Catching Up

 This is a big catch up post since it's been quite a while since the last post.

Since then, here's what's been going on.

We went to Florida for Spring Training and after we got back Noah had his 16th birthday.

Marilyn / Grandmom wasn't doing well and moved in with us, went on Hospice, and passed away April 4.  We had a celebration of life event for her at the end of April that was very nice and had a great turnout.

On Evan's 18th birthday, he threw a perfect game.

Evan graduated from high school.

Noah broke his pinky finger playing football and needed surgery.

We took a family trip to southern California (Evan's choice) to see some baseball games.

We went to Bradenton, Florida (the same place we go for Spring Training) for one of Evan's baseball tournaments.

Evan's last tournament for TRPD was in Ft. Worth and the 18U boys graduating had a great time celebrating with the coaches.

Noah started school on August 20 and that same day we started the drive to move Evan into college.

We moved him in on August 23 and then flew back on August 25.

And, here we are.

Here are some pictures over the last few months.

First Day of School

The boys started school today.  Evan is in 12th grade, and Noah is in 10th.  

Jackson's parents gave them a ride to school this morning.

The boys had a good day.  Evan went bowling.  Yes, during school.  He has an off period, so he and Josh went bowling.  Since he's a senior, he's allowed to leave campus.

Here are some pictures from today.

Back to School

 Yesterday the kids went back to school.  Evan is now in 11th grade and Noah is in 9th.  They are both at the high school now.

They both said the day was pretty boring.

After school yesterday and today the bus was late picking them up.

Tonight Evan is at his first yoga class.  We will pick him up in a little bit.

Here are some pictures from yesterday.

Back to School

 Today both boys went back to school.  Evan started 10th grade and Noah started 8th grade.

They both took the bus to school.

After the boys left Morry and I took the dogs for a short walk.  As we were leaving the house, a few of our neighbors were outside after sending their kids on the bus and we talked to them for a while.

I had a staff meeting/lunch at my school today.

I tutored this afternoon.

It seemed like the boys had good days.

Noah didn't want to talk much, but Evan talked a lot about his day.   He's happy that he has some friends in his classes and has friends with the same lunch.  He likes his teachers so far too.

Both boys went to Reid's house this evening to Wiffle ball.

Here are pictures from today.

First Day of School 2020

Today was the first day of school for Evan, Noah, and me.

Evan and Noah had online classes and my school started back in person.

Noah's first class was at 8:15am and Evan's first class was at 9am.

I tutored a student online at 8:45 and then went to my school.  I taught 2 classes today from 10am-12pm.  My school set up tents outdoors so I was able to teach outside. I hope to do that as much as possible.

Today Papa had his hip replacement surgery. It sounded like everything went as planned, but he's spending the night in the hospital to manage the pain and some other post-op issues.

I got home around 1pm, ate, and did some blog work.

Then starting at 4pm I tutored three students and taught my Hebrew class.

I've been teaching online through Outschool.  You create your own classes and use the platform to post them.  You determine how long the classes last, the number of students you will teach, and the price.  I decided to create a Hebrew alphabet class and have 6 students in my class that meets once a week for 8 weeks.

Evan had baseball practice tonight.

When Evan and Morry got home we ate dinner.

Both boys were pretty exhausted today.  It sounded like it went well, but it was just a long day sitting at the computer for both of them.  Evan didn't have that many breaks.

First Day of School - 6th and 8th

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today was the first day of school for the 2019-2020 school year.  Noah is now in 6th grade and Evan is now in 8th grade.  What that means is they are now both in middle school and both riding the bus.  It also means that we don't have to get up as early since elementary school starts the earliest of the three types of school.

We woke up about 20 minutes late than we would previously.  Evan had breakfast, Noah did not.  Noah almost always refuses to eat breakfast.  Both boys were in good moods.  Rachel wanted to take pictures of the boys as we do on the first day of school every year.  This year, Noah insisted that Rachel take pictures in the backyard rather than the front yard.

Noah also seemed anxious to go.  I think he was worried about missing the bus.  Evan was definitely calmer about it. Noah insisted that we could not walk with him to the bus stop.  In fact, Rachel was able to get a picture of them walking to the bus stop but she had to zoom in because Noah wouldn't let us get close enough.

We still took Chewie for a walk.  We want to keep our morning walks and Chewie really enjoys it.  He seemed to sense that there was school today.  He was definitely more hyper this morning.  So we walked the opposite way that Noah and Evan walked so we followed Noah's rules.

Rachel tutored around lunch time.  Of course I just worked at home all day.

What was weird is we didn't have to be home by 2:50pm so we could walk to get Noah.  This was our first time not doing that.

Evan went over his friend Henry's after school.  We had asked Evan to meet Noah at the buses at school to make sure Noah was ok, but Evan didn't do that.  Noah was able to get on the bus fine himself.  He was with his buddy, Grayson.  Noah got home around 4:10 or so.  He seemed to be in a good mood and didn't have anything bad to say about school.

Later in the afternoon, I picked Evan up.  When I got home, I left again to go to a meeting at TRPD for the parents.

Rachel made dinner for the boys.

When I got home, we went for our annual first-night-of-school-frozen-yogurt at TCBY.

We're home now.  The boys are getting ready for bed.

Until next time...

First Day of School, Last First Day of Clayton

This morning we walked Noah to school and went inside briefly to drop him off at his classroom.  He did not want us to go inside the classroom.  :)

Since Chewie couldn't go with us this morning I took him for a walk once we got back.

I did some stuff around the house today.

We walked with Chewie to pick up Noah from school.  He seemed like he had a good day.

Evan got home a little after 4:00 and it seemed like his day went well too.

I left to tutor and a little while later Evan went over to Grandma and Papa's.

When I got home we made dinner - A General Tso's meal from H-E-B.

Then, we drove to get Evan from Grandma and Papa's since there was thunder.

Soon, the boys will get ready for bed.

Here are some pictures from today.

Oh, and a few from when we went to Austin Pets Alive on Friday.