Connor's Interview

Connor Daniel Rapp
Age 11
December 29, 2014

Who is your favorite superhero?  Iron Man

Who is a fictional or non-fictional hero?  Fictional: Tintin / Non-fictional: Abraham Lincoln

What is your favorite kind of hat?  Bowler hat

At what age are you officially grown up?  20

Who is your favorite singer/ group?  TobyMac

Who is your favorite author?  Herge'

What is your favorite movie?  The Adventures of Tintin and Big Hero 6

What is your favorite color?  Red

If you were stranded on an island with only three things, what would you choose as your items?  Vegetation, Water Purifier and a Genie

What is your favorite animal?  Turtle

What is the best part about living in Houston?  The restaurants

If you could make an app, what would the app be called? What would be its purpose?   Food fight, to show that unhealthy food wins sometimes

What is your favorite part of the day?  Lunch

Who is your best friend?  Cole Engram

What is your favorite restaurant in Houston?  Taste of Texas

What is worse...being stuck in a box with snakes or having to wear church clothes?  Church clothes - (just kidding)

What is your favorite Blue Bell ice cream flavor?  Cookies and Cream

What do you want to be when you grow up?  An author

What is your favorite Bible story or passage?  Romans 6:23

If you couldn't have your name, what name would you choose?  Tim

What do you like best about TCS?  The Christian environment

Where do you hope we go on our next family trip?  Disney cruise to somewhere hot and far away on either the Disney Dream or Disney Fantasy

What is the best thing about being in a big family?  Entertainment

What is the hardest thing about being in a big family?  More things to clean

How has God gifted you?  He has given me flexibility

Describe yourself in three words: Flexible, Funny and Handsome

Carter's Interview

Carter Samuel Rapp
Age 9
December 29, 2014

Who is your favorite superhero?  Rocket Raccoon

Who is a fictional/ non-fictional hero?  Peyton Manning/ RG III/ Cam Newton

What is your favorite kind of hat?  Ball cap

At what age are you officially grown up?  X

Who is your favorite singer/ group?  I like the song Immortals from the movie Big Hero 6

Who is  your favorite author? Maybe Lincoln Pierce

What is your favorite movie?  So far...Big Hero 6

What is your favorite color?  Lime green or orange or blue...something like that

If you were stranded on an island with only 3 things, what would you choose as your items?  Eternal life, food and drink

What is your favorite animal? Something in the cat family or a reptile

What is the best part about living in Houston?  There is so much to do

If you could make an app, what would the app be called? What would its purpose be?  Food fight or something like that. Build the best Empire and destroy other empires.

What is you favorite part of the day?  The fun parts

Who is your best friend?  Jeremiah Anderson, Trevor Harbuck, Jake Engram

What is your favorite restaurant in Houston?  Buffalo Wild Wings

What is worse...being stuck in a box with snakes or having to wear church clothes?  Being stuck in a box with snakes.

What is your favorite Blue Bell ice cream flavor?  I don't know, but not Red Velvet

What do you want to be when you grow up?  NFL quarterback

What is your favorite Bible story/ passage?  Samson, I think

If you couldn't have your name, what name would you choose?  I don't know. You gave me a good name. But maybe Harper or Finn.

What do you like best about TCS?  Latin...and everything else

Where do you hope we go on our next family trip?  Hawaii

What is the best thing about being in a big family? You have siblings to play with

What is the hardest thing about being in a big family?  It is hard to get along with siblings

How has God gifted you?  He has given me a good arm

Describe yourself in three words.  Different, crazy, Rapp

End of the Year Interviews

Every so often I like to interview the boys. It is sort of like a time capsule for me. I save their answers and can look back to see what they liked at different ages. The boys love it when I do this! So, to wrap up the year I decided that we would do another interview. Tonight I am posting Colton's answers.

Colton Josiah Rapp
Age 7
December 29, 2014

Who is your favorite superhero?  Thor

Who is a fictional/ non-fictional hero?  Iron Man

What is your favorite kind of hat?  Bowler hat

At what age are you officially grown up?  18

Who is your favorite singer?  Britt Nicole

Who is your favorite author?  X

What is your favorite movie?  Big Hero 6

What is your favorite color?  Gold

If you were stranded on an island with only three things, what would you choose as your items?
   Food, drink and a house with stuff in it

What is your favorite animal?  Snake

What is the best thing about living in Houston?  That there are awesome restaurants

If ou could make an app, what would the app be called? What would its purpose be?  ProBall, the app would be a football game

What is your favorite part of the day?  Playing football outside with dad

Who is your best friend? Colt Hurley, Dylan Jenkins and Max Engram

What is your favorite restaurant in Houston?  Taste of Texas

What is worse - being stuck in a box with snakes or having to wear church clothes?  Being stuck in a box with snakes

What is your favorite flavor of Blue Bell ice cream?  Cookie dough

What do you want to be when you grow up?  Pro football player

What is your favorite Bible story/ passage?  The plagues

If you couldn't have your name, what name would you choose?  Colt

What do you like best about TCS?  Meeting new friends

Where do you hope we go on our next family vacation?  To Branson to visit the Engrams

What is the best thing about being in a big family?  Having brothers and sisters

What is the hardest thing about being in a big family?  Having to do lots of jobs

How has God gifted you?  I'm good at football

Describe yourself with three words. Smart, fun, awesome!

Some recent pictures

Colton, Carter and their friend George in the balcony at church.

Sweet Collins eating lunch at Lupe Tortilla for Hunter's 13th birthday.

Christmas Eve at GBC. The Rapp kids were most of the cast for the nativity play.

Holden just hanging out at church.

Collins and her friend AnnaKate at the Nutcracker.

The Little Ones

Hanging out at church - Collins and her buddy Carson

Holden loves HEB tortillas.

Collins and her friend AnnaKate had fun at Happy Playland.

Extra pics from Disney

My sweet sister-in-law Nikki just sent me some extra pictures from our trip to Disney World and the Disney Cruise. I want them in my blog book, so they needed to go on the blog.

Time to head home

Friday, November 28

We ate an early breakfast on the ship and then disembarked by 9:00 AM. We had several hours to kill before our flight so we played and ate at the airport before moving to our gate. Holden rode the people mover - and loved it!

So much fun!

Relaxing with our luggage.

All the cousins played a game of mum-ball. It is called mum-ball because you aren't allowed to speak while you are playing.

Collins hung out with Uncle David.

When we finally made it home Friday night we were all happy to be back in Houston. Here are some pictures from days at home since the trip. Collins modeled her pajamas with a winter hat.

Cute picture of the little ones as they played in the back of our Expedition.

Holden has been giving extra love to these Mickey and Minnie dolls ever since we returned home from Disney. He carried them around for a whole day.

At Sea

Thursday, November 27

Our final day on the cruise ship was Thankgiving Day. We sailed all day and thus had lots of time to explore the ship and take advantage of all the activities that Disney offered. We ate breakfast at Cabanas and then the boys headed to shuffleboard while I took Collins to meet more Disney Princesses. She was happy to meet Princess Tiana, Rapunzel and Cinderella, but she drew the line at Belle and Ariel. She wouldn't even approach them. I guess she had had enough.

 After meeting the Princesses, we joined up with the boys and had ice cream! The boys headed to the Oceaneer Club so that they could play. The ship had such great areas dedicated to kids. Collins and Holden enjoyed Andy's Room.

 For lunch we left Connor, Carter and Colton in the kid area and we went to the Royal Garden. Holden was Mr. Busy! He was throwing forks, biting packets of butter, spilling water...he wore us out.

 And we were still sailing...

After lunch we took family pictures. This is Grandad and Baba with all of the grandkids who were on the cruise.

Dinner was yummy...but I missed some of the usual dishes that I like to have for Thanksgiving. 

This picture is such a fun memory! While on the boat our waiters switched restaurants each night so that they were always with our family so we formed a relationship. One of our waiters, Suri, played a game with Holden each night that was so cute. Suri would press on the table, the cup, the plate with one finger while he squeaked a small toy in his other hand. Holden would look at Suri, smile great big and then take his little finger and press right where Suri had pressed. Holden would bite hook, line and sinker every time Suri did it. I loved it! It always made me laugh. This was Holden trying to get his cup to squeak. 

After dinner we dropped the little ones at the nursery and we went to see Big Hero 6 with the boys. It was a great evening!

Castaway Cay

Wednesday, November 26 was our day at Disney's private island, Castaway Cay. We had lovely weather and the island is packed with fun things to do. I imagined that we would head back to the ship soon after lunch, but we stayed until they told us we had to get back on board. Mickey, Minnie and Goofy were there to greet us in their cruise wear.

An autograph for Connor. 

 And a picture with a pose.

The Rapp family had rented a cabana on the island. It was our home for the day and it included drinks and snacks, towels, sunscreen, sand toys, rentals for bikes and snorkeling gear and a personal concierge. It was lovely. That is Colton on the porch.

I love this picture. We took it just after arriving at Casataway Cay. Everyone looks relaxed and happy.

Holden enjoyed the beach and the water...though it felt a bit strange at first.

Hmmm, how does sand taste?

 The boys tried snorkeling.

Jon Riley was very kind to Holden as they played on the beach.

Wrestling and tubes - lots of fun for the boys. There were nine boy cousins on the trip and they had such a great time together.

 Relaxing in the hammock.

 The weather looks cloudy in this picture, but we did have sunshine.

Getting ready to leave the cabana and head back to the boat.

Collins must have been telling Townes something very important.

Todd snapped this picture of Holden as we were on the tram. It made everyone laugh.

 Discussions as we waited to board.

 Can you please take my bracelet off?

 Showered and getting ready for dinner.

After dinner we went to a comedy/ juggling show. The comedian was very funny, but one part of the show in particular just had the kids roaring with laughter.

 This was genuine, hysterical laughing.

 What a great day at Castaway Cay!