Ready, set, see you at the soccer field.

Tomorrow starts our fall soccer madness.  Yesterday I spent an hour putting 3 seperate soccer schedules into my calendar.  If you need to find us in the evenings, we'll be at Hohlt Park on Field 7, 10, 6A or 6B.

Austin is on the Crushers 8U Boys team.  He's moved up to a bigger field with an official ref.

Avery is on the SWAT 8U Girls team.  We'll see if she's as aggressive on the bigger field this year.

Caleb is the Starts 6U Boys team.  He managed to get on the same team as Jase and Ethan so the 3 Stooges are together again.

I'll have plenty of pics to post.  5 games this week and next!

RAIN!!!

This was the view from our front porch Saturday afternoon as the rain headed our way.  Unlike the .10 or 1/2 inch rain accumulations that we are more accustomed to these days, we were blessed to have 7.2 inches of rainfall overnight!!!!  What a gift!   Half of our tank was essentially dry but today it is full!  Very thankful.

Celebrating 40!

Age is just a number and no one proves that statement more than Uncle Jason.  To celebrate another candle on the cake (making it a total of 40) we celebrated in style in Downtown Austin on 4th St at The Hangar Rooftop Lounge.   The rooftop was full of friends and we all joined in for a champagne toast to wish Jason many more years of fun and happiness.  It was a rare adult only night so Wes and I decided we'd treat ourselves and stay downtown so we could travel by foot and enjoy all downtown has to offer.  

Happy Birthday Jason!!!!

Rookie update...

Rookie's managed to hang around here for 9 months now.  He loves to play with the kids on the trampoline and they love to take him to play fetch in the tank.  Unfortunately he also loves to make large holes in the flower beds to lounge in and he loves to chase him some chickens.... our chickens.... the chickens we don't want him chasing.  We have to stop and remind ourselves that he is still a puppy and have had to build a pen to keep him in at times so he doesn't consume all our egg producers.

New method of target practice...

ceiling fan, t-shirts and nerf gun required.

Snaggle Tooth

Apparently Avery doesn't feel the need to keep her teeth in her mouth.  Once her front tooth start to wiggle, she spent the day pushing and twisting and loosening it until it finally had no choice but to give up and find itself secure in a tooth fairy pillow.  It is taking some time to get use to the toothless grin!

Caleb - 1st place hay hauler

Our littlest cowboy turns out to be a pretty good hay hauler.  He and his best bud, Jase Mueller, entered the Little Wrangler hay hauling contest and won 1st place!  They had to get 9 bales of hay in the wagon and get across the finish line in record time.  They were pretty excited to bring home the trophy.  

Caleb's biggest fans!