Soccer - Spring 2011 Season

Look out Forney youth soccer teams - here come the Forney Drifters!

There is NO WAY you are getting past this goal keeper!

It was a VERY, VERY, VERY cold opening day!

Did I mention it was COLD?

So cold in fact, that most of the spectators (even some moms!) missed the last half because they had retreated to their cars!

the boys all had blue-ish lips and numb fingers by the time the game ended -

but they played an awesome, aggressive game!

Way to go Drifters!

some spring pics

Last Sunday afternoon, I took Maggie out for a few spring pictures - the light was great and the wind wasn't too strong (rare this time of year), so we got a few cute shots.

Look for Tim's spring photos soon - as soon as we have a day without massive wind gusts!

Justin was with us, so I snapped a few of him too...

he looks so serious because the wind was blowing pretty hard right then and he was losing his patience waiting for it to die down!

this is what Maggie did while I shot him and she had a break from my camera!

Prom

Maggie goes to Forney High School, but a neighboring town, Kaufman, had their prom two weeks ago and Maggie was asked to go. She went with Justin and his best friends, Josh and Amber.

This was a great group to go with - Maggie says it was a blast! They all get along so well! She reported that dinner beforehand was so fun that no one really even finished their food - lots of fun conversation!

She had only met Amber once or twice before, but evidently they hit it off and had a great time! Neither one of them goes to Kaufman HS, so they stuck together.

She also said that she and Justin danced all night - nearly every song - she was beat by the time she returned home! (of course not too tired to keep me up until the wee hours of the morning telling me all about it!)

I am so glad she had such an amazing time at her first prom!

11

a few shots from tims birthday - it was uneventful, as he had school and a mandatory soccer practice - his party with friends has been rescheduled - but im sure it will be a blast - if he ever finds time to have it!

daddy got tim a new cell phone - this one with text!

Thanks to all of you who texted him birthday wishes! - he had 42 at the time i took this picture, but over 80 by the end of the night!

scotty came by to tell him happy birthday and give him a bday swirly!

Olive Garden dinner (his usual choice) with the family and gf, Michaela

oh tommy...

haley came by before school with SUGAR!!!

thanks a lot, haley!

daddy giving tim his new phone!

ELEVEN!!!!

Happy Birthday, Tim!

You are my favorite boy on the planet!!

(and thanks for the forced semi smile in this birthday picture! I bet i'll get a real one later today when you open your gifts!)

Winter Break

Forney I.S.D. does not give a winter break like a lot of schools do - however, mother nature provided a week long break for us recently! First is was the ice, then came the snow that prevented the kids from heading out to school - YAY!!!

Here are a few shots from the last few days:

Maggie, Tim, Michaela, Charlie and Haley

There was no driving allowed for Mags, so its a good thing we live in a neighborhood with friends close by!

a family photo minus Tommy :(

He was hard at work and once he got home, he wasn't really interested on getting back out in the cold to re-do this shot!

Above and below pics of Tim and Michaela - this is what they looked like most of the day - with a bit of outside play in between. They are definitely two peas in a pod!

This was the beginning of charlie's snow beard

building the base of the snowman was their job...

finishing him out was theirs.

Brian showed up just in time to go in for Maggie's yummy hot chocolate!

trying to fit in the big jacket that Haley borrowed from her brother

This may or may not have been an apology hug for tackling her in the snow!

They discovered that underneath all of the layers, they were matching - Haley said "hey, take a pic of us since we all have on the same color" - Then they proceeded to act like idiots and never once looked at the camera and smiled all at the same time - I took almost 40 shots! Poor Brian was about to get eaten in this one!

We also ventured out for a yummy dinner at Napoli's once Tommy arrived home (no pics) and we made some Valentine crafts to decorate the house:

lately

I notice on my blog visitor list, that several of you have checked in looking for news - Sorry... I really don't have any!

I haven't taken any great pics lately - and other than a weekend trip to San Antonio to visit Nana and Pa, there has been no excitement around here. Tim got the flu while we were out of town - I got bronchitis soon after, Tommy as usual had his nose to the grindstone (thanks babe) and poor Maggie had the worst thing of all - SEMESTER EXAMS! Here are some random pics from the last two weeks:

This is my mom and dad - it had been a cold nasty, rainy day - mom had just gotten over a few weeks of the flu or something horrible, and she recently had cataract surgery. How cute does she look anyway?!

Tim and his friend Ben at Restoration Hardware - they were FREAKIN' EXCITED to be there!!!

Poor Ben - Tim also started running a 104 temp. about an hour after this was taken - his San Antonio trip was not very fun - Sorry Ben!

I actually had planned on taking the kids to the zoo the following day - Tim thought everyone should go anyway and he would just stay at home with Nana - but Ben vetoed that idea, saying he didn't feel good about leaving Tim behind - he said the zoo would not be as fun without "a little bit of hyper!" Now, that is a good friend!

Tim had been washing his hands - well, he was a bit distracted by the magical soap bubbles!

mag and a few friends working on the monster Chemistry review packet - they looked just like this for HOURS!!

and finally - Sprout killed yet another mouse - nothing unusual, but this one had babies. She was kind enough not to eat them - she just pulled them out and left them alone - she sure is a sweet kitty!

My little animal activist, Tim, of course was mortified! I actually thought it was kind of cool - seriously, click on one of the pics to enlarge and check how cool their little forming bodies look!