Friday Freeze - First Ice Day of Year

The long anticipated ice storm made it's arrival Thursday night and into Friday morning so the boys stayed home from school.  School was cancelled Friday which was nice because we were out later than usual for the baseball party.  

We woke up to this Friday morning.  I was so excited! It was so pretty and looks like snow, but it's really tiny little beds of ice. I wish it was snow, but I'll take this.

This was a good day to just hang out in the family room and watch TV...and wrestle.

Matthew also discovered that if he wrote Elf a note, it would be answered...sort of. How cute is this?  I love it.

This was also a good day to decorate our gingerbread houses.  Noticed all the chubby cheeks?  They were eating the candy while decorating. Even the littlest one.

Michael's beautiful house all decorated.

Matthew's house.  He had a little more help from me.

Michael and Matthew also went outside to play for a little bit.  

Eating ice.

It was a very good day for hot chicken noodle soup.

 This morning, Matthew discovered Elf hold stolen his sunflower seeds.

 

And had his question answered.

Party Time!

One of Matthew's teammate's dad is the GM for the Texas Rangers and he offered to host the team's end of the season party at Rangers Stadium so last night, we braved the freezing temperature and made our trek to the ballpark. I was a little worried that it would get cancelled because of the weather, but the freezing rain held out until we got home.  Yay! However, a trip that should have taken half an hour took us more than an hour.  It was so worth it though. Matthew had so much fun that he did not want to come home after the party. What an awesome experience to be able to do all the stuff he did last night!

Mark fell asleep on the way there.  How sweet is my Michael?

We had access to the underground parking because that's how we roll :-) M almost pulled into Tom Hicks' parking space.

This is the family entrance into the team's clubhouse.

We got to hang in Ron Washington's office for a little bit.

Then we went into the press room.

Mark will now take your questions

"Guy in the back row"

Then it was off to hit some balls in the batting cages. Doesn't everybody bat with their crocs on?

Prince Fielder's locker is all ready for him

Michael standing in from of Yu Darvish's locker. He's not the most organized player on the team.  I asked Jon if the mess was staged.  It was not - he is that messy and he did leave all his stuff there. I'm sure you all wanted to know that.

I dared M to put on Yu's hat, but he was too chicken to do it.

Chilling in the dugout.  Literally.  Freezing rain was starting to fall on us out there.  We also got to go out on the field , but it was too dark for pictures.

This was one of the better pictures of all the coaches and the dads who helped out throughout the season. I'm so thankful for these guys because they helped Matthew fall in love with playing baseball. More importantly, they helped him out of his shell.

Coach Lance gave each player a goodie bag and told a little story about he'll remember most about each player. It was so sweet.

 Marky listening very carefully.

What an awesome night!

Brrr...It's Cold Outside

This week has gone by so quickly.  Is it really Thursday already? It's a very cold Thursday which is hard to believe because it was 80 degrees yesterday.  Again, the big news around here is the freezing temperatures anticipated for tonight and tomorrow morning.  The boys may have a snow/ice day tomorrow which means they get to stay home from school. We have plans to go to the Gaylord Texan tomorrow afternoon to see the beautiful Christmas decorations, but we may have to postpone it. I hope not because we will lose a weekend. This late Thanksgiving thing is really messing me up.  I have to really cram activities into 3 weekends instead of 4!

On Tuesday, I took Marky to story time and he was so cute.  They sang "Jingle Bells" and he was really into jingling his bell.  Halfway through, he decided he needed more than 1 bell so he got up and helped himself to another from the basket they had out.  He always looks so serious when he's participating in the activities there.

After story time, we went to the fountain and and ate our snacks.  It was such a beautiful morning. He was excited to see the Christmas tree up at the square.  He's been so excited about Christmas and all the decorations! I don't think he gets what's going on yet, but he knows something is special about this time of year.

Our Elf made his appearance this week and has been moving all over the place.  Matthew was a little annoyed that he only moves around the living room so he's been making an effort to move more around the house. Ha ha. This morning, we found him camouflaged into our Christmas tree.

This morning when Matthew went to move the elf on our Christmas countdown calendar, he noticed something that really amused him.  He said that he wanted to take a picture of it.  It looked like Santa was eating the elf's hat.  He's absolutely right. He loves moving that little elf.  He's so excited about Christmas and I'm so excited because he's so excited!!! I am so blessed and it's such a joy to celebrate this time of year with my babies!