Little Freckle!

I don't know if you can really see the little freckle on Luke's arm, 

but this little freckle drives him crazy.  He tries to wipe it off constantly.  

I Hate The Dentist, but I Love Dave

Oh, how we dread this time of the year, when we have to get our teeth cleaned.  I know Dave hates it as much as we do.  We keep being reminded by him and his staff that we are the worst patients ever.  Hey, maybe it's because we can!!!  :0) I mean, what is he going to do???  Send us to another dentist???  

After Carson and Luke's first day of school, we walked across the street to get our teeth cleaned. It just seemed like the perfect opportunity and we were due for a cleaning, so why not.

Carson was the lucky one to go first.  Dave tried every trick in the book.  He even threatened Carson by telling him that he was going to call Dr. XXXX  and ask him to see Carson, if he didn't cooperate.  Yea, that didn't work.  As a matter of fact, the only thing that worked was me sitting down, making him sit on my lap and holding his arms down so that Daddy could "tickle and count his teeth", as Dave calls it.  Thank God he doesn't have any cavities.  I don't know what we would do.....

Okay then, one down, two more to go.  Next, was Luke's turn.  He thought the little mirror was fun, but that was about it.  As soon as Dave tried to sit Luke down in that ugly blue chair, he got right up.  So, there I was again, sitting in that chair with Luke on my lap.  ~No cavities either!  Yay!!!

I did a little better than they did.  Sorry, no pictures of me in the chair though :(

Normally, Natalia always has a hard time when her brothers get to do something while she is at school.  Hmm, I wonder why she didn't mention anything this time?

Off to School They Go

Carson and Luke were so excited to go to school today.  Luke kept talking about how he was going to go to school and that I was not going to stay there.  He was perfectly fine with that. They were so excited about their backpack and their lunch box too.  

After we dropped Natalia off, we went to David's office to say hello.  Good thing Daddy was able to walk them to school.  He had taken time off to do this on Tuesday, but since school was canceled due to the hurricane, he wasn't able to clear his schedule today too.  But it all worked out and he was able to take the boys to school on their first day.

I can't believe my baby, Luke, he was humming a little song while he walked in front of us towards his classroom.   Once at the door, he turned around to say bye.  He walked right into his classroom and immediately started to play. No crying, no clinginess....nothing.  Just a kiss, a hug and a bye-bye.

As expected, Carson also just walked into his classroom after giving us a kiss and a hug.  He is just such a big boy.   

Oh wait, where are the pictures of my kids and I?????  How does this always happen?

Plywood vs Mortar

In Beaumont, while everyone was at Lowe's buying plywood, batteries and generators on Sunday morning to get ready for the hurricane, Dave was buying mortar!!!

I'm telling you, he can't stop.  He just took this as an opportunity to get some work done around the house. 

I'll post some pictures of the finally project later.  This is just a little preview.  Tomorrow, he'll be applying the grout and the backsplash will be finished! 

So, how did you spend your Labor Day Holiday?

Well, what better way to spend a holiday than to go to a cemetery?  Yea, that's where we went!  

My grandfather, my dad's dad passed away 4 years ago and my grandmother passed away 10 years ago.  Natalia has been wanting to go to the cemetery for a while now.  Every time we drive by the cemetery, she begs for me to take her.  I think she is just attracted by all the beautiful flowers she sees. She loves flowers.  In any case, aunt Gilma called us this morning to let us know that she was going to go to the cemetery today, so we joined her.

Of course, this little visit to the cemetery brought up a lot of questions.  Oh boy, a lot of explaining to do....

Hope they can sleep okay tonight :0) 

Like Father Like Son

I'm telling you, every time we come to Papi and Mami's house we break / ruin something!  This morning, Carson wanted to cut a flower, so this is what happened:

A broken limb!

This is one of several things we have destroyed this weekend.  Luke drew on another wall yesterday and this morning, he broke a basket.  

We are soooo in debt!

THE HUMAN RACE 10K

While a bunch of you were keeping an eye on Gustav on Sunday evening, I was running the Human Race in Austin.

It was so fun!  There were approximately 13,000 people running the race in Austin alone. Including Lance Armstorng and Benjing gold medalist and former Longhorn swimmer, Brendan Hansen.

  

I wish I had my own camera to take my own pictures, but since I didn't, I had to borrow these from the Nike website.  

   

This was the course we ran.  Let me tell you...those were some hills!!!!  I did okay on the first hill, but by the 2nd hill, I wasn't too sure why I was doing this.  I walked a little during the second hill, but decided not to walk anymore.  I was afraid I was not going to be able to keep running if I stopped again.  You see, when I run, it is normally early in the morning.  The sun is not out yet and it is probably only 78 degrees.  Last evening, the sun was still shinning bright and it was 92 degrees or so.  Oh yea, and did I mention that there were hills??? 

I'm glad I had the opportunity to run the Human Race after all.  For a while, I didn't know if I was going to do it.  Brooke at Everyday Bailey, Elizabeth and I were going to go on a girls weekend and run the race.  Our plans, for the weekend, fell apart because of Gustav.  So, I wasn't 100 percent sure I wanted to drive from San Antonio to Austin just to run the race and then have to drive right back, but I did it and I'm glad I did.  I met up with Lucy and Lindy and we had a great time.

It took me one hour and eleven minutes to run the 6.2 miles.  This is a little longer than usual. I normally run it in one hour and five minutes, but I think the hills and the heat made it a little bit more difficult.  

I can't wait for my next race....