Ben's in 3rd grade!

Today was Ben's first day back to school. He's a big ol' 3rd grader now. :( Hard to believe, but he's growing up too fast. He was going to ride the bus, but changed his mind at the last minute and wanted Mike and I to take him. He just had us drop him at the front door.

He said he had a great first day! Loves his teacher and is making new friends already. Looks like it's going to be a wonderful year for him.

Here's a look back over the years.


3rd grade

























2nd grade, only a week out of the hospital.






















First grade






















Kindergarten

Had a little visitor in the garage tonight. YIKES! Mike killed it with wasp spray, but not before we got a shot of the nasty thing. ICK!

Musings from Will

So we took a walk around our neighborhood the other night. It has been a stormy few days and so the temperature outside was almost fall like. Really nice. We started talking about how soon Halloween would be here and what did the boys want to be. Will is set on Spiderman, just not sure if he wants to be red Spidey or black. Ben is thinking something scary. Here is what Will had to say about being scared:

"I'm scared of witches, but nothing else"....."I'm scared of witches, and ants but nothing else"..."I'm scared of witches, ants and skeletons but nothing else"..."I'm afraid of witches, ants, skeletons and bees...but nothing else"

This went on and on and on! It was so funny. Mike and I were trying to stifle our laughter. Will can be just so stinking cute at times.

Update on Urologist

Well apparently.....there is nothing wrong with me. Don't laugh, as I am sure many of you think there is "something" wrong with me.....just not with my kidneys. lol So the Dr. said he could find no urological reason for my pain, so perhaps a visit to the chiro is in order. So...no more water for me!! Hooray!!! I'm back to drinking Diet DP and loving every minute of it.

Thanks for the well wishes, thoughts and prayers. :)

2 games down....quite a few to go.

We had our 2nd and last preseason football game yesterday. The boys did GREAT! They have won both of the preseason games. The first one the score was us 25 and them 6, last night was us 29 and them 0. The boys are doing so well working as a team and I cannot say enough good things about the coaches or the Jackets football organization as a whole. I am truly impressed. So regular season starts the 23rd and then we have games through November, followed by 2 out of town tournaments. Looks like it's going to be a really fun season for both the players and the parents. :)

Here are pics from both games: (they are in their orange practice uniforms....Ben is #19)

Football season is upon us.

This is the 2nd season that Ben will be playing for the Rockwall Jackets 1A select football team. We are loving the new coaches! The previous coaches moved up to 2A with the older boys and the old flag coaches moved up to 1A. These are the coaches that took the flag team to win the Superbowl of the league in their divison. They are awesome coaches and Ben has already learned more this season than all of last year. He's doing well and really seems to be a strong force on the team this year. He's one of the older boys now, and he really looks the part out there. They have their first game this Sunday night, but it's a preseason game. Regular season play starts in a couple of weeks. They get new uniforms every year, so I will have to post more pics when they come in. For now they practice every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening from 6-8pm and man is it HOT! We hit 107 yesterday, and today is more of the same. Water is now Ben's friend and we are keeping him hydrated so that he can play and practice with little problem. I'll have to get some more recent pics of them all practicing in full pads...these are all helmet only practice pics.