The Bethancourts

In August we celebrated our second annual Mick-Piney-Court Galveston trip. Shannon & Derek were so kind to invite our and another family to their beach house in Galveston.  Unfortunately Lesl...

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As the title of this post suggests, here we go. I've got to get summer out of the way before school starts next week!! This was one evening when, even though it was hotter than hot, Kyle and t...

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This is a long post....sorry! Trying to make up for lost time and document a few little details about the kiddos personalities that have had me smiling lately. Tonight as John and Anna were bat...

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In July our little fam traveled to College Station to celebrate Granny's 80th birthday! What a milestone, Granny! 1 loving husband, 3 children, 5 grandchildren, 9 great-granchildren and 2 great ...

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Meet John's "Quiet Time" friends.... pictured from left to right (Dale, a working class farmer; Firefighter Gus; Firefighter Rupert; and Firefigther Gus' twin, Rus) Ah, thank you, Ole Kirk ...

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School will start soon and Anna is out-growing her little mary-jane style Target tennies that I can't find being sold anywhere anymore! So I bought some Tiny Tom's  as her back to school "athlet...

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Anna has become quite the song bird. She loves to sing songs she learns at school or that we sing to her. I picked her up from the YMCA child care and the worker commented that she would just sin...

http://thebethancourts.blogspot.com/2011/07/amazing-grace-by-anna-bee.html

The summer is flying by. I haven't had much time to post here. We started off the summer with John attending Warrior Prince Academy with several little friends of his. John absolutely loved ...

http://thebethancourts.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer-and-such.html

I don't know about you but around our house the summer months foster a lot of "togetherness" with my kids (*insert crazed smile here*). I love our children but it is easy for me to slip into ne...

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Our neighbors hosted a neighborhood-wide Crawfish Boil last month. The last time I attempted to eat crawfish I was middle school-age visiting my friend, Veronica's, family in New Orleans. They...

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John and Anna did swim lessons (aka water survival boot camp) with Ms. Glendy earlier this month. She was highly recommended by friends and apparently is so popular I got one of the last few ...

http://thebethancourts.blogspot.com/2011/05/swim-lessons-summer-2011.html

After Easter I realized I needed to regroup quickly to plan the kiddos' joint birthday parties. So behind! I wanted it to be nice but low maintenance. I ordered some very cute invites from Pink...

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So of course on Monday morning I was scrambling (as usual) to get the kids off to school when I realized it was Pet Day at MDO. Yikes! 20 minutes until we must leave and we have no pet for the Pe...

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Notice there's not much text these days, mostly pictures.... Mammaw requested some Aggie pictures of the kids together so I had to share my favorites. Although I wasn't able to get pictures o...

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We traveled to the great city of College Station for Easter Sunday. We went to services at Central Baptist Church in Bryan. Chris Osbourne's sermon was fantastic. He recounted the events of the...

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You'll remember our 2010 Harvest documented here The Farmers Bethancourt were at it again this spring.... The players: (not pictured) HARD WORKING DAD who planted the seeds, watered, watche...

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"Before you ever took a breath Long before the world began...... Of all the wonders He possessed There was one more precious.... .....You're beautiful You are treasured, you are s...

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Today has been a challenge from the beginning. John and Anna have been up in each other's business....nothing too unusual, just the regular stuff.... After Anna went down for her nap after lu...

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As John approaches his fourth birthday I find myself realizing just how big my little baby has gotten. Sometimes I look at old videos of John from even just 6 months ago and I see a different ...

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Well, I guess we've been busy since the new year. It's already March and the blog has suffered. We've been enjoying time outdoors and enjoying having Kyle at home while he transitions jobs. Kyle ...

http://thebethancourts.blogspot.com/2011/03/january-to-march-recap.html

Back in September I traveled to Round Top, TX for the semi-annual antiques/junk fair. I have searched high and low for some cheap Louis salon chairs to redo. I looked on craigslist and at garag...

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Ok, finally here is a post about our February 7th anniversary (!!) vacation to Cabo San Lucas. However, I'm back-dating it so it shows up in order on the blog. After staying at the Capella Ixt...

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FIRST, I noticed the trail of destruction (crumpled green foil on the floor)....  ....then I spotted the culprit..... .....caught RED handed....with chocolate all over her face..... ...

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John hasn't taken a regular nap since the end of last summer (boo hiss). Instead of naps we now institute "quiet time". Quiet time for John means playing by himself in the office/playroom, wh...

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FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS, WE HOPE YOU EXPERIENCE A WONDERFUL 2011   FILLED WITH BLESSINGS, HOPE, JOY, AND WONDERFUL MEMORIES. DESPITE THE SADNESS OF RECENT WEEKS, I AM HOPEFUL FOR WHAT THE ...

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