Separate Evening

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

All or us stayed home in the morning.  I was busy with work.  Rachel was trying to get some stuff done for her blog as well.  The boys played with Legos most of the morning.

Just before lunch, Darius' dad called and invited Evan out to lunch with them and to go to the park.  They stayed out all afternoon.

Grandma picked Noah and Rachel up in the early afternoon to drive to San Antonio.  Valencia was having a party at Main Event in San Antonio.  Rachel, Noah and Grandma stayed in San Antonio after the party to get dinner.

Evan and I drove with Josh and Chad to baseball practice.  It was at the TRPD facility.  Evan said that practice was really fun.

When we got home, we met Papa at Backspin.  The food was good, just REALLY slow.  It took an hour and a half for us to get our food.  We ended up getting the food for free.

The boys are getting ready for bed.

Until next time...

Outside

Today was a beautiful day.  The high temperature was 86 degrees.  We spent a lot of time outside.

Late morning, we met Deborah and Christina and her kids for a hike.  We went to McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Bastrop, TX.  We hiked about 4.5 miles with many stops.  We spent some time at the creek skipping rocks.

On the way home we got Slurpees at 7-11.

We took it easy at home for a little and then Morry and Evan went to baseball practice at 4:30.  After the practice they picked up food for Lizzy at Petco.  Then, Grandma, Papa, Noah, and I met them for dinner at Backspin.  The food was good and the boys ate well.

Now the boys are getting ready for bed.

Here are some pictures from today and yesterday.

First Day of Our Summer

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today was our first day of summer.  Technically this is the start of our third week of summer break, but today was the first day it felt like it.  Two weeks ago, we flew to Florida.  Last week, we were taking Evan to baseball camp and it seemed very hectic.  Today the boys didn't need to be anywhere and didn't need to get up by a certain time.

I woke up first to start work.  Evan came down about 30 minute later, shortly followed by Noah.

I went into Aaron's for meetings and get some stuff done.  Rachel, Evan and Noah stayed home all day.  I think the boys stayed inside most of the day since it was very muddy outside.

Later in the day, I met a father of a boy I used to coach on Noah's team.  He had questions about baseball and I let him borrow some bats.  We met at Backspin.  I picked up wings for me for dinner.

When I got home, some people had come to take away our playscape in our backyard.  Rachel had posted it on craigslist.  They took it away pretty quickly.

We took a walk after dinner.

The boys are getting ready for bed.

Until next time...

Back to Playgroup

This morning we went to playgroup. It had been a while since we had gone. It was nice seeing all the moms and kids again. Evan and Noah had a good time. Marissa has a play kitchen and Noah really enjoyed making me coffee. He kept brining me a lot of cups and pretending to pour coffee in them.

After playgroup we came home for lunch. I made mac and cheese for the boys. Evan ate all of his, but Noah just spread it out on his tray.

Lauren came over and helped me put the boys down for naps. Then, we hung out here for a while and talked while the boys were napping.

For dinner we wanted to try a new restaurant called Backspin in our neighborhood. When we got there we realized it was really more of a bar and all the tables were taken. We were told it would probably be a while before any of the tables were cleared, so we decided to go somewhere else. We drove over to Cheddars and I ran in to put our name on the list. It was pretty crowded there too and I was told it would be a 20 minute wait. We decided not to wait and try another place. We thought we'd go to Natural Planet, another restaurant near us, because it usually isn’t too crowded.

At Natural Planet we got seated right away, but it took forever for our food to come out. Evan and Noah were very good and enjoyed watching the Winter X Games on TV.

We just put Evan and Noah to bed. It is already quiet in Noah’s room.