Classroom

My classroom-the before picture.

 

 

Happy Birthday Boonpa!

Happy 55th birthday Boonpa! Now you can order off the senior menu at IHOP! Woo hoo!
Thomas did some major decorating on his cake. :-)

 

 

Baseball

Wanna know how to make me really grumpy?
Make baseball practice 2 hours long.
And make it at a time when the feels like temperature is 101°.
And make me stand for the first hour because there are no benches.
And make the dust and dirt get in between my toes while I'm standing there.
just get through it…it's only once a week

A Boy Wreath

Today we ran some errands, relaxed, and had a great day. I ran to Michael's to grab some Texans ribbon so I could make a new wreath for our door this fall. I think it's a boy wreath because it's all about football. Brian says there's no such thing as a boy wreath, but what does he know??

 

 

Happy Birthday Brian

Happy 32nd birthday Brian! Thomas and Timothy love taking him to La Maria on his birthday so he can get cream in his face!

I made a banana pudding cake and a cookie pie (both from Pinterest) for his birthday desserts, and they both turned out yummy.

Happy birthday!!

Schlitterbahn Water Park

Thomas and Timothy have been asking all summer long to go to Schlitterbahn Water Park. They could even sing the jingle from the Schlitterbahn commercial. So today we all put on our hideous water shoes and spent the day there.

I think we all enjoyed it! This park is much smaller than the one in New Braunsfels and it had several "kiddie" areas. Both boys played in those, but they both also rode some pretty big water slides. Thomas and I rode a few of the really big water slides.
And my brave Thomas even tried surfing for the first time. He did great-no wipe outs!

The Beach/Volcano Place

Today we made one last trip to the beach before summer ends.
We had much better luck with our kite this time. This Buzz Light year one flew above us our entire time on the beach.

The boys played in the sand and the water and had a great time.

 

After the beach, we went to the hotel to shower and rest before dinner. We ate at Landry's then took some pictures out on the beach. Then we went to The Rainforest Cafe for a volcano for dessert.

 

Afterward, we sat outside of the rainforest and watched the volcano erupt. Both boys thought it was awesome! They had never seen it at night.
 

Mi Pottery

I had bought a groupon for Mi Pottery a few weeks ago and we used it today. It's a place in Tomball where you pick out and paint your own pottery, then they glaze it and fire it for you. (and it's pronounced MY pottery...not sure why they didn't just spell it that way)
We had $50 to spend on pottery so all three of us picked something out. Thomas chose a baseball on a stand, Timothy chose a dragon, and I chose a little football helmet to go in Timothy's re-done room.

We picked our colors and began painting. This is what they turned out like:

 

Now we just have to wait for them to be ready to pick up. I'm sure in the August heat, they don't fire things everyday, but hopefully, it will be within the next few days.

After we did our pottery painting, we ran by the farmer's market on 2920 for some fresh fruit. So we can take that paper out of our summer jar now!

Moving up

Tonight was gymnastics. Timothy's wife, Coach Allison, told us at the end of practice that he is ready to move up to the Firefly class. (he's been in the bumblebees) Yay Timmy!

This is called the bear crawl.

But boo because all the Firefly classes are full for the moment. So we have to stay with the Bumblebees while we wait for a spot to open up. :-(

Funday Monday

The boys spent the night with MiMi and Boonpa last night. All day today they played with MiMi and all her fun toys.
This morning I went to the teacher store to laminate everything I've made for my classroom so far. It ended up being 27 feet of laminating!!
Tonight was Thomas' first coach pitch practice. Wait, let me say that correctly. Tonight was  Thomas' first TWO HOUR coach pitch practice. In the heat. He did fine but he was tired afterward!

Athletic Supporter

Last night I went out with Angie so Brian had the boys. He had to take them to Academy to buy Thomas a "cup" for baseball this fall. Today Timothy decided to show me how it works.

"See Mom, it protects your winkie."

RIP my phone

Today I bit the bullet and took my phone to the Verizon store. I had been having lots of issues with it - it wouldn't ring, videos had no sound, emails wouldn't send, it would freeze from time to time, and it never got up to 4G.
So first thing today, I downloaded all my pictures and videos from my phone to the computer, I made a list of all the apps I use, and I made sure my contacts were backed up. Then I went to Verizon. The guy tried a factory reset but it didn't work, of course, so they ordered me a new phone-free of charge! But since they did the factory reset, I don't have my apps back on my phone (like blogger). It's thrown me off my blogging game!

B-Baller

Today was Thomas's last day of basketball camp. Timothy and I dropped him off then went to visit (where else) the pet store. Yes, 3 visits in one week. And a cat meowed at him and it just made his day. But back to basketball...
Today was also parent day so we got to go back and watch the last hour of camp. The boys had a scrimmage game and then went over their bible verse and got their game balls. It was so fun to watch Thomas playing because he did not stop moving the whole entire time. He loved playing defense-I think he's not a very confident dribbler, so that makes offense harder for him. He had a great time and seemed to have a great grasp of the game because he would direct his team back to guard their goal at the appropriate times. I know he's sad that camp is over because it was such a fun time for him!

Dentist Day

Today was our dentist day of this summer. It was also a super busy day!
Timothy and I dropped Thomas off at basketball camp then we ran to Michael's to pass some time. Then it was time for his appointment. He was perfect and his teeth look perfect, so yay Timothy!
Then we went to the bookstore. And since he had such a great appointment I agreed to take him to the pet store. (This was our second visit this week! He just likes to look at and talk to the animals. He treats it like the zoo!) Then we ran into CVS, and  then picked up Thomas.
We immediately headed back to the dentist for Thomas' appointment. He had perfect teeth as well, so double yay! He was such a big boy at this appointment. The hygienist offed up all the fruity, fun flavors of toothpaste and he told her, "I would just like regular tooth paste-mint-flavor." So that's what he got. Except for the fluoride foam. He got that in chocolate flavor. (bleh)