Its Baseball Time in Texas!!!

Well, our baseball season is in full swing. I love watching this boy play some ball and love watching my Rangers as often as possible.

This is our first year playing coach pitch and its great. Logan was one of 12 kids his age to be picked to play coach pitch, so we were excited for that. It is definitely different from t-ball, but still so much fun! He obviously has one little admirer keeping her eye on him! It absolutely melts my heart to watch her cheer him on at whatever sport he's playing and to see how much she just absolutely adores her big brother!!!

Everyone was decked out for Opening Day on Friday for the Rangers, but I only got pictures of these two cuties! Jarrod and I were blessed to be able to go to opening day by ourselves while Annie held down the fort--not an easy task for one grandmother with these three busy kiddos. We are so grateful to her. Then on Saturday we had an awesome evening with some of our best friends at the second game of the season. Again, we had some pretty special people keeping our kiddos and staying at our house until after midnight. We can't say thank you enough!! I can't remember the last time Jarrod and I had two date nights in a row, but it was FANTASTIC!!! Considering how much we both love baseball, it was perfect--great company, great food, great games, and great weather!!!! I couldn't have asked for more!!!

Different Mimi comes for a visit

Our visit with Different Mimi started out like this:

and then we had a blast going here:

Unfortunately, the end of the day looked like this:

Landon started throwing up as soon as the last buckle was buckled in his carseat. Elly followed about an hour later and they proceeded about 5 minutes apart for the rest of the night and most of the next morning. EEEEEWWWWWWW!!!! Yes, Elly fell asleep on a pallet on my bathroom floor. Poor babies couldn't even wear clothes because they were just getting them dirty as fast as we could get them on. After about an hour I had to move E to our bedroom floor--I couldn't stand the thought of her on that cold, hard floor. Thankfully by that time, she was asleep enough not to mind being moved.

Landon Holiday pictures

Since this was Landon's first holiday season, I thought that he deserved his own post. The pictures are in backwards order and I can't figure out how to get the underlining turned off....so here you go anyway!

Christmastime 2010

Thanksgiving 2011

I'm really, really bad at taking pictures with my family, but I don't want to forget this holiday. I honestly get so caught up at just being with them, that I don't take the time to hunt down my camera and take pictures--something that I regret Every. Single. Time!!!

We traveled to Memphis with most of my family to celebrate Thanksgiving. We stayed at my aunt's house, ate our Turkey dinner at my little sister's house and Aunt Mendy and I as well as Jarrod and I shopped starting on Thanksgiving night from 10pm-5am. Crazy I know, but much better to stay up all night (when you have enough family to watch your kiddos for you while you sleep the next day) than to get up uber early and fight mammoth crowds!!!

We got to see my brother, Chris who is working in Sweden these days, my sister Emily (aka Different Mimi to my kids), my cousins, my cousin Justin's sweet baby Miles, my parents and my aunt. We missed my sister Becky (aka: Bec Bec) and her sweet family because they all got sick the week of Thanksgiving, so we had to settle on phone time with them.

Maybe my mom has a picture or two that she can send me??? Mom???

Logan turns 6

I have rules. And one of those is that you can't get your own gun until you are 6. Why did I make that rule? Should have been 60! No, really, can you tell how proud these boys both are? What a rite of passage. Logan has been hunting with Jarrod for the past two seasons and this year he got to take his own gun along and learn to start using it. Of course, there are other safety rules involved now, but I won't bore you with those details!

We had Logan's birthday party at the Ballpark in Arlington this year. We had heard over the summer that they did parties and I was already angling to NOT have this years party at our house. Jarrod grew up going to Rangers games and has been a fan his whole life. He started taking Logan to games the same year that we moved here to hopefully instill a great love for not only baseball, but particularly the same team that he's grown up loving! Boy has he. They go to about 6-8 games per season and I love to get to hear the stories. His favorite players are Michael Young, Elvis Andrews, Josh Hamilton and Ian Kensler. So...we decided to surprise Logan with a party at the ballpark. Lucky for us they were in the World Series just before his party so we got some great, great pictures too! So proud of our Rangers!!! (as a side note, Elly didn't join us--we didn't have family come, so it made it a little difficult to have all of the kids this year and Logan wanted a Daddy/son party. I got to go and invite my BFF to help me, because I'm the mom and I planned the party!)