A Decade Ago

It's so hard to believe that a decade ago, Corey & I brought a beautiful baby girl into this world! Madison turned 10 years old on November 18th. We had a little surprise party for Maddie on the eve of the big day! While Maddie was in the shower the boys and I got everything ready. The boys were more excited about surprising Maddie, than Maddie was excited about being surprised! They each had their own cupcake with a candle to blow out, and then Maddie opened her presents. It was a nice little pre-birthday celebration!

You Can't Catch Me

The kid's Great-Aunt Genean gave them a gingerbread decorating kit. They couldn't wait to get their gingerbread boys and girls out to decorate them! This was the first time they could decorate on their own-and it was niiiice! I didn't have to help them at all, and the gingerbread boys and girls looked great. Ok, good enough to eat.

State Bound...almost

The Lorena Leopard football team was State Bound, and played their first playoff game in Corsicana against the Brownsboro Bears on November 14th. Corey decided that taking a limo filled with 15 kids to the game was a fabulous idea, so that's exactly what we did. Our 3 kids, along with 12 others and 8 adults, loaded up the Hummer limo and headed to Corsicana. We stopped at CiCi's Pizza for a pre-game meal and then got our game-faces on. We even had a huddle and a

"Go Leopards" in CiCi's. The "Go Leopards" helped because they won! The kids had a blast at the game and in the limo!

Slade, Cole, Jackson, Cason, Cage, & Paige in the limo

Luke Smith, McCray, Luke Davis, Cason, Jackson, & Cole in the limo

Cason, Maddie, & Jackson at the game

The Leopards continued their winning streak until the Quarterfinal game against the Carthage Bulldogs. They fought a hard battle, but lost 28-21. It was a great season-way to go Leopards!!!

Maddie's Awards

Maddie had her first award ceremony in 4th grade on Friday, November 6th. She received the Super Speller Award, the All A & 1 B Honor Roll Award, and she was recognized for making the UIL Creative Writing team. Way to go Maddie girl!!!

Trip to Jerry's World

Corey scored 4 tickets to the Dallas Cowboys vs Seattle Seahawks football game at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium, also known as Jerry's World, from his boss. The Crenshaw's went to the game with us. The stadium was absolutely amazing, and watching the Boys play wasn't bad either, especially Jason Witten:)

Another Casonism...

Cason was beat-boxing in the backseat of the car one afternoon. Beat-boxing is not something that anyone in our family does on a regular basis, or ever for that matter. So, I asked him "Where did you learn to do that?" He very confidently replied "No one taught me, I'm an original, word!" All I could do was laugh, and type what he said on my phone so I wouldn't forget!

Game Day

All of the Cowboys' games were at 8:00 on Saturday mornings, so there wasn't much preparation for game day. Usually a quick trip to the Minit Stop for some doughnuts was the pre-game meal, and any mental preparations were made on the 5-minute trip from our house to the field. Even though our game day was unlike most, the Cowboys tied for 1st place in the 5-6 year old flag division. Way to go Cowboys!!!

Here is Cason (#99) doing his job as a lineman!

Jackson's position changed often-sometimes he was quarterback, sometimes a receiver,
& other times a running back.

Cason is a man on a mission!