Current pics

 Here is my little soccer player.  Isn't she cute?

Ethan loves playing on the computer.  Here he is animatedly telling me something about his game.

 Matthew just being silly.

 Lizzie loves playing with her Barbies.

 I got my hair cut today.  I just stopped by my friend Diana Hoelscher's house, and she said "Let's do it" and she did.  She's awesome like that.



Lizzie baby

 Here is my little baby.  She's not so little anymore.
When we say our prayers at night, everyone first says what they are thankful for, so the person praying knows what to say.  Lizzie is always "thankful for preschool and ballet".  She attends a preschool co-op twice a week (5 other ladies and myself trade off teaching weeks), and loves it!  As for ballet, she's gone a few times, but still seems too little understand what's going on or to get much out of it.  But she still loves it anyway.  Now she is starting soccer season, with her first practice and game this week.  Russ and I looking forward to watching a pretty funny game, with all those 3 and 4 year olds running around.  She's got shiny little pink soccer shorts to wear.  I can't wait to see her all dressed up to play.

We got SNOW in San Antonio!

 School was cancelled today for "inclement weather".  We got about a half inch of snow.  It melted by 11:00 a.m. but we went out to play around 8:00 a.m. and had fun sliding down the "hill" next to our house.  This might be a joke to other places that actually get a winter and enjoy snow for a whole season, but it is a rare thing down this far south in Texas.  Even the big kids were out playing in it!

 We used our laundry baskets as sleds and it worked pretty good.

 We saw other kids using anything from boogey boards to plastic tables or plastic garbage bags.  Our idea was the best.

 Russ swung Ethan around in a circle, which worked well the first time...but the second time he fell out on his head.  That was the end of the fun for Ethan, poor guy.  He is always the one to get hurt.

All in all, we had a great time.  Russ even got to stay home for the day!