First Day of School...

Not sure about the separation here...but here they are ready to go on the first day. Everyone looks happy but Branson, who just got told to quit putting bunny ears on his brothers... oh well! Oh I love these kiddos!!!

Beau's In School!

This is Beau with Miss Deckard...the Richardson ISD Teacher of the Year! Yay! Boston and Branson both had her, and now Beau gets a chance to have this wonderful young lady for kindergarten. The boys are riding the bus to school and home every day, so that is exciting. We are so blessed with the teachers we got this year...and Sissy starts pre-school on Sept 2nd. So it won't be too long until all are in school for at least a couple of days a week.

Reading All Summer...

My boys are reading like crazy this summer! Dallas has a summer reading program through our local library...and Boston got a shirt for reading 75 hours so far. He also got a free Six Flags ticket at 50 hours, and there's more good stuff to come at 100 hours! Yea! Branson has read 10 hours and is coming along too. He got this cool certificate that matches Boston's shirt... Go, boys, go!

She's 2!!

Today, Sissy turned 2...we couldn't decide what name to put on her cake...Brooklyn? Sissy? Bubba?(what Beau calls her) or Pi-ow? (what Branson calls her)...so we went with the cupcake-grouped cake with no words! Yummy! Sissy took her cake to school and shared it with her friends, then we brought the remainder home (actually we ate a lot of it in the car on the WAY home)! She is a big singer now..."I may never march in the infantry..." or "Happy Birthday to Sissy" or "Sing a song of sixpence..." She has started screaming "NO Ma'm!" (don't know where she got that one!) and "Mamma Poo Poo? Beau Poo Poo?"...etc...you get the picture...those crazy 2's! Love this little surprise from above!

Baseball Season is Here!

Branson is playing coach-pitch on the Torpedoes! His first game he hit a triple, a double, and a single. He gets moved to different positions each week until the coach solidifies something. He is having a blast! Beau is on the Cowboys (as in Oklahoma State Cowboys, I guess), and our neighbor, Brian Fagan, is on his team. He chose to be number 3 because he's the third brother! He and Brian are playing T-ball, and Beau looks like a man among boys! He hit the ball to our picnic table out in right field last night, but his fielding has something to be desired...he's told me ALL about the flowers in the field and where the ant beds are! That's my boy!

Pool Time!

We have the best neighbor in the world! Mr. Hammer, a recent widower, lives right behind us. He told me a couple of months ago that I had to make him a promise... a promise that we would use his pool! Um...let me think about that...OKAY! Today was our "debut swim"...it was 66 degrees outside, but that didn't stop the brothers! Sissy was left behind with Dad so that Mom wouldn't have to enter the cool pool...Fun times! (PS...check out that 9 yr old's giraffe tongue! wow!)

City Gone Country

In lieu of country livin', my boys decided that even in the city they could have a dirt clump fight! We had a lot of rain last week, and the area under the swing has dried up and given them a new playland! They were throwing, dodging, screaming, and running...all fun until someone threw one at Sis...TIME OUT GENTLEMEN!! Time to get in the house and take a bath! It's a school night! Love love love these kids!