We "heart" Football!

While Stephen's parents and brothers were out visiting, we had a fun filled "Football" weekend! Madeline had her first home pee wee football game to cheer at. It's nice cause it's about a mile down the road from our house at a local middle school football field. Madeline was super excited her Nana, Poppi and Uncles were there to watch her. She did great!

Nana and Poppi even made sure to bring red shirts to support our Kyle Invaders!

Madeline after the game with her Uncle Mike, Uncle Bryce, Daddy and James. She got a well deserved snow cone...it was a hot game!

After Madeline's game, the guys headed to downtown Austin to catch the Longhorns first home game. Stephen's buddy Albert has a brother who coaches for Wyoming, so he was able to get Stephen some free tickets to the game. Over 100,000 fans came to watch this game! Here is Dad (red shirt) and Bryce (blue shirt) walking to the stadium.

Bryce and Stephen sat together.

And Mike and Dad sat together.

Bryce and Stephen were sitting right by the canon shooters. Bryce got startled every time!

They sat on the visitors side where the sun was setting and shining. They said it got pretty hot and sweaty at the game. But they still had a good time. And the Longhorns won! At least the Longhorns and Invaders won this weekend, can't say so much for the Vikes.

The pigskin sport weekend update

Brett didn't have much to smile about yesterday night in his game against the Cardinals, and unfortunately neither did Stephen and his 3 brothers who traveled to AZ to root the Vikes on. Seriously what a bummer of a game! James and I fell asleep on the couch in the 4th quarter. I guess we scored one more time but still came out defeated. Overall though I think Stephen and his bros had a fun time in AZ.

Hey at least our Longhorns WON.....

A second can really matter. Woo hoo, looking forward to watching the BCS Championship game! Hook 'em Horns!

Ready for the weekend

I forgot to share this photo earlier this week. On Monday evening when we took Madeline to her CCD class at Santa Cruz Catholic parish in Buda we drove about 1/4 mile past our church and turned down the road to the historic old Stagecoach park and saw these longhorns grazing in the field. It was pretty cool to see them so close up. But I don't think any of these are as big as Bevo, the Longhorns mascot - have you seen that animal on TV!?
Stephen had a mellow and nice birthday yesterday. Once Madeline got home from school around 3pm we sang him happy birthday and ate his yummy cookie cake.

Of course we had to have a gigantic glass of milk to go with it.

Pure silliness. :)

Madeline lost her 2nd tooth (again at school!) on her Daddy's birthday yesterday. She said she was just coloring at her school desk and touched the tooth with her tongue and it fell out!

Weekend plans: unpack/decorate James room, finish border in Madeline's room, possibly paint our master bedroom, and princess party on Saturday for James' girlfriend Kayla (our old neighbors), hosting a jewelry party on Sunday afternoon and James' pizza birthday party on Sunday evening!

Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend!

Hook Em!

With sick kiddos, lack of sleep and still having to go to work - I've neglected my blogging. Well I thought last night's Longhorns game at the Tostitos Bowl (and this cute pic of James and his Longhorn) were worth posting about. Being in a drab mood because the Vikes lost their playoff game this past Sunday - last night's Longhorns game brought back excitement and fulfillment. Man was that a crazy game, we were sitting on the edge of the couch those last 16 seconds!!! Woo hoo Hook em Longhorns. Stephen's been a longtime supportive Fighting Irish fan, but in recent years they've been painful to watch. Since living here in the Austin area, we've sort of adopted the Longhorns as one of our favorite college teams.

Like I said both Madeline and James have been sick with a cold & cough. Madeline's almost 100% and today she was up to playing outside with her friends. I took this photo today of her and Mia. On New Year's day I cut about 2 inches off of Madeline's hair.

On January 2nd my cuz Whitney and his daughter, Ariel, flew in from Houston on a whim. Just to visit and hang out for one night. We had fun, went to a Chinese buffet in San Marcos, then just stayed home and watched movies..the Shawshank Redemption and the Mummy (part III). Whitney put together James' soccer goal he got for Christmas.

Laura posted this pic on her Facebook of all of our Spence nieces and nephews. Wish Madeline and James could've been there with all of them to join in on the fun. From left to right: Eden, William, Jacob, Dylan, Nathaniel, Elias, Ethan and Noah. In the back Wyatt and Ella.

Lastly I have totally neglected Madeline and James' baby web pages this past year. It's probably due to the fact that James' well visits with his pediatrician have been neglected too (I would usually post on their web pages after well visits). He's behind on his vaccinations. Due to the medical insurance plan we signed up for with Hertz, we have super high deductibles so these well visits would cost us approx. $150 each visit...and James' last batch of vax's would have cost us $700 out of pocket! Well I've figured out that we can get him those same vax's through the county health center for about $20 total. So we just got to get the kids to the health center. Anyhow I did update Madeline and James web pages and journals so check them out!