Top 50 Things of 2017

1. Skiing Deer Valley with the Kalinas.
2. An amazing trip to the Grand Caymans.
3. Brian turns 40!
4. Spring Break San Antonio, Enchanted Rock, Pedernales Falls with the Rushings and a visit with the Whitesides.
5. Mother / Son weekend to JW Marriott including Six Flags.
6. St. Louis with the Katterhenrys for Grandpas 90^th Birthday.
7. Moving back into our remodeled new and improved home!
8. Halloween with a Hippie, Wonderwoman, and a cute little Mad Hatter.
9. Great Gatsby auction and getting dressed up with Brian.
10. A last Go Texan Day with all three kids at RCE.
11. That time we had a pet turtle for a few days that wouldn’t get out of our pool!
12. Hurricane Harvey!!!  Friends staying with us, helping our neighborhood, watching our community come together.
13. A visit from Great Grandpa to Houston to see the kids play football and soccer.
14. Houston getting snow in December 2017...first time since Jacob was 3!
15. Brian's year of international travel!
16. Spending Thanksgiving week in Oklahoma with family.
17. Visits from lots of family over the Christmas break.
18. Annie’s 8^th birthday painting party and sleepover.
19. Annie’s front tooth finally appearing after being knocked out 3.5 years ago.
20. Watching Annie hit a home run on the Force.
21. Annie’s soccer team winning  the Silver Bracket Championship.
22. Annie loving basketball because her Dad coached her.
23. Seeing Annie as a flower in the 1^st grade play.
24. That time Annie won a dodgeball tournament with three other boys and won a Drone.
25. The other time Annie won a coloring contest and won a $100 and a ton of art supplies and her artwork on Brian’s work calendar.
26. Annie's dance recital of two jazz and hip hop songs!
27. Daddy / Daughter Indian Princesses for Brian and Annie at the Dash game and camping.
28.  Taking girls to the OSU vs Texas A&M college softball game in College Station.
29. Gwyn playing a candy flute in the 4^th grade Nutcracker.
30. An amazing summer Heat softball season with Gwyn.
31. Gwyn’s painting birthday party and wrapping sleepover.
32. Gwyn playing basketball on the Storm.
33. Seeing Gwyn’s light years of improvement with playing soccer for TFC.
34. Gwyn doing non-stop stunting and making up dances to songs.
35. The year of making epic slime every chance Gwyn got!
36. An overnight trip to Austin for Gwyn's 4th grade field trip.
37. Lots of swimming and dance parties for Gwyn and friends at our house.
38. A very fun Force softball season getting to coach both Gwyn and Annie on the same team...with the help of the best scorekeeper there ever was!
39. Jacob graduating 5^th grade from RCE.
40. Jacob turning 11 with some wiffleball, basketball, swimming birthday party.
41. Jacob’s love for Texas de Brasil.
42. Watching Jacob pitch and catch for Spartan baseball.
43. Jacob playing on the Spurs for AL Basketball.
44. Jacob’s first season of tackle football on the Hawks and winning Most Improved Player.
45. Jacob going to middle school!
46. The most epic World Series game ever...Game 5!
47. Jacob growing up so fast, getting older, more mature, getting a phone, slow down time!
48. The time Jacob almost got to see Kyrie Iriving play the Rockets but tickets purchased for wrong location...oops!
49. Non-stop basketball and wiffle ball at our house for Jacob and his buddies.
50. A year of making memories with our precious kids!