RoughRider Game to Celebrate Preston's 7th Birthday!

We joined the Cutler's for the last RoughRider game of the season for a little fun, but also to help celebrate Preston's 7th birthday. We had lawn seats so the kiddos could move around and Preston got to be a junior announcer at the game. Got some pictures of his name on the jumbo-tron as well as some pictures from when he was on the field announcing. Very cool!

Preston's Name on the Big Screen Preston as Junior Announcer
Trevor, Skylar & Preston
Skylar and Daddy (Is she a Daddy's girl, or what??)
Skylar & Trevor

Celebrate Smith!!

Every Friday, the children at Smith Elementary have a pep-rally where they say the pledge, sing songs and celebrate a great week of school. This past Friday August 29th was the Kindergartener's first Celebrate Smith. It was alot of fun and Trevor enjoyed finding "sister" in the big crowd. Enjoy some pictures!

Principal Kimball addresses the children.

It was like "Where's Waldo"!! Can you find Skylar?

Can you find Maggie?
Lydia waves as her class sits down.
Trevor on Tanya's shoulders trying to find Skylar in the crowd-he finally did and was so excited!

FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN

Hello friends and family!! We had a great 1st and 2nd day of Kindergarten. Yesterday the kids went for about 2 hours with the parents and got acclimated to the school/their class/their teacher, etc. Today they had their first full day of school from 8:00am-3:00pm. Skylar's teacher, Ms. Beakley, could not be more precious. She is smart, cute and clearly loves the children. Thanks for all the prayers for Skylar to have a smooth transition to "big kid" school. Here are some pictures to enjoy.

Skylar and her best buddy Maggie are in the same class!!

Skylar, Maggie & Lydia Aug 25th
Skylar & Maggie on first full day of Kindergarten-Aug 26th

Skylar at her desk!

Trevor got a new Haircut-A Mohawk!!

Trevor and Skylar got their hair cut today and our little man was very excited about his new "do"! He wanted to show Mimi and so I said I would post the pictures for him (not that he really understands that!!) Hope everyone is well!

Love,
Susan

Trevor being proud of his haircut!

Sister loving on her brother.
She actually posed for me!!

The Construction of the Craft/Scrapbook Room

Well, this is my beloved Scrapbook Room and for all my dear friends/family who find themselves to be "crafty"-please consider this an open invitation to come and play! I was originally using part of the upstairs room, but quickly outgrew it as I continued to accumulate scrapbooking stuff. This room was the brain-child of my wonderful husband, who thought this would be a better idea that using a partial space of an existing bedroom. And I am so glad he thought of it. Now I have my own area, the kids have their own playroom upstairs and no one is displaced when they come to visit because they still have a fully functioning guest room. We loved our builder - he also layed tile in our laundry room and both bathrooms. If you need any home improvement work done, I can highly recommend him.

Thanks for looking-Hope to see you here soon!

Love,

Sus

Construction of the Attic

The Construction Team-Guillermo & His Boys

Guillermo Jr. & Jose (Trevor's Buds)

The Finished Product-A Craft/Scrapbook Room
and Office Space

Happy Birthday Skylar & Trevor

Trevor turned 3 on June 13th and Skylar turned 5 on July 31st. We decided to have a joint party on Saturday, July 26th at the house. It was a lot of fun-Todd's parents came as well as Todd's Aunt Dee and Uncle Milton. Judy and Bob loaned us a Bounce house, but it was so hot the kids really stayed in the house most of the time. The kids were very excited to see all their friends, as well as both sets of grandparents. Grandad Bailey made Trevor a special rocking horse and Skylar got a scooter from Mimi, along with a lot of other generous gifts. But mostly we just love our friends and family and feel very blessed to have you in our lives.

Good buddies Maggie, Skylar & Preston

Skylar can't get enough of "Baby Evan"

The rocking horse made by Grandad Bailey

Skylar blowing out her candles

Mama and her Boy Trevor

Cowboy Trevor

Pretty Girl Skylar

Disney 2008

We went to Disney the first week of May 2008! What a great trip. Todd and I called it "Boot Camp". We went from early morning until the parks closed and even took advantage of the "Magic Hours" where each night a particular park was opened later than usual. The kids had the best time and we can't wait to go back soon (ok-maybe a few years from now). Enjoy the pictures.

EPCOT our First Day

Minnie Mouse at EPCOT

Skylar/Trevor at EPCOT

Skylar, Jasmine, Trevor & Aladdin at Magic Kingdom!

Family Picture at Hollywood Studios (Formerly known as MGM)

Welcome to the Computer Age

Well, you would think that being the wife of a computer programmer (aka Director of Development Operations) I would be well entrenched in the world of high technology!! Not so! Finally I have decided to enter the world of blogging. Mostly it is to share pictures of the kiddos with friends and family who are far away and keep everyone in the loop. I hope you enjoy some recent pictures of the kids and I look forward to hearing from everyone on how your family is doing. Love much,

The Sutherland Family

Family picture at Dinosaur Park in Glenrose, TX.

Skylar at the Roughrider Game!

Cousins visiting at the San Antonio Zoo.

Skylar & Trevor at Radisson in San Antonio.

Skylar/Trevor dig for fossils at DinoWorld!!