GO RANGERS!!!

Since its been a couple weeks since my last post(face it, no one cares about my classroom pics!), I decided now was a good time. I am hoping that it will keep me from having a heart attack during this Rangers game. UGH!! 2-2, bottom of the 5th, PULL IT TOGETHER BOYS!!!

Ahem.

It may take forever to get it posted because my child is highly mobile now and requires an inordinate amount of supervision, and this computer is trying to go on strike. Dang! the Giants just scored.

Back to Carter.....he crawls!! And he has a tooth!!!! He has been crawling for about 2 weeks now and is a mad man. He is completely fearless and thinks he should be able to climb on anything or let go when he is standing and walk somewhere. We have already dealt with a couple of crashes that left marks on the face, nothing too horrible yet. Its only a matter of time though. So please refrain from calling CPS should he look a little bruised, he is just the definition of B-O-Y. As for the tooth, yesterday at Aunt Karen's he fell on his face while crawling and had a small amount of blood in his mouth, and today she spotted the tooth that the fall apparently helped to push through! It is the top left middle tooth. Does that make sense??

OMG its 5-2 now. I can't watch.

So 2 weeks ago we trekked to Southlake and met Matt and Brooke and the boys for lunch at Mi Cocina. Then we went to Shannon's to hang out with her and the kids and watch the Ranger and Baylor games. I miss my Brookie and the boys so much! Hopefully when Christiaan moves here(which is looking to be soon, yay!!! More details later.)we will have more free weekend time to get together.

Lord almighty, and 3 run homer. I'm going to cry. And why does the kid pitching look like the dude from Dazed and Confused??

This past weekend we were in Waco for Baylor's homecoming. Friday night we took Carter to the Midway High football game, which is Christiaan's high school alma mater. They kicked butt. As did the Rangers that night, which we made it home for the end of the game. Uh-maz-ing. Carter had an unusually rough night that night, and we went early the next morning to the Baylor homecoming parade. It was pretty cool and Carter was totally into the band's drumline! Uncle Micah, we may have a drummer! I took a short nap and we left Carter with Nana and Christiaan and I headed to the game. They were playing Kansas State, whom I usually cheer for, but I didn't that day! A minute and a half off the game clock and they called a delay for lightning within 6 miles. Dang. So we sat under an overhang to hopefully prevent getting struck by said lightning, until the announcer told us to run for cover, as the bottom was about to fall out. Under the stands we went, along with that half of the stadium's 40,000+ visitors. And our chosen spot in the cattle pen was directly in line with the vent of a random window unit, thus baking us for the 30 minutes that we were trapped. The storm passed and we emerged to find a 20 degree difference in the temperature(which initially felt wonderful after being in an oven). Finally, about 2 hours after the delay began, the game started back up again. There were scattered showers off and on until just before the sun went down, and it peeked through the clouds on its way down. It was during one of these many scattered showers that a bee decided to take shelter in my pancho, and apparently I sat on it, as he stung the back of my leg. Good times. Finally though, after the longest day of football in history, Baylor won!! This win makes them eligible for a bowl game for the first time in like 15 years or something. We were definitely glad that we did not take Carter to this game.

Ok, 8-4, looking a little better.

Sunday after church and lunch we all headed back to Dallas, Christiaan included. He had 2 days of testing for this job he is hopefully getting. Again, more details later when it all works out. Because it WILL all work out!! But him being here for 2 days has made this seem like a shorter week already, thank goodness because it has been a little crazy! Monday night we had dinner at Nannie's house and some guy backed into Mom's Volvo. It only made a small dent, but it messed up the back axle somehow. That same day Dad's truck died, and he hasn't gotten things straightened out from his wreck yet, so they are not having such good luck right now. Not cool.

Ok well, here is the part where I start loading the pictures and blogger goes beserk, so my game updates may or may not be outdated by the time I get done. Enjoy!!

We have a picture of Jack in this same spot at about this same age, although I cannot find it right now. Brannan didn't want to sit still and smile for me, so that is why Brooke is holding him down with a pillow!

Carter desparetely wanted to kiss Chloe, but she would have nothing of it.

Another cute picture of Carter and Auntie Brooke. I have a lot of them, not a lot of Auntie Aud and Brannan though...we need to do something about that!

A newspaper guy took this picture at the Midway game.

Um, hi. Have you met my mini-me?? He is also not a morning person.

He was trying to wake up for the parade!

He loves Jason!

He was chewing on Edna's hat

It rained a little

The cattle pen, AKA under the stands with 20,000 of our newest friends

Yeah, about sums that up

After the storms, Christiaan got chilled since we dressed for 80 degree weather so I let him wear my rain jacket since I had a sweater.

Bears win! Bowl eligible!

I don't even want to talk about how the game turned out. Tomorrow must be better!!

My kids and I made this today! They asked me to mail it to the Rangers so they could put it up in their locker room.....bless their hearts!!