Zoo Boo 2012

As always we went to Zoo Boo at the Houston Zoo. It continues to be one of our favorite Zoo events.

 Cinderella & Merida

 Sarah, Jacob, Abby, Reagan & Jocelyn

 I love this. As far as my girls are concerned any time with Sarah & Crissy is a good time.

 Abby, Jacob, Sarah, Joe & Reagan

 Our Annual Candy Corn Pic! See 2011, 2010, 2009 - Seriously, look at the cuteness in 2009!

So #3 is a...........................

It took us a long time to decide how we wanted to share the gender of #3 with the girls. We really wanted them to be involved. We finally decided to take them to the store and let them each pick out a different outfit. Reagan absolutely positively wanted a little brother and Abby was not going to be happy unless she got a little sister. The lines were drawn in the sand quite awhile ago and they've been fighting about it. Picture standing toe to toe and yelling in each others faces, "Boy!" "Girl!" and you have several months at our house.

So the night we found out after dinner we put the correct sleeper in a bag and let the girls open it. Watch the progression.

Poor Reagan was inconsolable for about 15-20 minutes. She screamed at us that we had too many girls in this house and how it wasn't fair. All the while Abby dance in circles around her and was happy to share the news with Grandma. It was the saddest yet funniest moment.

No worries as a few months have passed and Reagan has accepted that she will have another little sister and is excited to be the biggest big sister. 

Houston Triathlon 2012

This was the worst triathlon yet. The weather was absolutely miserable. I turned out to be a cold and rainy morning. Unfortunately the weather on the news didn't quite predict that so we were a bit unprepared. The weather was so bad the night before that they cancelled the bike portion of the race. The camera didn't get pulled out too much because of the constant mist that we were dealing with but we got a few. Luckily we had a few friends to share the misery with.

 Here comes Daddy.

 Go Jason Go!

 Cough Cough - I accidentally gave Abby Benadryl before the race

 instead of Zyrtec which made for a sleepy cranky girl.

 Reagan & Marion practicing their curtsies. They were SO cute playing together. 

Coming to the finish.

Touch a Truck 2012

We look forward to Touch a Truck every year. The girls have a great time checking out all of the different vehicles and of course seeing their friends. Reagan was very excited to go back and see all of her friends and teachers at St. Cuthbert!

 Getting a fire lesson (She's slightly obsessed with the idea of a fire at our house)

 They always love the art car.

 Dad's favorite.

 This was Abby's favorite car.

 Reagan getting a sailing lesson from Ms. Felicity. 

I suck

Yep, I know it too. I'm going to catch up I swear. We had no idea how much our schedule/world would change with adding in kindergarten. It's been a lot to get used to and almost 5 months in we are still figuring out a new normal.

Swimming

Granny asked us to come over and swim over Labor Day weekend which we were happy to do. While Reagan is happy "swimming" around with a noodle Abby is determined to become a little fish.

Cougars Opening Game 2012

We were very excited and blessed to have been given tickets by friends of ours to go to the Cougars game. It was a great chance that we of course jumped at. We headed out the the game early to do a little tailgating and catch up with old friends which is always fun to do. Then we headed inside to watch the game.

 The one moment Abby actually sat in her seat. 

 Holy great seats Batman! Here's our new team. Gulp.

 Go Coogs!

 Touchdown!

 Reagan asked Daddy lots of questions throughout the game. She's going to know her stuff!

It didn't take long into the game for us to realize this was not the Cougars we've come to know. It's going to be a tough season but we'll stand by as we always do. However one little Cougar fan was near tears because she was so upset that her team was losing: