My cousin, Joy, was in town with her family to throw a baby shower for her niece this weekend.
I got to see a whole crew of "San Augustine" relatives when we had dinner with them Friday night.
It's always so fun to get to see them all!
I wasn't able to make it to the shower because JR was commenting Reed's baseball game and I have to run the scoreboard.
Just look how mad he is at me that I'm not taking my job seriously enough.
(He's not playing on his phone, he's playing music over the sound system...which means we were between innings, but he's still mad I wasn't fully focused on what was going on. )
JR also had to umpire Saturday afternoon. He got a job as an umpire in the baseball league Kyle and Reed used to play in and he makes $15 a game. He's already umpired about 5 games. He takes umpiring very seriously and does a really good job.
JR looks so old compared to the PreK and Kinders that are playing!
Kyle, Reed and I went to see next door neighbor, Ben, compete in his track meet last night.
I've never been to a track meet before and have heard horror stories of how boring they are.
I actually thought it was fun...but then again, Kyle and I were 2 hours late coming from his diving practice, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Ben was in 3 running events, but his main focus is pole vaulting, which the boys and I just find fascinating.
We are so impressed with his pole vaulting skills, and he placed 2nd last night.
These 2 will certainly know where to go for lessons when they're old enough to pole vault!
After spending spring break with us, S'mores the guinea pig was returned to Kyle's classroom safe and sound yesterday.
She was actually very sweet and made some cute little noises when I gave her apples, but I was happy to have her returned...just because the thought of something happening to the class pet on my watch strikes fear in my heart.
And if you're wondering how much bigger a guinea pig is than a hamster, here you go.
We also returned Steven after he spent spring break with us.
I'm glad we were able to have both Steven and S'mores. They were both great house guests.
Today is the last day of the Houston Rodeo and since we aren't there, I guess we can say rodeo season is over.
Jason and I made it out to 5 rodeos this year, and we had lots of fun.
We went to opening night and saw Garth Brooks with the rest of the city of Houston.
It only took us an hour to get out of the parking lot and get home...which, from what I heard, was super fast!
Then we saw Blake Shelton
About 2 songs in I texted one of my friends and said, "He seems bored and like he'd rather be anywhere else in the world. I think he's drunk." About that time he announced that he had the flu.
We saw Cody Johnson who's from Sebastopol, TX which is right down the road from my parents.
And we saw Luke Bryan. Who is so cheesy, but puts on such a good show I can't help but love it!
And we ended the other night when JR had the best seats in the house for Zac Brown band.
I got to wear all the cowboy hats I wanted except one! There's always next year...
When the rodeo schedule came out JR started begging for Zac Brown Band tickets.
Jason definitely came through in a big way. I wish we could have taken the seats from JR and sat in them ourselves!
They were in the "chute seats" and were so close to the bull riders they were taking to them while they were getting ready to ride.
"They" is JR and his friend, Steven (from our Durango days), who's been with us since Sunday celebrating spring break.
This was the only picture I got of them (in the parking lot with the Texans practice bubble behind them) before we turned them loose at the rodeo.
Jason and I knew about where they were sitting, but we were both busy talking to people, and never actually went to look to see if we could see them sitting in their seats.
I did know they were there since my friend, Cassie, texted me that she saw JR down in front of her.
I knew JR's seats let you go down on the floor of the rodeo during the concert, but I wasn't sure where they would end up, or even what side they were on. I just knew their seats were better than mine!
My view...not from the floor.
I should have known those 2 would end up front row. And it was easy for me to spot JR during Chicken Fried...I'd know that clap anywhere!
(I put JR's name right above him.)
They both reported that everything was "amazing". Zac Brown pointed at JR when JR was waving to him, and a girl in the front row flashed Zac Brown...I'm sure that was the high point in making it "amazing."
JR also reported that the lady next to him asked him "How do you know the words to this song?" when they played Van Halen's Panama. JR said, "My mom makes me listen to it on the radio."
Kyle's class has a classroom guinea pig named S'mores.
The kids can sign up to take her home for the weekend.
I won the awesome mom of the year award by signing up to keep her for all of spring break.
(In reality, I think we're the only family in the class not on a vacation, but whatever.)
I didn't think Chloe would mind since she doesn't even notice the hamsters, but I was wrong.
She is not pleased with the guinea pig situation.
Since these photos were taken S'mores has been relocated to the dinning room table, and all of the dinning room chairs have been moved out of Chloe jumping reach for her protection.
I figured out S'mores really likes apples, so I've made sure to always have her favorite treats handy.
Fingers crossed we can keep her alive and well this week!
My friend, Allison, called me and asked if I wanted to sit at her table for a Children's Museum luncheon.
Then she said, "the speaker is some doctor, and she has a reality show and she's a little person..."
At which point I started screaming because Jason and I have been watching The Little Couple on TLC since it first aired.
In my head, Dr. Jen Arnold and I are friends.
I have sat on my couch and watched her get married, try to have a baby (I cried when their surrogate miscarried), adopt their children (I cried again) and go through chemo when she had cancer.
So to say I was excited to go hear her speak was an understatement.
I knew lots of the stories she told at the luncheon because I read her book (so did my mom).
After the luncheon I saw that she didn't have anybody around her so I went right up and told her that her family had brought me so much joy. I love watching Will (her son), and that I loved her mom.
And then I asked for a picture!
You can't even imagine how little she is. I'm 5'2", and I look like a giant crouched down next to her.
My mom said, "Look, your purse comes up to her waist."
And I was looking at her shoes, I actually think they have a bit of a heel on them.
Now if I could only meet a Real Housewife all my reality dreams will have come true,
