Jacob

I had to share these two pics of Jacob as catcher from this past spring season. One of the moms took these pics of Jacob and passed them on to us. They are great action shots....had to share :)
Jacob LOVES to be catcher....it's his favorite position to play. His positions are catcher and 3rd base.

Allyse's 1st Dance Recital

This was after the Recital. She is holding her trophy and her flowers from her daddy and brother!

Close up

Look how pretty she is :)

The family after

Allyse on stage

This is her ballet costume...we are back stage waiting on the rest of the class.

Allyse eating grapes for her snack

Allyse is practicing her tap dance :)

She is so ready!!!!!

Last Day of School!!!!

I cannot believe how much this past school year has dragged on and on and on.....you get my point. I thought this was going to be an easy year with Allyse being in Kindergarten...but I was WRONG! Although this year has been long it has also been a great year. This was the first year that Jacob took the TAKS test. I think that is part of the reason for the long year, it's drilled into their heads...Pass the TAKS test...Pass the TAKS test. I think I was more stressed out about him passing the test then he was.....that being said I am a proud Mom....Jacob was "commended" on both his Reading and Math TASKS test. He missed only 1 question on his Math TAKS...we are so proud of him. He made all A's and B's on his report card all year. Ms. Allyse did wonderful in Kindergarten as well. She made all E's on her report card all year :)

This does make a mom and dad very proud :)

Now off for a wonderful summer.....

First day of School (August 2008)

Last Day of School (June 2009)

Last Day again

Kindergarten T-Shirts

Allyse's Kindergarten teacher approached me the last month of school and asked if maybe I could put together a t-shirt for the kids for the last day of school. Her name is Mrs. Rozell and she wanted something fun. Another mom and I came up with "Rockin Rozell's Class of 2009". We had the kids bring in fun things like sunglasses and boas to take the picture and then we formatted it to the t-shirt. The last day of school they got to sign their name on the back of EACH shirt, which only took 3 hours...LOL! The shirts came out so cute and made the last day very special :)

Picture Overload.....

First let me say...blogger.com has made it very difficult to blog lately. This is my 3rd attempt to blog and I am hoping and praying that this is the LAST time....

I am very behind on blogging so it here it goes....

These are pics from a birthday party of a little girl in Allyse's dancing class. Believe it or not this place it right in the middle of town...who know there would be horses and goats and chickens right around the corner...LOL

Allyse got to ride the horses as many times as she wanted...and LOVED every minute of it!

2nd Place ~ Championship

Gooooo Scrappers!!!!!

Jacob's baseball team placed 2nd in our 9U A bracket for The Farm League!!!! This did happen a couple of weekends ago but I have not blogged at all....

The weekend started off on a Saturday night baseball game. The game ended at 10:30...yes...at night...that was our first game of the weekend and if we won that one we had to play the next day at 11 am. Well...we won that one also...so we had a double header and played the "Mudcats" for the final championship....

We didn't win that game but however...we came in 2nd place. What a huge success it was for them. Although I think they were too tired to realize how well they did. They played 3 games within 20 hours. Toward the end of the last game, Jacob was playing catcher and he wouldn't even stand up to throw the ball back to the pitcher...he was just totally exhausted :P

Allyse was my little photographer that day...so here are a couple of pics!

My Little Man is Color Blind

AHHHHH....what a story. Last Thursday afternoon I brought Jacob and Allyse to the eye doctor for their first "official" eye check up. Although they have had eye exams at school....my eye doctor really wanted to check them being that both Mike and I wear glasses. She also wanted to make sure their eye's were healthy. So last year Mike added them to our Vision Plan. As you may know Jacob had a beautiful black eye around 3-4 weeks ago. And I though now would be a good time to do it :)

While Jacob was in the chair she pulled out a white card and I asked her if it was the "color blind test"....she turned around and said..."no, why". I told her that my dad was color blind...and she said "your kidding". So she went to the other room to get the book for the color blind test. After about 4 mins or so...she turned to me and said...he is definitely color blind. I have seen the test before and I heard him saying..."nothing, nothing" and I know most of the test is numbers...so I was getting nervous. The doctor explained to me how is gets passed down. My dad is color blind, which means my grandmother (his mom) passed it down to him but the mother is usually NOT color blind, and then passes that gene onto the son....and so on.

So since last Thursday I have been testing him on everything..."what's the color of this" "what color is my shirt". He has gotten everything right! I have been trying to prove her wrong. Last night I pulled up a website and did some research and had Jacob try the test again....and well....he failed!!!! He didn't see the numbers or shapes at all. He tried really hard and sometimes he was close to the number...but mostly he would just stare at it :(
The test said for the person to say the number or object in 3 seconds...and Allyse was standing right next to me and would say the numbers in my ear...she saw them right away...as for Jacob...he was clueless.

A mother has to try......