitol also had many broken windows in the rotunda. Man - it was a huge storm.


The second is our favorite squirrel. All four of our kids have played many hours on this lawn and we have watched this albino squirrel for years. I'm not a big fan of squirrels (rats with fuzzy tails) - but I've always thought this squirrel was pretty neat.

May 18

Marcellus found a treat today! We watched him play with and torture this very large lizard. He did finally let the lizard go - unfortunately, the lizard ran off and was spotted by the dogs - which means that he didn't have a chance. We did get to watch his return to the earth over the next week though.

May 17 - Part 2

Off to a softball game. E's team beat the Dripping Springs team. Only one photo though - seems that mom was too busy talking in the stands to remember to get any more and dad is the official score keeper of the team! :)

May 17 - Part 1

M has his final soccer game of the season. He really enjoyed this team and his dad being the coach. He did a great job staying focused during the game (which is hard for a 5 year old) and seemed to always know which direction his goal was!

On the field waiting for someone to throw the ball in!

His first soccer banquet. Lots of good food to eat, but the favorite was the chicken nuggets and the Cheetos!

M gets his first trophy! He carried it around for weeks. Everywhere he went he had the trophy with him!

One last team photo!