Pictures of the house...

Rain in Texas!  This is part of our backyard in the pool area.  One thing about Houston....when it rains it RAINS!




Emilee is mowing the lawn!  Since we have 1 1/4 acres we had to get a riding mower.  The kids love to help mowing the lawn.  That is great for me!




Nice Dive Brig!  The pool has a deep end and a diving board.  The kids spend hours doing all kinds of flips, dives, and other tricks.  Notice Mason has no floatation devices.  Erin spent the first two weeks of our time here making sure he can swim without them.  Now he is like a fish.  He can swim from one side of the pool to the other. 




King of the tube!  Most of our toys only last a few weeks.  Rough play and Chloe result in enourmous holes in them!




All kinds of creatures!  These are cicada husks that we find all over the place.  Houston is full of bugs and stuff.  We are discovering all kinds of wild things here.  At night, the kids chase toads, frogs, and lizards.  They never tire of catching them.




Dad has declared war on the pocket gophers!  Sadly, our lawn was full of annoying pocket gophers.  Mounds of dirt were popping up all over the place.  A nice stroll through the lawn almost resulted in a broken ankle due to all the underground tunnels.  This device is designed to distribute poison into their lair's.  I am happy to report that I AM WINNING!.





Rain schmain!  We're swimming anyways!




Here is a look at our pool area...

From Texas:

A lot of water has traveled under the bridge since our last post... and that is a huge understatement.  The biggest event is a move to the Houston, Texas area.  Steve is working with a company called Shield Air Solutions, Inc in Houston.  After his MBA, a small company came to him with an offer that he could not refuse!  So we are in the midst of what Steve calls the G.T.E. (the Great Texas Experiment) and we are growing as a result.  We are having a great time with many new adventures.  We live in the country instead of the city...we go to church in a branch instead of a ward, and we are currently renting a home instead of having bought one!  Life is in a constant state of change!  Crazy!  The kids have loved our swimmming pool and making new friends in the branch. 

Spring soccer posts!!! Are you kidding me??

I am soooo overwhelmed by how much back-blogging that I have to do. I mean.... I am posting about spring soccer for crying out loud. I have so many cute pics, and we've had soooo much fun since then I don't know if I will ever catch up. I need to be more dilligent about keeping up on it but here's trying.

* And I don't know why I can't get the stupid underlining off.

This is Em fighting with her TEAMMATE for a good position. We're on the same team girls!

Good soccer buddy, Sierra!

Maddie really took off on a whole new level this spring in soccer. She got faster, more aggressive, and started to play with strategy. If she could just stop slide-tackling people we'd be great! This was Mad's last soccer game. Her cute soccer buddy, Ashely, got emotional at the thought of not playing soccer with Mad anymore. Cute girl! Can't say I blame can her!

Emilee was bored at the soccer game.

One more season down.... ??? who knows how many to go. Good times!!

Look what's growing in our garden!!

Earth Day Fun

We planted another tree for Family Home Evening.