Not 80

My daddy turned 79 today, which happened to fall on the 30th annual family Easter party, so it was easy to get everyone together.

Many of us lined up to have our pictures made with my daddy, since that's what we do.

Even Chloe loves Paw-Paw.

The Golden Child has to have individual portraits.

All my 1st cousins that were there today.  They treat "Uncle John" like he's their daddy too. 

Too Good for his Own Good

This is what happens when you don't realize that you can easily do a double front.

Next time he'll know to try and 2 1/2.

He'll Probably Fire Me Before the Season is Over

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! 

Jumping High

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!

All Back Home

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. 

Just One of the Guys

Chloe seemed to finagle her way in to some of the same spring break activities as the boys.

She went to Mr. Hamburger like them.

Rode fun farm equipment like them

And "played" with the class guinea pig like them,

5 Different Hats

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...