After losing the first game of the season, the Tigers bounced back yesterday and won 5 – 2 at home.  Alex went from playing 10-15 minutes last year (80 minute game) to playing about 70 minutes in the first two games this year!  Lis had several people come up to her and tell her how good Alex is this year and how much faster he is compared to last year.  Considering he sat on his butt must of the summer we’re not sure where the extra speed came from, but we’re sure the 4″ he grew last year had something to do with it.  We are definitely very proud of him as he is becoming more aggressive getting to the ball and he has been making some good passes.  Now we just need him to keep up his grades.  🙂

So we tried out a new beach today, Pine Knolls beach – just a little south of Fort Macon beach.  It was very nice and the waves weren’t too big but they did have a lot of shells so Sam and Lis were both doing their own thing.  Alex decided not to make the trip and stayed home and made a Minecraft video.

Flashback to a more simple and shorter time….. July 2005.  Here are our 2 boys back then, but this year they both grew like a beanstalk.   Sam added 2.5″ and Alex added 4.”    How tall do you think they will be in just a couple of more years??

Somehow we misplaced the Birthday Cone of Shame, so we replaced it with something out of a really bad Sci-Fi show and stuck it on Alex’s head??   Reid and Drew came over to spend the night, play Minecraft on the computer, eat a little pizza, watch the new GI Joe and try to stay up as late as possible.  🙂  Everyone seemed to have a great time.

Alex and Sam sleeping in the back seat on the way home last night…. looks uncomfortable?  Of course they somehow managed to keep their headphones on the entire time.  🙂

We all took a trip up to Waynesboro, VA to say goodbye to our Grammy (Henrietta Henkel) who crossed over on August 7, 2013…. we will miss her and we will always remember her.  We also got to see our cousins, Lillie and AB (the other half of the Fab 4) and Aunt Kim and Uncle Deke…. it’s always great to see them.

Relaxing and enjoying the beautiful weather after the grave site service.

Flowers from Uncle Frank in Florida

So it has become kind of a tradition now to stop and take a photo at least once a year of the boys on the mountain.  If you look back at some of the older posts you can see how much they have grown over the last 3 years.

2013

Are you serious….is it really 7:30am? We haven’t been up this early in months. First day of school excitement!