Updating the blog (without pictures)

I haven't blogged in almost a year due to probably Facebook and also instagram.  I have a little bit of time while I am here in Prague before going to dinner.  I figured I would try and update what has happened in the last year...

The end of last year we celebrated Halloween with neighbors.  Thanksgiving we spent time in College Station with some of Corey's family.  After Thanksgiving, I celebrated my birthday and then I had surgery 5 days after.  Corey was a great husband who was a rockstar taking care of me and the kiddos.  Surgery went well but it kept me from being able to exercise for awhile...not my thing to be sedentary.  Christmas was a quiet one as I had just had surgery was limited to what I could do.  It was nice that it was a quiet one at home.  Corey was home with us the whole time the kids had off and we just did little things around town and around the house.

2014 started out great.  January the kids went back to school and Corey went back to work.  He traveled just about every working day of that month and was only home on the weekends.  We celebrated Sadie's 3rd birthday that month too.  We also experienced 2 ice/snow days that month in which no ice ever made the streets iced over near our house or school.  But the kids were happy to not to have to go to school and instead played on the ice that covered our trampoline.

February is a blur for me as I don't remember anything really happening.  March we did our annual camping trip during the last half of Spring Break.  It was a super fun time!  This next Spring Break we are trying to decide on going to a different location all together since some of the original families that helped coordinate these moved away recently.  We also figured it was a perfect time to get a bigger house and so we did some stuff to our house in Cinco Ranch and put it up for sale and bought a brand new house just about a mile away in Silver Ranch of Katy.  Our house sold for over the asking price and in 2 days!  We feel so blessed.  We love our new house and the space it holds for our family but I dearly miss our neighbors we lived by and the elementary school we grew to love. Luckily I keep in touch with teachers from back at that school and our neighbors too!!

April we spent the month celebrating birthdays.  Ashlyn turned 10 and Grant turned 12.  We also spent Easter weekend with Corey's siblings in Galveston for a day over Easter weekend.

May is always jam packed full of end of the year things at school.  We went to Kindergarten Graduation for Brady and 5th grade graduation for Grant.  Both made me sad!!  Brady's teacher is by far the most outstanding teacher.  I love her.  She was so perfect for Brady and I can't thank her enough.  Grant spent his entire elementary time at Odessa Kilpatrick Elementary school which is the most AMAZING school.  He graduated to the loudest applause of all the 5th graders and I was deeply touched by the staff and kids at that school.  There really is no other school as great as OKE.  Ashlyn finished out her 4th grade year doing amazing and is doing well at our new Elementary school in Katy.

In June when school got out we sort of relaxed and the kids did wonderfully just being together.  A couple of weeks in Grant and Corey headed off to scout camp just west of New Braunfels for an entire week.  It was so quiet without them.  Then Corey had to go out of town just a few days after that for work.  He got home on a Friday and then we headed to Destin the following Monday.  We love Destin.  We had the perfect weather and we all got plenty of sun!!!  It is the perfect drive from Katy and the beach is amazing.

The Monday after our week in Destin...I sent Grant off to Camp Journey for the week!  He had a blast and the woman who runs it is probably the MOST AMAZING person I know with kids with Special Needs.  While he was gone, I had Ashlyn and Brady doing a soccer camp.  Ashlyn's friend Abby also did soccer camp too and it turned out to be a super fun week for the three of them.  The rest of July we spent swimming and just doing things around town. We also celebrated Brady turning 6.  He sure is such a sweet 6 year old who LOVES Legos and playing sports.  He also loves learning words and is doing great at reading!

August (it seems like each summer goes by faster and faster as I get older) we did the back to school shopping, finish hanging out with friends, and spending the last little amount of time not having a schedule that was hectic.  School started the last week of school and by then I was ready to really send them back because they were all tired of each other.  Grant started 6th grade at Woodcreek Jr High, Ashlyn started 5th grade at Keiko Davidson Elementary, Brady started 1st grade at Keiko Davidson Elementary, and two weeks after those kids started school...Sadie started preschool in September on Monday and Wednesdays! She goes to Treasure Cove Preschool.  I love it there!  Sadie loves it too!! So on Monday and Wednesdays I am KID-FREE!  I love it but the time sure goes by fast!!!
That pretty much gets me up-to-date....

Well, she is in her 3rd week of preschool and I am on a trip in Prague with Corey.  He is here for a conference and we came a few days early to check out Prague and we went to Poland for a day as he actually helped some guys from Cemex over there.  A guy from a Cemex office over there showed me around and I saw some amazing things and took lots of pictures.  The food there is great too! Prague is a gorgeous city and I am loving it.  I still have jetlag problems after 3 1/2 days here and I have done a lot of walking.  This city is just gorgeous.  Tonight we are going on a dinner cruise with all the Cemex folks that are here in town for the conference (Concrete Roads Conference).  I am excited to see the city lit up as we have a boat tour on the river.  Tomorrow I am going to see a Chateau and then do some more touring/shopping.  Friday I will finish up by doing some shopping and relaxing as well.  We leave EARLY Saturday morning and I am sure I will have major jet lag as we head home.

Wish I had time to put some pictures on here but now with a little free time I probably update the blog more often.