For some reason today the blog site got a spike in a views and while trying to see why I was stumbling through Google and found this link from back in 2012. Our third year of fund raising for LLS.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/10/05/cancer-survivor-sells-lemonade-to-help-other-kids/
We miss the days of the lemonade stands with our incredible friends and neighbors.
As long as I am pulling up old photos of Mason, here is one of Cutler getting ready to be a hockey player when he was 2 1/2. As well as a photo bomb by the late and great Tau.
While baseball is starting to move into the post season for Mason we are about to start a summer season of indoor flag football. So sitting at my desk today working and thinking about how in the world I am going to coach this team of first time players, up popped this photo. This was from April 2008 and Mason was about 2 1/2 years old. The ball was almost as tall as him.
As we are getting closer to the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs, one that if the season ended today would start with my beloved Blues against the Stars, I found these pictures from a Stars outing from last year where Mason hoisted his own version of the cup. I suppose this is a TBT version of Wednesday, but hey, it’s been over three months now and our days aren’t all that exciting on a regular basis.
Just looking through some of my old photos and this reminded me of the times when we couldn’t peel this costume from his body. In fact, this was him going to bed on that particular evening.
I really don’t have anything for today, so I am relying on it being TBT and thinking to how much Cutler talked nonsense to me today while I was trying to work and he was ditching school with a “sore” throat, that he later admitted was not real just so he could have a day off from school, made me think of this video from July 2010 of him talking crazily on his changing table. I hope it brings at least half the smile that it brought to my heart.
On Saturday night I took the boys to see the Harlem Globetrotters and on the way down somehow the discussion of bullies came into play and Mason started to explain to Cutler that if a bully was to bother him he should take three steps back and tell the teacher and to never confront the bully. After Mason gave him the standard rules, Cutler made up, or at least I hope he is making it up, a story of a bully at school named Shark. Mason told him that if the teacher doesn’t take care of him, he will have a word with him the next time he comes to pick up Cutler with me. These are moments that I dream of happening where Mason shows how much he cares about his brother and is willing to look out for him. It made me think of one of my favorite pictures and given it is Turn Back Thursday or whatever TBT stands for, I thought I would share. This was the boys running through the sprinklers at Nana and Papa Herman’s house in July of 2010. When the boys are at each other’s throats, I try to think back to moments like this to remind me that they do actually love each other. 🙂
And here are a few more of my favorite pictures from that day.
A lot of people on The Facebook like to use Thursdays to “turn back the clock” or something along those lines as an opportunity to post pictures from the past, so perhaps I will start doing the same on here. Today I will turn the clock back all the way to November 28, 2013. While celebrating Thanksgiving back home, O’Fallon, for the first time in many years everyone migrated outside to play in the leaves and get their family pictures taken. In fact, this is where we got the boys’ pictures for the New Year’s card that we sent out. (side note: it was new year’s as we procrastinated too much to get them out as Christmas. At least this way it stood out and probably got more attention) So back to the story, Cody (the oldest grandson) seldom shows emotion other than a total lack of interest and this is why I was so shocked to find him willing to play along for the camera.
Team Fricke 