Spring Break 2010

So, we managed to all escape from work and baseball for a couple of days and actually enjoy Spring Break.  For me, this is quite tricky since I am a CPA and this is our busiest time of year.  Luckily, things were somewhat under control, so we sped off (okay, not really....) down south on Thursday afternoon for Galveston.  About 5 hours later (not kidding....), we arrived.  HOLY SMOKES.  The Woodlands is far from the far west end of Galveston, add in lunch stops and grocery stops and all of the other drama with multiple kids in multiple vehicles....GOOD LAWD.  My little man was dressed, had his backpack and was ready TO GO!  Notice that finger in the mouth...we have since broken that habit and I couldn't be happier about it!!

SO, we finally made it down there and it is COLD. Really cold.  Luckily,we had sunshine for Thursday evening and Friday.  The Blakes came down with us on Thursday.  Here is Cade dining with his favorite lady friends.

Friday at the beach was chilly, but the kids didn't mind.  How adorable is the little man?

Cade never ceases to amaze me with his stellar judgement.  Sand angels, anyone?  Anyone?

What about this?  Has anyone seen my child?

Oh, I see him now.  There he is! That tiny spec, but he is totally lost in glare of Parker's hat!

Speaking of the Koza boys' hats...aren't these lovely?  I gave Cara a hard time about them at first, but after frantically looking for kids heads, over and over, I realized that she might be on to something!

Cara and her sweet little guys (look past the orange hats and you will see her!).

Having fun on the beach!

Unfortunately, that was the end of our fun on the beach.  It got even colder.  And rained.  ALL DAY on Saturday!!  The kids enjoying breakfast inside.

What else did they have to do besides see how many could fit in a basket at once?

Luckily, we only had one "man down" of the weekend, and it turned out to be okay.  Ryan sliced his foot pretty good and it looked like it needed stitches, but it turned out, he didn't.  Whew!

Patick in his stylin' sweater.

Ahh, and my favorite pic of all!!  CLEAN boys, ready for bed, all with their mohawks!

So, the weather sucked.  Such is spring break in Texas!  We had a great time with our friends and wouldn't trade it for the world!!

Cannon's 2nd Birthday!!

Oh my!!  How is this little stinker already two years old? 

It is so hard to believe that he is actually two!  Now, he acts like a full on two year old, and if you have spent any time with him, you know that!  We had a very low key celebration for his big day...I know, that is SO unlike me to not do a big kid party.  Have I mentioned that things are crazy?  The more that I thought about it, Cannon didn't care and he didn't "get it" yet.  I would be doing this big party to entertain the older kids and it wouldn't be even remotely geared towards him.  So, we just invited over family and the Louks and Blakes (which are both family to us anyway!).  We just had lunch and played outside.  Here is Cade with the girls.

Cannon LOVE's Mr. Jason!  In fact, all of our boys have been quite fond of Jason...

Abby had fun in this little car....that has been around since Carson was about 1!  Matt will be thrilled as our boys outgrow some of these ride on toys that take up our entire garage.

We had cupcakes and sang happy birthday to the smiling boy, of course!

Cade being his usual, adorable self.

Ms. Trish always plays with Cannon and he loves her too!

And of course, he opened presents!!

And helped Daddy...

And this might have been his fave!

And this is the only picture that I have with Carson and Ryan in it....they are way too busy for my photography lately!

Cannon had a great birthday!!  He is now busy proving how "terrible" he can really be as a two year old.  His latest conquests include coloring on walls, throwing things downstairs over the balcony, removing his pants and diaper and peeing on the floor, lots of tantrums, putting things in the toilet and many, many more cool tricks!!  He IS quite adorable and loveable too though, so I guess that we'll keep him!!

Rodeo 2010

I'm not going to lie...I am so far behind on this blog that even starting to update it seems totally overwhelming!!  Not to mention, the formatting has changed and I can't seem to work the new one.  Fellow bloggers, please help if you know what my problem is!  I can't upload pics from my own computer with the new layout and if I use the old ones, I can't move them around.  We have been CRAZY busy...it seems that I say that a lot lately.  I don't see life slowing down at any point soon, so I am just trying to embrace it and stay sane!!

First off!!  RODEO!!  This used to be such a fun deal to me, but I have to admit, this year, just making it out there was not all that appealing.  I think that the combination of living so far out now, junior league, busy season with work, Carson being in "real" school now and baseball season for Carson, topped off with the rodeo madness (and Matt's volunteer schedule out at the rodeo...) was a bit much at one time.  Matt and I weren't even able to make it out to one show together.  We did manage to make it out to the carnival with the boys one day.  Angie and the girls were able to join us too, along with Trish and Ryan.  We had fun!!  This big slide is always a huge hit.

And the roller coasters were huge this year!  Look at these faces.

The big kids enjoyed going, up on this thing!

And Cade was a cutie, patootie, as always...

Cannon enjoyed this new kids area that they had this year.  Luckily, he opted to stayin his stroller for much of the carnival trip this year.  He wasn't quite big enough to do the rides yet.

My camera battery died, so that's the end of the photos, but we did check out the animals and tractors and ride a few other things.  Then, we finished the day off at Lupe Tortilla (pics, thanks to Trish)!  What parent doesn't need a margarita after all of that?  Oh, and some ice cream for the kiddos....

Okay, I promise to keep attempting to update...not tonight though!  This computer illiterate mom just spent over an hour on this and it is all messed up.  Ugh.

Kindergarten Rodeo

Deretchin has a Kindergarten Rodeo each year and it was pretty cute!  Carson got decked out in his cowboy gear.  He is one handsome cowboy!

They brought home a note saying that they would need a stick horse and they encouraged them to make their own.  Well, I googled it, and Larry found a pretty good one online for us.  Carson and I loaded up, went to the Dollar General to look for some supplies, and guess what we found?  A perfectly good stick horse for $4.99!  AND, it made galloping noises!  Carson wasn't into making one and quite honestly, I didn't want to do it either.  SO, we brought this guy home.  He worked out perfectly!

The kids all paraded out of the school witlh their stick horses and then had all sorts of activities.  I had the little guys with me, and it was past nap time, so I was struggling to get good pictures and keep up with those two!  I got there just in time for the chuck wagon races.  Carson was clearly in the lead here!

Serious competition!

And coming up on the finish line!

A class picture with his teacher, Mrs. Swackhamer.  Love her!

Then they had stick horse races.

They lasso'd a rocking horse with a hula hoop.

The last stop was getting to pet a real horse.  However, Cannon was falling apart, so we had to duck out of there.  The other moms were helping me with him, but he was getting to be too much!  All in all, a fun afternoon though.  I love that Carson goes to such a great school and has such a great teacher!!  We have lucked out this year with the friends in his class as well.  It has been a great first year in the public school system.