First Week of School Under Our Belt

First day of school 2009! Jayden 14 Casen 8

The first week of school and all the back to school anticipation is over, and the weekend is finally here! Casen LOVES his teacher. Mrs. Garrett is the perfect teacher for him! Caring, nurturing, and most of all loves her job. She is the teacher that every child should get to have, I am just so thankful that Casen has her! It is promising to be a good school year for Casen. Well some of you may know or not know but we are having Jayden repeat 8th grade. No, not because he did poorly (he got all A's) or failed the TAKS test (actually commended on every one!) But because he just turned 14 this summer, very young to be going to high school. He is not any of the same courses, he is advanced or pre-ap in EVERY class, he is actually taking 3 high school credit courses, ones he would actually be taking in high school if he were there. The only bummer about all of this is that he has to sit out the first 6 weeks of football, due to UIL rules. He had A LOT of friends going into 8th grade so that wasn't an issue, thank god! We are just hoping and praying that we made the right decision thus far no regrets.

Excited for Golf!

The boys are getting to do one of their favorite things today, GOLF! Clint and a college buddy found via facebook, that lives in The Woodlands took their kids golfing today. What a great way to reconnect. The boys were up bright and early ready to go, Casen could hardly wait. Hopefully the bright and early regimen continues because they only have one more week off, but mom and dad do not. It is finally here, the start of the school year. Jayden has orientation Tuesday and Casen has meet the teacher on Friday, which make it "officially" the beginning of new school years. On the up-side of fall near our favorite TV shows will soon be on again :)

One More Week of Summer Vacation

Before the Orwall Family Dinner!
Jayden chillen in the baby pool, where the water is cooler!

Casen's karate chops!!

Summer is winding down, last week off for mom, kids have two weeks left to enjoy! Went to Galveston for a quick vacation yesterday. Forgot to bring the camera but a great time was had by all. Great weather, nice waves, and not very many tourists. Still kicking myself for forgetting the camera, ugh!!! The agenda for this week is to hit the pools hard! Happy Birthday to grandma on Monday, hope that you have a great one, we'll be thinking of you :)

Boys at Houston Texans Training Camp

Kris Brown, kicker, giving autographs. Casen waiting patiently! Casen and Tyler with Toro!

Eric Winston, off. line, signing Jaydens ball.

Jayden standing in front of retired Houston Oilers, Ken Burrough, Zeke Moore.

Jayden and Casen before getting into the fields.

Clint brought a car full of boys to the Texans training camp. They left at 6AM to watch this years Texans team get a morning practice in! They got a lot of autographs and got to see the Texan cheerleaders really close! More pictures to come...

Jayden has football camp this week, then we have 2 more weeks of swimming then back to school we go. We are winding down :(

Vacation 2009

Hanging out at the pool Casen (swim shirt), Jayden (goggles), and friend Isaiah. Casen, doesn't the water look refreshing?

Jayden going off the board Casen in line!

Lazy river at L'Auberge Casino! Don't ask what's going on!

Here are some shots of our summer thus far! Not much else happening besides pool activities :) We usually go to the pools meet friends and play, have snacks, then come home and make dinner. July is winding down though and the stores are filling up with back-to-school stuff, I don't like that time of year or being reminded that work is right around the corner! But it is inevitably going to happen sooner or later. So the remainder of the summer we will be hitting the pools hard. I'll try to do a better job blogging and taking pictures!

Summer Time!

It has been some time since the last blog, sorry. I do have pictures to upload but the pc is not working right and I'm not a computer whiz to figure out how to do upload them on to the laptop, for some reason it is a lot different. I will do a quick recap and begin with the first week of summer:

Casen's all-star baseball tourney. Casen's team made it to the district 28 championship game. They lost by one run in the last inning. Since it is double elimination and had only one loss, they had to play again the next night. Well, that was a sad sad game, they lost 15-0 in 3 innings, they ended as district 28 runner-ups. It was a fun experience, and Casen made a lot of new friends on the team, the parents were awesome as well!

After that game we drove all night to Omaha, Nebraska for Jayden's baseball tourney. The weather was beautiful, wearing sweatshirts one morning :). Jayden's team won all three of their seeding games. When it came to single elimination they lost the first game. The vacation continued though as we went to the Omaha Zoo, and got to take in two UT College World Series games.

Upon our return home Jayden had baseball and basketball camp!

We are now officially in summer vacation mode: swimming pools, sleeping in, and staying up late! June flew by and before we know it, it will be August :(

First All-Star Victory!

Casen's Orwall All-Star team (SWAT) won tonight 16-6. Didn't play a very good team, but was a pretty good first game. Shakey first couple of innings then we got into the Red Sox groove! Jayden plays tomorrow morning and Sunday and then back to Casen on Monday night at 7 PM. We lucked out that we get to be at every one's games and not run around like our heads are chopped off. We can relax and enjoy! Happy baseball weekend, and no work to go to on Monday, yipppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!