District Champs!

Sabinal finished the season as District Champions!  And might I mention...not a single district team scored a single point on us!  We are so excited for playoffs now!

Oct 11 (W)
Sabinal         38
Rocksprings   0

Oct 18 (W by forfeit against Medina)

Oct 25 (W)
Sabinal      63
Leakey       0

Nov 1 (W)
Sabinal                 63
Nueces Canyon     0

Nov 9 (W)
Sabinal        33
D'Hanis        0

My parents were able to come down for the district championship game against D'Hanis (Cary Shane and Diana also made it over after a trip to San Antonio).  The game was AWESOME!!!!  The stands were PACKED and people were lined up all along the fence (including the band since everyone stole their spot in the stands).  Sabinal and D'Hanis are big time rivals especially since it's only 10 minutes down the road.  The boys (and coaches :)) were pumped up and the intensity was high the entire game.  Let's hope it keeps up for playoffs!  We have a bye this week.

It was so great to have family there for the game, but of course I did not bring my camera.  Sorry guys.  Love you and thanks for coming!!!

Yellowjacket Football

Football season is going great!  Brock has been very busy and we miss him, but things are going good and he is really enjoying the year so far.  Here are the game totals so far...

Aug 30  (L)

Brackett  32

Sabinal    26

Sept 6  (W)

Sabinal    30

La Pryor   7

Sept 13  (W)

Pettus       6

Sabinal    55

Sept 20  (W)

Brooks Academy   6

Sabinal                 62

Sept 27  (W)

Sabinal           69

Center Point   21

Next week starts district play!  Wish us luck!

It has been interesting going to football games with 3 kids this year.  Unfortunately, it has been pretty much what I had imagined.  Lots of watching little kids running around going crazy and little of watching a football game! :) One of our really good friends from here got a job coaching with Brock so we have been having fun going to the football games together with my friend Charmayne and her 2 kids.  It has been nice because we help eachother out.  

Luke seems to be my craziest child yet, as he is the one running everywhere!  One football game, I was watching a woman frantically searching for her child thinking how scary that feeling must be when what do you know?  Luke is gone not 10 minutes later!!!!  He was at the opposite end of the stands just climbing up.  All of my children have so far been pretty shy and stick close to me when we are in public.  Not Luke!  If he gets a chance, he is gone!

Another football story...We were at a game when all of a sudden they just stop playing.  All of the players are just standing around, and we have no idea what is going on.  After forever, we finally are told that they are waiting on EMS to get to the game (no one was hurt).  Apparently, there was one ambulance that was assigned for 2 football games that were about 5 minutes apart.  The superintendent of the other team demanded that the ambulance be on site at our game.  After 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES, the ambulance pulls up!  People in the stands were jokingly saying that someone should call 911.  Let's hope their response time would have been better. :)  After all of that, we still had several minutes left to go in the 2ND QUARTER!  It was a long night to say the least.  But that was the Pettus game, and as you can clearly see, we won.

Here are some pics from a pep rally...

 

My beautiful Brek

 And her tattoo (oh how she loves those tattoos!)

 Closeup of Luke!

 And Tyce!

 

Silly faces at the football game!

Trey and Tyce

Coach Payne

Trey and Brek cheering on the Yellowjackets

 Coach Payne

After halftime a few people leave and we end up spreading out.

Here we are taking up 4 rows!

And proof that Luke is not afraid of anyone!  No, he does not know either of those people and neither do I!  I guarantee that he was touching them to turn around or something else even.  This one is so "fun" to watch at the games!

 We took about 10 pictures and this was the best!  Pretty pathetic, huh??  We will try again another time!  I can't blame them though as it was probably at least 10:30 at this point.

And last of all, I have to brag on my husband a little...

The line is playing very well, and we have really good stats for our running game, so I would say that he's doing a pretty good job.  But don't tell him I told you! :)

September

The month of September in pictures (excluding football of course)...

Now that Brek is at school, Tyce is in charge of the computer at nap time which means he gets to choose whatever show on netflix that he wants to watch!  He loves it.  And as you can tell, lots of times he falls asleep while watching his shows.  Here is one funny position he feel asleep in.

Luke is a big time Daddy's boy.  Here he is getting some quality Daddy time.

 

A friend from church invited us to San Antonio to the Children's Museum.  We had a blast!  Here is Luke playing there.

Here is Tyce and Caroline getting ready for work. :)

Luke

 

Luke cheesin'

 

Brek found some chalk and decided to write Daddy a message on the concrete (Please excuse the oil stains on the ground!).  I told her what letters to write, but she did all the rest on her own!  She's learning lots in kindergarten!  P.S. Notice the cute hole in her front bottom teeth?  She has lost both of her front bottom teeth!  She had a wiggly tooth about a week before school started and I refused to believe that she was old enough to lose a tooth.  That's not supposed to happen at least until 1st grade! :)  She lost them right after school started.

This is where everyone wanted to sit during scripture time one night.  Can you tell we've been missing Daddy since school and football have started??

And another sleep pose from Tyce.  So sweet.

First Day of School!

Brek started Kindergarten on August 26th!  She was so excited!  

We have been talking it up for a few months now, so it was about time!

This is before school that day.

I did not ask her to pose for me like this.  I said, "Let's take a picture."  And this is what I got...  

What a character I have!

And of course the boys, too!  As you can see, Tcye was ready for school as well!

Brek and I have both really been ready for her to start school so there has been nothing but excitement from our house about school starting, but of course when it was time for school to actually start I got to thinking about how Brek is not my little baby anymore and how quickly she's growing up!  So by the time we got to the parking lot of the school I was all teary eyed!  I fought tears the entire way in!  All of the teachers had the kids sitting against the wall outside of their classrooms until the bell rang.  I was planning on staying with Brek until the bell rang and walking her into class, but I lost it.  I was really about to just start bawling so I hugged her and left!  I didn't want her to see me crying and then her get all nervous about school.  She was totally fine!  No hesitation from her at all, which is what I was really afraid of.  She loved her first day!  And I survived somehow... ;)

Of course a couple of days later we did end up having a little incident (The computer lab teacher got on to the class about tracking mud into the room.  This made Brek cry and not want to go to school anymore!), but it's all been taken care of.  Brek tells me all of the time about how nice the computer lab teacher is now! :)  She loves school!

Brek's 5th Birthday!

Brek turned 5 on August 12th!  

She loves anything barbie so I looked up cake ideas online and came up with this one!

My beautiful 5 year old and me!

Tyce, Brek, and Luke

While Brock was taking pictures he noticed that we were in the mirror!

So here is our attempt at a "family picture." :)

5

Our party people!  

This was by far the best shot of all of the kids who would not hold still (and it is missing one little girl!).

This is our version of the Hunger Games dress...

Brek would not blow out her candles this year!  Here Tyce is finishing the job for her.  So for a running total that means she has only blown them out one year of her life...last year!  She is my shy little girl!

I love this little girl so much!  She has really grown up this past year!  She loves her brothers and is always taking really good care of Luke.  Seriously, it's really cute.  Any time Luke is crying Brek will go hold him or comfort him.  She has been really excited to turn 5 because she knows when that happens that she can go to school.  I love her silliness and girliness! 

The Beach

Some friends from church invited us to go camping at the beach with them, so we said YES!!!!  This is a pic of the kids on the way there.  We went to North Padre Island.  It was beautiful and we had lots of fun!

Here is my bearded man.  Love him!

We went with a family who had a teenage son and daughter and another family who had a little girl and boy my kids' ages.  Here is kyler, Luke and Tyce playing in the sand.  I kept thinking they would eventually get sick of the sand and sun, but no!  They loved it the whole time.
 

I had a hard time getting my kids to take a picture, but Laney would pose for me!  Here is Laney and Brek.

Laney and Tyce

And all of my kids and Laney.

All of the little ones.  None of them would look at me!  Stinkers.

Tyce and Brek

Luke getting me!

Tyce and Brek

That night Brock did a little treasure hunt for the kids.  They loved it!  Here they are starting the hunt...

The treasure hunt took them under the landing where there was a big hole they had to get into.  I was a bit nervous.  But Brek and Laney got in and it wasn't as deep as I thought!

In the hole

They had to hop, sidestep, and run throughout the treasure hunt.  Here they are running to me.

X marks the spot!

Dig for the buried treasure!

And the loot!

Sometimes I am a little OCD about dirt and being dirty, and that night I started getting that way about the whole experience.  We were covered in sand and there was no way it was coming off.  We went up to the showers and rinsed off, then straight into the tent (pitched in the sand).  So yeah.  We didn't get all of the sand off, but it wasn't too bad.  Brock went off to fish in the night with the sharks while I laid down with the kids.  Luke would not lay down to go to sleep.  He kept saying "Daddy" and looking for Daddy.  Then he got Tyce all hyper and he wouldn't lay down!  Finally, (probably 2 hrs later) the kids all fell asleep.  I kept waking up all night with kids rolling and jamming their legs/arms/faces into me.  At some point, I smelled pee and thought oh great.  Well, nothing to do about it now.  In the morning, it turns out both Tyce and Brek had wet the bed!  Lovely.  

So of course Luke is up at literally the crack of dawn.  We were told that they would be releasing baby sea turtles at 6:30 AM, so I rolled over and asked Brock what time it was.  6:25.  So what the heck.  We're already up.  Let's go be awake for a reason.  I have to admit, it was so beautiful and peaceful walking along the beach at dawn. 

Here is the fam minus me walking to the sea turtles

Tyce and his belly button watching the turtles

Tons of people were there!!!!  We couldn't really see anything.  Just specks making their way to the ocean.

Some lady who was in charge took people's cameras to take pictures of the baby sea turtles.  I sent mine with her and got these cute pictures.

On the way back to camp.  I LOVE this picture!

I kept trying to get Tyce to go up with them so he could be in the picture, but he refused.

Tyce still refusing to look at the camera

There's my cute Tyce smiling for me!

Still not tired of the sand...

We had a lot of fun, but we have learned our lesson about camping on the beach...Don't do it with small children! :)  Jk.  It really was lots of fun.  You just have to be ready to be sandy with no chance of getting clean.  We were burnt and tired, but we had a blast!