First day!

School started yesterday and this is Palin's first year going to what we call "Big School" They both had a great day!

Cash was excited and wasted no time getting out of the truck and running into school. He would not let us walk him in this year either. Growing up!!

Palin seems to have a great little class, and wanted to go back for day 2, so we will consider that a success. This year she her teacher is Ms. Rose who lives down the street from us and goes to church with us. So I am hoping that help her to like it.

 

Cash has Ms. Munson this year, which we dont know anything about but he seems to like her.

BBQ Cookoff

Meanwhile on the other side of the park, Toby and his dad were cooking in the BBQ cook off. They spent Friday and Saturday at the park cooking. They entered in Brisket, Ribs and Chicken.

They ended up placing and getting 2nd place in Brisket! Not too bad for their first cook off, and the first time on the new grill that Toby had finished just days before.

Toby built this from nothing .He has always wanted to build one, and he is now finally got to. He built the trailer and the BBQ grill from nothing. He was pretty proud as several people asked him where he bought it at.

Summer!

I can't believe that we are already running through summer and its July. We have finished sports camps for Cash and just finished celebrating the 4th of July.

Shelley and I were part of a small committe that planned the 4th Of July celebrations for our town. We had fun planning and seeing it all play out.  Mom and dad drove up to watch the kids while we were working the event.

 They took Palin to the parade and Cash and I rode on the float in the parade. They weather was great and it was not horribly hot! We lucked out.

 There were lots of things to do in the kids area. Palin was excited to have her face painted. She was patriotic princess!

Everyone was sporting their red white and blue!

Rangers Game

 

The first day that we actually had sunshine was last Saturday, after a month of rain and storms we had sunshine!! We took Cash and Jaxon to the Rangers game. It was the perfect weather and the game was great too. The boys had fun. It was a great day to kick off the first day of summer!

Palin did not want to go sit through the game so she went to Oma's and had a tea party instead. Much more her style than a baseball game!

 

Last day!

Last week we finished up the school year for 2014-2015. Cash completed 2nd grade with great grades and is on to 3rd grade. Palin is going to go to Pre-K next year and is excited for a change. Cash spent the last day at school as Splashville with the entire second grade and had a pizza party. I forgot to print signs for them, but leave it to technology we just used the IPAD instead.

Field Trip

I got the chance a couple of weeks ago to with Cash to Ft Worth for his field trip. We had a really great time at the Ft Worth Science Musuem.

They got to build things, and play on a huge lite bright.

We didnt get to do everything and we are going to take the kids back this summer so we can do everything. It was a lot of fun!

 

This is his class picture with all the kiddos in his class.

Cash starts Ball

Both kids are now in full swing of playing ball, so our schedule is now if full swing of balancing practices and games every night. Cash is on the tigets this year and is playing first base! This is his favorite position to play.

One of the moms made signs for the boys to have the dugout with their names and numbers on them, so they know what batting order to sit in.

Palin is less than amused that she is having to attend Cash's games, she lasts for about 10 minutes and then is bored with the game.

Cash has done really well this year hitting. He is hitting them almost every time to the fence in the outfield.

School Pictures

Both kids school pictures actually turned our decent this year! They both are looking so grown up.

Palin starts Tball

Palin started Tball last night. She was so excited and wasted no time getting out of the truck and to practice. She was so ready. Our friend Tony is coaching her team this year and we are playing with 5 other people that I work with, so we know a lot of people on the team.

She was very intense when she was hitting the ball and practicing. She did everything that she was told to and never whimpered once! We may end up two ball players in our family, she totally likes this more than soccer.

 

Easter Weekend

Saturday evening we cooked out and colored Easter eggs. This year we even got a kit that was to paint them. Palin had fun painting them.

One of the kits had hair and eyes that you could add to them. Palin thought that was pretty neat.

Cash loves playing games when he goes to Papa and Grandmas. Dad and Cash played Wahoo and Tic Tac Toe.

This is aclassic Palin look when you try to take a picture.

The kids slept till about 730am on Sunday morning and then were up and ready to find thier eggs from the bunny.

The bunny knows how everything has to be fair with the kids, so he left them a letter so they new what they were looking for and how many. He hid 27 inside that they colored and then his the other ones outside for them with their goodies in them.

Good Friday

We got to Houston on Friday afternoon after lunch. The kids were anxious and wanted to go outside and play so we headed to the park. It was HOT! We melted and melted.

 The kids didnt seem to mind as they ran and played a bunch!

 Cash loves playing basketball, he takes his basketball to school everyday to play at recess. He had Dad and Papa playing with him till everyone started melting.