Relaxing at Home

Today we mostly stayed home.  It was cold outside.  Morry and the boys watched the Steelers game this afternoon. 

Evan and Noah played outside in the back yard for a little while.  Morry and Evan played some football out front later on today.

We ate dinner at home and then got dessert at TCBY.

We made another quick stop at HEB tonight to get a few more things for tomorrow night.

We are having Jack's family over for New Year's Eve tomorrow.

The boys are ready for bed now and will hopefully be sleeping soon.

Back from Dallas

We left for Dallas on December 25 and came back today.

We had a nice trip. It snowed a few hours after getting there and the boys were so excited.  It was the first time they saw snow coming down from the sky.  Evan could have played outside in it all day if we let him.  The snow actually stuck to the ground (about 1 inch).  It wasn't much, but the boys thought it was the best thing ever.

Here are a few pictures and videos of the snow in Dallas.

Locomotion and Gumbos

It was nice not having to take the boys to school today.

I took them to Locomotion, an indoor play place.  They had a good time there.

We came home and Morry had gotten lunch ready for them.

We took it easy this afternoon.

For dinner we went to Gumbo's.  It's a nicer than we usually take the kids, but it was one of the only places open today.  The boys did very well there.  It worked out well.

We just got home and we'll get the kids ready for bed soon.

Johnson City

This morning I took the boys to the park for a little bit to play some football.  At noon Morry and the boys watched the Steelers game. 

When it was over we met at Will and Bradford's house and all drove to Johnson City to see the Christmas lights there.  We at dinner in the square and went on a hayride.  It was a nice night.  Everyone enjoyed it.

Here are some pictures from today.

Baseball in the Park

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

I got up early as I'm trying to finish up some things for Monday.  Evan got up first followed by Noah 30 minutes to an hour later.

The boys were good together.  They played upstairs (made a gigantic mess in the game room) as well as playing Wii.

Later in the morning, I decided the boys needed to get out of the house.  I decided to take them to the park to play baseball.  For Hanukkah the boys got bases, a bucket of baseballs and a tee.  They also got  a screen and soft-toss pitching machine, although I left those at home since we were going to be running the bases.   We first tried to go to the Wildflower Park but someone was already playing baseball.  We then went to the Circle C park where they have an actual backstop and cut outs for the bases.  I think the boys really liked playing on a field.

We stopped at Smoothie King on the way home and got smoothies.

Rachel made the boy lunch and I put on Monsters Inc for them.

Later in the afternoon, I played Wii with them and then we had a light dinner.

We just gave the boys showers and put them to bed.

Until next time...

Noah's Last Day of School

Today was Noah's last day of school.  Morry, Evan, and I went to Noah's party at school at noon.  The kids decorated gingerbread houses.  Evan got to do one too.  Noah seemed very happy to have us there.

We took it easy this afternoon.

We went over to Nathan's house and Jack's house to drop off cookies for their families.

Tonight we ran out to Target to get a gift card for a birthday and then picked up food for dinner.

We got Little Caesars for the boys and Thai Taste for us.

We just finished eating dinner.  We told the boys that if they were good tonight they could sleep in the same room.  They choose to sleep in Evan's room.  We'll see how that goes.