Thanksgiving (Yes, Thanksgiving)

I am totally behind on my blog..but that is my life right now. I am going to attempt to catch up and then try to do better next year.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It was very laid back. We were able to go to Frederickburg and spend time with Brent's family. We even were able to go to his extended Eilers' family Thanksgiving. We hadn't been able to do that in a while! It was fun seeing faces we hadn't seen in a while. One thing I am so very thankful for is Family! I love my family and love brent's family. Truly blessed by that!

Ezra had the cutest Thanksgiving program at his school. It was fun to be able to go to it and watch him perform songs he had been practicing, but keeping secret from us so that we would be surprised. He is the sweetest, tender little guy. I wish he could stay in Kinder forever.

Emersyn's little preschool had a Thanksgiving Feast. I love her school. I can't wait for Elynn to go next year.

Pictures

Here are some pictures from September/October!

A date day with Elynn

Emersyn asked me to curl her hair like mine. Stunning little girl!

My Mini Me

Feeding ducks with Grammie

Lunch after the ducks..

St. Mary's football game

Emersyn's pre-school picture day

Elynn being HILARIOUS

Pumpkins

Bike ride!

Just a morning workout

Cute lil cowgirl

School pics

Love Creek pumpkin patch...

Face Paint: Unicorn

Butterfly

Texas Flag

Lifegroup Family Reunion

Wearing daddy's halloween wig

I MUSTACHE you to say NO to drugs

poor Jager. He was a dragon for Halloween

Ezra's Kinder pic

Oh My!

I have NEGLECTED this blog!! Man, we have been busy. School full time is like having a full time job! That doesn't even included Extra-Cirricular! We aren't even really doing EXTRA stuff. Not sure if I mentioned that Ezra did a Rock Wall climbing class at our gym for a couple months. It was once a week. He LOVED it. The girls are doing swim lessons at the gym. We signed up at a new gym and they gave us a lot of free bucks that we could put towards things/activities at the gym so I chose rock wall and swim for the kids. It has been fun.
Like I said, we have been busy, but not really doing anything in particular. It's kind of a crazy season. We really have just been hanging out with each other. It has been soo good, but I am now missing my girlfriends! Such is the season of life.
Brent has been super busy with work, so when he has 'free' time, he wants to be at the farm getting ready for hunting season and NOW hunting season. He recently went on a little hunting trip, at the farm, from Wed-Sun. Ezra got to go with him from Friday-Sunday. He came home with a pretty big 9 point. He was super excited!! I was so happy for him. Although, now he wants to shoulder mount it as his Christmas present and that means I am going to have to allow it to go in my house somewhere..I have tried to put that off our whole marriage. I will have to let you know how that goes. Ha!
So, to catch up..Ezra is in kinder at EKHLA and LOVING it. He is doing so well. They learn Hebrew at this school and he is just SOAKING IT UP! Hebrew is one of his favorite classes. He calls us by our Hebrew names and is always singing a Hebrew song. So so cute!
Emersyn is at OHC pre-school. She is a lady bug in Ms. Woodard's class. She loves it too. She goes 2 days and wonders why she can't go 3. I am going to be SO SAD when she goes to Kinder next year. She is also riding her bike all by herself. It still has training wheels, but she can now do it by herself everywhere, without being so afraid. She is also swimming like a little fish. She is just getting so big!
Elynn and I are LOVING our one on one time on Wednesdays and Fridays. It is a super sweet time. Wednesdays we do a swim class TOGETHER. Yes, I have to get in the water with her. I have avoided this for so long..always signing the kids up AFTER they turn 3 because of that very reason. However, this little girls is OBSESSED with swimming. She is FEARLESS and just jumps in if you are ready to catch her or NOT. So, swim lessons are a MUST. She absolutely loves that I do them with her, so that in itself is worth it. She is getting super big and knows it. I can't believe she will be 3 in January!!

That's really about it!

Gig 'Em, Aggies!

We went to the first game of the Aggie season this year. It was a fun game, but super HOT! We were so thankful for the cloud coverage in the second half! The aggies beat the the rice owls..

This is Ezra's second Aggie game. His first game was when he was 2 months old. Now he is 6!!

Ready for our Aggies!

He wanted to stay to the VERY END! True Aggie!

Exhausted after the game.

Kinder

Last year, we did a Kinder homeschool with Ezra. We loved it, and he did great. But this year, a new charter school opened up a mile from our house. It is out the Jewish Community Center and used to be a private Jewish School. The private school was known for being a really great school. When we found out it was going to turn into a charter school, we looked into. We knew it was going to be a great school, very much like the private school. The Jewish religion is no longer apart of the school, and it's free since its a charter. Another great perk about it is, they are going to be learning Hebrew. Not sure how much we will 'use' Hebrew, but Ezra will be learning a language that reads from right to left..so he will be using both sides of his brain! Can't beat that. There are also a few of our neighbor friends that are going, so that makes it so much fun. We decided to do Kinder again because he is young for his age. And, this is the first time he has ever been in a program all day, every day. He is such a home body so we knew it would be an adjustment. Learning a language on top of it makes it a little harder too. We would rather him be the oldest in the class vs the youngest. We are so glad we made this decision. He doesn't mind one bit and has been so good for him.

He rides to school with our neighbor, Ianthe, a little 8 year old (2nd grader). They are great friends and so sweet to each other. Ianthe is an only child, so she loves that our crew. It helps Ezra get out of bed, excited to go to school every day. He has LOVED this school. He LOVES learning Hebrew. That is probably what he talks about the most. Praying for a really good year for him. That he can shine his light so bright for Jesus!

ezra and mrs campbell

Kinder 2013: I want to be an A&M football player! Whoop!

A Summary of August

We have had a GREAT summer! It was busy, fun and included LOTS of SWIMMING!!

I turned 32, Ezra started Kindergarten, we went to the Gillespie County Fair, we spent time with family, Ezra had his eyes checked and Emersyn had her ears checked, went to see the Dinosaur exhibit at the Wittie, and Ezra started a Rock Wall Climbing class. Good times..

At his 6 year old well visit, they recommended we go get his eyes checked because his left eye was was at 20/40. So, we went to see our good friend, Dr. Pittard, who dilated his eyes and examined them. His eyes checked out PERFECT! No problems!

At Emersyn's 4 year old well visit, we had to have her hearing checked for preschool. She ended up failing her test (she had recently gotten over an ear infection), so we had to go back and have them retested at Ezra's 6 year old well visit. She failed again! So, we  were referred to an ENT. We went to go see Dr. Brown. He was awesome!! He did a little screen at first and then decided to have her do a hearing test. She passed, but her Right ear is in the normal range but hears flat. She probably has some scarring on her ear from ear infections when she was little. So, good news is that both ears checked out in the normal range, with the right ear just hearing more flat. We have to go back in 6 months to make sure it is stable and not progressively getting worse. We will then go from there. Praying for complete healing! She CRACKED ME UP during this test, that I thought I was going to have to leave the room. Love her!

Dinosaur Exhibit

Birthday weekend

Ezra on his first day of Kinder.. wants to be a football player!

Ezra and dad and Ezra with Mrs. Campbell

Rock Wall Climbing at our gym. This has been so great! He is afraid of heights and this has really helped him overcome some fears and be more confident. I have loved seeing him grow through this!! He LOVES it!!

Gillespie County Fair. It was so fun. We took the kids to the fair on Friday and had a blast riding rides, playing games and eating fair food. On Saturday, Brent and I went back with no kids. We had a great time dancing!

Ready to go dancing.

After a summer full of sun and swimming, Emersyn's hair was in need of a cut. We cut about an inch or so off, but it was the 1st time we had ever cut her hair. She needed it!! She did a great job! Emersyn also learned to swim all by herself this summer! She is so good too. She used to be sooooo scared of the water, not getting in, except by the steps. You used to have to hold her the whole time and she would scream if you tried to let go of her in any way. I never thought she would swim, now she is a little fish!!

This girl..LOVE HER! She makes me laugh and smile. She is FULL of character and personality. After a summer of swimming all summer, and the fact that she is FEARLESS, she is swimming by her self at 2 1/2!

She loves every minute of it. She wakes up, almost every morning, asking "go swimming today!?"