Spring Football

Samuel had his first two hand touch football game on Friday evening.  He knew about half the team from tackle and in true Samuel style he recruited a friend from school to sign up for his team as well. And now Samuel and the coach have convinced his Mom and Dad to let him play in the fall.  The spring league is a little more laid back and it's a lot of fun.  Samuel got some great playing time on offense and proved himself with an extra point and then an interception and a touchdown.  It was a fun night!  

Interception!!

We take football seriously down in Texas.  Ha!

Almost a full team photo.  Couldn't squeeze everybody in with my zoom lens.

Aunt Jen’s Birthday

Yesterday we got to spend the day at Grandma’s with Aunt Jen’s family.  And it just happened to be her birthday!  We’ve been able to spend quite a bit of time with the Colburn’s in the last few months so Samuel is completely comfortable and shows his true colors now.  He was VERY excited about the birthday party and could hardy wait until the cake was served.

The weather has been beautiful this week so we got to spend most of the day outside.  Mike worked hard over Thanksgiving to get the go cart running.  So thanks to Daddy we all had lots of fun.  We wish he could have joined us!






Grandma had to guard the pool from wild drivers.

We’re breaking Aunt Kristen in early!

The gingerbread train that was decorated over Thanksgiving was consumed.


Poor Ben had a tough job keeping the little ones entertained.  He’s good at his job!


The big boys tried on Uncle Matt’s  wrestling singlets so Samuel and Ben tried on some basketball uniforms.  Maybe we have an FOR player in our future???

Happy Birthday, Jen!  We had a fun day with you!

Christmas 2011

We made it through all of our Christmas celebrations and Samuel came out pretty good this year!  After a couple of practice rounds he really warmed up to the whole opening presents thing and was a sad boy when all of his gifts were finally open.

This is a major picture overload but we want to make sure Daddy doesn’t miss out on anything we did over the weekend.  So here you go:

 

We started off at Grandma and Grandpa’s house on Christmas Eve morning.

Uncle Matt was a big help with all of Samuel’s new toys!

Later the afternoon we headed back to Grammy and Papa’s for lunch and presents with Grandma Joann and Mama.

It was a cars and trucks kind of year around here!

Molly wasn’t too impressed with all the trucks.

My Grandma made my Mom a quilt.

It will be a miracle if this thing makes it to next week.  But it sure is fun right now!

Sister got all dressed up for the Christmas Eve service at church.

Looking in his stocking on Christmas morning.  He got a marshmallow gun.

And some candy.

He’s definitely a Burns!

 

Want a piece, Mom?

Chuck the Truck

Peekaboo!

Don’t worry, Daddy, you didn’t miss you much on Molly’s first Christmas. The whole ordeal just wore her out and she slept through most of it.  Here she is, crashed out right in the middle of all the commotion.

Helping Grammy put away the silverware.

 

And there you have it.  Christmas 2011.  We’ll try to get some video up soon.