He's an EX too

I got a forwarded email from one of my friends today from the UT business school.

She commented on how she couldn't believe she knew somebody in the email.

I couldn't believe someone actually reads those emails because I delete all the ones I get. 

But, I'm glad she doesn't delete them because look who was in it.

Jason is now officially a Texas EX.  JR and I are so proud he's finally seen the light.

Unfortunately for us though, he still claims all his allegiance to that other school.

Lesson Learned

Kyle, Reed, and friends did this to our poor next door neighbors house this weekend.

When you have 3 boys that live next door to 3 girls this certainly won't be the last wrapping.

But I do think mine learned to never shred the paper in to tiny pieces again after we made them go help clean-up the next morning for an hour! 

Match Point

Reed played in his first tennis tournament this weekend.

Considering he's had about 4 tennis lessons I think he did pretty good.

He had a big fan club.

And, as always, JR found a job to do  (he's working the "scoreboard").

Reed won his first match and then lost the second (by only 1 point).

He may not have the tennis "uniform" right, but he can certainly play!

We were really proud of how great he did.

Shout Out Ads

When you give a donation to either the middle or elementary school you get to have a "shout-out" ad in the school directory.

In middle school they don't even offer the option of having pictures because they know every kid would "totally die" of embarrassment, so our middle school shout-out says something about the choir being the 2017 UIL champs. (JR approved, of course.)

But Kyle and Reed are still "all in" for having their picture in their directory.  The picture due date is fast approaching so we ran outside and snapped one this afternoon.  

I think it came out great considering the subjects are 2 boys and a dog who all have way better things to do than sit still for a picture.

"Amazing"

Kyle finally got his wish and started diving classes yesterday.

They are at the University of Houston natatorium and his teacher is the coach of the U of H diving team.

PawPaw asked him how his diving class was and Kyle replied "amazing". 

They spend the first 30 minutes doing a "dry land" workout.  (Using the trampoline and a diving board in to a foam pit) and the last 30 minutes they spend in the water.

Here are the highlights.  The last "dive" of the video is when they let Kyle go up to the 5 meter platform (that's 16 feet for those of us that are metric system challenged ).  

As you'll see, he wasn't ready to dive off that one just yet.  Knowing Kyle he'll be doing it in no time though. 

Slow Go

We are still here and I didn't quit blogging. I just haven't had anything to say.

It's taking awhile to get back in the swing of things here in Houston.

School is back, but activities aren't.  Most should start back this week.

We got wrapped by the 3rd grade girl slumber party that was next door, but Kyle and Reed had it all cleaned up before I even got a picture of it.

The high school football games have started back, so JR and his friends did that Friday night.

And Baskin Robbins is open which is always a good thing.

Back to School Again

We went back to school (again) today!

The traffic on both of the options we can take to get to Kyle and Reed's school has been some of the worst in the city. (Voss or Chimney Rock for Houstonians)

 We practiced riding our bikes on Saturday and it only took 20 minutes, it isn't far (only about a mile and a half) but you have to cross under I-10 to get there.  

It's been taking about 30 to get to areas around the school, so we figured 20 minutes on the bike was better than 30 or more in the car. 

Ready to go.

Turns out, they opened up the main freeways that were making the traffic so bad for us last night at 10:00 PM.  Not knowing they were open, everyone walked or rode bikes to school in fear of how bad it was going to be...so the traffic was lighter than a normal day! 

I peddled back home just in time to get Cool Breeze to school.

Then I felt guilty for enjoying that it was a "normal" day. 

The kids were all very happy to be back in school and had "great" days.

Since we don't have to make-up the 2 weeks we missed, Reed is still flustered that he "won't be as smart as he needs to be to go to 5th grade next year."  

The other 2 have voiced none of those concerns.