Caleb is a Star and Jake is not far behind...

Caleb and Jacob continue to work hard on scouting. This month Caleb earned his Star rank and several merit badges including First Aid, Wilderness Survival and Enviromental Science. Jacob is following close behind earning Fishing, Cycling and currently one merit badge away from Star. Mom is thinking about a double Eagle Court of Honor within a year or two. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. We are so proud of our boys!

Julie Takes off Again!

On September 17th I boarded a plane to New York City to spend a wild weekend with the Frandsen women. I was lucky enough to have Candace as a travel partner leaving from Texas. Hooked up with Cortney and spent Wednesday getting the lay of the land before Mom, Kristen, Karen, and Kaitlin arrived. From that point it was non stop, late nights, early mornings, shopping, siteseeing, shopping, eating, shopping, walking and did I mention eating. So many things to see and so little time. This is the first slideshow I have one more coming when I get pictures from Candace and Cortney. Had a wonderful time. Am up for it again as soon as I replenish the funds. (That could take a while) :)!

New York, New York!

Big Jake after the game!

Look at him run!

Jake's First Football Game

This year Jacob decided to try his hand at football. For the past 3 weeks he is out the door at 6:30am, suited up and on the field by 7:00 ready to go. Tonight the family got to see the fruits of all his hard work. Gene Pike Panthers (in white) faced Medlin Mustangs (in blue). These 2 schools are long arch rivals so this was a big game. Pike held onto the lead until the last 10 seconds barely letting the last and winning touchdown sneek through. Afterwords the coaches told the team they had gotten closer to beating Medlin than any other Pike team in a long time. Still hard to lose the first one! Jake is #7 and played free safety this game. The video is him in the backfield...making the tackle. Way to go Jake!!!

This summer Emma was invited to attend an Art Club. A friend of ours works at the Kimbell Art Museum and has unbelieveable amounts of patience with children and "messy things" like paint :). Each week she would highlight an artist like Andy Warhol, Jason Pollock, Picasso etc. and then let the kids create in that artists style. Emma ate it up and loved expressing herself!