Soccer Saturday

We had to split up this morning for soccer, and Gloria and I were at Allia's game. Her team played beautifully and won 11-3!

Go Aggies!

I am SO excited that we have a flagpole and Aggie flag to fly for tomorrow's game. My very sweet sister sent me some birthday money, and we have really been wanting a flagpole and American flag, so I used the money to purchase that. Austin put it up last Saturday. But I didn't have enough money left for an Aggie flag, figuring it would be pretty expensive. Well, I was right, except that my deal seaker hubby found this one on clearance at one of the bookstores for $10. Amazing. All the others were over $40! Thank you my wonderful husband (and sister too!). Go Ags!

Ah, paper dolls

I needed to do some cleaning this week but had one big stumbling block...toys. Everywhere. Every room had toys scattered all over the floor except for mine and Austin's bedroom which has officially been declared a toy-free zone by necessity. So I made a decision. I would organize, sort and lock up most of the toys in an armoire. Then, when the children want something I can take it out on the condition that the other toys that are out are picked up. Brilliant, right? One problem. The creativity of children abounds. I had not even announced my plan yet but had most of the toys closed away and the ones I was still organizing stored up high. Not finding any toys readily available for play (I say this, but there are a few things I am leaving out like the dollhouse), they resorted to their own devices...making paper dolls. This started last year when one of the girls received a paper doll kit for her birthday. They make whole families of dolls with clothes, shoes, etc. (Dig the one with the Aggie shirt in the photo!) The result? LOTS of paper dolls and LOTS of paper scraps. Everywhere. Ahhhh...paper dolls. Can you say backfire? I do commend their creativity though. :)

Home Depot?

Wowsers....we always go to Lowe's unless forced for some reason to shop at Home Depot. This began many years ago because the people were just super helpful here at our Lowe's and super, well, rude at Home Depot. I was actually griped at and hung up on by the Home Depot store manager once when reporting a problem by phone...and I promise I was being as cordial as possible! Anyway, I just received this link from AFA regarding Home Depot and their support of the gay community. Some of the other floats in the parade were just plain filthy and disgusting. Scary. Glad we like Lowe's better anyway, but if we didn't we sure would switch now!

Little boy with a balloon

Mom and Dad have been sending the children these giant punching balloons, and Stephen loves them because he can actually throw them up high and catch them (can't do that with a ball yet!). So cute.

Republican Debates...

through the eyes of a child...

Austin: (explaining why we are listening to all these people talk) Mariana, what country do we live in?
Mariana: TEXAS!

as we were putting them to bed...

Allia: I like the woman in the white dress, and that man....the one....

Me: Herman Cain?

Allia: Yeah! The 9-9-9 guy! And...the one that looks like Fr. Brian (aka Rick Santorum)

REAL Popcorn!

Mom and Dad have been emptying out all their unused kitchen appliances and bringing them to our house. We recently inherited this air popcorn popper that I grew up with. I have so many memories of watching the popcorn pop and drizzling it with butter. YUM! They even brought us some sea salt! Way better than the microwave stuff. And it was so fun to watch the children enjoying it.