Ponte Vedre, Fla.

This was the sun rise from our balcony the first morning overlooking the Atlantic ocean.

The weather was beautiful for our day cruise.

On the bus to one of our dinner activities.

Can you see the Eagle in it's nest?

The Eco tour was really cool!

4th grade Nasa Field Trip

Total of 8 hours in a bus filled with 4th graders! Whopee!

Ryan really didn't want to take this picture with me.

I think his friends were watching.

World's Strongest 4th grader!!!

Flight similator

Our volcano activity was pretty cool!

Annual Bex Boys Crabbing Trip

1st cousin, Trey

Just enough for dinner!

Never too young to learn how to boil crabs!

I guess this is "the one that got away"...

(look on top of the white pole)

Easter, 2009

Pocking Eggs! A Bex family tradition. Even the grown ups get in on this activity!!!

Just a few things...

Logan and his best friend, Chris right after their 6th grade band concert.

Logan, our son with the bright ideas. Actually made his own jet pack from a fire extinquisher and pvc pipe. (Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the extinquisher that belongs in the kitchen!)

Guess some kids never do outgrow sleeping with their bottle! Ha! Just kidding. This is another crazy idea from Ryan that he wanted to sleep with his Mountain Dew bottle!

I'm pretty sure this is what you call a bad hair day!

Ready for the big league... State Social Studies Fair!

Logan's first track meet. He is in the middle in red.

Ryan's first track meet. He is the one with the long stride in the middle.

Spring

Just a really good picture of Ryan.

Just a really good picture of Logan.

The worst part about spring soccer, is it's not REALLY spring weather yet!

(Logan is in blue trying to stay warm before the game.)

Just hanging out before the parish social studies fair.

1st place at the parish social studies fair. Awesome Job!

Ryan (left) with Shallon and Jarius.

Beware, killer rabbit - aka Floppy

Mammaw sure is proud of her Logan!

Sharing a father-son chuckle.

Brayden wouldn't smile for the camera, but he didn't mind showing me his gum.

Happy 12th birthday!

$1,000,000 for your birthday! How cool is that?

Logan (left) with 2 of his good friends, Chris and John.

I think Ryan spent more time falling down (intentionally) than he did skating.

Couple of Events

January 31, 2009

Joel J. Moreau Skeet Shoot/Auction

Houma, LA

This is the Moreau family whose husband/father/grand-father passed away from cancer last year. They held the first annual Joel J. Moreau Skeet Shoot and asked me to be a part of this special event. The turnout was phenomenal. I've never seen so many pick-up trucks and 4 wheelers in one place! I was able to help with the auction part of the day which raised a ton of money to benefit the American Cancer Society. I was especially proud to help since my mother-in-law recently passed away from cancer as well.

January 26, 2009

Challenge Day at H.L.Bourgeious High School

Gray, LA

Although I don't have any pictures I'd like to share a little information with you about Challenge Day. I was so excited to be able to visit my high school alma mater and to volunteer for this special day which hopefully had a positive impact on the 100 - 130 students who attended. Challenge Day is a program that helps teens with experiences that they go through every day. It dealt with everything from drugs and alcohol to suicide, peer pressure, and anything else you can imagine. It was quite an emotional day for all of us. The program has been highlighted on Oprah and you can get more information at http://www.challengeday.org/.

Fun Stuff

If any of you enjoy comedians, listen to Brian Regan. He is funny and clean enough for the whole family. He's great to listen to in the car on long trips too. Rusty and I saw him in Baton Rouge last year and wanted to bring the boys, but the closest place he was touring was Beaumont, Tx. So we decided to take a little road trip.

Ever wonder what else there is to do in Beaumont, Texas? Well, try out this alligator farm. Even though it was too cold to really see any of the big alligators, they brought out this little guy for us to hold.

Everyone had a turn to hold a real live alligator. (All be it small it still had teeth!)

We couldn't let the kids have all of the fun.

Yes, even I got into the fun. What you don't know is that this little guy was born with his jaw out of place so he physically can't close it. Therefore, no biting possible!!!

Logan is showing his magician side in this picture. This was called the "Floating card" trick. I have several nights of taping his magic shows if any of you would like to view them. For a small fee of course. Just kidding!

Logan decided to play basketball this year. He is #22 at the free throw line. I wonder if that ball went in?

Nothing but net!

It's Social Studies Fair time again. Unfortunately Ryan's classmates, Shalon and Jarius, had already left when I remembered to take this picture. They won 1st place at their school and now have to compete in the parish fair at the end of Feb.

Thankfully we still enjoy a quick trip to the Acadiana zoo every now and then. I think Logan was trying to impress some cute girls that were walking by.

Awe... What a sad lion!