AlmondIce Blog

Summer is over Enjoying late nights with the kids, having the kids sleep in, having buddies over, getting the kids to do my chores (oh wait, I am not supposed to put that here) is all over for 2008. It has been a fun and HOT summer and we did lots of cool stuff.

- Spent a week in Gulf Shores with Grandma Carol
- Spend a week in Okmulgee with Grandma Jean and Grandpa Richard
- Went to (2) family reunions (Bynum & Whitlow)
- Jeanee is healthier than she has been in over 2 years
- Started organizing the house
- Played a bunch on our new trampoline
- Ryan had a big BDay party
- Krystal started piano lessons
- Ryan started guitar lessons
- Krystal continued her horse lessons
- Ryan played hockey a few times
- Mommy got a new car
- Daddy got a new Drobo
- Enjoyed a full summer with wild Hershey and mellow Topazz

Very busy summer, but all that comes to an end as Krystal heads to 3rd grade and Ryan heads to fourth. We are very fortunate with our teachers this year because Ryan has Krystal’s 1st grade teacher and Krystal has Ryan’s 3rd grade teacher thanks to mommy putting in her teacher requests on-time.

Here are some shots of the kids heading to class….

Posting this is way past due but I had issues getting the raw images converted to JPG. The issue I had was because I accidentally chose sRAW on our camera and that is a Canon proprietary RAW format and I did not have software to convert it until I remembered about the pics and used Lightroom 2.

Anyway, enough of that. Below are some good shots I took of Ryan in Jan 08 in Dallas. Ryan was selected to represent the Squirt league for the Texas Stars Tournament when they were introduced at the Dallas Stars game in January.

Ryan was very surprised how big he was on the screen and I did not get a shot of him waving at the crowd for about one second. He had a lot of fun with this…

Well, we now have some new musicians in the house. Krystal and Ryan have started music lessons. Krystal started piano lessons and Ryan has started guitar lessons. Yesterday was the first day of lessons and the kids were very excited. Krystal got some new music books and is using the family piano. Ryan was super excited because he got a new guitar as well.

Check out these pics of Krystal practicing and Ryan’s new guitar sitting next to his old smaller guitar.