Summertime Fun !!

Let's say it LOUD & PROUD...Swim Team is OVER for another season and it was Good. It's July 5th and the girls know how many days till school starts...They LOVE school. They never fight it...they love to learn (This mom is praying really hard that it always is that way). Delynn did very well this swim season with being the only 15 yr old girl in the 15-18 age group. Mary Ashley took off time to and really perfected her strokes the 9-10 girl group is HUGE so competiting was out of her mind.

Delynn and I went to the NKOTBBSB New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys concert last weekend and we had a really great time. We needed that.

I have been really busy at working ...training a helper and getting ready for a new system.

The Gran-nanny comes everyday monday - friday (unless Webb is off work) to help the girls get where they need to go and take them fun places too. They are currently working on chores daily to get the house in order. It has been really really nice to come home and not have to clean after working all day. Thanks MOM !

Mary is practing her Taekwondo hard so that she will be ready for Oct 1st (Black Tab Testing).

Delynn is preparing for her sweet 16 birthday party in August. Her birthday is still Sept. 7th however, we have to have the party early on account of the pool closes for the fall on Labor Day.

Just Keep Swimming .....

It's awesome in Houston right now...weather wise... It's time to SWIM!!! The season kicked off with an awesome start !!! We won against lakes on elderidge. It was a great meet and they didn't let up on us at all. Which is good.

THE TREK....was AWESOME!

This is Delynn's family....4 boys & 3 girls...She had a blast with this group.

Delynn & I in our pioneer outfits...this was the first day when we were clean.

Delynn's Ma & Pa are pictured with her at their last campsite for the night.

It was fun to see her react, take direction and be taken care of by someone else. I know this couple personally and they are the greatest. Fun, energetic, great sense of humor ....etc...I could go on forever.

Wacky Wednesday

Okay... It's cold in houston 27 degrees. But do we have to have so many brown outs here...They are major inconvience!!

Mary's a Red Belt !!! Yahoo!

Insert Mom braggin'.... Mary did AWESOME saturday Jan. 15th.

She was Senior Student and the only one testing for Red Belt. It was cool. She was nervous enough so we didn't tell her that part until halfway through the testing.

Here pattern was flawless, she knew her pattern meaning and the Korean words she had to know. She also fought the 5 people in the circle with her self defense and it was great.

The next step for her is black tab testing which is March 26th. If she passes...(depends on how much work she puts into it or not)... then it's black belt testing in September for her.

She always fights with a SMILE on her face....not very intimdating Mary!!!

Wreaths Across America

Mary places a wreath on a grave.

Mary took this picture from 20 feet above and about 100 feet away. This flag was flown at the world trade center on 9/11/2001, It is all cut up and torn but it's symbolism is amazing.

Our Girl Scout Troops goes every December to do this service project. This was the 3rd Annual and our 2nd year and it was HUGE...26 thousand wreaths. It was bigger than Arlington National Cementary's celebration in Arlington, Virginia.

Every family should make the sacrific to do this...it's the 2nd weekend in December.

It's Monday Ya'll...

Family Sports update... Mary did break her two boards a few weeks ago and she will be testing for Red Belt saturday Jan. 15th. It will be great! she is so ready and will do well. Next is black tab testing at the end of March (If she is ready). Or September if not. Then it's 6 months to black belt testing. Now she is really practicing hard and applying herself well. She is very excited for the months ahead. She went last summer to watch her Taekwondo friends test and supported them for 5 hours that day. She know what is required of her it's up to her to do it!!!

Delynn is coming up on the District JV Swim Meet Jan. 22nd and is working hard on her practicing. She has done very well at all her meets this year.
She is looking forward to another Summer league season in April - June.
It will be interesting to see how much she has progressed now that she is in the pool 4 to 5 days per week.

Webb has put in for 3 promotions....all with Sunday's off....That's what I am hoping for. I enjoy the family going to church on sunday together and have missed that very much.
He starts this Sunday having sunday's off. He got a co-worker to switch with him so either way it's all GOOD.

And I am busy being the mom.

Dayna

News ....Smooze !!!

Well it's 2011 ...The girls don't have school for 2 more days. What to do? Something Fun!!!

We had a quiet (not really) New Years celebration at home this year. The neighbors dogs freaked out because of the fireworks so they choose outside our bedroom window at 4am to bark back at a "yappy" dog through the fence. So at 4:15am ...i opened the patio door and walked to the backyard and yetlled...."go lay down and shut up". Probably not smart cause I leave next to an HPD Officer. Oh well....She was probably clapping from inside her house or wasn't home. We would finally get back to sleep and it would start again...finally at 8:30am I was fed up with it so I took a hammer outside and Delynn and fixed the problem...no I didn't hit the dogs! I put the 3 boards that the dogs knocked down back up and locked the dogs back in their own yard.

This is why we have one pet ....It's Mary's Betta fish his name is G2 (NCIS Los Angeles) is Mary's favorite show.

Thinking about new years resolutions....

Get Fit and loose a bunch of weight. (this one is my top priority)
Get more spiritual (I am lacking in my scripture study)
Stay Organized - I actually have do this one the past two days...I have the cleanest linen closets in town.


That's probably enough for 2011.... Oh yeah write more than once's a month on my blog. To my defense, I have been busy with a new job. But I love my job.