Quick 2011 Recap!

It has been awhile since I have updated anything on here.  A LONG while!  So I will try and give a summary on 2011 so I can move on to 2012.  So here I go...

                                                                January 2011

                                                     Sloane Avery is born - January 7th

February 2011

Ethan's 5th Birthday

Ethan had a football party with his good friends and cousins...

Kate got her first big girl hair cut...

We actually had a SNOW DAY!!!  Kids saw snow for the first time and played in it...

Mema, kids and I volunteered at the Marathon for Kids for Whole Foods Market.  Ethan and I handed out water bottles to kids as the ran their last mile!

March 2011

Ran my first trail run with John in Burnet at Reveille Ranch!  Lots of fun...

April 2011

We took Ethan to his first game of Putt-Putt in New Braunfels.

Ethan got to go to Disney on Ice with his cousins!

Then we all ate at the Oasis!

Ethan played Spring soccer.  He was on the Goalzillas with Dane and Gage!

I did the ZOOMA Half Marathon in Bastrop with Laura and April.  I am really proud of all of us for doing it, but most proud of April since it was her first run event EVER!!  We ROCKED it!

Cousin Tommy celebrated his 40th Birthday at Salt Lick.  We all had a GREAT time!

May 2011

Ethan graduated for Pre-K.  He has been at Abiding Love Lutheran since he was 8 weeks old!  What an awesome place with AMAZING ladies...

Ethan with his friend, Sara!

Ethan's teachers in the Butterfly Room - Ms. Debbie, Ms. Kara, Ms. Sherri and Ms. Olga

Ethan with his friend, Landon!

The day of Birthday Parties!

Kate had her 2nd Birthday party on Saturday, but before we could celebrate her's we went to her cousins' 4th - Addison. It was a lot of fun...face painting and fun balloons! Kate actually sat long enough to get her face painted...too cute!

Halloween!!!

We had a great Halloween this year! Kate was really into it and loved going up to the houses to get candy. We would barely get into the driveway and she was pushing Ethan out of the wagon saying, "Eses, out!" Then when we were going between houses she had her head in the bag see what all she got. Too funny! Ethan was Iron Man and Kate was a butterfly. I love my cute, cute kids!!

Of course we can't forget the trip to the Pumpkin Patch earlier that week! Kate was more into the pumpkins and not much into Mommy wanting to take pictures. Oh well...maybe next year!

After the pumpkin patch we went to Sonic to eat and the kids got some really cool Halloween glasses!

Ethan's 2nd Soccer Season - GOALzillas!!

This fall was Ethan's second season to play soccer. We moved him up to the 5-6 year old group so we could keep the same coaches we had last season. They are AWESOME!!! Ethan got better as the season went on, but we still need some work. He scored more goals for the oppisite teams than he did for his own. We are working on that one. Ethan had a lot of fun playing and I really enjoy watching him play. We will see what happens in the spring!

Swimming during the Summer!!!

Went to Mom's this weekend to go swimming and hang out for the day. Ethan had a great time playing in the kiddie pool and then we also did some swimming practice in the 'Big' pool. He also started to practice diving...he did pretty good - even after mommy accidently over rotated him under water. When Ethan came up he said, "Mommy you almost let me sink to the bottom!" But he got right back up on the deck and tried diving again.