Halloween 2019

We decided to break from the normal traditions and go to the Boo on Ballard this year for Halloween. The kids also trick-or-treated around the neighborhood on Halloween night. I don't think we'll be going to Boo on Ballard again. It's kind of the main street for the city of Wylie and they set up all these booths that you can trick-or-treat at. But it was so packed, there was barely even room to walk. We did run into our friends, the Shumards, from church. They had all dressed up as characters from Snow White, even the parents! Annmarie and I were both Snow White, so we took a picture together with the mom who was the Evil Queen and the youngest daughter who was also Snow White (and is Annmarie's friend at both church and school).

Jonah and Nathan were Ninja Turtles.  Eliza was Little Red Riding Hood, and I made her skirt. 

School Pictures 2019-2020

 Annmarie 1st grade

Caleb 9th grade

Eliza 6th grade

 Jonah 3rd grade

Travis 7th grade 

Westley 11th grade

Band Pictures and Braces Off!

These are the band pictures of Westley for freshman, sophomore and now junior year.  He has really matured a lot these last three years.  He looks so grown up now!

And Caleb got his braces off!  Yay!  So far, Travis doesn't need them and we're waiting to see if and when Eliza will need another round.  Wouldn't it be great if we had a little break from braces for a couple of years?

Reading Buddies

It was bedtime and the kids were awfully quiet.  So I went upstairs to check on them and found Annmarie reading a story to Nathan.  It was so sweet.

Parades, Football Games, Birthdays and Field Trips

Caleb's birthday was on the 16th, but I didn't take any pictures. Hmmm. Not sure why I didn't. But on the weekend, I took Travis to a J.J. Pearce football game. It was their only home game that didn't conflict with a Wylie home game, and I thought it would be fun to go to a game at the old Eagle-Mustang stadium. So we went.

Our school had homecoming the following week. We went to the Homecoming Parade to watch Westley and Caleb march.

 Caleb got a set of In-N-Out cookie cutters for his birthday from Nana. He used them right away and made some great In-N-Out sugar cookies.

And Nathan went on his first preschool field trip. We went to the pumpkin patch. It was a really fun day with the preschoolers and Nathan had a great time.

Choir Concert, First Grade Program and Award Ceremony

Eliza had her first choir concert at Draper.  There are a lot of kids in choir with her from church.  Also, pictured here, is her friend Maggie from orchestra last year.  They both decided to do choir this year.

Annmarie had her first grade program.  It was an eventful night because Willy got out of the house right as we were trying to leave for the program.  So Corey went out and followed him until catching him while the rest of us (who were home) went to the school for the program.  We were still feeling a little stressed out when we got to the program.

Both Annmarie and Jonah earned awards at school from their first term of school.  I hope they can keep up the great work!

State Fair Day Fun

Corey was actually home from work on State Fair Day (really this is just Columbus Day but in Texas it's a day where all students k-12 can get into the State Fair for free), so we took advantage of everyone being home and used our POGO passes for the Fort Worth Zoo.  It was a pretty good zoo and we walked a lot.  After the zoo, we stopped at Braum's for some ice cream on the way home.  We had originally planned to actually try going to the Fair, but then decided against it.  I'm glad we chose the zoo.

McKinney Invitational-Marching Band

Grandpa and Grandma were in town so they were able to come with me to the marching invitational that Westley and Caleb were marching in. This is a marching band contest where each band is given a rating.  Our band got the highest rating they could get!  I love watching my boys in marching band!

Pirates Home Game

This wasn't the first home football game of the season, but it was a Thursday home game that the girls got to cheer at from their cheer clinic they did a month or so ago.
I also got some pictures of the boys doing their pregame marching show.  I love going to these football games!