Since February 7

I see the last time I wrote a blog post was February 7.

I'll try to remember everything that has happened since then.

Both boys had birthdays.  Evan is now 17, and Noah is 15!

Noah had a great track season.  He learned how to pole vault and made it to the district meet.

Evan is doing very well in baseball. He's had some great hits including a home run and a left-handed hit.

Evan has been playing ultimate frisbee and was voted player of the week.  Noah joined the team at one game when they didn't have enough players, and he played well.

Noah ran the Cap10K.

We've had two Golden Retriever stashes - Teddy and Echo. Both were very cute.

Rachel, Quin, and Lennon came to visit.

We had a Passover seder at Grandma and Papa's house and celebrated Easter with the Mantis.

I gave a presentation on search engine optimization for our neighborhood networking group.

Morry and I went out to dinner at Aba.  He made the reservations months ago - probably around the time of the last blog post.

Here are some videos and pictures from the last few months. 

What's My Wine

This morning we walked to school without Lizzy.  Poor Lizzy.

I took my car in for an oil change.   Morry picked me up and we went to bagels.  As we were finishing eating I go the call that the car was ready.

We walked to pick up the kids from school.

Around 4pm Morry took the boys to the school to meet their friends.

Then, a little before 5pm he picked them up and brought them over to Grandma and Papa's house.  They were going to have dinner together and then go to services.

Morry and I went to the What's My Wine VIP Launch.  There's an app that helps you figure out what wine to buy.  They were having a launch party and invited me.  Morry and I thought it would be  chance to learn more about wine and figure out what we liked.

It was pretty crowded.  We only got through one of the stations that had 7 different wines to try.  They were okay.  We chatted with a few people there.  I spent a lot of time talking to another Instagrammer who had interest in perhaps getting an app made.

We left the party around 7:15pm.

From there, we picked up food for dinner at Madam Mam's.

Evan's friend, Reid, from baseball, met us there and we took him back to our house to spend the night.

We got home and a little while later Grandma and Papa dropped the boys off.

Now everyone is ready for bed.  Evan and Reid are set up in the game room in sleeping bags.

Here are some pictures from tonight.

Date Night and Super Bowl

Yesterday Morry had a meeting in the morning and Noah spent most of the day with Jude.

Evan and I went to the Farmer's Market.  We bought a cinnamon roll (which he ate most of) and a sourdough baguette.

From there I drove Evan to his baseball team's kickball game in Lakeway.

When I got home Morry was home.

Morry then went to pick up Evan.

We dropped the boys off at Grandma and Papa's house around 5:30pm. The boys would be spending the night there.

Morry and I put on our thrift store clothes and went downtown.

First, we ate dinner at Phoenician Resto.  Then, we walked around Rainey Street some.  Finally, we got dessert at tiny pies.

Today, Morry and I took a walk and then picked up the boys from Grandma and Papa's house.  They had a good time.

We were home for just a little bit and then Morry took the boys to Noah's football game.

I was making cookies for the Super Bowl party so I came to the game a little bit later.

Noah had fun at football, but his team lost.

We came home and then a little before 5pm went over to a Super Bowl party one of our friends was having.

There were a ton of boys there.  Morry and the kids seemed to have a good time.

We came home after the 3rd quarter of the game and they finished watching at home.

Now the boys are asleep and Morry is doing some work.

Here are some pictures.

Too bad these were not in our sizes at the thrift store.

Strawberries

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Rachel and I have been talking about taking the boys to go strawberry picking. There's a farm, called Sweetberry Farms, that allows you to do this in Marble Falls - about an hour drive. We got up around 8:30 to check the weather. It had been threatening to rain so we didn't want to drive all the way out there if it was raining. Luckily the chance of precipitation was small.

We got out of the house around 10am and got there about 11. You have to pay for the box to collect the strawberries in and it's $2.95/lb for the strawberries. We showed the boys how to pick them. The first thing Noah did was try to pick the strawberry by squeezing it and yanking. It just squished in his hand. Then Evan and Noah realized that it was better to eat them than put them in the box. Noah didn't pick much, he just ate the ones we were putting in the box. Evan was helping pick and ate about every third strawberry. Noah was a total mess. I honestly don't know how he got strawberry juice all over his shirt and face.

After picking, we went over to see the horses and donkeys they had. The boys gave them grass to eat. They enjoyed themselves.

We then paid for the strawberries and got strawberry ice cream.

Since we were relatively close to Llano, we decided to drive the rest of the way to go to Coopers Old Time BBQ. This place has the best barbeque I've ever had. So it was well worth the extra time. Grandma had not been there but she enjoyed it. The boys, enjoyed it as well. They somehow managed to get even messier.

We drove home from Llano and put Noah down for a nap. Evan went in his room. Shortly after we got back, Papa arrived from Dallas.

Evan didn't stay in his room long and ended up coming down and spending time with me.

For dinner, Grandma and Papa took the boys to Waterloo Ice House. Rachel and I went to the Alamo Drafthouse to see "Date Night". It was really good. I knew it was going to be really good right from the first line of the movie. It opened up with Steve Carell and Tina Fey in bed sleeping and their little boy comes in the room and says "I want breakfast". I could definitely relate.

Apparently the boys didn't eat much for dinner but had a great time playing on the playground after dinner. Noah, who normally is timid, eventually started going down the slide by himself after working with Grandma and Papa.

Both boys are in bed now and sleeping. Until next time.