Early to Bed and Early to Rise Keeps a Mom Busy, Hurried and Lithe

My friend, Lisa, and I took our kids to this really cool restaurant she found called Willie's Ice House - they have a SAND BOX! It was really nice to be able to engage in a regular conversation while the kids were entertained. I took my usual amount of pictures - about a thousand - and only these three looked ok.



Then there was soccer practice. Below: the little sister of one of Gabriel's teammates. She is adorable and I love taking pictures of her!

Then of course there was the game - at 4 pm, in scorching heat and suffocating humidity. Who does the schedule?

GO Sharks!

the game was a little on the sad side, the other team scored about 5 goals - we only scored once, but even that was in their goal too.

i don't know who this is but it cracks me up that they have such a HUGE dog sitting in their laps.

one of G's teammates

We went on a double date to the Flying Saucer with one of B's coworkers. His girlfriend, Jaime, lives in Austin so I have only met her one other time but she is hands down one of the coolest chicks EVER. This is a shout out to you, Jaime - for the Fun Facts Dart Game, The Cheeky Monkey and OOO OOO AAh AAh! I hope we get to hang out more and I hope that one day you get your light covered tree!

And finally, in this video, Gabiel talks about the first book he ever read by himself. He sat so nice and still sounding out words and asking for my help only a couple of times. But after he read it, he was toast and just wanted to watch TV - this is why he was so distracted in the video.