Our week

I am trying to keep this up to date – although everyone that knows me, knows this won’t happen.  Anyway, almost no pictures, sorry.  We went to the Renaissance Festival with Kathie and her kids and nanny, Ashley and Sammi T.  We had a wonderful time but Kathie had the camera – I forgot mine.  She blogged – go check it out.

Nathan played their final regular season  football game yesterday. They ended the season 6-3.  Not bad for a team that over 50% of the kids had not played football before and some of the teams they played where HUGE!  I am talking 230 lbs. players huge and they were 10!  They played  the Magnolia playoffs – they were first place and they played the 2nd place team and beat them.  It was a good game, hard fought and we won 6 – 0.  On the 12th, we play the TOC (something to do with Champions) and play actually a two day tournament except we are only playing on Saturday.

Nathan is #60.  At the beginning of the season they were able to pick their own number and that was Daddy’s number when he played in Jr. High.  Nathan is a lineman.  He keeps getting matched against these huge kids.  Saturday, he was double teamed by two kids that were bigger than I am.

Pep talk after the game.  The coaches are really good at motivating the kids.  It has been a long season (July until November 12th) and I for one am glad it is over but he has learned a lot about sportsmanship and football and that is what it is all about.

St. Felipe de Austin

Our first history field trip for the year was near Houston.  It actually is very close to Sealy.  It is the first place that Stephen F. Austin brought the first 300 to help settle Texas.  We had a good trip and it was worth the hour drive.  The kids really enjoyed it.  It is a new historical site and Nathan was excited to find that a Sugarland Scout troop had done an eagle project and built benches around some of the natural sites.  The kids both took pictures – Nathan with his camera and Mandy with mine.

A statue of Stephen F. Austin.  It has been a long time since I have studied Texas history and it was interesting to learn about this chapter of history.  The settlers were from Missouri and at the time, Missouri had been settled by Spain and so many of the Missourians were Anglo- American Spanish citizens.  That is why the governor of Mexico allowed Moses Austin, Stephen’s father to come to Texas.  They had already pledged loyalty to Spain.

Another Texas statue at the site.  In the background is the small museum, which at one time had been a store.

 

 

 

 

   One of the benches that was an eagle project for this historic site.  Below is the tree that was there when the settlement was established and the cement box on the right bottom is a well that was dug during the settlements time.

  The museum and the curator who told us about the site.    Coins of the time period.

 

 

 

 

 

The flags that have hung over Texas.  There are five, can you name them?

Stephen F. Austin’s cabin.  It is interesting, how people lived in such a small place and think of how large our homes are now.

We had a good time and learned that the reason that the settlement or any remains of the settlement (both houses were moved from different spots) was that Samuel Houston ordered the burning of the city as Santa Anna’s troop marched through so that there would be no supplies for the Mexican army.  It must of been hard to burn your home after working so hard to build it.

We next went to a park – Stephen F. Austin Park and had lunch.  There were a set of trees (I don’t know what kind) that wove themselves around each other.  It was rather bizarre and we tried to take pictures but I don’t know how effective the pictures will be at displaying what we saw.

Having lunch. See the darker branches?

 

 

 

 

It was a good first field trip.