And the (Houston) Rockets Red Glare

Saturday was also a big day for JR.

He got to sing the National Anthem with the choir at the Rockets game.

You can imagine how excited JR was to even be in the same building with James Harden, much less stand on the same floor he stands on.

We didn't go to the game, but I got some great pictures and video from moms that did.

60 kids from Spring Branch Middle, Memorial Middle, and Memorial High got to sing.

There's JR on the jumbo-tron!

(left upper corner)

Here they are singing

Saturday with Reed

While Kyle was diving on Saturday, Reed was playing baseball.

At the beginning of the season I told Reed, "Y'all will be lucky to win 3 games."

  His little team is now 7-1. 

 Lots of that is due to luck, but lots of it is that they've got 4 kids in the infield who know how to play baseball.  

Reed is an amazing 3rd baseman.  He's never played 3rd base before, and he's one of the few kids in the league that can make the throw from 3rd to 1st look easy.  There have been plenty of kids Reed has gotten out at 1st after hitting a hard grounder toward 3rd.

I don't have any pictures of Reed's game (since I wasn't there) but here's one I took at another game,

He also played in his last team tennis tournament of the season on Sunday afternoon.

He played singles and won.

I don't have a picture of that either, but I do have a picture of him going out to play with Jason the other day.

We are really proud of both his baseballing and tennising!

Big Winner

All the kids had such a big weekend that we had to divide and conquer.

I'll start with the kid that had to get up the earliest on Saturday morning.  Kyle and I were up at 5:00 to go to the AAU Laura Wilkinson Invite.  Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw met us there for the 3 meter springboard event.  

I thought Kyle was diving good, but after every dive I kept texting Jason "I thought it was good, but the scores don't show it."  Or "I thought it was good, but he didn't score high."

I'm so nervous for Kyle I can't video or take pictures, and I wasn't keeping up with what the other kids were scoring either.  So my parents and I were all in total shock when we figured out that Kyle won!  

The kids were so far away from us this was the first picture I could get of him after his win.

Kyle and I were both so shocked and excited we were on the verge of tears.

This is only his 3 diving meet, and he's only been diving since September! 

Kyle wanted a gold medal picture like the Olympians take

On Sunday we headed back out for him to dive 1 meter.  He's moved up to the Junior Olympic level (which we are so excited about) for 1 meter and our whole goal was not to finish last.

I write Kyle's dives on his hand so that's one less thing he'll have to remember.

He finished 8th out of 10, in 10-11 boys.  I think Kyle was a little disappointed, but Granny Sherry and I were very happy with that.

We are so proud of Kyle and the hard work he puts in to his diving.

His "no fear" attitude is absolutely perfect for this sport! 

7:10

Instead of being in off-season football (which I'm guessing is hard) JR decided that being on the cross country team would be easy. 

He went to his first meet yesterday and I got a text from Granny Sherry that said "he's definitely not last!" and this picture.

Not only was JR not last in the meet, he wasn't even the last runner to finish from his school.

They had to run a mile and his time was 7:10 which he was happy with. 

I went ahead and took his cross country portrait myself so I don't have to buy the horrible one from the school.

Easter Pictures

Everybody was excited to get their Easter baskets.  

I believe everyone got some sort of slides/flip-flops/Crocs this year.

Everyone was super dressed up, and since that never happens (except on a cruise) I made sure we took as many pictures as I wanted.

the twin brothers

All the brothers

Me with the boys 

(If JR never grows another inch he'll be fine as longs as he marries a girl that's 5'2".  She'll be able to wear her highest heels and her tallest hats and be just fine!)

Jason with the boys

Granny and Jason with the boys

And the family picture

 We went to Cadillac Bar for brunch after church and it was super yummy!

In the afternoon, Kyle went diving, Reed played tennis with Jason, and JR took himself to Sonic for a slushy, so it was a very good Easter Sunday.

Home Opener

MLB has started and JR is acting like he's part of the Astros.

I know every detail about their World Series rings and every banner/pennant they've added and/or removed from the field this year.

Unfortunately for JR, he had an umpiring job the night of the Astros home opener (and Kyle was diving), but Reed was free.

And Reed was super excited to get to go to the game with Jason last night.

Jason said getting in to Minute Maid Park was crazy...harder than getting into the World Series games!

30th Anniversary Pictures

 I didn't take any of these pictures, I found them all on Facebook.

 Pre Easter egg hunt photo.  Including Chloe, of course.

You have a pretty serious pinata swing when you play baseball...even with a bag on your head.

This smile is why we call him our "good time guy".

JR looks like he might be being helpful...

My cousin and I wearing slightly different versions of the same outfit. 

When you've got kids old enough to take care of themselves you get to sit and swing.

And when you have really young kids or are a grandpa, you catch a nap whenever you can.