We are the champions....AGAIN

Ok, so Abigail seems to get lucky when it comes to getting on good teams! This year was her first year in basketball. Her team went undefeated! woo hoo! However, she spent most of the time on the bench! That sounds really bad, but you have to understand that the rules of this league state that once you get ahead by 10 points you have to sit out your lead scorer (sp?). Guess who that was? ABIGAIL!!! Before you think "oh my....she must be really good," understand that the play was set up to make her score the most points. Her height plays a small factor in that decision. Have you ever seen her daddy??? :) So anyway, the whole team was awesome, and everyone played really hard!!! congrats to the champions.



We also celebrated mardi gras last month. We went to a parade and one of abigail's best friends came with us! The kids had a blast, not to mention having our family in town to celebrate with us. we had a great time.

free dress day...

Yes, this day deserves a post. Abigail and Elijah are FORCED to wear uniforms at their school, but one day a year they get to wear REAL clothes. hahaha. This day is known as "spring picture day." We could care less about the actual pictures..but I thought I would snap a pic of them wearing their REGULAR clothes. hahaha. They get sooooo excited about being able to do it. Plus, it gives me a reason to post a pic of them. enjoy!

ONE

Yes...my baby is one! She still can not walk yet, so being one really has not sunk in yet. The doctor told us that being big is a disadvantage for babies trying to walk. Poor kid, she is in the 90th percentile for EVERYTHING! Anyway, we had her party today, and I thought I would post some pics. Enjoy :)

And so it begins...

yes, we are "balling" again. This time around it is basketball. The kids had an awesome day. Abigail's team won big, but Elijah's team--now that is a different story. It seams that Elijah gets "drafted" to the not so good teams, and Abigail gets drafted to the awesome teams. Just seems a little unfair at times. Anyway, Abigail had to sit out a lot of the game because she scored all her possible points in the first few minutes of the game. That sounds really awesome--and she was--but the plays were sort of "designed" to help her accomplish this. Another girl on her team scored her possible points also and had to sit out. Elijah's team had to play their first game to the hardest team in the league. However, they played their hearts out and only lost by 8 pts. They should have been slaughtered...so I was very proud of their accomplishments. It was great. Here are a few pics to enjoy:

Yes, I did finally learn how to french braid abigail's hair. This was my first time to finally get it! yeah!!!!:)








here are a few of elijah:





This last one is just comical. I did not mean to take this shot..but here ya go:




one side note...elijah's class has been dicussing groundhog day. We were driving home the other night and elijah says "momma, if the groundhog sees his shadow then we will have 16 days of christmas, if not then we will not have any extra days of christmas." We just laughed, poor kid, I think he is a little confused. haha.

"you are my sunshine...."

we had a fabulous day off on Monday. We started the day off taking Isabella to the dr. She had an ear infection...poor baby. But afterwards, we took the kids to the park. They had a blast. It was almost 70 degrees that day.

Isabella made a funny face on this one:



Abigail (the camera hog) loves to pose for pics:





The only picture elijah wanted to pose for was this one:




here are two cute ones:









of course the next day it turned out to be this cold:

we are back......

Goodness me...it has been a long time. We have been so busy..(imagine that). Christmas was a wirlwind of activities. Non-stop family stuff. It was so busy that I was unable to visit with my two friends that I had planned on. :( One thing we went to see while in Tennessee was "Grinch In Ice." It was so much fun. I will include a few pics to show just how cute it was. The kids enjoyed their christmas, even isabella. She was so cute, as soon as she learned how to open presents she was trying to open them all--even the ones that were not hers--too cute.


this is an awesome pic of the grinch. he was huge...and solid ice!!



Everything was ice EXCEPT the trees...have no idea why...but it was awesome.


they were literally sitting on a block of ice!


of course we all went down the slide..it was great!!



this last part took me by surprise. they had the nativity scene all in ice! it was beautiful. and yes that is elijah trying to climb the nativity scene...they look down on things like that. hahaha.

Christmas Performances...

I posted a few days ago on Facebook that I was going to see my kids christmas performances at school. We have been so busy that I am just now getting to post some pics and videos...the last video I will post is not of my kids...but you will want to check it out I promise!!! The first video is of Abigail. She is the one with the red bow that is falling out. Their song was "It's Christmas Time in Texas" (i thought of you Kirsten).
The next video is of elijah's class. I think the song was called something about "Mrs. Santa Clause"


This last video is of a little first grade boy. He was keeping the beat and singing the song all by himself. He was something precious...check it out. Song "All I Want for Christmas is You"



awesome huh??