Andi's Baby Shower

One of my good friends from E&Y is going to have a baby boy soon! We had a great baby shower at Stacey's house that included a cupcake bar - YUM. Madalyn's cupcake had chocolate filling, pop rocks, and a pixie stick! It's always nice to get back together with all of those girls even though so many of us work at MLR now. The games were fun, Andi got a lot of useful gifts and we got a lot of gossiping done. :) I can't wait to meet Grayson!!

Beck's First Flag Football Game

Beck's first football season started with a one touchdown win over the other team. The weather was nice, everyone was able to attend and I think that Jeff finally understands why I love coaching the basketball teams as much as I do. Beck did a really great job, had a couple of fabulous tackles and he even pulled their flags once. :) He had one catch on offense and had a good run that set up the next play for a touchdown. This is seriously going to be addictive.

Camp Champions

This was the second year for Camp Champions with the Girl Scouts. Since the girls bridged from Brownies to Juniors, we got to do more fun stuff this year. Camp Champions is a summer camp located on Lake LBJ in Marble Falls. It's an amazing picturesque place that looks like it came out of the movies (minus Jason in the hockey mask). We played tetherball in the rain, and then moved on to Ga Ga which is Irsaeli Dodgeball and very fun. Then we did the Zip Line which included climbing a rock wall about 35 feet in the air (it seemed MUCH higher) to perch on a very small square and then off a zip line at break-neck speeds. We also got to do high ropes which included a climbing a telephone pole to a cargo net which we shimmed across and then repeled down. Madalyn also did a 'catwalk' which was a telephone pole balance beam 30 feet in the air. The girls did an amazing job and the moms hung in there pretty darn well ourselves. We ended the day with some lake swimming with a cool slide a large blob that you jumped onto and then off into the lake. I don't have any pictures because I was part of the funniest story of the day. Abbie landed on the blob (a very large pillow-shpaed object floating the lake filled with air)and was able to stay on - a very difficult task - and she begged me to 'launch' her if she was able to hang on. Well, she was, so I asked the other girls if I could cut and help her fly- and fly she did. About an extra ten feet in the air into a flip with arms and legs flying everywhere. I came up out of the water and everyone was laughing - Sylvia was doubled over she was laughing so hard. I seriously hadn't seen that many people laughing that hard in I don't even remember when. Abbie said it was 'AWESOME' so I guess I've added a new skill to my repetiore.
Cant wait to go back next year!

UT Football!!

Jeff, Daddy and I took Madalyn and Beck to their first UT game last weekend. It was my dad's birthday present and we got some cheap tickets through the Girl Scouts. The seats were up in the newly remodeled horseshoe and we had a great view of the Godzilla-tron. We started with some beer and sausage on a stick at Scholz's beirgarten. We got to the stadium in time to see all of the opening stuff for the game and see UT play a really great first half. That being said, they were playing Louisiana Monroe so we weren't terribly worried. One of the highlights of the game was getting to see freshman quarterback Garrett Gilbert get his first series in which ended in him running it in for a touchdown. I'm so glad that we were able to spend that time together and get to share in Madalyn and Beck's first game. What an experience!!
And for those of you keeping track - that's a Texas Pom girl that Beck is with in this picture. I'm trying to figure out how he happens to keep running into the pretty girls for photo ops....

Beck's First Flag Football Practice

Beck decided that he wanted to try football instead of playing Fall Ball t-ball. Jeff and I were pretty happy with his decision for lots of reasons, but Beck wanted to try something new. He had his first practice last week and it went pretty well. Jeff is helping Mike Blackwell (who I coach basketball with) and lots of our friends are on the team which is awesome. I'm sure there will be more pictures and stories to come - although the one of him sticking his butt at Jeff is pretty classic. :)

Another Beck Quote

Beck told Jeff the other day, "Daddy, I wish we could bring the Beatles home with us to play Rock Band. I think they'd be pretty good at it." Hum, quite possibly.