Grey wins!

Bryce's team won their first football game and because of the way the bracket is set up, his team will play in the championship game Saturday night! He is pumped! He played well in his first game making a couple tackles...therefore getting his name called out on the loudspeaker! That was our goal for the season...to hear "#54 Bryce Black on the tackle."
Bryce was very glad to have Dad home for his game!

There were 5 kids between the 2 teams from Bryce's 1st grade class. Mrs. Cheshier came to cheer them on!

Brooke's mouth is doing MUCH better!

and she's smilin' again...

Brooke had a traumatic Friday night, but fortunately, she's all smiles now! She had a run-in with our friend's hardwood floors. She was hysterical for quite a while but the toughness in her shone through as time wore on. Bless Dr. Rhodes who answered the emergency call last night! We'll see how the healing process goes...and if she's ever able to suck her thumb again!

Fore!

Now that we live on a golf course - ha, ha - the kids want to play golf all the time...even if it's indoors!?!?

Are you ready for some football?

Bryce is enjoying his 2nd season of Kiwanis football. It's such a great program!!! We'll miss it in our future summers back in Texas! His coach this year has a set of lungs, but I think Bryce will actually learn something from it...if nothing else than to pay attention...or pay the consequence - RUN!

Finally...

OK...so, it's been hard for me to blog this summer! Being out of town half the time and moving are good excuses, right?
Here's a few pics from our trip to Breck...
Snow & flowers...such a fun combo

The fishing was good!

The whole fam. did a 14 mile downhill ride. It was big fun and so beautiful!!!


Free loaders...

Breckenridge has an awesome 4th of July parade! The whole town gets involved. It's so fun and patriotic!
Uncle Jeff teaches Brooke how to look desperate (and cute) to get more candy!

We also got to spend a few days in Texas which is always a good thing!!! Here's a few highlights. The kids got to play with cousins Abigail and Colin. A funny story while we were staying with my aunt & uncle...my aunt set out sleeping bags for the kids to sleep in. When Brooke was sleepy and ready for bed, she said, "I'm ready to sleep in my ZIPLOCK bag!" It was pretty funny!
Bryce was pumped about checking out the new Cowboys stadium. It's massive!

We were also thrilled to be able to go to my niece's 1st birthday party!

The girl knows whats good!

Two big nights for B

Bryce's baseball team got to participate in the Naturals Field of Dreams tonight. They got to go out on the field with the team before the game, and then they stood by the player with the position that they played during the national anthem. It was pretty neat!


Night before last, Bryce lost tooth #2. It came out while he was brushing his teeth, so I had to learn how to be a plumber and find it in the drain. I'm just glad I didn't have to pull it!

Catching up...

I knew I had been a blogging slacker, but I didn't realize it had been 3 weeks since my last post until I saw the new feature on the Slaughter's blog that lets you know when your last post was! Our summer's started off fun...and busy. We spent almost 2weeks in Louisiana with Brad. Not much to do in New Iberia, but we had a blast being together as a family. The kids have tried their best to be in the pool every single day. After trying to work with Brooke in the pool for 2 years now and getting nowhere, she decided on her own while we were in Louisiana that going under water was OK; she also figured out how to swim...on her own, of course. She'll do things no other way!

Over the weekend we went to Biloxi, Mississippi and had fun at the beach. The condition of the beach was pretty good...better than Texas (although someone told me that they brought in all the white sand that Katrina wiped out...from Texas of all places???). The city is still trying to recover and rebuild from the storm.


We made our 2nd annual Father's Day trip to Bass Pro in a different state. We haven't really planned for it to work out that way, but it's fun to take Brad to one of his favorite places on his special day...wonder what state it will be next year???

So, now it's time to pack...UGGGH! Too bad that's becoming an annual event too. This time I'm finally letting go of the sorority sweatshirts I've been hanging onto for over a decade...not sure why. We wore them SO BIG then!!!