Nerf Wars

I don't know about your house but Nerf Wars are big at our house.  There are ALWAYS Nerf guns, Nerf Bullets, Nerf gun parts, etc. around on the floor, on top of the furniture, in all kinds of places you'd never expect them.  At any given moment a Nerf War can break out.  This can be between M and a buddy, M and his daddy, Daddy and M and his buddy or buddies.  The only rule with the Nerf guns is that you absolutely cannot shoot the dog or the cats, it's just not fair.  Yes, Aunt Susan, you can even shoot people in the head, just ask Chris, all perfectly acceptable and within the rules (intended or otherwise).  I've had Nerf bullets land in the middle of dinner I was preparing...  So, the other day as I was taking pics of the old carpet or the rooms after the removal of the old carpet (see Edd's post) I was also in the middle of a Nerf war.  So, I stopped and took a pic of M waiting to ambush daddy from the balcony.  Ah the joys of Nerf wars!

CARPET!!!!!

We finally have new carpet installed

Link to Carpet Story

Spring Ball

Yes, I know, it's barely winter but try-outs for Spring Ball are in full swing.  Bruiser really liked his Coppell team and so we decided to focus on that.  Luckily for us, being incapacitated and unable to actually do the try-outs, the CBA gave him a medical waiver.  So he attended the try-outs and helped out as much as he could.  Last night we got word and he's back on Coppell Black!  So, another season of Cowboys baseball for this family.  Go Cowboys!

9U Select Team Spring 2011 Teams

Cowboys Red Coach:  Bruce Rodger

Cowboys Black Coach: Chris Rosenbaum

	RED				BLACK
1	Brisco	Michael		1	Albright	Luke
2	Duron	Cole		2	Benton	Damion
3	Hart	Sam		3	Bonner	Michael
4	Kelly	Sam		4	Gonzales	Daniel
5	McGrady	Liam		5	Hirvilampi	Samuli
6	Morland	Mason		6	Holt	Austin
7	O'Toole	Ryan		7	Hopkin	Taylor
8	Parlier	Clark		8	Liu	Christian
9	Pranske	Nicholas		9	Marchant	Brendon
10	Rodgers	Ben		10	Matos	Carlos
11	Winneker	Maxwell		11	Robbins	Caleb
12	Wyatt	Colby		12	Rosenbaum	Payton

Tom Sawyer

So Michael's school has Spirit Week once a year.  This is the week the kids get to cast off their uniforms and wear something themed every day.  One of the best costumes we came up with was for Thursday which was Storybook/Super Hero Day.  Trying to come up with an idea that would be easy and not break the budget I settled on Tom Sawyer.  So Michael took his fishing pole and dressed the part.  I thought he looked pretty cute and so did his class as he won for the class that day!

Cast Off!!!

Well, the time finally came and Bruiser got his cast off this morning!  Only 4 more weeks of "restrictions" and then he's going to be good as new.

Busy Weekend

Over the past weekend we got a taste of what life would be like with three kids.  Yep, that's right, us with three kids....  We babysat G and Z for the weekend.  G loved having two personal entertainment systems to keep her entertained for the weekend but I think it wore her out, so much activity.  Michael enjoyed having Z around, at least for the first couple of hours.  I don't think either G or Z went home permanently scarred mentally or physically.  So, all in all, a successful weekend.

Here's a pic of G on the hammock, just a 'swingin'...

One of G and Michael swinging together...

One of G and Z looking outside to see what's going on...

Step two of the bell movement

we worked on it some more this weekend, here is the post

Step two of Bell Movement