gymnastics

Ava Grace takes gymnastics on Monday mornings with her friend Clara. Alan got to go to Ava Grace's parent day with us to see what all she has learned in gymnastics this year.

walking on the balance beam

Ava Grace and Clara

Bailey got her braces off!

Bailey got her braces off last week after two years of wearing them! She now has a new retainer that she only has to wear at night.

snow!

We had snow last week! The kids had a lot of fun playing in the snow. They got to leave school early at 12:30 one day and not go until 10:00 the next day. No make up days!

Cal by the snowman with his new gun.

We had enough snow for two snowmen!

Friends

Bailey had her birthday party this year at the Baylor soccer game against Texas A&M. We "tailgated" in the parking lot before the game. Bailey with her cookie cake.

We had pizza and lots of goodies!

Bailey opening presents. (Ava Grace thinks that she is as old as the other girls.)

Ava Grace and her best friend Clara, celebrated their birthdays at Chick-fil-A together. They are 4 days apart!

Trick-or-Treat!

Ava Grace (bumblebee) and Audrey (disco diva)
Ava Grace and Bailey (clown)

Bailey (witch) before middle school dance/costume party

Cal (bag of jelly beans), Ava Grace, and Cal's friend Jackson

Cal's football

Cal plays for the Texas Longhorns. To show that he is not a true Longhorn, he wears his OU shirt under his jersey. We have had many fans come to watch Cal this season play football. Here are Grandma and Granddad.

Cal is a very tough competitor. Even though he is playing against some boys twice his size, Cal gets a lot of tackles and hits them hard!

Halloween night Cal had a game at 6:00, so afterward he wore this uniform to trick-or treat. Evidently we have quite a few Longhorn fans in our neighborhood because they gave him extra candy. #8 is also the number of Shipley for the Texas Longhorns!

What We've Been Up To...

I haven't posted in a while, so I will combine a lot of posts into one. We have had a busy start to school. It is hard to believe that Bailey is in 7th grade, Audrey is in 6th grade, and Cal is in 4th grade! They are all at different schools this year. Ava Grace and I are enjoying being at home together. Bailey turned 13 and Ava Grace turned 4 on September 19. They enjoy sharing a birthday.

On her birthday, Bailey ran in her first cross country meet. She ran against 7th and 8th graders and got 2nd by 4 tenths of a second. Here is Bailey near the finish just barely behind first place.

A fun thing that Bailey and Audrey's soccer team did was to help their coach propose to his girlfriend. They held up signs with letters to spell out, "Will you marry me?" She said yes!

Ava Grace has started gymnastics and loves it! Here she is after finishing her class one day. You can tell that she has a lot of fun.

Bailey and Audrey are now on the Sting soccer team. They are on the same team as last year, the name just changed. The only difference is now we wear blue instead of orange.

Cal is playing football and is on a baseball tournament team. I will post pictures of that soon.

We are off to a busy start of the school year. The kids stay busy, but we have a lot of fun!