Friday Night Lights

I know we Texans love our football, but this past week has been ridiculous.

 

I spent lots of time watching Kyle and Reed at their practice

(if they ever play in a game it'll be a miracle).

 

 

Then Jason and I went to the Texans game on Thursday night.

They lost to San Fransisco, but I got to wear my new, cute JJ Watt t-shirt.

The kids begged to go to the Texans game, but luckily they were just as excited to go Friday night to see 2 of our area high schools battle it out. (Memorial vs Stratford- Memorial won.)

 

 

I'm not sure why the Chick-fil-a cow was there...or why she's a cheerleader.

 

 

Reed was studying what the kickers/punters do (the only position he'll ever have a chance of playing) and Kyle found a position he didn't know existed that he was super excited about...water boy!  

Dude Looks Like a Lady

So yes, Jason and I went to see Aerosmith on Monday night.

 

I am a huge Steven Tyler fan, and thankfully Jason has always been an Aerosmith fan (he went to his first Aerosmith concert in the early 80's) so it wasn't hard to get him to go with me (Dragging him to see Bret Michaels and Poison wouldn't have gone over as well).

 

Here we are before Aerosmith came on, I wish I could have worn something more fitting for a fun concert, but since I was at football practice right before I just slapped a cowboy hat on my head. (Truth be told, I wouldn't have had a problem showing up at practice in full costume, but it was just too hot to sit there and sweat in it while at practice.)

 

The show was everything you would think it would be, there were pelvic thrusts, rolling around on the floor, and scarves flapping in the wind...and that was just the first song.

 

I couldn't believe how great Steven Tyler sounded, he sounds just like he does on the radio, but you could tell he wasn't lip syncing. You'd never know the man's 66 years old!

 

I just couldn't resit recording the chorus to one of my favorites!

I'm Late on the First Day

My dad told me this morning that he was up at 5AM this morning to look at the first day of school pictures and there were none to be found.

 

Oops!

 

I have an excellent excuse, I was planning on taking an "after" the first day of school picture and including it, but then pick-up took extra long, and we had football practice.

I had no idea how to put on all the accoutrement that is required to play football, so I had to call Grandpa Gary to come help. 

I rushed them to the football field with Granny Sherry where Jason met me, and we left from there to  go to the Aerosmith concert (more on that awesomeness tomorrow).

 

Which means I rolled in from the first day of school at midnight, and picture posting didn't happen.

 

But here's what they looked like. A 5th grader and 2 firsties.

Everyone was happy at pick-up and said they loved it.

(I'm not sure JR actually said he "loved it" but he said, "Yo, What's up, Homie?" when he got in the car so I'm pretty sure that means he had a good day.)

 

And since I forgot the after the first day of school picture, here's what they looked like this morning going to their 2nd day of school.  At least they're smiling.

The Night Before

The kids had not forgotten our tradition of not resting and preparing for the 1st day of school.

I was really hoping for a nap after church, but they didn't think that sounded fun at all.

 

Instead we went rollerskating.

 

 

And there might have also been ice cream.

 

I am sooo not looking forward to getting up early again.

And homework.

Fashion Fabulous Friday

 Nobody seemed to care about school clothes this year, which was fine by me.

I shopped for them online and they all have something new to wear the first few days.

 

The only thing they cared about were their new shoes.

Here's what made the cut.

They even told me to take a side view picture.

Can you tell JR's are hamburgers?

 

 

We had meet the teacher this morning and it was a success.

The kids thought their teachers were "nice and pretty".

 

 

We had to go by Reed's class 3 different times...just to "feel good" about it.

He even practiced sitting in his chair.

 

JR was too cool to get his picture made in his classroom.

Last Week of Summer

This is our last week of summer.

 

I really expected the kids to beg me to take them places.

(I just knew I was going to have to make a Chuck E. Cheese trip.)

 

But they haven't asked to go anywhere.

They've wanted to stay home and not take off their pajamas.

And we've also played lots of Life...Reed and JR win every time, and I really try to beat them!

(Poor Kyle seems to always loose.)

I'm actually kind of bummed about school starting.

 

We took some fun trips, I didn't feel like the kids were overloaded with activities, and the whole sleeping in and having no homework thing has been pretty awesome.

He's Home

Jason picked JR up at camp on Saturday.

He loved every minute of it and is ready to go back next year for 3 weeks.

 

 

He was excited to be awarded with "most improved water skier".  He told me, "It wasn't like they just gave an award to everybody, some people didn't get anything." Which made it all that more special.

 

 

He started out in wake boarding, but was never able to get up.  He said the other kids that couldn't do it quit the class, but he told them he could snow ski, so they switched him to water skiing. He said, "I couldn't ever go back and forth, but I could get up and ski, so I was proud of myself."  JR never says he's proud of himself, so for him to not give up and be proud of himself, camp was a total success no matter what else happened.

 

 

One of the last pictures I saw of him was from Talent Show night.  All the pictures were of the kids in the talent show...and then this one.

How he's the only one in the audience to get his picture made is beyond me.

 

I was told his trunk was "pretty gross", but lucky me, I didn't have to unpack it.

I just had to wash the two weeks worth of clothes left for me in a giant pile in the laundry room.