Spring time is here. It is filled with soccer games, baseball games, and practices.
Spencer has had 3 soccer games and has scored 5 goals, 1 goal and 3 goals in each of the first 3 games. Hadden has played his first baseball game and went 3 for 3 with a triple and 2 singles. Hadden has practiced a lot of baseball this year as the season begins and is enjoying playing and haning out with his buddies. Spencer likes soccer and still does not express an interest in baseball.
Nash is getting big. He has started saying mama, dada and his new trick this week is starting to wave bye when he is leaving or hi when coming into a room. he is a lot of fun and both hadden and spencer like him much as older brother can young babies. they are both helpful and will pitch and and watch and help us when needed.
Carrie and I continue to enjoy watching the kids excel in school and the random things kids say and do. some are just not appropirate for this blog. but i do need to keep a list somewhere. Hadden's easter bunny story this year seemed a fit exactly like carrie's trip to Maui - pretty funny.
We are going to b'ham this week and then on to the beach for a week. Spencer is turning 6 on Friday march 30 - hard to belive. I took 6 boys for pizza and skating for his birthday this week and everyone had a great time. That is definatly the first time i had skates on that i can recall. The boys both skate in school some in gym so they are both pretty good on skates.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Almost Spring
Hadden mowed for the first time this season. the only thing i did was get it started for him. Spencer is next to start mowing after he turns 6 which is coming up at the end of this month. It is nice to not have to mow - i worked in the natural area's while hadden mowed. He beat me but it sure beats doing both. Spencer helped me with the weeds.
Hadden and Spencer went to a skating party yesterday for the cousins Liza and Cooper's birthday and had a great time. I hung here with Nash and he has learned a couple new tricks
Nash now weighs 21 lbs, spencer 52 and hadden 66. Nash has 4 teeth and has started trying to bite us on everyone. He is all around the house now pulling up and crawing everywhere. He has not figured out the stairs yet and does not like the stairs. His latest trick is to stand up in his bed. Now this would not be a problem except he has not figured out how to bend his knees and sit back down. so the crying at nap time / bed time because he gets stuck standing up is currently in process.
Basketball is over and now we are on to spencer playing soccer which i am coaching and hadden playing baseball. we will go see my parents at the end of march both before and after our trip to the beach for spring break. i know the older kids can't wait to go so we will see what traveling with a 9 month old baby goes that week. Easter will be in b'ham this near.
Hadden and Spencer went to a skating party yesterday for the cousins Liza and Cooper's birthday and had a great time. I hung here with Nash and he has learned a couple new tricks
Nash now weighs 21 lbs, spencer 52 and hadden 66. Nash has 4 teeth and has started trying to bite us on everyone. He is all around the house now pulling up and crawing everywhere. He has not figured out the stairs yet and does not like the stairs. His latest trick is to stand up in his bed. Now this would not be a problem except he has not figured out how to bend his knees and sit back down. so the crying at nap time / bed time because he gets stuck standing up is currently in process.
Basketball is over and now we are on to spencer playing soccer which i am coaching and hadden playing baseball. we will go see my parents at the end of march both before and after our trip to the beach for spring break. i know the older kids can't wait to go so we will see what traveling with a 9 month old baby goes that week. Easter will be in b'ham this near.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Maui and basketball
carrie had a chance to go to Maui with some girlfriends for 5 days last week. She had a great time. the highlight was the sunrise 10,000 feet above on the top of the volcano, followed by a bike ride down the volcano and then lunch in a small local town. heather, kim , jenny and carrie had a great time. laid on the beach, by the pool, went lu ah(no idea on spelling)
Nash started crawling last week as well. it is kind of an army crawl at first but now has turned into a good crawl. he had been rocking on his knees for a while and scooting backwards... it will be hard to keep all the little pieces of toys from the older brothers from him.
Spencers team. there were 15 teams in the league - he ended up having a good year. they play the #2 team today to see who gets 2nd place. Spencer was on Walling team.
Place Team Win Loss Tie Pts Ref S Pts Games Points For Avg Points Against Avg Point Diff
1 Mora SHS 6U Boys Rec 9 0 0 18 9 150 16.67 70 7.78 80
2 Durrough SHS 6U Boys Rec 8 1 0 16 9 192 21.33 75 8.33 117
3 Walling IHS 6U Boys Rec 7 1 0 14 8 164 20.50 66 8.25 98
4 Oliver IHS 6U Boys Rec 7 1 0 14 8 162 20.25 89 11.13 73
Haddens team (Kincaid team) - they are in the semi finals today. the league tried to make it so the 2 high school gyms played against each other in the finals. bottom line is that you had the top 3 teams on one side of the bracket. We play Wade who is the best team by far. The other 2 teams on the other side of the bracket in the semis we blew them both out. Only the top 2 teams go to the county tournment. the other team that will make the finals was 10 and 13 out of 18 total total teams in the tournament. Oh well. today is really the finals.
record pts for avg pts agaist
1 Walker IHS 8U Boys Rec 9 0 0 18 9 199 22.11 91 10.11 108
2 Wade SHS 8U Boys Rec 8 0 0 16 8 268 33.50 36 4.50 232
3 Kincaid SHS 8U Boys Rec 8 1 0 16 163 18.11 69 7.67 94
Nash started crawling last week as well. it is kind of an army crawl at first but now has turned into a good crawl. he had been rocking on his knees for a while and scooting backwards... it will be hard to keep all the little pieces of toys from the older brothers from him.
Spencers team. there were 15 teams in the league - he ended up having a good year. they play the #2 team today to see who gets 2nd place. Spencer was on Walling team.
Place Team Win Loss Tie Pts Ref S Pts Games Points For Avg Points Against Avg Point Diff
1 Mora SHS 6U Boys Rec 9 0 0 18 9 150 16.67 70 7.78 80
2 Durrough SHS 6U Boys Rec 8 1 0 16 9 192 21.33 75 8.33 117
3 Walling IHS 6U Boys Rec 7 1 0 14 8 164 20.50 66 8.25 98
4 Oliver IHS 6U Boys Rec 7 1 0 14 8 162 20.25 89 11.13 73
Haddens team (Kincaid team) - they are in the semi finals today. the league tried to make it so the 2 high school gyms played against each other in the finals. bottom line is that you had the top 3 teams on one side of the bracket. We play Wade who is the best team by far. The other 2 teams on the other side of the bracket in the semis we blew them both out. Only the top 2 teams go to the county tournment. the other team that will make the finals was 10 and 13 out of 18 total total teams in the tournament. Oh well. today is really the finals.
record pts for avg pts agaist
1 Walker IHS 8U Boys Rec 9 0 0 18 9 199 22.11 91 10.11 108
2 Wade SHS 8U Boys Rec 8 0 0 16 8 268 33.50 36 4.50 232
3 Kincaid SHS 8U Boys Rec 8 1 0 16 163 18.11 69 7.67 94
Monday, January 30, 2012
Past weekend
The weekend was a busy one. Haddens had Brady's birthday party on friday night. it was at showtime sports were kids get to go play sports, dodge ball, football, baseball etc. Spencer went with Katie and Sam to donkey basketball. that is just what is sounds like. adults trying to ride donkeys and play basketball. needless to say it is funny and a great PTO fundraisers since it means the kids do not have to sell anything.
Nash - he is rocking on hit knees and thinks he can stand up on his own. He loved trying to stand and hold onto things and he is smiling and laughing. He really thinks he can stand on his own. he can now move from his butt to his knees but can't quite stand on his own. he can make it back from his knees to his butt. he is very proud of himself. he has teeth coming in and is drooling a ton and loves to be held right now. still making the clicking sound with his tongue but not so much roaring like a lion like he was a few weeks ago.
both hadden and spencer seem to be getting more and more homework these days. both are doing well in school and continue to excel.
Hadden's basketball team is 7-1 while spencers team is 7-0.. i like to thing coaching has something to do with it.. HA HA... i am helping coach both teams. both are in a battle to see who can score the most points in a season. they are both averaging about a bucket game. Both play good defense.
Carrie is enjoying a women's bible study right now. Monday nigths with our sunday school class. We both continue to enjoy our sunday school class.
I continue to run for exercise going around 15-20 miles a week. enough to keep me in decent shape. Carrie works out and mainly does the elliptical machine or boot camp classes with spin class thrown in occasionally.
Nash - he is rocking on hit knees and thinks he can stand up on his own. He loved trying to stand and hold onto things and he is smiling and laughing. He really thinks he can stand on his own. he can now move from his butt to his knees but can't quite stand on his own. he can make it back from his knees to his butt. he is very proud of himself. he has teeth coming in and is drooling a ton and loves to be held right now. still making the clicking sound with his tongue but not so much roaring like a lion like he was a few weeks ago.
both hadden and spencer seem to be getting more and more homework these days. both are doing well in school and continue to excel.
Hadden's basketball team is 7-1 while spencers team is 7-0.. i like to thing coaching has something to do with it.. HA HA... i am helping coach both teams. both are in a battle to see who can score the most points in a season. they are both averaging about a bucket game. Both play good defense.
Carrie is enjoying a women's bible study right now. Monday nigths with our sunday school class. We both continue to enjoy our sunday school class.
I continue to run for exercise going around 15-20 miles a week. enough to keep me in decent shape. Carrie works out and mainly does the elliptical machine or boot camp classes with spin class thrown in occasionally.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Nash's New trick
Nash's new trick is to roar like a lion. he is figuring out that he has a voice. he is on his knees up and rocking. He is wheeling around in his walker like a champ. now spencer and hadden have figured out that they can push him around like a toy and fly around the down stairs. so far no casulities. Carrie's mom continues to come up on Tuesday/Thursday's to help us keep Nash. What a great thing that has been for us since carrie has gone back to work...not a short drive for her but a great thing she has been doing since October.
Spencer and Hadden are back in school and continue to do well and enjoy it everyday. No girlfiends to date but lots of funny stories...Specner checked up today which in English means he didn't get in trouble and he was able to move is stick up and get a ticket. so many tickets and you get to buy a prize. this is the reward system - the bigger the thing - the more tickets they cost. just like the real world.
Spencer and Hadden are back in school and continue to do well and enjoy it everyday. No girlfiends to date but lots of funny stories...Specner checked up today which in English means he didn't get in trouble and he was able to move is stick up and get a ticket. so many tickets and you get to buy a prize. this is the reward system - the bigger the thing - the more tickets they cost. just like the real world.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Alabama In New Orleans - Jan 9 2012
My dad has been able to get Sugar bowl or national championship tickets in new orleans for 4 of the last 5 years. This has been a great trip to be on each year with my dad and watching football. Any easy flight followed by some great food and times in the big easy.
2008 - LSU 41 vs Ohio state 24 -- National Championship Game
2010 Florida 51 Cincinitti 24
2011 Ohio State 31 Arkansas 24o
2012 Alabama 21 LSU 0 - National Championship Game.
lucky we skipped 2009 because Alabama got whipped by Utah in that game. This year was extra speacial because Alabama was in the game. I was able to meet with Dwayne and meet both his daughers - i had met one of them before. He helped recruit me out of school to international paper and we had many fun times going on recruiting trips to alabama to hire finance and IT staff for IP. He has since retired and we had not had a chance to get together for 5 years or so. it was good to hang out and catch up on Bourbon. It was good to also be able to catch up with my buddy from college brent who is in houston and we are not able to connect up as often as we would like. it was good times. Every year we have gone the first days starts at Pat Obrien's and goes from there...A Hurricane or 2 and a dinner that night - the last 2 years has been the Palace Cafe which has been great. The 4 of us went up / down bourbon both nights, ate good food, and enjoyed each others conversations and discusions. (Hey i wonder how that girl got those beads)....Morton Salt hosted my dad for the 4th year and jason and Chris were fun as always and great hosts. The seats were great - about 8 row right at the pylon where the alabama team ran out from the locker room.
It was a great time to be able to spend hanging with Geno who is also turning the big 60 this weekend. Can't wait until next year....
2008 - LSU 41 vs Ohio state 24 -- National Championship Game
2010 Florida 51 Cincinitti 24
2011 Ohio State 31 Arkansas 24o
2012 Alabama 21 LSU 0 - National Championship Game.
lucky we skipped 2009 because Alabama got whipped by Utah in that game. This year was extra speacial because Alabama was in the game. I was able to meet with Dwayne and meet both his daughers - i had met one of them before. He helped recruit me out of school to international paper and we had many fun times going on recruiting trips to alabama to hire finance and IT staff for IP. He has since retired and we had not had a chance to get together for 5 years or so. it was good to hang out and catch up on Bourbon. It was good to also be able to catch up with my buddy from college brent who is in houston and we are not able to connect up as often as we would like. it was good times. Every year we have gone the first days starts at Pat Obrien's and goes from there...A Hurricane or 2 and a dinner that night - the last 2 years has been the Palace Cafe which has been great. The 4 of us went up / down bourbon both nights, ate good food, and enjoyed each others conversations and discusions. (Hey i wonder how that girl got those beads)....Morton Salt hosted my dad for the 4th year and jason and Chris were fun as always and great hosts. The seats were great - about 8 row right at the pylon where the alabama team ran out from the locker room.
It was a great time to be able to spend hanging with Geno who is also turning the big 60 this weekend. Can't wait until next year....
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Christmas and New Years
It was a fun Christmas this year with all the activities and how much fun the kids had. We had Carrie's work party this year which had good food a little dancing. I took Hadden and Spencer to open gifts with my parents and jena paul a few days before christmas. It was a quick trip but we enjoyed it and the both hadden and spencer enjoyed opening gifts and seeing nini and papa and the twins. Christmas Eve morning breakfast a Crackerbarrel kicked off at 7:00 and has been a Hulan family tradtion for close to 30 years. Christmas eve was spent with the cousins playing at Carrie's parents place - a farm with a lost of room to play and roam. they spent a lot of the time jumping on hay bails in the barn..that night we go to the Bon Aqua hoe down to eat dinner. This owend by Flo (carrie's mom) older brother and it is a gathering spot for Carrie's moms side of the family for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Christmas morning back here was a blast. The kids let it slip that they got up at 3:01 AM and came out and peaked at their presents but that didn't ruin a few surprises.
hadden - electric air soft gun, basketball shoes, baseball bat, Wii game, smelly markers, shocker pen, Alabama sweatshirt, spy car, electric blanket
Spencer - electic scooter, bayblades, basketball shoes, castle, smelly makers, wii game, remote control bayblade, electric mattress pads, waki talkis, wall tracks for mtach box cars.
Nash - a bunch of blocks and things he can push open with his hands
Christmas morning we go to Carrie's parents to open gifts with Carries sisters and parents and then went to Carrie's Aunt Becky's for lunch with kenny's side of the family.
Right after Christmas Hadden had his tonsils out. That was a bit harder recovery than anticipated with him up every 3-4 hours for the first 7-10 days. He is doing better now.
New Years eve we went to some neighbors for party. Everyone brought appetizers and there was a karoke machine - Carrie was not impressed with my performances - she has video of me singing but hopefully that will never surface.....
I am helping coach Hadden and spencers basketball teams.
Hadden is playing point guard and his team is off to a 4-0 start.
Spencer is playing as well and they are 4-0 too. A funny story about Spencer- his first game he took the ball to start the 3rd quarter and went the wrong way and scored for the other team. the final score as 15-3. Yes spencer in his first game was the hi point man for the other team. The game this past Saturday he scored 8 points for his team and they won 28-5. I am proud of how both kids are donig. they both seem to really enjoy it and carrie and I enjoy watching and being involved.
Nash turns 6 months today and he is first tooth is in. he is really vocal and sitting up on his own for the past month or so. he is really intereted in whatever his brothers are doing and can spend a lot of time just watching them play.
I am off to New Orleans today to go watch Bama play LSU in the National Championship game. i can't wait. ROLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIDE ROLL.
Christmas morning back here was a blast. The kids let it slip that they got up at 3:01 AM and came out and peaked at their presents but that didn't ruin a few surprises.
hadden - electric air soft gun, basketball shoes, baseball bat, Wii game, smelly markers, shocker pen, Alabama sweatshirt, spy car, electric blanket
Spencer - electic scooter, bayblades, basketball shoes, castle, smelly makers, wii game, remote control bayblade, electric mattress pads, waki talkis, wall tracks for mtach box cars.
Nash - a bunch of blocks and things he can push open with his hands
Christmas morning we go to Carrie's parents to open gifts with Carries sisters and parents and then went to Carrie's Aunt Becky's for lunch with kenny's side of the family.
Right after Christmas Hadden had his tonsils out. That was a bit harder recovery than anticipated with him up every 3-4 hours for the first 7-10 days. He is doing better now.
New Years eve we went to some neighbors for party. Everyone brought appetizers and there was a karoke machine - Carrie was not impressed with my performances - she has video of me singing but hopefully that will never surface.....
I am helping coach Hadden and spencers basketball teams.
Hadden is playing point guard and his team is off to a 4-0 start.
Spencer is playing as well and they are 4-0 too. A funny story about Spencer- his first game he took the ball to start the 3rd quarter and went the wrong way and scored for the other team. the final score as 15-3. Yes spencer in his first game was the hi point man for the other team. The game this past Saturday he scored 8 points for his team and they won 28-5. I am proud of how both kids are donig. they both seem to really enjoy it and carrie and I enjoy watching and being involved.
Nash turns 6 months today and he is first tooth is in. he is really vocal and sitting up on his own for the past month or so. he is really intereted in whatever his brothers are doing and can spend a lot of time just watching them play.
I am off to New Orleans today to go watch Bama play LSU in the National Championship game. i can't wait. ROLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIDE ROLL.
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