Baseball and Bluebonnets

This morning Evan had a baseball game at 10:15.  The temperature was in the 40s and it was windy.  I went but only stayed an hour since I was so cold.  Evan's team lost and they were done with baseball for the day after that.

Noah had Sunday School today.

After Sunday School we took pictures in the bluebonnets and then walked around the park a little bit.

For dinner, we ate at Torchy's.  We sat on the porch with Chewie.

Now the kids are playing video games until it's time for bed.

Here are some pictures from today.

Cold Front

This morning,  Morry and Chewie walked Noah to school.  I left shortly after to go to my school.  It was hot and humid this morning, around 70 degrees.

I was there until about 12:30.

I left the house again around 3pm. 

I had a phone meeting and then tutoring.  I had the phone meeting in the driveway at my student's house before tutoring.

During the day, a cold front rolled in.

By the afternoon it was chilly.

For dinner, the boys had leftover chicken and pasta.  I had a sandwich.

It is now 43 degrees outside.

Now Evan and Noah are playing video games before bed.

Cold Morning

This morning it was in the 30s so Morry drove Noah to school.

Shortly after I left for school.

I got home around noon and then left again around 3pm to tutor.

Morry walked to pick up Noah from school and then Noah went to Grandma and Papa's house.

When I was done with tutoring at 7:30 I went to Grandma and Papa's to pick up Noah.

Morry and Evan came home from baseball around 8pm.

Then, Morry and I ate our dinners.  I had leftovers from Grandma and Papa's and Morry had a leftover burger from last night.

The boys are playing video games, but about to stop as it is time to get ready for bed.

Flu Shots

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today was one of those days where it starts out warmer in the morning than it is in the afternoon.  Noah and I walked to school and it wasn't too bad.  Around lunch time the cold front came in bringing rain and cooler temperatures.

Around mid-morning, I went into Touch To.  I was able to get some work done there and then went to lunch with Aaron.

Rachel stopped by the BCRC after teaching and then she had a doctor appointment.

I drove to pick Noah up from school since it was drizzling and cold.  Chewie rode with me.

I worked from home in the afternoon.

For dinner we had flank steak.

After dinner, we went to HEB to pick up some medicine and get flu shots for Rachel and the boys.

The boys are playing on their new computer now.

Until next time...

News Story Airs

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

A cold front blew in over night.  The temperature went from the upper 80s, yesterday, into the 40s today.  I honestly don't remember an October day as cold as it's been in Austin since I moved here.  This is my twenty-first fall in Austin.  It was raining at the time we needed to take Noah to school so we drove him.  I also drove Evan to the bus stop and he jumped out when the bus came.

The news story that was filmed last Monday aired today after we got home from taking Noah to school.  You can see the story here:

http://www.fox7austin.com/good-day/breast-cancer-survivor-talks-about-brca

I went into HomeAway for a meeting this morning.  Rachel rested until she had to go to teach.

Rachel and I both got home around 2:30.  It was still raining so we drove to get Noah.

After Evan got home, Rachel left to go to tutoring.

For dinner we had steak from the EasyPlate meals.

The boys are upstairs cleaning up.

Until next time...

Evan to Grandma's

This morning a cold front was blowing through when we walked Noah to school. 

Shortly after getting home I went to my school.

I taught and then had a meeting and got home around 1pm.

We walked to pick up Noah from school.  He was invited over to Jude's house and went straight there after school.

I tutored.

While I was gone, Morry picked up Noah from Jude's and brought him over to his friend Grayson's house.  They were having a small party for Grayson's birthday.

Evan went over to Grandma's house for dinner tonight.

Morry and I ate dinner at home and then drove to pick up Evan.

Noah got dropped off at home.  It sounded like he had a good time.  He said he helped Grayson build some Legos he got for his birthday.

Now the boys are getting ready for bed.

A Little Bit Colder

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

We had a cold front come in overnight with some rain.  The temperatures cooled considerably.  It had dried up by the time we walked to school, but it was at least 10 degrees colder than yesterday and it was very windy.

I went into Aaron's for a bit and then to Hey Cupcake.

Rachel and I met at Wholy Bagel, since she and Noah won't be here this weekend.  We didn't get there until late and they were almost out of bagels, but we were still able to get stuff.  They actually were closing up while we were eating.

We walked to get the boys.

Rachel tutored in the afternoon out of the house and then came back and met Evan's teammate Josh and his dad here and tutored Josh.

We had leftovers for dinner.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Until next time...

Touchdown Evan

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This Sunday was much like last week's Sunday.  Evan had a football game and he had baseball practice.  It was his last football game so it's just baseball from now on.

I came downstairs around 9 and the boys were playing on their iPad and the Playstation.  Because Evan had all of his stuff today, the boys had to clean up this morning.  I gave them until 9:30 before they had to clean up.

Evan's football game went very well.  They lost, but they remained competitive and really had a potential chance to win towards the end of the game.  Evan was on fire.  He caught about 12 passes and scored two touchdowns as well as caught an extra point.  It didn't matter whether there were kids around him, he was catching everything.  His second touchdown catch came when he was in the back corner of the end zone.  The defensive back managed to get a hand on it but Evan still caught the deflection.  I think Evan was very excited about his play today.

We came home for 30 minutes before we had to get back in the car to go to baseball.  We are having a big cold front come in and the temperature was at 50 degrees and dropping.  The temperature really wasn't the problem, actually.  It was that it was really humid out and that the wind was around 15-20mph and it was a cold wind.  All the kids were having problems with their hands stinging when they hit the ball.  Evan had a good practice though.  We had our first live kid pitching to kid drills.  Evan pitched really well.  It's amazing how consistent he is in finding the strike zone.  He also hit well when it was his turn to hit.

We came home and had leftovers.

The boys just showered and are going up to bed.

Until next time...

Day Off

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

The boys were home today from school for Veteran's Day.  It was nice not having to get up early to get them to school.

A cold front came through this morning.  It was super windy and the temperature dropped into the 40s.

I worked out of the house for most of the day.

Rachel, Evan, Noah and Lizzy went for a walk around the neighborhood.  They also went to Whole Foods for a lunch with the Pink Ribbon Cowgirls.  Rachel said the boys were very behaved.

The boys cleaned their rooms in the afternoon and then played outside before dinner.

Noah is doing his homework and then they'll get ready for bed.

Until next time...

More Baseball...Then Rain/Cold

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

The first part of the tournament that the Marauders were in is setting up seeding for Sunday's games.  On Sunday the tournament becomes single elimination.  Since the Marauders played so poorly on Saturday, we had the lowest seed.  They actually had enough teams to break the bracket up and made two brackets out of it.  That sort of gave us a chance to win our bracket.  The game started at 9:30am.  It was really hot - nearly 80 degrees.  It was very overcast and looked like it could rain any minute.  It was also very very humid.

In the top of the first, against the sixth seed (we were ninth), the Marauders scored 3 runs.  Evan hit a hard ground ball that the third baseman actually got to.  He was going to have a hard time getting anyone out but chose to throw the ball anyway and it went into right field.  Evan ended up hustling and made it all the way to third.  In the bottom of the first, I was in the dugout and I heard the crack of the bat from the first batter for the other team.  I could hear that he hit it well.  I looked at Evan, who was playing second base, and he jumped up and at full extension snagged the line drive.  Even the parents of the other team were clapping very loudly.  It was quite an athletic play.  Evan singled again in the second and took second on a throw to third and wound up scoring.  Evan made a few more good plays in the field.  At the end we had won 17-2.  We had a 30 minute break until the next game.  I was talking to Rachel and all of a sudden a cold wind came through.  I said, "Wow, that's pretty cold".  Two minutes later the skies opened up and the temperature dropped 30 degrees (no exaggeration).  So unfortunately, the second game was called off.  I felt the Marauders would have had a really good chance to win.

We came home and had lunch.  The boys played upstairs for a while.  Then Noah came down and played Wii.

Rachel had an Oscar party to go to this evening and I found out that Oak Hill was having a coaches' meeting.  So Blanca came over to babysit.

When I got home, I put the boys to bed.

Until next time...

(Pictures from yesterday's game)

No Internet

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Last night, Noah stayed in Evan's room.  It was the first time we allowed that to happen on a school night.  It went well, they haven't gotten good at going to sleep without talking.  The problem was Noah sleeping on the top bunk when he's notoriously bad at waking up.  I was able to get him down and get him dressed.

When I got home and tried to work, the internet was moving extremely slowly.  I finally gave up.  After all these weeks of driving the boys to baseball and having them eat in the car and driving in dirt and gravel parking lots, my car was in desperate need of a car wash.  There is a place by here that does hand washing and they had a Groupon.  I also know they have WiFi and I could sit and work.  I bought the Groupon and tried to drive over there only to get stuck in traffic on the way because of an accident. When I got there and gave them the car to take, I discovered their WiFi was down.  So I still couldn't do any work.  When that finally finished, I called Rachel and she told me the Internet was still down.  So I drove to Starbucks and worked from there.

Around lunch time, Rachel texted me to tell me the Internet was back up so I came home.

In the afternoon, Rachel went to tutor and I picked up the boys from school.  The cold front had started to come in.

Gabby came over and played with the boys.

We had left over corned beef for dinner.

We're just about to get the boys ready for bed.

Until next time...

Cold Front

This morning we drove to school since it was starting to get cold outside.  During the day the temperature kept dropping.  They are saying we could even get some ice over the next few days.

We drove to pick up the boys from school.  Evan was in a bad mood since his recess was cut short.

For dinner we had leftover pizza.

We just got the boys ready for bed.

Cold Front Coming

This morning we walked the kids to school.  It was in the 50s.

I went to Kohls today while the kids were in school. 

During the day a cold front started coming in. It's supposed to be in the 30s tomorrow morning. That's cold for us.

We walked to get the kids from school.  It was a little bit cold, but not too bad.

For dinner we had pizza we made at home.  After dinner we went to HEB.

We just got home and soon we'll put the boys to bed.

Flip-Flop

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Rachel and I flip-flopped who took each kid to school.  I was up late last night trying to get a project ready for a demo so Rachel took Evan to school.  She came and laid back down to sleep and I got up and took Noah to school.  Rachel said that Evan was in a very good mood.  He wore his Franco Harris jersey to school today.

When I took Noah to school, he, too, was in a good mood.  We had a cold front in last night so it was cool and very very windy this morning.  Noah kept pretending he was blowing away while we were walking into the school.

My clients came to the house at 11am.  It went well.

Rachel picked Noah up from school and he was in a good mood when he came home.  He and I went to pick up Evan at school while Rachel went to tutor.

Gabby came over until Rachel got home.

Rachel came home for a bit and we had an early dinner and gave celebrated Hanukkah.  Then Rachel went back out to tutor.

The boys and I played Lego Star Wars Wii.  They are in bed now.

Until next time...

Zayde

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

They have been predicting that a cold front would come in today.  Even last night they said that today's high was going to be 62.  When I got up I got dressed warmly to take Evan to school.  There was only one problem.  The cold front did not arrive until 5:30pm.  It was still in the 70s this morning.

I took Evan to school.  When I came back I mailed a letter at the mailbox.  As I was walking back to the house I saw Noah looking out of the gameroom window waving to me.  I got breakfast for the two of us and then I went to work.

Rachel got up and ended up going for a walk with Noah (after Noah got over throwing a fit that he didn't want to walk).

Rachel then cleaned, mopped the kitchen floor and straightened up.

We had lunch and then we left the house to go to Noah's sports class.  On the way, my cell phone rang but I didn't look at it since I was driving.  Then Blanca called Rachel's phone to tell her that the front door was open to the house and the alarm was going off.  The missed call was from the alarm company.  I quickly dropped Noah and Rachel off and got home as the police were pulling up.  Since the front door was open, they police wanted to check the house.  It was crazy - like TV.  They went in each room yelling "Austin Police" and then checked it real quick.  The only difference was their guns were not drawn.  Lizzy really liked them.  I had been concerned that Lizzy might leave the house but she hadn't.  When Rachel mopped, she went out the front door to dump the water.  Noah went with her.  We think that Noah was the last one in and he probably didn't shut the door well and definitely didn't lock it.  I guess the wind blew it open.  It must have closed enough that we could turn the alarm on.

After sports class, Rachel and Noah went and picked Evan up from school and then met Yenis and Kevin for frozen yogurt and they played at the park.

They came home and we left to pick Zayde up at the airport.  The boys were excited to see him.

We ate at Logan's for dinner and we got home late.  The boys said they were tired.

Now they are in bed and quiet.

Until next time...

Getting Better

Today was a better day. Evan had no fever today, but I still kept him home from school. He was acting much better today. He still didn’t eat much at lunch, but at least he ate a little.

Noah needed a haircut so I decided to trim his hair myself. I took the boys in the backyard and while I was cutting Noah’s hair Evan told me he wanted a haircut too. Evan was happy, but moving around a lot. It was difficult. I told him if he stood still and was good he could have a lollypop after his haircut. That kept him still.

We still have some candy from Halloween so I gave him one of the dumb-dumbs from his trick-or-treating. It was blue and he couldn’t wait to look in the mirror and see his blue tongue.

I put Evan and Noah down for a nap around 2:30 and Blanca came at 3:00. She said Noah slept until about 5:00 and Evan was still sleeping when Morry got home. Morry got him up around 6:00.

Since I was out tutoring Morry took the boys to McDonalds for dinner. He was going to take them to Chick-Fil-A, but when they drove by McDonalds on the way Evan was insisting on eating there. He’s only eaten at McDonalds 2 other times. Morry asked if he was sure that was where he wanted to go and he said yes. Morry said Evan ate very well. In fact, he ate his whole meal – all four chicken nuggets, apples, and cookies.

I got home around 8:00. We let the boys play a little before putting them to bed. They are in bed now. Noah is sleeping, but Evan is playing with his school bus.

A cold front blew in today. It was in the 70s when I left for tutoring and now it’s 37 degrees and raining and sleeting. Brrr!