It's beginning to look a lot like a - HOUSE!

I was going to say it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas because that is how I feel as the house continues to progress. While we are very thankful to have found an apartment, apartment living with 3 boys is getting OLD very FAST!! We still make daily visits to the house (sometimes 2x a day) and this past Saturday walked all through it as they have finished the electrical, duct work, framing, roof, and window installation. It finally has enough shape that we can start to think and dream about where we will put things and all of the room we will have. The boys are also loving watching it go up and deciding which rooms will be there and where they will put their stuff, etc. We haven't heard if our completion date has been moved up any or not but we are hopeful!!!

The green gators continue to play weekly. The lost again this week but as always had fun playing. Joel spent most of the first half as the center. He doesn't care where he plays as long as he has a "job" to do. Caleb spent the majority of the game on defense which is what he loves. He didn't get any flags this week but played really hard. (I didn't blog last weekend about the game but Caleb got 4 flags on defense and made 2 complete passes - one for a touchdown as the quarterback last week; Joel had the opportunity last week to carry the ball twice.)
Christian is working hard in school and is LOVING band. He recently passed the test to become a Super Master of the alphabet in band. In my limited knowledge it has to do with memorizing the alphabet of music notes and knowing their order forward and backward. He worked really, really hard on it and he is one of only a handful of students who accomplished it. The band is preparing for their first Christmas Concert in December. Along with Caleb & Joel, Christian is looking forward to having his own room again. Plus Christian will have his own bathroom and not have to share! Craig made it home from Houston and his deposition this week. We are ALL (especially him) glad that is over and he is done unless the case goes to trial.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Very Busy Week!

The Wilson's have had a very busy week this week. Last Saturday the green gators took the field again! Caleb still enjoys playing defense the best and Joel really doesn't care - he just likes to be on the field. After a hard fought game they ended up LOSING but they had a fabulous time! (The picture is of them saying the pledge of allegiance before the game). Tomorrow they have a double header so it is sure to be fun.

On Tuesday they poured the slab for our house!! YEAH. They had put the plumbing in last Friday and we were waiting for the inspection to happen before they could pour the slab. We were so excited to see some progress and as Christian says it is finally more than just a patch of dirt.

On Wednesday Christian had his first band concert. It was an event for the whole family. Each student in the beginner band HAD to bring a parent with them. They then took their parent and taught them a simple song. The parent then had to perform the song for the entire group. I volunteered Craig for this wonderful experience (ha. ha.) Craig actually played the trumpet for a couple of years so it was not completely foreign to him. All of the parents attempted to play their song and then the students played what it should have sounded like. Everyone had a great time.

On Thursday Joel had his FIRST field trip. It was actually my first field trip as well (since becoming an adult)! Because of working I had never had an opportunity to go on any of the kids field trips. All 5 of the kindergarten classes traveled to a near by Pumpkin Patch Farm. They were able to feed cows and goats through the fence, ride on a hayride and of course pick their very own pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. We also enjoyed a picnic lunch by the lake. It was COLD here yesterday and the wind was blowing very hard so the parents were a little miserable but I don't think the kids noticed much! I was in charge of 4 kids for the day (3 boys including Joel and 1 little girl). It wasn't easy keeping track of all of them with so many other kids there (there was another school their, plus 2 day cares and we had over 100 kids just from our school) but I didn't lose anyone. (Yes, one of the chaperone's lost one of their children but she was shortly found by another parent). Joel had a great time!!

Christian and I have added a drive by the house to our morning routine of killing time between dropping off the little kids at school and time for him to go. We were SHOCKED to come around the corner this morning and see half of the house framed. We had just driven by yesterday morning and it was still just the concrete so to see half of the house framed up was VERY EXCITING. I am hoping as I drive by this afternoon that maybe they will have the rest done. Progress is always encouraging!!

I will update next week after the green gator double header tomorrow. I am sure it will be very exciting!

Green Gator Flag Football!

Caleb & Joel had their FIRST flag football game this past Saturday. There team name is the Green Gators. They did a GREAT job! They had only had 2 practices with a grand total of 2 hours in practice before the game. It was very funny as the coach tried to explain to them if they were playing offense or defense.

The first half Joel played offense and Caleb played defense. Caleb started off slowly but when he realized that as soon as the ball was snapped he could try to get the other person's flag he was "on it!". I think between the first and second half he grabbed 5 or 6 flags stopping the play. He loved defense so much that when the second half began rather than going to offense he asked the coach to stay on defense. The coach allowed him to play both for most of the second half - but he really likes defense the best!
(The picture here where he has his fists clamped is right after he got a flag. He was so pumped up & yes the guy with the Mohawk was our referee!)

Joel played offense the first half. He was used to "hike" the ball(which really in flag football they just hand it to the person behind them). He said he liked doing that but late in the 2nd half they had him as the quarterback and they hiked the ball to him and he immediately handed it off to someone else. He said that was his favorite! Joel is the youngest on the team but that doesn't stop him from playing any role he can. This is also his first time to play on a sport's team. He was so cute asking all of his questions (so Joel) and paying close attention to what was going on.

So, it was a TIE 13-13!! YIPPEE! The boys had a great time as well as all of the adults! Enjoy the rest of the pictures.

Birthday Parties

Well, after the dilemma and search to find a place to hold birthday parties for both Caleb & Joel - we had HUGE SUCCESS! On Saturday morning we surprised the kids when they came home (they had spent Friday night with Grandpa Billy & Jo at the hotel!) with a Play Station 2. (I know most of you are saying are you kidding - why feed the addiction - to which I can say talk to my husband!!!) Although it was a refurbished system and used games the kids were SO excited and loved it!! (As you can tell from the picture).

Now for the parties - we started with Caleb. We had his party at a park that had a spray park and a playground beside each other. He wanted a "Transformers" theme complete with a Transformer's Pinata! (I don't know why because he doesn't own a transformer nor has he seen the movie but that is what he wanted!) The only "hiccup" we had was when we got there the water was not on. Now I had researched and new that the water was supposed to be on until September 30th and we had the party on the 20th. After several attempts to get it to turn on, I hollered at Craig and he found a number and called the city. Now we had a spray park in Sugar Land and you rubbed the post to get the water to come on - but in Frisco you just hold your hand down on the post and sure enough the water comes on - YEAH. The kids had a great time in the water, playing in the park, and with the pinata! Caleb had 10 kids come (8 boys and 2 girls) which we thought was an EXCELLENT turn out since we had only been in Frisco 5 weeks and only in school for 3. (Poor Christian was not allowed a hit because he demolished Joel's pinata last year with one swing! But he was a GREAT help at both parties!).


We then headed over to McDonald's for Joel's party. We had a little harder time there because our party was scheduled for 5:00 but when we got there at 4:50 there was still a party going on. The management said oh they will be out in 5 minutes. But at 5:00 we saw the cake and ice cream go back so we knew it wasn't going to be over real soon. (It really bothered me because when I booked the party they said 5:00 was the earliest we could book a party on Saturdays.) But the staff came through and cleaned another area and got us going. Joel had the majority of his class come to his party. He was very confused that his teacher Mrs. Hodges was not there since most of his class was! I tactfully explained to him that Mrs. Hodges could not attend all 18 of their birthday parties plus she has a family of her own. I don't think he liked it but he FINALLY quit asking why she wasn't there. This was Joel's first kid party (not just a family party) so he had a GREAT TIME!

It was a VERY LONG day for the adults and the kids as well as you can see from this picture of Joel sleeping on the way home!

Stay tune we have our first Green Gator Flag Football game this Saturday so I am sure I will have many great pictures and FUNNY stories to tell!

These are just some additional pictures. (I love this one of my mom and Joel swinging - Christian took it and I think it is cool how you can see their shadows as well.)