Crawfish Etouffe

Here is what has become of our crawfish boil. It turned out great, and wasn't all that hard to make. Amazing how these things we pay lots of money for aren't all that difficult. And my eyes were bigger than my stomach, so I'm completely stuffed. I will have to make this again! Of course the boys didn't eat it, and it wasn't even spicy, just for them. The potatoes and corn were also left overs.

"I drink"

This is how Mason spent his morning....

First, we had a few beers....
Then we had a few more...

All while saying, I drink.....another one....I drink....


Look at all my beer! (And before I get reported to the authorities, he's only "drinking" the water off the top from the ice in the cooler. - and if you ask him for a beer he will run yelling beer the whole way, and bring you back a rootbeer.
And after our drinks we had some quiet time with play doh from his birthday!

Crawfish boil

Last night we finally had our crawfish boil. We had three of our neighbor families over, and 2 families from Frank's work. In all we had 2 families from Houston, 1 from Miami, 2 from Canada, and 1 from Scotland. We had corn and potatoes with the crawfish, dirty rice, and lots of other food. Most everyone liked the crawfish. This is our left overs. I forgot to take the picture until everyone was done. The crawfish were frozen, pre-seasoned from China, but it was good. We boiled it with crab boil anyway. We peeled this batch, and I'm going to attempt to make some etouffe with it. We'll see how that goes.

We had rugby this morning, but I didn't bring my camera. Tyler's group learned how to "scrum" today. That's when they do the huddle thing.

Mason's party

Mason had his birthday party and Chuck E Cheese this morning. Everyone had a great time. Our party started at 10 am, so we practically had the place to ourselves.

See more pics http://photoshare.shaw.ca/view/10305956435-1212353919-18633/ .

Grant's field trip

I went with Grant's class on a field trip today. The kids at an area high school put on a program about different cultures. The kids got to travel around and do different activities from different cultures. It was held at a local city recreation facility in their gym. Everyone had lots of fun.

See lots more pics here http://photoshare.shaw.ca/view/10305950397-1212091928-38148/

Haircut

Well, Mason had his very first haircut today. We had to kill 3 hours at Wal-mart while the tire on the car was being fixed, so after breakfast and before shopping Mason got a haircut.

These pics were taken about a month ago because I wanted to make sure I had some pictures of his curls that usually go away because he sleeps on his back.

And here is his big boy hair. He still doesn't have much in the front to cut, and the ends still curl up. I think he actually looks a bit younger since he's so bald on top. I'll have to get a pic from the front later.
Oh, and we both cried. He was fine after she started cutting, and that's when I started. I don't think I cried with any of the other boys, but I guess now I know how the curls never do come back.

Tackle Rugby

Tyler had his first tackle game today. The boys have to tackle below the waist, so mostly it looks like Tyler slapping people on the knees as they run by, but here are a few pics of Tyler on the ground.

Here he made a tackle, but the kid was able to throw the ball before going down.
Here he just missed completely.
And notice he isn't being tackled in any of the pictures. He throws the ball as soon as he gets it so no one can tackle him.
Here are a couple of pics of Grant's game from inside the club house. It was around 48 degrees and wet and cold. Mason and I went inside to have hot chocolate, and even Mason refused to go back outside!

This is the boys practicing, but look at the grass, can you see the circles? I said crop circles....turns out they are called fairy circles. Its a fungus that grows in the grass in a circle. Often the circles have no grass and mushrooms grow in a circle. I thought that was pretty interesting.
And when we were outside Mason found a lady bug and spent about an hour playing with it. He never squashed it or tried to eat it or anything. He looks worried in this picture because it had almost gone down his jacket sleeve. He loved it.