Winter Break 2021

 Our winter break is almost over.  The boys and I go back to school on Wednesday.

During the break we drove to San Diego for an anniversary party/ family reunion for one of Papa/Dad's cousins.   We stopped in Phoenix for 2 nights on the way there.  On the way home, we drove straight to Austin with a few stops for food, gas, and restroom breaks.   We had a nice time.

Fran and Scott came to visit for a few days.   We enjoyed hanging out with them and celebrating New Year's together.  For New Year's Eve, we set up the projector in the backyard and watched Back to the Future.

Here are a few pictures from our trip and New Years.

Goodbye 2020

 Today Noah and I made 2 apple pies

I was supposed to tutor a student at 4:30, but they canceled.  I had a feeling they would.

For dinner and dessert,

we had fondue.

We watched the movie, Love and Monsters.

Then, we had our sparkling juice and a slice a pie at midnight.

Here are pictures from today.

Happy New Year!

Yesterday, we met the Williams and went downtown for barbecue.  We had lunch at Coopers and then walked around the lake and Auditorium Shores.  The city was setting up for the New Year's party, so we were able to hear some music of a band rehearsing.  It was a nice day.

At night, we met the Edwards at Alamo Drafthouse to see the movie, The Passengers.  We enjoyed that.  We got home around 11pm and Grandma and Papa came over to celebrate New Years.  They stayed until a little after midnight.

Today, we went to the Polar Bear Splash at Barton Springs.  We all jumped into the cold (68 degree) water.

In the afternoon, Aunt Sandy and Uncle Marvin had us all over for lunch.

We had a light dinner.

Now, the kids are getting ready for bed.

Here are some pictures.

Happy New Year!

Yesterday Aaron's family came over in the afternoon for a little bit.

At night, we went to Wade's house.  They had a nice family friendly New Year's Eve party.  We stayed until a little after midnight.

Today, was filled with family.  We went to Uncle Marvin and Aunt Sandy's house around 10:30 and stayed there until mid afternoon.  Trent's family, Grandma and Papa, Jay and Holis, Jacob, JT and Helen, Lisa's boys, Joel, and Jimmy's kids were there with their significant others.  We had a nice time with everyone.

We took it easy tonight.  We ordered pizza and picked up a Redbox movie.  We just watched Inside Out with the kids.  We all liked it.

Soon the boys will get ready for bed.

Here are a few pictures from today.

Recovering

Last night we took it easy at home since we are all recovering from whatever flu or cold hit us.  We watched movies and had a fondue dinner. The boys stayed up until midnight to watch the ball drop.

Today we took it easy at home.

Aunt Sandy and Uncle Marvin invited us over for dinner.   We had a nice time there.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Biker Gang

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

At some point early this morning, I heard Rachel exclaim "Ow, Flash!"  Apparently he attacked her finger because she must have moved it in her sleep.

Rachel stayed in bed when I came down to start working.  The boys stayed upstairs, but were already awake.  The boys came down later and got themselves cereal.

In the late morning, the doorbell rang.  It was the twin boys, Connor and Christian, from across the street.  They wanted to see if Evan and Noah could come out, ride bikes and play.  Noah couldn't go because he's still sick but Evan went out with them.

The boys came in for a bit and then went back out, riding their bikes down Larue Belle Lane and Cove.  Around 3pm, I was getting ready to run to HEB and I saw the three of them riding their bikes around.  I joked that they were a biker gang.

I bought a bunch of stuff for New Year's Eve at HEB.  We're going to do fondue at home tomorrow night.  Maybe we'll rent a movie or something.

When I came home Evan, Christian and Connor were still playing but they followed me into the house.  Evan asked me to make popcorn for them.  Then the three boys went into the backyard and ate the popcorn out there.

Around 5:15 the twins had to go home.  They want to play again tomorrow.

I made spaghetti for dinner for the boys.  Rachel, who is still sick as well, had leftover matzoh ball soup.

After dinner, I ran out and got a new monitor for my office.  I found a really good one on craigslist.  It worked out well.

The boys are playing Playstation together and are about to go upstairs to bed.

Until next time...

Happy New Year

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning was a normal workday for me.  I got up and helped Noah get his breakfast.  Evan actually got up later than Noah did.  They played Wii for a while while I worked.

Later in the morning, Rachel took the boys to run some errands.  When Rachel got home, she cleaned.  We had Jack and his family over for New Year's Eve.

When I got done working I rolled out pizza dough and pre-baked it so that it would cook faster when we were going to eat.  We let everyone put their own toppings on several pizzas and baked them.

As soon as Jack and his family got here, all the kids immediately ran upstairs to play.  Jack and Evan hadn't seen each other since school ended.  We had appetizers and talked with John and Randa.  Then we had the kids make their pizza and eat.  When they were all done, we put on a movie upstairs for the kids and then made our pizzas and ate them.

The kids were super wild and didn't seem to be slowing down at midnight.  We said Jack could stay over.  John, Randa and Audrey went home.

All three boys are in bed, but not asleep yet.  Hopefully they go to sleep soon.

Until next time...

New Year's Eve

The boys were kind of cranky this morning. We had planned on taking a walk to the school playground, but Noah especially was not in a good mood. The boys did play outside in the backyard. The weather was very nice today.

This afternoon we started getting ready for our party. I baked the cookies while Morry ran out to Salt Lick to pick up the food.

We had a nice party. Everyone left around 11pm. Evan and Noah stayed up until midnight. They wanted to sleep in their sleeping bags in the game room tonight so we let them. Noah is already asleep on the couch and Evan will probably be asleep soon.

Here are some pics and a video.

Happy New Year!

New Years Eve

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

We got up early this morning to go to Rachel's last chemo appointment. Amazingly, Evan did not get up early this morning. So the one morning I had to get up, Evan decided to sleep in. I should have gone in his room and asked him to get me breakfast.

Uncle Mike and Aunt Jen took care of the boys today. They walked to the school and played on the playground. They played a lot at the house as well. The boys seemed to really have had a good time. When Aunt Jen got to the house, Evan said "look at our new dog" and pointed out in the backyard where the dog that we found last night was sitting.

The oncology center was backed up today. I think they are closed tomorrow so they are probably seeing the patients who have chemo on Friday as well as the Thursday patients. So it took much longer there.

When we got home the boys were napping. Aunt Jen actually laid down with Evan to get him to sleep.

I took the dog we found to the vet to see if he had a chip so we could find the owners. Unfortunately, he didn't have a chip. As I was driving home, my phone rang. It was a number that I didn't recognize. I answered the phone and the person said he had lost his dog and identified the dog we had found. I told him that I had the dog in the car, that I'd just drive over to his place. I asked where he lived and it was nearly 2 miles from our house. I can't believe the dog had wandered that far away. Rachel and I didn't put flyers up that far thinking the dog must have come from nearer to where we lived. The owner said he drove around until 4am last night but he didn't think that the dog had gone that far away. It's a shame because we were driving around at the same time but in two different areas. The owner was very happy to have his dog back. There were a bunch of people at the house who were just about to go out to search for the dog. They had made a ton of flyers and were going to post them around. He offered to give us a reward but I refused. I said all I care about is that if somehow Lizzy were to escape that someone would find Lizzy and take care of her until we found her.

For dinner, Aunt Jen and Uncle Mike went out to get Salt Lick. Apparently it was very crowded. It took them nearly an hour. When they returned the server had given them the wrong order. They had to drive back and pick up the right order. The food was good though.

We gave the boys baths and put them down. Unfortunately, Evan is back downstairs watching everyone play Wii (and playing some himself).

Happy New Year's everyone!

Oh, and if you know someone who is setting off fireworks (like the people in our neighborhood) tell them they are idiots. Thank you.

New Year's Eve

Happy New Year's Eve!

This morning the Circle C Moms group was meeting at Going Bananas, an indoor play area for kids. Marilyn/Grandmom, Evan, Noah, and I got there around 11am. Going Bananas has lots of those inflatable moon bouncers. Evan wanted nothing to do with them. I’m not sure why. I went with him on a Nemo one and I held his hand and jumped a little, but when I stopped he was ready to get off. He went one time on the slide one. He climbed up the ladder, but whined at the top for a while. I don’t think adults were allowed on that one, so there wasn’t much I could do. Eventually, he slid down and seemed to like it, but didn’t want to go again. They had some play houses and other things that weren’t inflated, so Evan spent most of his time with those. They also had a little baby area that Noah enjoyed. At 12 noon we met the other moms for a New Year’s countdown with party blowers and everything. Since most of the kids wouldn’t be up at midnight, they did a 12:00 noon countdown.

After Going Bananas we picked Morry up at work and ate lunch at Wendy’s.

Morry and I are going out tonight for dinner and Marilyn will babysit the boys. Depending on how the night is going we might try and stop by Mike and Melissa’s party also.

Have a Happy New Year!