The Horman 5 plus 1!

Thanksgiving 2010

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My family came to visit for Thanksgiving and we had a ton of fun. Charlotte was so excited to meet everyone!

Charlotte Gayle Horman November 18, 2010

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Here I am before she was born. Little Charlotte was breech and so the doctor turned her around. then they induced labor. After a few hours we discovered there was a prolapsed cord. All of a sudden it was en emergency. Just like that I was whisked away cut open and had a baby! WOW!

Good thing she is so cute. Charlotte Gayle 7 lbs 1 oz. 19 1/2 inches

Holding her new sister!

The Horman crew

Off to school!

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Thad and Avery are off to catch the bus.

Avery - kindergarten

Thad - 5th grade

Off they go!!!!!

Braxton primping!

Braxton - 8th grade

Everett Drive

2011-01-07T21:45:00.003-06:00

We are enjoying our new house! While Todd and I are working the kids have a blast in the pool!

Nauvoo

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In August 2010 we went to Nauvoo. We had a great time learning about church history and the pioneers.

Braxton, Thad and Avery by the mighty Mississippi River.

Learning how to make rope.

Wouldn't she make a darling pioneer girl!

We stayed in this cute log cabin while we were there.

Good bye Kimberly Drive!

2011-01-07T21:23:00.000-06:00

We bought a new house and had to sell our house on Kimberly Drive. We are so excited about the new house but it was hard to leave our house and many friends on Kimberly!

Spring Break 2010

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For spring break we went to San Antonio. Here we are at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.

Thad and Avery are getting ready to take off in their Wiggles airplane.

Braxton wanted his own plane. He felt much too comfortable in Wiggle's world!

Avery on the carousel.

Outside the Alamo.

The kids loved the Riverwalk.

Old San Juan

2010-02-03T11:20:00.005-06:00

We spent one of the days walking around and shopping in Old San Juan. It was really neat to see all of the old buildings and stuff.

The Beach in Puerto Rico

2010-02-03T11:15:00.002-06:00

I was sitting out by the beach reading and this guy came to say hello! He was a little bigger than the lizards we have in Texas!

Puerto Rico

2010-02-03T11:01:00.003-06:00

Todd and I went to Puerto Rico for our 15th anniversary. It was so fun! The weather was great and everything was so pretty. We stayed at the Hilton and they have some birds in the lobby. This guy was putting the bird away for the evening and I just had to get a picture.

These two pictures are the lobby of the hotel. It was all open to the outside, I guess when the temperature doesn't change much all year you can do that.

This was the view from our room. It was beautiful!

Bang Bang

2010-01-31T15:59:00.005-06:00

We had a real Texas style Christmas this year. Todd got a membership to the shooting range and Santa brought the boys some guns. We also got a bow. Fun! On Christmas day we went out to fire our weapons.

Todd and Thad are enjoying the day!

Avery is hanging out with the wildlife.

Thad! Watch out for that bear!!!!!!!

Christmas

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Fritz in his Christmas Snuggie

Shelli in her Christmas Snuggie

Avery and her giant doll. Thanks Eden!

yo-yo till you bleed

2010-01-31T15:49:00.004-06:00

For part of the Thanksgiving day fun we had a yo-yo competition. It was pretty intense. Avery and Eden performed an interpretive dance with the yo-yo. Alison also competed in the dance category. PaPa, Uncie Darryl, Todd,Braxton, and Thad all had some pretty good tricks to show. Can't wait to do it again. Yo-Yo or die!!!!!

Dallas Style Cattle Drive

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Avery and Eden loved spending time together. They were looking for cheese balls, on the hunt, roar!

Braxton has this one under control.

Go Tough Guy Thad!

Between the two of us I think we can take this one down.

RUN, Hormans RUN!

We had such a good time going up to Dallas for Thanksgiving. It was great to see all of the Pape family.

Lions and tigers and SNAKES oh my

2009-10-06T23:44:00.003-05:00

Thad was invited to a snake party at his friend's house. The snake man brought a ton of snakes for us to hold. Thad and Avery loved it. Thisssss little fella was rescued after hurricane Katrina he weighs about 30 pounds.

All Stars

2009-06-10T15:59:00.001-05:00

Thad was selected to be on the 9 year old all star team. He has been having a lot of fun and playing baseball non-stop.

Braxton is 12!!!!!!

2009-06-10T15:56:00.002-05:00

Can you believe it my little guy is twelve now! He had a great birthday. Him and his friend went to play mini golf, ride bumper boats, have a water war and eat cake!

little photographer

2009-06-10T15:52:00.001-05:00

Avery has taken up a new hobby. Here are a few of her pictures.

Pinewood Derby!

2009-06-10T15:47:00.002-05:00

So at church we had a pinewood derby for anyone. No rules! I was asked to build a car for the woman's organization. They told me they wanted it girly. Here she is! This is before we put the wheels on her. I thought she wouldn't be very fast after all pumps are not usually designed for speed. Much to everyone's surprise she took 2nd place!

Track meet

2009-06-10T15:42:00.002-05:00

Thad went to the Pearland district track meet for the softball throw. He got fourth in the district. This is his second year to represent his elementary school in the meet.

Baritone

2009-06-10T15:35:00.002-05:00

Brax started the school year playing the trumpet in his 6th grade band. In March his band teacher suggested that he try a new instrument. He tried out the baritone and it seemed to be a perfect match! He had to learn a couple of new skills but caught on very quickly! He just found out that he made the honors band for 7th grade playing the euphonium. (It is similar to the baritone only it has 4 valves instead of 3) He is the only 7th grader who was selected for honors band for this instrument! GO BRAX!!!!!

Austin

2009-04-27T13:39:00.002-05:00

Braxton had the opportunity with school to go to Austin for the future problem solvers state bowl. He had a great time. This is him with some of his friends at the mixer they had for the kids the night of the competition.
Here is a bigger view of the mixer. Kids from all over the great state of Texas having a great time!

While Braxton was at the competition we went to the Texas history museum. we had a good time and learned a lot.

Pick Your Nose

2009-04-27T13:27:00.002-05:00

So we went over to the Bakers' house for pizza night and she had these cups, on the package it said pick your nose and it had a variety of different noses to choose from. Here are Braxton and Avery with their picks. Thad's photo did not turn out. It is always fun at the Bakers'!!!!!!

Bows

2009-04-05T15:51:00.001-05:00

I have been on a bow making kick. I made one pair and just could not stop. I got an order for a pair at Thad's game last night. Back to the glue gun! Fun, Fun, Fun!

Our Little Friend

2009-04-05T15:44:00.002-05:00

The other day the kids came in the house and said that we had a tree frog on the front door. Living in Texas we are not strangers to many odd, slimy and sometime large critters visiting our home. This little guy was just curled up under the wreath on my front door.

2009-03-22T19:47:00.001-05:00

Saturday was such a beautiful day. We all worked outside to spruce up the yard. Here is the garden crew! Todd said this year he has the soil just right and he feels good about our vegetable season to come! We shall see!!!!

Shiver Me Timber!

2009-03-22T19:38:00.004-05:00

The other day Avery came down stairs in her pirate gear. So here we all are. You will now see a new flag flying at the Horman's house.

Game Time

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Thad got to pitch during the game. He did a great job!
He also played catcher.

Cowgirl!

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So Avery saw the bull and wanted to ride! She went first.
It was a bumpy ride.
She held on tight for the whole time!

Bull Rider!

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GOING

GOING
GONE!!!!!! Maybe next time your little sister could give you some pointers!

Opening Day!

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Here come the pee wee Cardinals!
Watching the banner parade! Notice Braxton's cast is gone!

Afternoon at the park!

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Birthday Boy!

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On Feb. 27 th my little Theodore turned NINE! Todd, Avery, and I went to the school and had lunch with him. That night after baseball practice we took him and his friend Travis to main event. They bowled and played laser tag! He had a blast!

Surprise!

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Playing Outside

2009-02-23T13:52:00.002-06:00

Here are the Horman kids playing outside. It was such a beautiful day! This is Braxton's cast. He will have it on for another 2 weeks. Avery wanted to dress up and ride her bike. She is pretty good without her training wheels.

December and January

2009-02-19T15:12:00.001-06:00

We had a really nice Christmas. We stayed at home and just relaxed. Jeff, Alison, and Eden came down the day after Christmas and spent a week with us. We had a lot of fun.
In January we had our first broken bone. Braxton was outside riding an electric scooter and fell. He walked in the house and said, "I just broke my wrist." Todd and I took one look and said "Yes, you did!" He broke both bones just above the wrist. He was very brave when he had to have an IV and when they set the bones. He is on the mend now and should be good in a few more weeks.
As you can see a broken bone doesn't stop you from work around here!

November

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In November we went to California for a Pape family reunion. Our family went a few days ahead of the rest due to Todd's work. We spent 10 days there and had a blast.

October

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We went over to the Baker's house for the annual Halloween bash. Thad was a pirate, Braxton a silly string maniac, Avery a ladybug and I was a glampire. Todd was and still is a grumpy old man (Ha Ha).

Fresh Start

2009-02-19T14:39:00.002-06:00

So I really did have good intentions with the whole blog thing. I guess I got a little side tracked by a visit from Ike. Around here you will hear people say, " I don't know what's wrong, ever since the hurricane nothing has been the same." So that is going to be my excuse for the several month delay in starting up this blog. I think I am totally justified in using that excuse and until I no longer see blue tarps on the rooftops I am sticking to it. I will try to fill in the gap with highlights of the past few months.

Blog Junkie

2008-09-10T16:41:00.000-05:00

So I have a confession, I have become a blog junkie! Since Todd has been in China I have had more computer time than I have in a while and I learned how to search for cool stuff on this blogspot thing. Due to my new addiction Avery is sporitn' a really cute new hair do and I have cool projects lined up to keep myself busy for the next ten years or so. Now that I can follow a bunch of my friends lives via the Blog I figured I should join in. So we shall see how this goes!